Ara: thanks for the suggestion, which caused me to go off and study StaticVars, which I have not used before. Now, having studied it, I am left with my original problem. How do I set the Static Variable to the Price (or Shares) when there was the first Buy signal? Part of what is causing me problems is that I have a test range that is less than the total number of bars of data for the ticker. I want the first buy within the test range, yet status(barinrange) is not helping me isolate the buys. I have been trying all of this with full arrays, and perhaps need to go into a loop and check each bar. I also have not used the custom backtester. It seems this problem can be solved using plain ol' arrays. Grrrr. Any further suggestions?
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ara Kaloustian Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [amibroker] First Value When Ken, why not save the number of shares (when initially bought), into a static variable? Ara ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Close <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 8:07 AM Subject: [amibroker] First Value When I want to determine the stock price (to become the Buyprice) at the very first Buy signal in a series of buy signals over a range. When I have written ValueWhen(Buy, Close); I get changing buy prices at each Buy signal. I have tried counting the number of Buy signals in the Range, and using ValueWhen(Buy, Close, NumbBuys); but that does not seem to get it. What I am doing is using the BuyPrice to determine the number of shares purchased at that very first buy signal, then wanting to maintain that same number of shares throughout the range. Any suggestions to solve my problem? Thanks, Ken
