RE: [EquisMetaStock Group] barssince - what am I doing wrong??

[Mike Loveday <mike.loveday@xxxxxx>]

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..i'm 
a bit new at this, but it looks a little like you have only specified the 
minimum setting (being 5 days), and probably also need to specify the 
limit you want to close out to "after" the minimum setting of 5 days has passed. 

There 
are 2 ways perhaps, if 5 days is used as an integer rather than a range, then 
just '=6' might work (will close on the the 6th day). Or if you want to 
test over a range of days after the 5th bar, then maybe just set 
a max and min... maybe '>5 AND <10' for example?
sorry 
if this is not right, just trying to help..
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<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: chellester2002 
  [mailto:chelle@xxxxxxxxxxx]Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2002 10:55 
  AMTo: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: 
  [EquisMetaStock Group] barssince - what am I doing 
  wrong??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 
  wasc>(BBandTop(c,20,S,2)) I would be trying to close 
  bybarssince(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 
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