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Re: Two stocks in same formula



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Bruce,

The "Security" functions does this. E.g.

{--assume you run on gold}
si:=Security("SI",c);
go:=Security{"GC",c);
si > go {buy if the price of silver is larger than the price of gold}

obviously, a better system is needed :)

Allan


--- ANDERSON BRUCE <bruce-anderson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It is easy to drag one stock and drop its chart onto another stock's
> chart to
> see how they behave relative to one another.
> 
> Is it possible, once that is done, to create trading formulas that
> use
> information from BOTH stocks to trigger actions?  (e.g. Buy GOLD
> whenever Silver
> does "X")
> 
> Or is this something that the MetaStock language just does not cope
> with?
> 
> I've look at the documentation for the "P" array, but it seems to
> require that
> all data be derived from a single "base stock".
> 
> Is there a way to do this?


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Allan Havemose, Ph.D.
havemose@xxxxxxxxxx
havemose@xxxxxxxxx

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