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Re: Tomorrow & close



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Gary:

Try this:

Buy at open next bar + Brkout*Range stop;

If BarsSinceEntry = 1 then exitlong at close;

Bill Wynne
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In a message dated 2/7/00 1:35:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, fritz@xxxxxxxx 
writes:

> I'm experimenting with a daily system that bases breakout entries 
>  off tomorrow's open, e.g.:
>  
>  buy at open of tomorrow + Brkout*Range stop;
>  
>  I'd like to exit this thing at the close of the entry bar, or better yet 
>  at the close of the bar AFTER the entry.  But any attempt to do 
>  this gets an error that says I "can't use CLOSE and TOMORROW 
>  in the same system."  I can't even do something like this:
>  
>  if BarsSinceEntry = 1 then exitlong at close;
>  
>  ...which is just exiting on today's close, when "today" is the first 
>  bar after entry.  
>  
>  How can I do this?
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Gary
>