hey arna.... not sure of the need for the '+' under sell, other than that everything checks out ok....

plots a binary 1 for buys and sells perfectly here on everything....... are you expecting something other than the binary wave?....h

i just put both in 1 indicator and used colors to differentiate between buy/sell

(C < Ref(C,-4) AND
Ref(C,-1) < Ref(C,-5) AND
Ref(C,-2) < Ref(C,-6) AND
Ref(C,-3) < Ref(C,-7) AND
Ref(C,-4) < Ref(C,-8) AND
Ref(C,-5) < Ref(C,-9) AND
Ref(C,-6) < Ref(C,-10) AND
Ref(C,-7) < Ref(C,-11) AND
Ref(C,-8) < Ref(C,-12) );

(C > Ref(C,-4) AND
Ref(C,-1) > Ref(C,-5) AND
Ref(C,-2) > Ref(C,-6) AND
Ref(C,-3) > Ref(C,-7) AND
Ref(C,-4) > Ref(C,-8) AND
Ref(C,-5) > Ref(C,-9) AND
Ref(C,-6) > Ref(C,-10) AND
Ref(C,-7) > Ref(C,-11) AND
Ref(C,-8) > Ref(C,-12) )

hey arna.... in that situation you would want to create an expert with symbols and rules for each day.... place your numbered rules in top down order, so symbol 1 would be day 9 , symbol 2 would be day 8 and so on.....

as you know, there are more rules than that for demarks deal, such as the buy , perfection buy ,sell and perfection sell..... those can be coded in also....

it's a risk running exe's from the internet, esp from unknowns.... also as henry has mentioned before there is a risk swapping experts and such.... you should be able to create the expert but if not here is the standard metastock style fosetup exe to auto-install the expert in your metastock version 9 or higher.... clicking that link leads to the 2 standard warnings.... clicking run on both will auto install the expert.... have metastock running just in case it needs to be....

i'll code in the rest later.... the expert is named arna version td sequential ..... rename to suit....h

hey arna.... the code for sell countdown is the same except replace the '<' with a '>'.... i coded both buy and sell on up to 14.... the exploration would be just the day 9 code.... i ran it last night .... came up with a bunch oil related issues...

day 9 is the buy signal.... the perfection buy has a few more conditions.... below is a very rough first draft of it......

i also created a layout and template with both daily and weekly time frames, looks promising....

i also created a intraday 5 time frame layout and template.... looks equaly promising.....

i'll up date that exe later to include everything along with the 4 companion indicators for the layout/template....

and btw, thanks for the question.....we all learn.....h

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a:=(C < Ref(C,-4) AND
Ref(C,-1) < Ref(C,-5) AND
Ref(C,-2) < Ref(C,-6) AND
Ref(C,-3) < Ref(C,-7) AND
Ref(C,-4) < Ref(C,-8) AND
Ref(C,-5) < Ref(C,-9) );
aa:=(C < Ref(C,-4) AND
Ref(C,-1) < Ref(C,-5) AND
Ref(C,-2) < Ref(C,-6) AND
Ref(C,-3) < Ref(C,-7) AND
Ref(C,-4) < Ref(C,-8) AND
Ref(C,-5) < Ref(C,-9) AND
Ref(C,-6) < Ref(C,-10) );

aaa:=(C < Ref(C,-4) AND
Ref(C,-1) < Ref(C,-5) AND
Ref(C,-2) < Ref(C,-6) AND
Ref(C,-3) < Ref(C,-7) AND
Ref(C,-4) < Ref(C,-8) AND
Ref(C,-5) < Ref(C,-9) AND
Ref(C,-6) < Ref(C,-10)AND
Ref(C,-7) < Ref(C,-11) );

aaaa:=(C < Ref(C,-4) AND
Ref(C,-1) < Ref(C,-5) AND
Ref(C,-2) < Ref(C,-6) AND
Ref(C,-3) < Ref(C,-7) AND
Ref(C,-4) < Ref(C,-8) AND
Ref(C,-5) < Ref(C,-9) AND
Ref(C,-6) < Ref(C,-10) AND
Ref(C,-7) < Ref(C,-11) AND
Ref(C,-8) < Ref(C,-12) );

b:=If((a=1) AND (aa<>1),1,0);
x:=ValueWhen(1,b,L);

bb:=If((aa=1) AND (aaa<>1),1,0);
xx:=ValueWhen(1,bb,L);

bbb:=If((aaa=1) AND (aaaa<>1),1,0);
[censored]:=ValueWhen(1,bbb,L);

bbbb:=If(aaaa,1,0);
[censored]x:=ValueWhen(1,bbbb AND (BarsSince(bbbb)<BarsSince(bbb)) AND (BarsSince(bbbb)<BarsSince(b)),L);

y:=([censored]x<x AND [censored]x<xx) OR ([censored]<xx AND [censored]<x);

bcon:=y;

scon:=C>Ref(C,-4);

bset:=BarsSince(bbbb)<BarsSince(bbb);

sset:=y;

setup:=If(bset,1, If(sset,-1,PREV));

Cross(If(setup=1 AND bcon,1,If(setup=-1 AND scon,-1,PREV)),0.5);

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stop laughing patrick, i said it was rough.....

hey wabbit..... neat... thanks..... thats what we call thinking outside the box....

it also simplyfies some other ideas i've been working on but couldn't get past the 'sum if' part... thanks again.....h

Hi Hayseed,

I'm still new in using Metastock programming and currently, I'm using Metastock Ver 8.0. I believe that the auto-install the expert you mentioned here is for ver 9.0 or higher. Do you have the file compatible with ver 8.0? I'm very glad if you could kindly help me.

Thanks,

Richard

a:=(C < Ref(C,-4) AND
Ref(C,-1) < Ref(C,-5) AND
Ref(C,-2) < Ref(C,-6) AND
Ref(C,-3) < Ref(C,-7) AND
Ref(C,-4) < Ref(C,-8) AND
Ref(C,-5) < Ref(C,-9) );
aa:=(C < Ref(C,-4) AND
Ref(C,-1) < Ref(C,-5) AND
Ref(C,-2) < Ref(C,-6) AND
Ref(C,-3) < Ref(C,-7) AND
Ref(C,-4) < Ref(C,-8) AND
Ref(C,-5) < Ref(C,-9) AND
Ref(C,-6) < Ref(C,-10) );
aaa:=(C < Ref(C,-4) AND
Ref(C,-1) < Ref(C,-5) AND
Ref(C,-2) < Ref(C,-6) AND
Ref(C,-3) < Ref(C,-7) AND
Ref(C,-4) < Ref(C,-8) AND
Ref(C,-5) < Ref(C,-9) AND
Ref(C,-6) < Ref(C,-10)AND
Ref(C,-7) < Ref(C,-11) );
aaaa:=(C < Ref(C,-4) AND
Ref(C,-1) < Ref(C,-5) AND
Ref(C,-2) < Ref(C,-6) AND
Ref(C,-3) < Ref(C,-7) AND
Ref(C,-4) < Ref(C,-8) AND
Ref(C,-5) < Ref(C,-9) AND
Ref(C,-6) < Ref(C,-10) AND
Ref(C,-7) < Ref(C,-11) AND
Ref(C,-8) < Ref(C,-12) );
b:=If((a=1) AND (aa<>1),1,0);
x:=ValueWhen(1,b,L);
bb:=If((aa=1) AND (aaa<>1),1,0);
xx:=ValueWhen(1,bb,L);
bbb:=If((aaa=1) AND (aaaa<>1),1,0);
any:=ValueWhen(1,bbb,L);
bbbb:=If(aaaa,1,0);
anyx:=ValueWhen(1,bbbb AND (BarsSince(bbbb)
y:=(anyx
bcon:=y;
scon:=C>Ref(C,-4);
bset:=BarsSince(bbbb)
sset:=y;
setup:=If(bset,1, If(sset,-1,PREV));
Cross(If(setup=1 AND bcon,1,If(setup=-1 AND scon,-1,PREV)),0.5);

Edited by user Sunday, September 15, 2019 12:09:36 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified