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Thanks, you're welcome! Just a note, if you really want a test to
pick up the divide by zeros, you have to catch it before the division!
What I mean is this, you have to test for a zero before you divide and
based on the test either do or skip/modify the divide. Now, I haven't
tested this in MS, just off the cuff stuff, but I think if you modify
your original code to the following it will do the trick:
VNor:=(V-MVolHis)/if(test,SVolHis,1);
Original is
VNor:=If(Test,(V-MVolHis)/SVolHis,PREV);
The difference is that, in the original, based on the value of test,
we are switching between the series or the fall back PREV. But the
series is already calculated, regardless of test, and we just use test
to switch between the two. In the new version, we test before we
divide. We still have to get a fallback value though, which is PREV I
gather from your code. So we now add the switch code again
VNor:=if(test,(V-MVolHis)/if(test,SVolHis,1),prev);
which does what we want, but now we are testing twice - once to ensure
we can divide and once to decide if we should use use the calculated
or fallback value. Anyhow, this is waaaay to complex for what we want
to do, so let us simplify a bit. We can use max, since we want to
ensure we use a positive number when we divide, so we can change it to
VNor:=if(test,(V-MVolHis)/max(SVolHis,1));
or, to come full circle! just add a very small amount and you have a
working fix!
VNor:=(V-MVolHis)/(SVolHis+1);
Regards
MG Ferreira
TsaTsa EOD Programmer and trading model builder
http://www.ferra4models.com
http://fun.ferra4models.com
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Manuel Cabedo"
<manelcabedo@xxxx> wrote:
> Good idea, MG! It works fine. Thank you.
> Regards.
>
> Manuel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: MG Ferreira
> To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 6:52 PM
> Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: Division by 0
>
>
>
> The problem with ignoring division by zero stuff, is that (in the MS I
> use) it results in zeroes in the series, which you often do not want.
> One way to solve this, is to add a tiny amount, so in your case,
>
> SVolHis = Stdev(V,200) + 1;
>
> or add
>
> +0.001
>
> just to make sure it is not zero.
>
> Regards
> MG Ferreira
> TsaTsa EOD Programmer and trading model builder
> http://www.ferra4models.com
> http://fun.ferra4models.com
>
>
> --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "manelcabedo"
> <manelcabedo@xxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi friends,
> >
> > Is there any way of avoiding the boring division by zero
messages in
> > custom indicators?
> >
> > I've designed this beautiful Normalized Volume Indicator but
> > (incomplete series, I suppose) gives me a lot of division by zero
> > errors. Yet I think I prevent them with the Test variable, but
it is
> > not actually the case, it does not work. Any idea or comment?
> >
> > MVolHis:=Mov(V,200,S);
> > SVolHis:=Stdev(V,200);
> > Test:=SVolHis>0;
> > VNor:=If(Test,(V-MVolHis)/SVolHis,PREV);
> > VUp:=If(VNor>0,VNor,0); {blue color}
> > VDn:=If(VNor<0,VNor,0); {red color}
> > VUp;VDn;+1;-1
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Manuel
>
>
>
>
>
>
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