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Roy
I don't that is the problem.
I was using 1300 periods.
Martin Blain
Burlington Ontario
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Larsen" <rlarsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Metastockusers] Re: Metastock 9.0 and ice 2.0
> Martin
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> > BTW does anybody know why the barssince() doesnt seem to work with
explorer?
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> > Martin Blain
> > Burlington Ontario
>
> It does work with explorer. However there is no "periods" component to
BarsSince() so unless the
> value that would be returned is less than the number of bars being
explored the result will be N/A.
> Setting up an exploration using "minimum" periods is very likely to cause
a problem. With this
> setting the number of bars used will be determined by the greatest
"periods" value of all other
> functions in the exploration. Best practice is to use the same number of
bars as you load for each
> chart. If this slows things down too much (as it will with formulas using
PREV) then settle for an
> acceptable number between 100 and 500 bars.
>
> You need to set the number of periods at least 5 times greater than the
greatest "periods" setting
> of any EMA being used to get an accurate EMA value anyway.
>
> If you load 10 or 20 bars on a chart you'll tend to get exactly the same
"failure" of BarsSince() as
> you get with the Explorer, the reason being that the reference event is
off the radar.
>
> Roy
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