Dennis, I copied and pasted. Works for me. My guess is your AA settings. Go into the backtester. Pick Settings. On the tab that comes up change your setting from Long only to Long & Short. -- Terry
-----Original Message----- From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Brown Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 14:05 To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] When do my posts show up? --the real help question Since my posts seems to be going out now, I will try this again. I cut and pasted the following AFL from one of the examples somewhere --I can't find it again at present, so I will include the AFL with this post. I have tried to make it run, but it has a problem that I can not figure out --perhaps I do not understand something. The AFL allows you to use the Parameters to manually set buy/sell/short/cover points on your chart and shows the equity curve. It works fine for buy and sell. However, any short or cover always shows as a redundant signal no matter what order I put them in. I have gone over the syntax and can not find anything that is not symetrical to the buy/sell cases. I am not sure if it a problem with the AFL, or with me. I would appreciate any help, or just testing to see if it works for someone else. Thanks, Dennis Here is the AFL --watch for line wraps. _SECTION_BEGIN("EquityCurve"); Buy = 1; Sell = Cover = Short = 0; bh = Equity( 0, 0 ); setbuy = ParamTrigger("Buy", "Buy" ); setsell = ParamTrigger("Sell", "Sell" ); setshort = ParamTrigger("Short", "Short" ); setcover = ParamTrigger("Cover", "Cover" ); clear = ParamTrigger("Clear", "Clear" ); clearall = ParamTrigger("Clear All", "Clear All" ); bi = BarIndex(); sbi = SelectedValue( bi ); qty = LastValue( bi ); Varname = Name() + sbi; if( setbuy ){ StaticVarSet( Varname, 1 );} if( setsell ){ StaticVarSet( Varname, -1 );} if( setshort ){ StaticVarSet( Varname, -2 );} if( setcover ){ StaticVarSet( Varname, 2 );} if( clear ){ StaticVarRemove( Varname );} if( clearall ) { for( i = 0; i < qty; i++ ) StaticVarRemove( Name() + i);} Buy = Sell = Short = Cover = 0; for( i = 0; i < qty; i++ ) { sig = StaticVarGet( Name() + i ); if( sig == 1 ) Buy[ i ] = True; if( sig == -1 ) Sell[ i ] = True; if( sig == -2 ) Short[ i ] = True; if( sig == 2 ) Cover[ i ] = True; } Color = IIf( Buy OR Cover, colorGreen, colorRed ); RedundantBuy = Buy; RedundantSell = Sell; RedundantShort = Short; RedundantCover = Cover; e = Equity( 1, 0 ); Plot( bh, "Buy-and-Hold", colorBlue ); Plot( e, "Equity", colorRed ); PlotShapes( Buy * shapeUpArrow + Sell * shapeDownArrow + Short * shapeHollowDownArrow + Cover * shapeHollowUpArrow, Color, 0, e, -12 ); RedundantBuy = RedundantBuy AND NOT Buy; RedundantSell = RedundantSell AND NOT Sell; RedundantShort = RedundantShort AND NOT Short; RedundantCover = RedundantCover AND NOT Cover; PlotShapes( RedundantBuy * shapeSmallUpTriangle + RedundantSell * shapeSmallDownTriangle + RedundantShort * shapeHollowSmallDownTriangle + RedundantCover * shapeHollowSmallUpTriangle, Color, 0, e, -30 ); GraphXSpace = 10; _SECTION_END(); Please note that this group is for discussion between users only. To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com For other support material please check also: http://www.amibroker.com/support.html Yahoo! Groups Links Please note that this group is for discussion between users only. To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com For other support material please check also: http://www.amibroker.com/support.html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/