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"Buy Long at next day's Open..."
No hindsight required.
No unknowns, no known unknowns, no unknown knowns, no unknown 
unknowns.  (With apologies to that great poet, Donald Rumsfeld) ;)
http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/003282.php
jose '-)
http://metastocktools.com
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, pumrysh <no_reply@xxx> wrote:
>
> Jose,
> 
> Poses some interesting thoughts but IMO there are only 2 events
> that you will know...the open and the close. The low and high will
> not be known until after the open and right at the close. As far as
> the profit it would be nice if we knew the trend. Since everything
> is unknown my answer would be: 
> 4) I don't know
> 
> Preston
>   
>
> 
> --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jose Silva" 
> <josesilva22@> wrote:
>
> I've posted this poll on another usergroup, but it is currently 
> attracting little interest there.  The question deals with our 
> perception of the market vs its reality.
> 
> I can't post a Poll here, but it would be interesting to get some 
> informal results of members' opinions.
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> Strategy Y:
> 
> Buy Long when Close is within 4% of today's High.
> (Buy Long at next day's Open when the Close is near the top of 
> today's High-Low range).
> 
> Sell Long when Close is within 4% of today's Low
> (Sell Long at next day's Open when the Close is near the bottom of 
> today's High-Low range).
> 
> 
> Strategy X (Y reversed):
> 
> Buy Long when Close is within 4% of today's Low
> (Buy Long at next day's Open when the Close is near the bottom of 
> today's High-Low range).
> 
> Sell Long when Close is within 4% of today's High.
> (Sell Long at next day's Open when the Close is near the top of 
> today's High-Low range).
> 
> 
> Question:
> Which trading strategy is likely to be more profitable, Y or X?
> 
> 1) Strategy Y
> 2) Strategy X
> 3) no difference - both are identical
> 4) I don't know
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> To make it easier to visualize the simple condition signals, below 
> is the MS indicator code:
> 
> ==============
> Poll indicator
> ==============
> ----8<-------------------------------------
> 
> {©Copyright 2006 Jose Silva.
>   For personal use only - trade at own risk.
>   http://metastocktools.com }
> 
> { User inputs }
> pr1:=Input("Entry: min Close's % dist [0~100%] from bar's 
> Low",0,100,4)/100;
> pr2:=Input("Exit: min Close's % dist [0~100%] from bar's 
> High",0,100,4)/100;
> rev:=Input("Reverse Close position condition?  [0]No,  
> [1]Yes",0,1,0) ;
> plot:=Input("Signals:  [1]Clean,  [2]All,  [3]Trade binary",1,3,1);
> delay:=Input("Entry and Exit delay",0,5,0);
> 
> { Close x% of High-Low range signals }
> rangePos:=(C-L)/Max(H-L,.00001);
> entry1:=rangePos<=pr1;
> exit1:=rangePos>=(1-pr2);
> 
> { Reverse signals? }
> entry:=If(rev,exit1,entry1);
> exit:=If(rev,entry1,exit1);
> 
> { Clean signals }
> init:=Cum(IsDefined(entry+exit))=1;
> bin:=ValueWhen(1,entry-exit<>0 OR init,entry);
> long:=bin*(Alert(bin=0,2)
>  OR entry*Cum(entry)=1);
> short:=(bin=0)*(Alert(bin,2)
>  OR exit*Cum(exit)=1);
> signals:=long-short;
> 
> { Plot in own window }
> 0;
> Ref(If(plot=2,entry,0),-delay);
> Ref(If(plot=1,signals,
>  If(plot=2,-exit,bin)),-delay)
> 
> ----8<-------------------------------------
> 
> 
> jose '-)
> http://metastocktools.com
 
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