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If you are using a MetaStock EOD product, you are correct: there is no way
to enter and exit on the same bar.
Al
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> From: Yarroll <komin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: So this, too, is impossible?
> Date: Saturday, August 18, 2001 8:07 PM
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> Hello List,
>
> I've been trying to write a simple daytrading system using daily bars.
> The system goes long at the open when the open crosses above Mov(O,5,S),
- I
> checked "enter at the open" in Tester's options. So far, so good. But
next,
> I wanted to exit long positions at this very day's close (so "Exit at the
> close" and "0 delay" in Tester's options, and I just copied
> cross(O,Mov(O,5,S)) as an Exit Long rule).
>
> Looks like it's impossible to do? No matter what I try, the system always
> exits this position at NEXT day's close (Entry+1)... Hell, it's not even
> correct, the next day's open doesn't cross above Mov again 2nd day in
row,
> it either stays above or crosses back below! I also tried setting
> Inactivity stop with periods set to 0. No way. Or am I missing something?
Is
> there really no way to get in and out on the same bar?
>
> All the best,
> Yarroll
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