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dilmun99
7th December 2004, 01:51 PM
Hi guys

Sorry if I'm repeating myself, but my last question seems to have become lost at the end of an aging post.

I am using the TradeSim code SetProfitStop. It normally only takes a constant % input, as in ExtFml("TradeSim.SetProfitStop", 10).

I want to input a variable, for example based on ATR. I have tried using LastValue but it doesn't seem to work. Jose provided a good but long work around avoiding SetProfitStop altogether which I could potentially add as yet another loop in my Indicator Code - but shouldn't it be possible to find a way to get a variable input into the SetProfitStop formula with only one additional line of code that I can use in the Exploration step?

Maybe another way to approach this question - is there a generic workaround (other than LastValue ) to getting variable input into TradeSim formulae that only take constant inputs?

Sorry to keep on pushing on this.

Andrew

David Samborsky
8th December 2004, 02:14 AM
Hello Andrew

The SetProfitStop only excepts a constant value not a variable. We will look at making it variable in the future.