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To: Mac Oliver who wrote (568)	2/6/1999 9:59:00 AM
From: PuddleGlum	Respond to of 1541

Here's some more useful items from my toolbox: This one plots the percentage difference between the closing price and the high and low: (Close - Low)/(IF (High <= Low, 0.5, High - Low)) Since I do a fair amount of weekly/monthly analysis I find these useful: "IsMonthEnd": IF (REF(DayOfMonth(), 1) < DayOfMonth(), 1, 0) "BarsSinceMonthEnd": BarsSince(FN("IsMonthEnd")) Hope these help somebody. pg

To: Mac Oliver who wrote (568)	2/6/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: PuddleGlum	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1541

I also have a reversal database scan: LowestBarsAgo(Close, 3) = 1 You can substitute any indicator for close (try ZigZag). This tests for the lowest price of the last 3 periods being one period ago. To verify a trend I use Isfalling or IsRising. Since most trading systems look at a long term system in combination with a short term system I create simple database scans for something like a stochastic cross: CrossesAbove(Stoch(7,3,3,K), Stoch(7,3,3,D)) and then I'll combine that into another scan with another of my IsFalling or IsRising scans. Then, of course, the trading systems should be built on the existing database scans using ScanFN, at least that's the way I'm going to approach it. pg