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Re: [Metastockusers] Re: Metastock 9.0 and ice 2.0



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Roy
Could you run it on two stocks   RIMM and WWY
WWY was below the 200dma less than 90days ago and RIMM has been above for
quite awhile. It only seem to work when I set it this way. It should work in
reverse for RIMM .

Martin Blain
Burlington Ontario
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Larsen" <rlarsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Metastockusers] Re: Metastock 9.0 and ice 2.0


> Martin
>
> I don't see anything crazy about that. To me it says that column B is
true, C>200MA on current bar,
> and
> column A is also true because somewhere between the 89th and 4th bar C was
less than 200MA.
>
> Roy
>
> > Crazy as it may seem but when testing the results on WWY
> > Col A equaled Col B  notice the C> and C<
> >
> > Col A
> > Signal:=C<Mov(C,200,S);
> >
> > BarsSince(Signal) > 3 AND BarsSince(Signal) < 90
> >
> > ColB
> > C>Mov(C,200,S)
> > Thanx for your help
> >
> > Martin Blain
> > Burlington Ontario
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Roy Larsen" <rlarsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <DEFANGED_Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 9:40 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Metastockusers] Re: Metastock 9.0 and ice 2.0
> >
> >
> > > Hi Martin
> > >
> > > > I don't that is the problem.
> > > > I was using 1300 periods.
> > >
> > > OK, probably not then. Try creating a test indicator with the
offending
> > exploration column. This
> > > usually makes it easier to track down the problem. Just another random
> > thought, is the exploration
> > > periodicy correct. There will be a reason why it appears not to work
in
> > the exploration, but what is
> > > a little difficult to guess.
> > >
> > > Roy
> > >
> > > > Martin Blain
> > > > Burlington Ontario
> > > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > > From: "Roy Larsen" <rlarsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > To: <DEFANGED_Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 4:21 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Metastockusers] Re: Metastock 9.0 and ice 2.0
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Martin
> > > > >
> > > > > > BTW does anybody know why the barssince() doesnt seem to work
with
> > > > explorer?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 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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