Re: Limiting system to one trade per day

["jhmtn" <jhmtn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Owen, 

I have thought of a possible kluge work around that 
includes a manual step.

Use the MS feature to read data from a specific file 
list!

Then, you can create a dummy file that is empty or has 
one item of dummy data that is dated last year.

To see if the item has been selected, read that file and 
compare the date to be => than some scan date.

If only the old date is there, the test will fail and that would 
mean the item has not been yet selected.

Now here comes the manual part: Once selected, you would
have to manually using the Downloader add dummy data with 
today's date.

Now a check on the date would fail indicating that the data 
has already been selected!

I have not yet tried this out, and do not know if it fits what 
you're trying to do (i.e. you may be tying to get remote cell 
phone alerts or something while away from the computer).  

But if you are just trading a few issues then this method might 
work.  You could even set the date to be checked before 
you launched the search.

A kludge, but it just might work.  Please let me know if you 
attempt to implement it and it works.

Hope this helps! ................... John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Owen Davies" <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Limiting system to one trade per day


> jhmtn pointed out:
> 
> > In trying to Limit your trading system to one trade per 
> > day you are trying to give your system a memory.
> (truncated)
> 
> Thanks, John.  I should have pointed out that I'm doing 
> this for a very restricted universe of futures, one contract
> at a time.  My problem isn't doing an exploration, just a
> minor system.  Even with that limitation, I don't see any way
> to accomplish it within Metastock's rather primitive 
> programming language.
> 
> Owen Davies
> 
>