Hi Brian I thank you for helping.
Based on your advice, here is the code I entered... _N(Title = StrFormat("{{NAME}} - {{INTERVAL}} {{DATE}} Open %g, Hi %g, Lo %g, Close %g (%.1f%%) {{VALUES}}", O, H, L, C, SelectedValue( ROC( C, 1 ) ) )); Plot( C, "Close", ParamColor("Color", colorBlack ), styleNoTitle | ParamStyle("Style") | GetPriceStyle() ); _SECTION_END(); Buy = 1; Sell = 0; I clicked "apply indicator" in the formula window and completed a back test but received some strange results. My trade list in the AA window shows 5 trades total. Under the trade column, the first trade says "OUT". 2nd trade says "Long", 3rd trade says "Out", 4th trade says "Long" and the 5th trade says "Out". I clicked "show actual trades" and it shows a red arrow on bar 1 and a green and red arrow on bar 11,560 and a green and red arrow on bar 11,561. There are 11,561 bars total (daily data from 1962 to 2007) Hope you can help please Thanks Brian Walter --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "brian_z111" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Walter, > > There' more than one way - here's a simple one. > > buy = 1; > sell = 0; > > There's an extended example in the files section of this message > board. > > Files > CompareIndexToPortfolio > > brian_z > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Walter Lepore" > <electricwally77@> wrote: > > > > Hi Members > > > > Please bear with me. I am trying to write a simply Buy and Hold > system > > using only one stock (HPQ-Hewlitt Packard). I'm using End of Day > data > > and programming using the AFL Wizard . I've been at it for about two > > hours but can't generate the results of a simple buy & Hold. > > > > Obviously I'm doing something wrong. There are a total of 11,561 > > Daily bars in the data I downloaded from Yahoo. > > > > I've built several different formulas and none of them result in a > > simple Buy and Hold when I backtest and run a report. > > > > Can someone please tell me what the code is for a simple buy and > hold > > please? > > > > I assume there will only be an "Enter Long" but NO "Exit Long" since > > I'm still holding. Correct? > > > > Thank you very much > > Walter > > >