RE: showing buy and sell signals

[John Holton <sftfocus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

That sounds like a good option. How does one declare a global variable and
how do you access the variable from a show me that is running on another
chart?

Thanks

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Fulks [mailto:bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 June 2001 11:12
To: John Holton
Subject: Re: showing buy and sell signals


>I have developed a trading system that trades on 5 minute bars. It uses
>daily bars to determine if a day is a buy or sell day and then uses the 5
>minute bars to fine tune its entry. It may hold the position for a number
of
>days. The system works very well, but sometimes gives back a very large
>profit. I would like to be able to see the buy and sell signals displayed
on
>a daily chart so that I could evaluate its performance visually. (If I
>display the 5 minute chart and the daily chart in the same window it is
very
>difficult to see the big picture). I hope this makes sense to somebody and
>hopefully there is a way to display the signals.

You could probably write a ShowMe to plot points on the chart using global
variables.

Bob Fulks