Can I suggest you have a look at Richard Dale's excellent (and free) advanced trailing stop. Its volatility based (ATR) and is available from: http://www.tradernexus.c...edstop/advancedstop.html On the question of dates: [Edited formula - last one generated ome error???] fmDate:=Input("Start ddmmyy (0=first trade)",0,311299,0); fmDay:=If(fmDate=0,ValueWhen(1,Cum(1)=1,DayOfMonth()),Int(fmDate/10000)); fmMonth:=If(fmDate=0,ValueWhen(1,Cum(1)=1,Month()),Int((fmDate-fmDay*10000)/100)); fmYear:=If(fmDate=0,ValueWhen(1,Cum(1)=1,Year()),Int(fmDate-Int(fmDate/100)*100)); fmYear:=If(fmYear<100,If(fmYear<40,fmYear+2000,fmYear+1900),fmYear); ((DayOfMonth()>=fmDay AND Month()=fmMonth AND Year()=fmYear) OR (Month()>fmMonth AND Year()=fmYear) OR Year()>fmYear); will return TRUE (1) on and after the start date. If you enter 0 for the date, the start date is the first bar in the chart. Hope this helps. wabbit :D

Never let a computer win! What part(s) didnt you understand? fmDate:=Input("Start ddmmyy (0=first trade)",0,311299,0); This bit should be OK. The use inputs the date in the format ddmmyy, or enters 0 for the date to be the date of the first bar in the chart. fmDay:=If(fmDate=0,ValueWhen(1,Cum(1)=1,DayOfMonth()),Int(fmDate/10000)); This bit of code says: if the user entered zero then find the DayofMonth() of the first bar in the chart (Cum(1)=1). If the user didnt enter zero, and entered a date in the proper format, divide the number representing the date, ignore everything to right of the decimal point and the resulting number should be the user entered value for DayofMonth(). A similar process happens to extract the month and year from the user input. fmMonth:=If(fmDate=0,ValueWhen(1,Cum(1)=1,Month()),Int((fmDate-fmDay*10000)/100)); fmYear:=If(fmDate=0,ValueWhen(1,Cum(1)=1,Year()),Int(fmDate-Int(fmDate/100)*100)); fmYear:=If(fmYear<100,If(fmYear<40,fmYear+2000,fmYear+1900),fmYear); This bit just formats years greater than 40 as 1900+year, eg 1989 and years less than 40 as 2000+year e.g 2004 Notice the reuse of the fmYear variable. ((DayOfMonth()>=fmDay AND Month()=fmMonth AND Year()=fmYear) OR (Month()>fmMonth AND Year()=fmYear) OR Year()>fmYear); This is where the trickery takes place. It finds the first bar where the day and month and year criteria are met. This of course only happens if the stock traded that day, otherwise it finds the bar when the month and year criteria are met if the stock traded that month, otherwise it finds the bar when the year criteria is met. Hopefully this explanation will help you understand this code a little better. Please dont take other people's code or answers for granted. If you dont understand something please ask. Sometimes it is a little difficult to explain things, but if you dont understand the answer then we have not answered the question at all. Hope this helps. wabbit :D