A possible alternative method might be: Ticker1 = "HPQ"; Buy = Name()== Ticker1; Sell = 0;
Which may show mutiple Buy symbols on charts but will show correct results in the backtester --- In [email protected], "Walter Lepore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Members > > Please bear with me. I am trying to write a simply Buy and Hold system > using only one stock (HPQ-Hewlitt Packard). I'm using End of Day data > and programming using the AFL Wizard . I've been at it for about two > hours but can't generate the results of a simple buy & Hold. > > Obviously I'm doing something wrong. There are a total of 11,561 > Daily bars in the data I downloaded from Yahoo. > > I've built several different formulas and none of them result in a > simple Buy and Hold when I backtest and run a report. > > Can someone please tell me what the code is for a simple buy and hold > please? > > I assume there will only be an "Enter Long" but NO "Exit Long" since > I'm still holding. Correct? > > Thank you very much > Walter >
