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To: Paul Beattie who wrote (1796)	3/29/1998 8:43:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Respond to of 4056

Paul: You make a good point: "On my machine, the time it takes to run an exploration with: A:=Fml("Insynch Index"); A>Ref(A,-1) is significantly less than it takes with: Fml("Insynch Index")>Ref(Fml("Insynch Index"),-1) Like Craig, I was wondering about some of the abbreviations. But as you'll see, the Expert Advisor system I just posted could use some, for precisely the reason you stated. Brooke

To: Paul Beattie who wrote (1796)	3/29/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: Craig DeHaan	Respond to of 4056

Paul, Thanks, I'll give it a try and report back. My default screen is a bit overpopulated with 15 to 20 indicators so the charting speed diff may be disguised, as you point out. But explorations that employ many of these same custom indicator formulas should tell the story. Some run up to 7 min. on 2500 database with elapsed and projected completion times displayed. I'm using 6.5 as I assume you are? I can't say I've noticed much speed difference between the two versions, but then I've never condensed formulas with anything other than their integer input variable calls. And Brooke, should you adopt a truly abbreviated prose in anything other than your scan formulations the amusement quotient of many of these threads will experience divide by zero errors ;-)

To: Paul Beattie who wrote (1796)	3/30/1998 9:07:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4056

Paul: Here's another attempt to formulate Dave's system as an Expert Advisor system. Buy signals are a little sparse, though: Buy: Fml("StochRSI(14)")>30 AND Fml("StochRSI(14)")<50 AND Fml("StochRSI(8,5)")>20 AND Fml("StochRSI(8,5)")>Ref(Fml("StochRSI(8,5)"),-1) AND Fml("MACD(8,17,9)")>0 AND Fml("MACD(8,17,9)")>Ref(Fml("MACD(8,17,9)"),-1) AND Fml("InSync Index")>50 AND Fml("Dahl's primary trend")>0 AND Fml("Dahl's Primary Trend")>Ref(Fml("Dahl's Primary Trend"),-1) AND SAR(.02,.2)<C AND OBV()>Mov(OBV(),40,S) AND Fml("DNS")>=5; Brooke