Re: Current Day!

["Lionel Issen" <lissen@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is awful. The Metastock program has been 
around for around ten to fifteen years and they still don't have it 
right?????
 
Is there any way of specifying integers in 
Metastock?
 
Some decades ago I used a similar idea as 
Steve's to organize some data. In Fortran it was easy.  The data just had 
to be specified as integers.  Unfortunately the metastock formula language 
is too limited,  even though parts of it resemble a subset of 
Pascal.
Lionel Issen<A 
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  C.S. 
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  Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:24 
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  Subject: Re: Current Day!
  
  This may be part of the problem which tripped up Guy Tann 
  when he tried to convert his formulas and methods to MS. Metastock had a math 
  bug which drove him nuts trying to figure out.
   
  For instance:
   
  MON:=Month()*100;YR:=Year()*10000;YR+MON<FONT 
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          Gives the correct data.
   
  But,
  
  <FONT 
  size=2>MON:=Month()*100;YR:=Year()*10000;YR+MON+1    
             
  Doesn't.
   
  But,
  <FONT 
  size=2>MON:=Month();YR:=Year()*100;YR+MON+1    
              Does.
   
  Clearly, Metastock has a serious math bug when the order of 
  magnatude reaches a certain limit.
  This is why Guy found out that to draw pretty little 
  pictures, use Metastock. To crunch numbers that your financial life depends 
  on, use Excel. Excel has a real formula language anyway.
   
   
  Fair Warning.
   
  -Corey
   
   
   
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    Lionel Issen 
    
    To: <A title=metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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    Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 6:52 
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    Subject: Re: Current Day!
    
    Steve:
    This is an excellent concise 
    method.
     
    What version are you using?
     
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      Steve 
      Brann 
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      Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 7:05 
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      Subject: Current Day!
      
      <FONT face=Arial 
      size=2>Hi
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      I use the 
      following in my explorations to denote the date of the last price data in 
      the format yyyymmdd;
      <FONT face=Arial 
      size=2> 
      <FONT face=Arial 
      size=2>DayOfMonth()+(Month()*100)+(Year()*10000)
      <FONT face=Arial 
      size=2> 
      However, this 
      fails if the date is the first of the month such as March 1st 2001, 
      instead of getting 20010301 I get 20010300!
      <FONT face=Arial 
      size=2> 
      Has anyone 
      else experienced this and if so is there a solution?  By the way, 
      using DayOfMonth() 
      on its own produces 01.
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      <SPAN 
      class=632160112-02052001>Thanks in advance
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      <SPAN 
      class=632160112-02052001>Steve