Re: [amibroker] How to sell at +5 or -5

2010-06-16 Thread Abhay Deshpande
Hello, Buy and Sell are boolean variables. Using arithmatic operators / operations on them won't yield correct results. You will need to obtain closing price on buying candle first and then use it in your condition for Sell. Something like this : Buy = \\your buying condition

Re: [amibroker] How to sell at +5 or -5

2010-06-11 Thread Inquisitive Voyager
Sell=(*Buy*+5) *OR* (*Buy*-5); ps: it is better touse % than points. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Prabu prabui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm new to amibroker. Please help me with this.. I'm testing it with a simple Ema crossover system. It buy on ema-crossover and Sell if price goes

Re: [amibroker] How to sell at +5 or -5

2010-06-11 Thread Prabu
hi, I tried this.. e1 = EMA(C, 14); e2 = EMA(C, 5); Buy = Cross(e2, e1); Sell = (Buy+5) OR (Buy-5); But it is buying and selling on the same bar.. Prabu On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Inquisitive Voyager hedonist2...@gmail.com wrote: Sell=( *Buy*+5) *OR* (*Buy*-5);ps: it is better

Re: [amibroker] How to sell at +5 or -5

2010-06-11 Thread Inquisitive Voyager
(1) as 5 is small factor. This happens- replace it with- Sell = (Buy*1.1) OR (Buy*.9); this sells when price is 10 % above or 10% bellow the buy. btw: are u trying it on eod data? On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Prabu prabui...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I tried this.. e1 = EMA(C, 14);

Re: [amibroker] How to sell at +5 or -5

2010-06-11 Thread Prabu
Still the result is same. (selling on the same bar). I'm trying it with 5 Minute periodicity. I even tried Sell = (Buy+30) OR (Buy-30); no use; On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Inquisitive Voyager hedonist2...@gmail.com wrote: (1) as 5 is small factor. This happens- replace it with- Sell

Re: [amibroker] How to sell at +5 or -5

2010-06-11 Thread Prabu
I think this is not the right way of sell condition.. Sell = (Buy+6) OR (Buy-5); On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Prabu prabui...@gmail.com wrote: Still the result is same. (selling on the same bar). I'm trying it with 5 Minute periodicity. I even tried Sell = (Buy+30) OR (Buy-30); no

Re: [amibroker] How to sell at +5 or -5

2010-06-11 Thread Inquisitive Voyager
@prabhu: try this. e1 = MA(*C*, 14); e2 = MA(*C*, 5); *Buy* = Cross(e2, e1); pb= ValueWhen(Cross(e2, e1),*C*); * Sell*=IIf(*C*pb+5,*True*,IIf(*C*pb-5,*True*,*False*)); @mike: without IIF sell condition shall always be true. BTW,thanks for your input. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:28 PM,

Re: [amibroker] How to sell at +5 or -5

2010-06-11 Thread Prabu
My sincere thanks to voyager Mike. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Inquisitive Voyager hedonist2...@gmail.com wrote: @prabhu: try this. e1 = MA(*C*, 14); e2 = MA(*C*, 5); *Buy* = Cross(e2, e1); pb= ValueWhen(Cross(e2, e1),*C*); * Sell