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RE: [EquisMetaStock Group] Help!


  • Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:26:15 +0800
  • From: Leh Kee Kong <lkkong969@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [EquisMetaStock Group] Help!

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Hi Kee,

I agree with you. I think it is true that today top gainers may be next day top losers. I wrote that code just because someone wanted it.

The trend is most important in stock or futures trading, as trend is our friend.

Unless the top gainers are in up trend you may get in, but beware it may be the professionals sell to weak hands on 'good news' to take profit.

Always trade with the trend.

Stock trading all is about the trend.
 
 
Kong





To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: c.a.takkenberg@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 12:07:45 +0100
Subject: Re: [EquisMetaStock Group] Help!

 

Kong, reading again what you wrote. C-Ref(C,-1) will of course show you the winner of the day of a certain list. But the winners of today may be the losers of tomorrow as you know!
 
Kind Regards,
 
Kees
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [EquisMetaStock Group] Help!

 

Hi Kong,
 
I may be wrong, but I don't think that you can call a stock or another equity, that has today a higher close and/or a higher volume than yesterday a topgainer!
 
What you could do is taking a longer period!
 
 So replace the -1 by e.g. -10 or -22 or -66 or - 250. Depending on the fact if you are a shortperiodtrader, a medium-one or a buy&hold investor.
 
 
You can do about the same thing by a Rate of Change.formula:ROC(C,65,%).
This is the ROC of the close in percentage of a 65 days period.
Again you can change the 65 in whatever period you want.
 
This formula is computing the period from close to close.
Miko should use ROC (C,250,%) if he wants the Rate of change from about a year back till now.
 
 
The ROC could also use the High or the Low, or as Miko suggested the HHV  (HighestHighValue) and the LLV (LowestLowValue) over a certain period of time.
 
I hope I'm not confusing you to much, but there is another way.
Instead of using the close, some people use a moving average of the close. Because the results become less "choppy"then.
THe Rate of Change will be the change between a moving average of the close and the same moving average of the close in a certain period.
 
I like to use A ROC over the same period but in steps (e.g. 22 days) back. So I can see what is the change of the ROC over the last 22 days, the period from 44 days back til 22 days back, the period of 66 days back till 44 days back andso on.
 
All this, what I'm trying to tell you , you can find in the manual or the helpfile which goes by Metastock.
 
And Miko, for counting the number of stocks that are fitting  a certain rule, you can perhaps ask Roy Larsen.
His email is in this group and perhaps he is willing to help you!
 
You and all the members a happy and healthy 2010.
 
Kees Takkenberg.
 
 
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:32 AM
Subject: RE: [EquisMetaStock Group] Help!

 
Hi,

The coding to find top gainers is C - Ref(C,-1) you can put it in column A, you may also put V on column B.

C - Ref(C,-1) means today's closing price minus yesterday's closing price, V means volume.

From col A after exploration, you click on col A it changes to small/big numbers and click again changes to big/small number. The biggest number is topgainers.

The same to col B, big number is the higher volume.

 
Kong






To: equismetastock@yahoogroups.com
From: mikosayo@xxxxxxcom
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 01:59:38 +0000
Subject: Re: [EquisMetaStock Group] Help!

 
Hi Kong,

Some people are built for coding. I guess I simply am not.

I know my inquiries may be very elementary and it's like I'm asking to be spoon-fed but it's really tough for me cause I don't even know anyone personally at all who knows how to do coding in Metastock. There are hardly only a handful of people who uses Metastock here in Manila.

With regards to my first inquiry, to get the top gainers from a specific date, I noticed in other explorations that people use the ROC indicator but I can't seem to figure out how to inject a specific date into it say, top gainers from Jan 1, 2009. Should I use "Highest Since"? but how?

With regards to my second inquiry, to get the number of stocks in my database, which are above the 200-day moving average. How do I make Metastock count the number of stocks that are above the 200-day MA, instead of telling me what the value of the moving average is or instead of telling me whether the price is above or below the moving average?

Any help or hint would be very much appreciated.

Happy New Year!

Regards,

Miko

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