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ravik		#1 Posted : 16 years ago
Rank: Newbie Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 9/12/2009(UTC) Posts: 6		I need to use symbol names inside a formula, can anyone help me ?
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Data		#2 Posted : 16 years ago
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users Joined: 5/20/2008(UTC) Posts: 53		What kind of symbol ? You might want to use the "Security" function in order to call data from an other security. Tell us more about what you want and we might be able to help you.
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ravik		#3 Posted : 16 years ago
Rank: Newbie Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 9/12/2009(UTC) Posts: 6		I want to write a conditional formula where I want a value 1 assigned to a variable x if the symbol is IBM, 2 if the symbol is MSFT, 3 if the symbol us PRTY etc.
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johnl		#4 Posted : 16 years ago
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users Joined: 11/7/2005(UTC) Posts: 602		I believe someone else asked the same question a while ago and the answer was that you can not without doing programming outside of the basic Metastock language. Wabbit could tell you more if you want to pursue it further. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
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ravik		#5 Posted : 16 years ago
Rank: Newbie Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 9/12/2009(UTC) Posts: 6		I just figured out how to do it from inside Metastock. Thanks anyways :)
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Data		#6 Posted : 16 years ago
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Registered, Registered Users Joined: 5/20/2008(UTC) Posts: 53		ravik wrote: I want to write a conditional formula where I want a value 1 assigned to a variable x if the symbol is IBM, 2 if the symbol is MSFT, 3 if the symbol us PRTY etc. I guess that would be something like : If( C=Security("C:\MS\Data\IBM",C), value1, if(C=Security("C:\MS\Data\MSFT",C), Value2, if(C=Security("C:\MS\Data\PRTY",C), value3,0))) How did you do it ? :)
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Anant_Rao		#7 Posted : 16 years ago
Rank: Newbie Groups: Registered, Registered Users, Subscribers Joined: 9/27/2009(UTC) Posts: 1		Mate... try to give the exact path of MSFT.... i.e. C:\MSD\nse\NIFTY\MSFT... sometimes MSFT is recognised by a number viz..70001113 so in that case replace MSFT with that number... hope this solves ur problem...
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