This below is a great breakout exploration By Jose Silva that I am having trouble modifying.

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Breakout signals
Signals a Buy Long on price breakout

Exploration filter

pds1:=21; {HHV (long) breakout periods}
pds2:=10; {LLV (short) breakout periods}
x:=4; {use Open=1 High=2 Low=3 Close=4 Vol=5}

x:=If(x=1,O,If(x=2,H,If(x=3,L,If(x=5,V,C))));
In:=x>Ref(HHV(x,pds1),-1);
Out:=x<Ref(LLV(x,pds2),-1);

Init:=Cum(In+Out>-1)=1;
InInit:=Cum(In)=1;
Flag:=BarsSince(Init OR In) < BarsSince(Init OR Out)+InInit;
BuyLong:=InInit AND Alert(InInit=0,2) OR Flag AND Alert(Flag=0,2);

BuyLong

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I am having serious problems trying to add a couple of filters to it with my limited understanding of the code. When I try to add modifications at the beginning, end or within the body of the code it just either does not incorporate them or the results are messed up (finds more stocks suggesting it is reading inserted code and ignoring main exploration). Presumably I have to add it in such a way that it does not interfere with the commands and functions. How to do this is probably very obvious to someone who understands the code and its parameters.

The first filter is that it is breaking out from a range that is within 50%
of a LT low written as: H <= 1.50*(LLV(C,70))

The second is that the price falls between $10 and 50 and Vol on breakout day
is > 500,000 and there was minimum activity of 10,000 shares (i.e.. it traded)
for the preceding 4 days written as: ((C>10) AND (C < 50) AND (V > 500000)
AND (Ref(V,-1)>10000) AND (Ref(V,-2)>10000) AND
(Ref(V,-3)>10000) AND (Ref(V,-4)>10000))

Any help you can provide on how I would incorporate these filters into the exploration would be much appreciated as I have been going round and round in circles on this literally for months. As I said, how to do this is probably very obvious to someone who understands the code and its parameters.

Asish, thanks. I finally worked out what you meant and put the two screens into columns. They return a 1 but I now have the same problem inserting ColA + ColB into the original formula as I did with the formulas.................................................................