thanks murthysuresh. this worked. It turned out that I only needed the first symbol so Status( "stocknum" ) == 0 worked fine without having to count the rest of the database.
--- In [email protected], "murthysuresh" <mo...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "bigitop" <doctormuniz@> wrote: > > > > Hi Herman. The script runs in exploration mode, with a specified date > > range and with the "All symbols" option. > > > Status( "stocknum" ) == 0 gives first > do a first time count of no of stocks that you have using the status and you > can infer the last stock using the > Status( "stocknum" )==<no of stocks you have> > mind you the ordinal starts from 0 >
