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goes for me as well - Thanks Roy
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[mailto:no_reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002
10:42 AMTo: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: Re:
[EquisMetaStock Group] barssince - what am I doing
wrong??Roy,Thanks! I was hoping you'd get in
on this.Mike & Chellester, Roy is the KING when it comes to
working with formulas. He has spent countless hours working with these
formulas. His work on the Trade Equity indicators is pure genius. We are
honored to have a copy of it in the group files section. I would
encourage you and everyone else to take some time and study this work.
It is an education that would take you lierally years to obtain on your
own. The greatest part is that Roy offers this work for FREE!Roy, you
are one in a million!! THANKS,Preston --- In
equismetastock@xxxx, "Roy Larsen" <rlarsen@xxxx> wrote:>
Chellester> > Pd:=5;>
A:=C>(BBandTop(C,20,S,2));> B:=A AND Alert(A=0,2);>
D:=If(PREV=0,If(B,1,0),If(BarsSince(PREV=0)>=Pd,0,PREV));> Buy:=D
AND Alert(D=0,2);> Sell:=D=0 AND Alert(D,2);> Sell;>
> This will give the most accurate timing from the FIRST bar of a
signal. I> would create this as an indicator and use an FmlVar()
call for the System> Tester "Buy" signal, and an Fml() call for the
System Tester "Sell" signal.> > There are a number of ways
you can approach different parts of your problem,> but I think the
approach above using a PREV based latch is going to be the> most
accurate. You probably need to display all variables as outputs at
the> same time to get an idea of what each is doing. As presented
above "Sell" is> the only output. For visual verification you
could use> > Pd:=5;>
A:=C>(BBandTop(C,20,S,2));> B:=A AND Alert(A=0,2);>
D:=If(PREV=0,If(B,1,0),If(BarsSince(PREV=0)>=Pd,0,PREV));> Buy:=D
AND Alert(D=0,2);> Sell:=D=0 AND Alert(D,2);> A+5;>
B+3.75;> D+2.5;> Buy+1.25;> Sell;> >
Roy> > > Hi, I must be doing something wrong with my formulas
etc -(Only had> > MetaStock for a couple of weeks, so thats
quite possible!!)> > I want to test trades that last a number of
days, say 5, but I can't> > see a simple way of doing
this. What I've tried is setting up the> > buy signals,
getting that all working, and then for closing using the> >
barssince function. For example if the Enter Long formula was>
>> > c>(BBandTop(c,20,S,2)) I would be trying to close
by> >> >> > barssince(c>(BBandTop(c,20,S,2))
)>5> >> > but in my tests, I'm still getting results
where the longest trade> > was for up to 300 days!! I've also
tried using if() in a similar> > manner.> >> >
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or if there is a better
way> > to do this.> >> > Thanks so much,
it's driving me nuts!!> >> >> >>
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