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I plugged your spread% in a column and get an error
message.... "passing zero or negative value"..I realize i
can use abs just to get an absolute value or have a test for zero.... but
..are you getting this as well...i am using 6.52....thanks...jim
At 10:31 PM 1/27/01 -0700, you wrote:
Bill,
I still owe you a response I promised on your earlier email. My
apologies.
My monitor went out on Saturday, and I'm just getting caught up with all
of
my email.
How about creating a custom indicator that returns +1 when the price
(close)
is within 1% (or some other value) of the HHV(C,250) and a -1 when the
same
is true at the LLV(C,250)? Then you can use
BarsSince(yourIndicator=1)>=BarsSince(yourIndicator=-1)as the UP
condition
and the reverse as the DOWN condition. Your second indicator is
just =1
during the UP period, then =-1 during the down period. Count the
number of
Cross() 'es and sort or filter in your exploration. (I'd also
divide that
by Cum(1) which is the total number of bars loaded to give you a
rate
comparison).
Dave Nadeau
Fort Collins, CO
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Bill Irwin
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 6:22 PM
To: Mail List - MetaStock Submit (E-mail)
Subject: Filtering for cyclical stocks
One of the criterial I'm using in my Explorations is to find stocks
that
have a 1 year high/low spread of greater than 100% and less than
300%. This
finds stocks that are moving up or down, but also picks ones that
move
steadily up or down, rather than cycling.
Col E: Spread % ((HHV(C,250)-LLV(C,250))/LLV(C,250))*100
Does anyone have a formula for selecting stocks that move between
the
defined high/low points at least X number of times? This would
select the
ones on a rollercoaster. Whether they're predicatable or not is
another
question.
Bill
Bill-Irwin@xxxxxxxx
http://members.home.net/bill-irwin
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