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Hi Steve. I don't think that's the problem... I can easily indicate an
initial short or long position. The problem is that the buy signals are
dependent on prior buys... I think, as Terry has suggested, that I may need
to code a loop. However, I hate to have to do that!
chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dugas" <sjdugas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Coding Guidance -- Catch 22!
> Hi,
>
> It sounds like a decision you need to make rather than a coding problem -
> in
> real life, you would need to use some other criteria to enter your first
> position, since you have no previous buys/shorts. What condition would you
> use to enter your first trade? Then you could use this condition to
> initialize AB's Buy or Short array for future trades.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "cstrader" <cstrader232@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:16 AM
> Subject: [amibroker] Coding Guidance -- Catch 22!
>
>
>> I'm stuck on what must be a simple problem. You can see from the code
>> below what I want to do (short if we get more than 6% lower than the
>> highest
>> since the last buy; buy if we get more than 6% higher than the lowest
>> since
>> the last short). But the catch 22 is that
>>
>> 1. you cannot know LOWESTPRICE until you short
>> 2. you cannot short until you know highestprice
>> 3. you cannot know highestprice until you buy
>> 4. you cannot buy until you know LOWESTPRICE.
>>
>> In sum, you can't enter until you get the entry prices, but you can't get
>> the entry prices until you enter!!
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Short = C < Highestprice*.94;
>> LowestPrice = Lowestsince(Short, C);
>> HighestPrice = HighestSince(Buy, C);
>> Buy = C > Lowestprice * 1.06;
>>
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