Thanks Howard, I will look into this further. Bill
--- In [email protected], "Howard B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Bill -- > > The DateNum function might help. > > 01/01/2005 in AmiBroker datenum format is 1050101. Your system might set up > its buy condition as follows: > > BuySignal = whatever; > Buy = BuySignal AND (DateNum()>=1050101); > > Thanks, > Howard > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:57 AM, tickhillblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I am a new user of Amibroker and I am trying to backtest a system I > > have thought about for many years but have not had any software to > > perform this before last week. > > > > I have a problem and am looking for some help. > > > > Due to different symbol start dates I need to generate the buy or sell > > signal after a two year period. > > > > i.e. AZN.L data starts on 01/01/2003, the first transaction cannot be > > before 01/01/05. Whilst I can manually set this in the analyser for > > each share I would like to automate it using AFL. > > > > All help would be much appreciated. > > > > Bill > > > > > > >
