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Re: Expert Advisor "buy/sell signal" question



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Jeff:

You can use

LongEntry:=  {your long entry parameters};
ShortEntry:= {your short entry parameters};
LongEntry AND BarsSince(Ref(LongEntry, -1)) >=
        BarsSince(Ref(ShortEntry, -1))

although it will not plot the very first long entry in the
data series.

Hope this helps.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Haferman" <Jeff_Haferman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 9:15 AM
Subject: Expert Advisor "buy/sell signal" question

> In the expert advisor, when I am generating a buy/sell
> signal, how do I tell Metastock to generate
> the signal only if the preceding signal was in the
> opposite direction?
> 
> eg I only want a buy arrow if the previous arrow was a
> sell... I don't want to see several buy arrows in
> succession.
> 
> Thx,
> Jeff