No, I meant Auto Analysis Settings. If you still having problems you should send entire formula to support.
Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "holygrail168" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:00 PM Subject: [amibroker] Re: How do you change stopTypeNBar to exit at the open of the exit day? > Hi Tomasz, > > Are you talking about the Preferences within the Tool menu bar? > > Or are you talking about the Settings button in the Automatic > Analysis where there is a tab for Long trades and Short Trades? > > It allows me to choose open, close, high, low and average but I don't > understand why this setting exists since aren't we supposesd to set > Buy Prices or Sell prices in our formula? I've set all the prices to > Open anyhow. I've tried the backtester again but the n-bar stop > keeps exiting at the exit days high. > > Is there some sort of code I need to include in my AFL formula to > tell it to use these settings within the Automatic Analysis tool? > > I've just lost a fair bit fo money because of this so I'd really like > to get to the bottom of it. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'm > using Amibroker 4.90 > > Thanks, > --- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> It will exit at trade price as defined in preferences. If you set > trade price to OPEN (in the settings) it will exit on OPEN. >> >> The line should read: >> ApplyStop(stopTypeNBar,stopModeBars,2, 0, False, 2); >> >> Best regards, >> Tomasz Janeczko >> amibroker.com >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "holygrail168" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:21 PM >> Subject: [amibroker] How do you change stopTypeNBar to exit at the > open of the exit day? >> >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm trying to get the stopTypeNBar to work such that on the 3rd > day >> > (including trade day) after purchasing the share, it will exit on > the >> > market when it opens. >> > >> > At the moment, my historical backtest keeps showing an exit price > which >> > is at the market's high and not the market opening. >> > >> > This is the line of code which I'm using and I've read and re- > read the >> > applystop AFL code description but I can't find anything which > allows >> > me to control the level at which we exit the N-bar stop. >> > >> > ApplyStop(stopTypeNBar,stopModeBars,2, 1, False, 2); >> > >> > >> > >> > Please note that this group is for discussion between users only. >> > >> > To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to >> > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com >> > >> > For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG: >> > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/ >> > >> > For other support material please check also: >> > http://www.amibroker.com/support.html >> > >> > Yahoo! Groups Links >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > Please note that this group is for discussion between users only. > > To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com > > For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG: > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/ > > For other support material please check also: > http://www.amibroker.com/support.html > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >
