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Actually its math confusion. TS is right not to plot...

Pistol Pete

>From: "Philip Nixon \(24-7\)" <pnixon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>I have a paint bar that shows me when we have had an 80/20 trend day (open
>in bottom 20%, close on top 20%) which is as follows (Paint bar and
>function).   Yesterday's day session in the SP had OHLC (according to
>Futuresource) as 1473.50/1490.50/1470.50/1486.20.

1486.20 is 23.5% off the high of the range

Yet the paint bar did not
>trigger.  I have not noticed a failure to trigger before and I have been
>using it for 3 to 4 years now.   Any ideas what may be wrong or is this 
>just
>a TS gremlin.........?
>
>thanks
>
>Philip
>
>
>
>INPUT:PCNT(80);
>
>IF SETUP8020(PCNT)=1 OR SETUP8020(PCNT)=-1 THEN BEGIN
>   PLOT1(H,"80-20");
>   PLOT2(L,"ANY80-20");
>END;
>
>===============
>
>INPUT:PCNT(NUMERICSIMPLE);
>
>VAR:SET(0),FACT(0);
>
>FACT=MAXLIST(PCNT,100-PCNT)*.01;
>SET=0;
>IF OPEN>=(FACT*H)+((1-FACT)*L) AND C<=(FACT*L)+((1-FACT)*H) THEN SET=1;
>IF OPEN<=(FACT*L)+((1-FACT)*H) AND C>=(FACT*H)+((1-FACT)*L) THEN SET=-1;
>
>SETUP8020=SET;
>
>
>
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