Hi. I am completely new to the forum, to metastock, and to programming . If anyone could offer some help, I would really appreciate it.

Because I was unable to locate any functional Demark Sequential code on the internet, I am trying to program my own. So far, I have created a functional buy setup, properly preceded by a flip day, as well the intersection, the first countdown day, and some of the second countdown day.

However, as I began working on the second countdown day, I realized that I might have to make hundreds of "symbols" entries to come up with a working Countdown, as the countdown does not have to be succsessive., especially as intersection isn't restricted to any specific day. I am already nearing 50 entries.

Really, if I just knew how to properly reference a certain condition, defined by an indicator, I would save a lot of hours.

For the second countdown day, I would like to make the condition, "if this day is preceded by countdown day 1 {which is already defined by a functioning indicator}, and if this day's close is lower than the low 2 days prior, then label this countdown day 2." Or, if this day is preceded by countdown day 1 two days ago, then "...", et cetera.

After reading the primer and the metastock "help" manual, and after trying countless variations using both ref(fml"") and Prev, I am still not certain how to write what I am trying to write, or if this can be written at all.

Again, any input whatsoever is greatly appeciated.

Thanks, Brian

Hey, thanks for the help.

I gave up on programming this in MS for some time. However, after I had written numerous spreadsheets for Demark indicators in Excel, I was feeling pretty confident.

I came back and had it written in a day's time. So, I am pretty pleased with my performance.

The function I was looking for originally is (ref(fml("Indicator"),-periods)

I used that to sum a few things and, voila, I was good to go.

It took 8 indicators, which is a lot less than I had anticipated.

Despite my joy at having been able to successfully write it, I am a bit unhappy with just how long it takes to calculate. When I attach the expert, it takes a good 5 minutes for one issue with only 6 months of data.