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Jose,
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to not to get it worked out.
Thanks,
Trader Joe...
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jose" <josesilva22@xxxx>
wrote:
>
> The previously posted code signals both week-starts & week-ends.
>
> There is absolutely no possible way for MetaStock to know that
> Thursday could be the last day of trading before the Friday
arrives,
> without help from outside data (irregular week-end dates).
>
> However, MS can signal a Thursday end-of-week, on a Thursday, but
it
> needs to wait until the beginning of the next trading week to find
and
> plot this.
>
> =====================
> Irregular End-of-Week
> =====================
> ---8<-------------------
>
> { Signals 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 }
>
> day:=Input("Last Day of Week to search [1~7, Mon~Sun]",1,7,4);
>
> 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:=DayOfWeek()=day
> AND (PeakBars(1,-Zig(WeekStart-.5,1,$),1)=0 OR
> Cum(1)=LastValue(Cum(1)) AND DayOfWeek()=day);
>
> { Plot signals in own window }
> WeekEnd
>
> ---8<-------------------
>
>
> jose '-)
> http://www.metastocktools.com
>
>
>
> --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "joetrade69"
<joetrade69@xxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Jose,
> >
> > It looks like your code seems to find when a new week starts, how
> > about something that will tell me when Thursday is the last
trading
> > day of the week and tell me this on Thursday.
> >
> >
> > Trader Joe...
> >
> > --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jose" <josesilva22@xxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > 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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