The following plots a 1 (TRUE) on the first day of the month. The last day of the prev month is one bar back from the 1.
FOM = Month() != Ref(Month(),-1); Plot(Fom,"FirstOfMonth",1,1); Plot(FOM == 0 AND Ref(First,1) == 1,"LastDayOfMonth",colorRed,1); The code looksahead ... that shouldn't matter for BT if you use it carefully. --- In [email protected], "Patrick" <patsgreatde...@...> wrote: > > I want to testing buying and selling based on months. Using the very simple > forumla below will not work (month end mainly) if there is no trading day on > the 28th. > > Is there a way to write to code... "Buy on the first trading day of the > month, and sell on the last trading day of the month" ?? > > > MO = 1; > Buy = (Month() == MO) AND(Day() = 1 ); > Sell = (Month() == MO) AND (Day() = 28); >
