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Hg, the first bit of code is just an example to showcase the back-
erase concept.

The "Week's end" code deals with the holiday Friday problem - it 
doesn't need to know about holidays to determine end of week signals.
Here is a more refined version:

=======================
Week's true start & end
=======================
---8<---------------------------

{ Signals true start & end of week:
   confirms signal at start of following week,
   and signals end of week in retrospect }
{ Signals independent of any missing chart data}
{ Plot only on daily & intraday charts }

{ ©Copyright 2002~2005 Jose Silva
  The grant of this license is for personal use
  only - no resale or repackaging allowed.
  All code remains the property of Jose Silva.}
{ http://www.metastocktools.com }

limit:=2000;  {do not change limit year}
LimLeap:=Frac(limit/4)=0 AND Frac(limit/100)<>0
 OR Frac(limit/400)=0;
NoCount:=limit*365+Int(limit/4)
 -Int(limit/100)+Int(limit/400)-LimLeap;
leap:=Frac(Year()/4)=0 AND Frac(Year()/100)<>0
 OR Frac(Year()/400)=0;
y:=Year()*365+Int(Year()/4)
 -Int(Year()/100)+Int(Year()/400)-NoCount;
m:=
 If(Month()=2,31-leap,
 If(Month()=3,59,
 If(Month()=4,90,
 If(Month()=5,120,
 If(Month()=6,151,
 If(Month()=7,181,
 If(Month()=8,212,
 If(Month()=9,243,
 If(Month()=10,273,
 If(Month()=11,304,
 If(Month()=12,334,
 -leap)))))))))));
DayNr:=y+m+DayOfMonth();
WkCount:=Int((DayNr-1)/7)+(Year()>=limit);

WeekStart:=WkCount>Ref(WkCount,-1);
WeekEnd:=PeakBars(1,-Zig(WeekStart-.5,1,$),1)=0
 OR Cum(1)=LastValue(Cum(1)) AND DayOfWeek()=5;

{ Plot signals in own window }
WeekStart;-WeekEnd

---8<---------------------------


jose '-)
http://www.metastocktools.com



--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "hg1az" <hg1az@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> Jose
> 
> How do you handle the situation if the DayOfWeek() is
> not a trading day because of a Holiday? As I recall,
> some MS functions are very slow. I think PREV is one
> of these. What are the slow MS functions?
> 
> thanks much, hg 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jose" <josesilva22@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> MetaStock generally reads and processes data from left to right.
> 
> MS signals are plotted sequentially in this West-East direction, 
> and once any data is plotted on a chart, there is no way to coerce 
> MetaStock to go back and erase past signals.
> 
> Or is there...?
> 
> By nesting a couple of hindsight functions such as ZigZag() and 
> Peak(), this is now possible.
> 
> One of the holy grails of MetaStock coding has been to be able to 
> modify past signals, such as (for pattern-recognition purposes):
> "Plot last Friday only if following Monday's Close is up".
> 
> Here is some magic MS code that will do just that:
> 
> ---8<-----------------
> 
> { Friday signal }
> signal:=DayOfWeek()=5;
> 
> { Monday up on Friday's Close }
> confirm:=DayOfWeek()=1 AND C>Ref(C,-1);
> 
> { Extend signal & confirmation }
> x:=ValueWhen(1,signal OR confirm,signal-confirm);
> 
> { Magic: forget last Friday if Monday is down }
> hindsight:=PeakBars(1,Zig(x,1,$),1)=0;
> 
> { Plot in own window }
> hindsight
> 
> ---8<-----------------
> 
> 
> And here is another bit of magic - detecting and plotting true
> end-of-week signals:
> 
> ==========
> Week's end
> ==========
> ---8<---------------------
> 
> { Signals true end of week:
>    confirms signal at start of following week,
>    and signals end of week in retrospect }
> { http://www.metastocktools.com }
> 
> day:=DayOfWeek();
> WeekStart:=day<Ref(day,-1);
> WeekEnd:=PeakBars(1,-Zig(WeekStart-.5,1,$),1)=0;
> 
> WeekEnd
> 
> ---8<---------------------
> 
> 
> jose '-)
> http://www.metastocktools.com





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