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To: Webb B Blackman Jr who wrote (7838)	11/17/1998 8:56:00 AM
From: Richard Estes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

I modified it to show only sell signals, ie. SAR below price) ========================================== Webb, you go long if SAR is below price, you would sell or short when Sar is above price. SAR is mostly used as a stop measure. The place to reverse trade. The primary pivot is the best, but with a trending stock, away from base you might move to major. I use 2.63 and -1.63 for SD with H/L flip. As for starting point, un-automatic, find the last low or high that you feel is of importance to your plan of trading.

To: Webb B Blackman Jr who wrote (7838)	11/17/1998 2:02:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

I modified it to show only sell signals, ie. SAR below price Webb: You'd better check your scan, as Richard says. When SAR falls below the price, it's a buy signal. Take a look at SAR in Metastock, and you'll see. Someone inadvertently mixed up the buy and sell signals in one of the SAR scans posted on this thread, I seem to remember. The error was fixed quickly. You might want to make sure you have the correct version. Here it is: //SAR, by Jeff Grover (with some changes by Bob Jagow) input = "portfoli.lst"; output = "sar.lst"; float accdelta, accfac, SIP, SAR, SARp, xprice; integer j, count, buysell,firstday, flipday; accdelta := .02; accfac := accdelta; count := -100; buysell := 0; // 1-long, 0-short firstday := 1; SAR := high(count); SARp := SAR; SIP := SAR; xprice := high(count); for j = count-1 to 0 step 1 do if( buysell = 0 ) then // short position if( firstday = 1 ) then SAR := SIP; firstday := 0; else if( low(j) < xprice ) then xprice := low(j); if( accfac < .2 ) then accfac := accfac + accdelta; endif; endif; SAR := SARp - accfac * abs(xprice - SARp); endif; if( SAR <= high(j) or SAR <= high(j-1) ) then if( high(j) >= high(j-1)) then SAR := high(j); else SAR := high(j-1); endif; buysell := 1; flipday:= j; accfac := accdelta; SIP := xprice; firstday := 1; endif; endif; if( buysell = 1 ) then // long position if( firstday = 1 ) then SAR := SIP; firstday := 0; else if( high(j) > xprice ) then xprice := high(j); if( accfac < .2 ) then accfac := accfac + accdelta; endif; endif; SAR := SARp + accfac * abs(xprice - SARp); endif; if( SAR >= low(j) or SAR >= low(j-1) ) then if( low(j) <= low(j-1)) then SAR := low(j); else SAR := low(j-1); endif; buysell := 0; flipday:= j; accfac := accdelta; SIP := xprice; firstday := 1; endif; endif; SARp := SAR; next j; if buysell = 0 then println symbol," Sell on ", date(flipday),",",close(flipday):6:3; endif; if buysell = 1 then println symbol," Buy on ", date(flipday),",",close(flipday):6:3; endif;