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Lionel
Be very careful about backtesting trading system formulas that make
decisions based on floating x number of days. Because the floating value can
change as each new bar is added this is rather akin to using
Peak()/Trough()/ZigZag(). Historical results can look amazing but cannot be
achieved.
I've been down this track and am convinced that data must be anchored
(referenced) to some point in the past. This is not to say that looking at
the last 5 days is of no use when examining a chart.
Roy
> Tech support said that this couldn't be done.
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> I got this from Guppy's site, Q & A. After a little fussing it worked
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> I know you can set the Periodicity to 'Weekly', with each bar representing
a
> week - Monday to Friday, but I would like a floating week, i.e. each bar
to
> represent the last 5 days, can MetaStock do this?
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> This can certainly be done! Click on the Periodicity button on the Chart
> Toolbar and select the 'Other.' option (if you can't see it, select Daily
> and try again). Now set the number of Periods to 5 - or whatever number
you
> like. The other way to do this is to right click on the X-Axis, select
> 'X-Axis Properties' and then the Periodicity tab.
>
> Lionel Issen
> lissen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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