RE: Forward Shift Indicator Five Days??

["Bob Jagow" <bjagow@xxxxxxxxx>]

-5 does exactly what Nicholas wanted:
"Can someone tell me how to shift an indicator on the chart forward by five
days??"

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Pierre Tremblay
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:43 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Forward Shift Indicator Five Days??


Joe and Nicholas,

To shift a moving average forward 5 day is :

Ref(Mov(C,10,S),+5)

and not :
Ref(Mov(C,10,S),-5)

Pierre Tremblay


TraderJoe a écrit :

> You will want to use the ref function
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> For example, to shift a moving average forward 5 days:
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> Ref(Mov(C,10,S),-5)
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> Joe
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> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:54:23
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> >Can someone tell me how to shift an indicator on the chart forward by
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> >A little graphic may help to explain what I mean:
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> >----before shift) aaaaaaaallllaaaaaaaaaaa
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> >-------after shift) xxxxxaaaaaaaallllaaaaaaaaaaa
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> >Thanks a bunch!
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> >Nicholas
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