Hello, Please execus this v. simple question; I am running an exploration to find the macd cross over it's trigger, but not getting consistant results when verifying with chart. The syntax am using is: Cross(MACD(), Mov( MACD(),9 ,E )) Sometimes I get 1 day delay. Thanks vm

Thanks Roy.

anejanitin- If you run the exploration on weekly data, you will get a weekly signal.

Well, I'd follow Roy's advice about the 5X rule above... maybe you need more than 250 records. Just for the heck of it, try 500 or more. Are your results still inaccurate? How are you determining that the results are inaccurate. If you plot your criteria as an indicator, is the MACD correct then? Can we narrow this down to an Exploration-only problem? Give us a security and your Exploration code here... let's see if we can sort throught it with you.

Niten Is the exploration date set to the current bar or a specific date. You haven't been specific as to which values are diffent between exploration result and chart (6 values in all), but if Column A (CLOSE) is different then the only cause I can think of is that your exploration is set to the wrong date. If you open a chart from the exploration report window then you'll need to switch the chart to weekly - it doesn't open automatically in weekly periodicity, and that could suggest that your values are different when you're actually looking at the wrong periodicity chart. I've just run a scan using your exploration and the chart of ATG shows a weekly MACD value of 0.09949, and the exploration shows 0.0995 (rounded to 4 decimal places). That's exactly what I would expect it to be. The MACD() reported value of 0.0995 doesn't change until I drop the number of bars scanned to around 130 (5 times 26), when it changes to 0.0996. What you need to understand is that MetaStock is (almost certainly) not at fault here. If that's your attitude then a problem can be very hard to isolate. Adopt the attitude that the mistake is yours and that will free you up to check things that you would otherwise continue to overlook. Roy MetaStock Tips & Tools

anejanitin- What was the error?

Hi let me put across one more issue. when i run the exploration the value of [color=red:06a2c3cb1f]MACD[/color] as in the exploration REPORT is different from [color=red:06a2c3cb1f]MACD value [/color]shown in the [color=red:06a2c3cb1f]'INSPECT' option [/color] available in the [color=red:06a2c3cb1f]REPORT.[/color] Though the value shown in the 'INSPECT' option is correct. but why this difference???????? is there any option which is not being used correctly by me.