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Strategies & Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard Estes who wrote (3179)	7/26/1999 6:01:00 PM
From: Michael Olds	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

Please excuse my ignorance. I have been using MetaStock 6.5 with end-of-day data from Reuters now for about a year. I am basically a “buy and hold” investor with 30 years experience in the market, most intensely in the past 10 years. I would like to take advantage of “slow trading” experience I have with one or two securities by setting up my own trading system, and find I have some basic questions I cannot find answered in the Manual. Presuming I am able to devise the rules for a trading system, and that I understand how to test a system, how do I “apply the system” to a security so that it is “attached” like an expert? Now, presuming I don't know everything about devising the rules for a trading system: do I (and how do I) use the “P” indicator function to enter a value based on Security or Index A, for a trading system for Security B. For example: Enter Security A If the Dow Jones Industrial Average Close is above it's previous period close. Again, apologies if these are stupid questions, and thanks for any help, MikeOlds