--- In [email protected], "Walter Lepore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brian > > I'm reading your files now to verify if I am doing the process correctly.
Yes, that should help although they are not my best post ever. Also post 117702 explains the same thing from a different point of view. If someone elses method rings bells for you - go with that. brian_z > > > Walter > > > --- In [email protected], "brian_z111" <brian_z111@> wrote: > > > > Walter, > > > > There' more than one way - here's a simple one. > > > > buy = 1; > > sell = 0; > > > > There's an extended example in the files section of this message > > board. > > > > Files > CompareIndexToPortfolio > > > > brian_z > > > > --- In [email protected], "Walter Lepore" > > <electricwally77@> 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 > > > > > >
