Herman - First, I agree, the new status functions look wonderful and will allow some interesting app's.
In reference to your note about cloning data, I've tried lobbying TJ at conferences for 2 years to add this to the Settings. He acknowledges the gain, so maybe someday soon. Fred and I and probably others clone symbols to a specified date minus 252 bars to allow long lookback functions to stabilize. This data truncation has a PROFOUND impact on execution times. Depending on the amount of AFL code, and if you only need a couple years of history, speedups of 3x+ are not uncommon. Very important to optimizations. There is another way, though, and that is why I thought I'd write a quick note. If this method was available through COM automation, I would have used it instead of cloning because the overhead is minimal and the benefits are almost as great. Go into settings and set "Pad and align...", and set the reference symbol to a ticker that covers the desired date range minus a number of bars for functions to stabilize. For example, if you were using the QP3 database, you might set it to IEZ, which started in 5/5/2006 to get a 1 year history minus 1 year of bars for stabilization. You will get a significant speedup. Plus it is simpler than an export/import. Just remember to "un-set" it when it isn't needed. Bruce R.
