[EquisMetaStock Group] How to optimize trailing stops?

["Chuck Rademacher" <chuck_rademacher@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I 
would like to optimize trailing stops.  I have one system, one set of 
parameters across 7,000 stocks using MS 8.
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The 
built-in trailing stop methodology doesnt (appear to) lend itself to 
optimizing.
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size=2>Therefore, I would like to do my own in the "sell" statement.   
I can pretty well imagine how to do most of the logic, but I don't know how to 
tell that I'm in a trade.  Perhaps I don't care?   Perhaps I 
should just go ahead and calculate the trailing stop as a sell.  If I'm in 
a trade, it will exit.  If I'm not in a trade, it probably doesn't even get 
calculated.
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I feel 
like I want to say "if in a trade, exit on my calculated trailing 
stop".    Perhaps the "sell" statement has the first part of that 
already built-in?    I'm too much of a procedural programmer to 
see the light in MetaStock sometimes.
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Any 
comments?    Joe?






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