Thanks - that's helpful - I'm just trying to figure out how to incorporate that into a scan without it executing on every symbol everytime.
--- In [email protected], "Joe Landry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > droskil > Here's one way but I think it's going to depend on what operation you're in. Is it AA, then you can count each symbol as you step through it. If you're using the custom backtester then I don't know. > > Here's a clip from years past. Pull the list of symbols then count them within the FOR loop. > > JOE > > > > list = CategoryGetSymbols( categoryWatchlist, 63 ); > > pop=0; > > for( i = 0; ( sym = StrExtract( list, i ) ) != ""; i++ ) > > { > > pop=POP+1; > > } > > Plot(pop,"",5,2); > > to plot the population pop of a WL63. The result will be a flat line, > > which is not correct when you have missing data, shorter or longer > > histories. > > Dimitris Tsokakis > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: droskill > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 1:41 PM > Subject: [amibroker] Addtocomposite - counting totals in a watchlist > > > Hey all - is there anyway to count the number of symbols in a > watchlist? I want to make an AddtoComposite-created index a % rather > than a hard number. Is there a function to do this? > > Thanks! >
