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Re: System Entry



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You have to use the prior date on a daily chart:

Try...

if date = 980806 then buy 1100 stop;

will give you an arrow on 8/7.

Bill Vedder wrote:

> Do any of the EL experts know how to get a system in TS to execute a
> trade at an exact price on a given day?
>
> I'm trying to automate the analysis of my closed trades and as part of
> this, I'd like to produce a chart showing the entry and exit points. I
> thought it would be a simple matter of doing this in an EL system using
> extry/exit dates and prices as inputs, but TS doesn't enter and exit at
> the prices I input. It typically enters on the open. I've tried varying
> the bouncing tick %, entering on stop, entering on limit but none of this
> works. I'm using EOD data.
>
> How can I get TS to enter and exit at prices I specify?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Vedder