RE: [EquisMetaStock Group] MS 8.0 System testing with Limit orders

["Joe J." <jojab@xxxxxxxxx>]

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This 
can be done.
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Since 
you didn't say what your buy condition was, let's assume that you wanted to buy 
if the high plus .1 is exceeded the day after the close crosses above the 20 day 
EMA.
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What 
you are going to have to do in the top section of the buy is put the 
formula in the following format:
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size=2>ref(cross(close,mov(c,20,e)),-1)  {your buy condition was met on the 
prior bar}andhigh > ref(high + .1,-1)  {today's high is .1 
greater than yesterday's}
 
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in the 
price section below, check stop (this is a buy stop) and do the 
following:
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size=2>If(ref(cross(close,mov(c,20,e)),-1)andhigh > ref(high + 
.1,-1),   ref(high + .1,-1),100000000)
 
{this says to buy at the stop price of 
yesterday's high +.1 if the condition is met, otherwise buy at 100000000 - this 
is just a number that you know can't be hit.}
 
I just ran this through the system tester 
and it worked.
 
Good Trading,
 
Joe J.
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: relentless1000 
  [mailto:cgmv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:36 
  AMTo: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: 
  [EquisMetaStock Group] MS 8.0 System testing with Limit 
  ordersI'm having a problem using the limit 
  orders.  I would like the system tester to log a buy at a limit price 
  when the formula conditions are met.  I would like to write a limit 
  order that waits until formula conditions are met (say day 1) and then 
  buys the next bar (day 2) when and if the high of the previous day (day 1) 
  is exceeded by say 0.1.  I've tried several different Limit 
  formulas, two examples are:    REF(H,-1) + 
  0.1    H + .1When I look at the results on a chart, 
  I'm definately not getting what I would like to happen. It is fufilling 
  the formula criteria (day 1) but it looks like it may be ignoring the 
  limit formula, because the day 2 high may be lower than day 1 and its 
  still filling the order (I'm not sure where its getting the fill price 
  from).  I'm not using any stops.Am I doing something 
  wrong?Has anyone else tried the limit orders feature?  Any 
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