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To: Roy Yorgensen who wrote (5218)	7/6/1998 10:10:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Respond to of 11149

Roy: I read Mike's note, but for some reason, I'm having a hard time adding a condition for percentage gain in slope. I can add percent in the output easily enough with this: if j<0 and // eliminate first pass thru loop b< b1 then pctgain:=abs((b1/b)-1); endif; if j<0 // eliminate first pass thru loop and b< b1 then println symbol,",", date(i),",",close(0):6:2,","," B: ", b:4:3,","," B1: ", b1:4:3,","," Pctgain: ", pctgain:4:2; b1:=b; // save current for next test else b1:=b; // must alway set ot last day's val endif; next j; That gives an output like this: DELL ,07/01/1998, 92.88, B: 0.609, B1: 0.651, Pctgain: 0.07 This awkward coding probably looks like an odd way to add percent, but I tried various ways, and this one doesn't get divide by zero errors (or other errors, for that matter). But I run into problems trying to add percent as a condition. I can't seem to say, for example, if pctgain > .1, and I can't get around it by saying if b1>1.1*b, for example, because it doesn't work in the output for some reason. You'll have to try it to see what's going on. I think I'm running into problems here because I don't fully understand how you're getting values for b1 in the scan (though I can see that you are and that they're accurate). Brooke