I have a white background.  I'm away from home right now so I'll try the code 
you provided anyway when I return.

Am I overlooking where it may be plotted, i.e. I'm expecting the plot to show 
on the same chart as my buy and sell arrows ?

Thanks.



--- In [email protected], "Joris Schuller" <jschul...@...> wrote:
>
> Plot (C-(3*(ATR(10))), "c-3*ATR(10)", colorDarkGreen);
> 
> //added; if you don't see line below plotted, you know it is the background
> 
> Plot (C, "C", colorDarkGreen,64);
> 
>  
> 
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of srengret
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:12 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [amibroker] Plot ATR for backtest - Unable to see the plot
> 
>  
> 
> I'm using Amibroker 5.10.
> I'm writing code to set a trailing stop at 3* ATR. I'm trying to plot 3 *ATR
> as a line to see this, yet I'm unable to plot it after checking references
> and modifying the code. 
> The code worked fine using the ApplyStop for a 7% trailing stop. I commented
> it out to use the 3*ATR. Also, green buy arrows and red sell arrows showed
> okay. 
> I imagine I've overlooked something obvious - maybe it is positioning of the
> 3*ATR line. I just don't know. 
> I used a purchase of PZT (Powershares ETF) on 9/11/2008 as a check to see
> the line, but it didn't show. 
> Would someone look at the code below and tell me what is wrong with it? 
> 
> Buy = 
> C > 5.0 AND 
> ROC(C,10) > 0 AND
> PDI(10) > MDI(10) AND 
> ADX(10)>22 AND
> C > EMA(C,10) AND
> EMA(C,10) > EMA(C,20);
> 
> Sell=0;
> //Trailing Stop at 7% Loss
> //ApplyStop(2,1,7,1,False,1);
> //Equity(1,0); //ThIS EVALUATES STOPS
> //Plot(Sell==4,"ApplyStop Sell",colorRed,4|styleOwnScale);//4 is for
> trailing stops
> //Sell = 1.10*Buy;
> 
> //Using ATR 
> ApplyStop(2,2,3*ATR(10), 1, False,1) ;
> Equity(1,0); //ThIS EVALUATES STOPS
> Plot(Sell==4,"ApplyStop Sell",colorRed,4|styleOwnScale);//4 is for trailing
> stops
> 
> //Plot ATR
> Plot (C-(3*(ATR(10))), "c-3*ATR(10)", colorDarkGreen);
> 
> Thanks.
>


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