RE: Formula help

["Dave Nadeau" <dave_nadeau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Al,

There are two ways you can do this.

In the System Tester, under Stops... select the Inactivity tab.  Here you
can place an absurdly large value like 50,000 after 3 days.  This will force
the system to exit after three days.

Another way is to use BarsSince(yourentrycondition=1)=3 in the Exit tab of
the system tester.

"Also, I would like to enter the trade on the high of the lowest
bar of the last 18 bars."--By lowest bar I'll assume that you mean both the
lowest low and lowest high of the last 18 bars.  Your entry condition=1
would be
EntryCond:=LLV(L,18)=L AND LLV(H,18)=H;

and you could set the system tester options to enter on the High.  If this
is a long entry condition, then this will give you a good conservative
"worst case" condition to evaluate your system performance by.

Dave Nadeau
Fort Collins, CO



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Al Taglavore
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 12:18 AM
To: MetaStock List Group
Subject: Formula help


In the system tester, is there a way to exit a long trade on the third day
of entry?  Also, I would like to enter the trade on the high of the lowest
bar of the last 18 bars.

Thanks,

Al Taglavore


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