Will Yes it is possibe to exit on the same bar as the entry. I posted the following for Charmeta about 4 weeks ago and your question is virtually the same. Use a forward reference for your Buy Order code (and Price code too if that's how you are defining entry price), and then apply a Strategic Delay of 1 bar to the Buy order. That allows the Enhanced System Tester to "Consider" the order 1 bar prior to when it thinks it will be executed, then Execute the order on the correct day. The Sell Order remains as is and has neither a forward reference nor a delay applied. I've explained this process more fully in a couple Of MSTT articles, and I can assure you that it does work. I think the problem is that the EST WILL NOT "Consider" a Buy and a Sell on the same bar, but it can certainly be tricked into executing on the same EOD bar. {Buy Order} Ref(Fml("My Buy Signal"),+1); {Price} Ref(Fml("My Buy Price"),+1); Strategic Delay (bars); [1] {Sell Order} Fml("My Sell Signal"); Strategic Delay (bars); [0] Set the Simulation Buy Price to OPEN and Delay order opening to 0. Note that testing does not occur on the last bar of data when using a forward reference of 1 bar, but this is of little consequence in the general scheme of things. Roy MetaStock Tips & Tools

What came first, the chicken or the egg? Are we talking about an exit on close? Or are we talking about a separate exit signal that requires the data to have been updated? Using an expert, only one signal per bar can be used in the symbol area, another can be coded into the highlight area. My thinking is that on Tuesday night, I download my data, after the market is closed for the day, I get a buy signal for the daily bar chart. Wednesday morning, I enter my buy order. Wednesday night, I download my data, after the market is closed, I get an exit signal, so the next morning I put in an exit order. As each bar is updated, RT or EOD, each bar signals one signal. An expert uses priority to filter out signals. You develope a system with 4 signals: Long entry,Long exit, Short entry, and short exit. You are looking for the new bar to fire off a new signal You cannot trade what If's or forward Ref( my buy,1) signals Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see how this works in an expert. Henry

Will The method does work and I'm confident that I could have code to do exactly what you want up and running within about 30 minutes. However you're not obliged to accept help so I'll leave it at that. Good luck with doing it a different way. Roy MetaStock Tips & Tools

msst would you like to share your code of entry and exit and the same bar please?

i remember roys article, it was the january issue... we can be running the daily chart in realtime so its being updated constantly during market hours ..... certain systems could give buys/sells that we could legitimately execute in the final minutes or possibly in after hours trading..... in those cases a buy at close would be possible, but backtesting results might be off a tad.... also , couldn't systems based on something completely foreign to the purchased object yield many buy/sells in any given day ...... well known are systems based purely on trin as example..... there are others, i use some roy and henry would be aware of but others might not be such as those based on put/call ratio of the s&p 500 index options .... very few hayseeds trade index options, mostly smart money professionals..... when the p/c exceeds certain levels turns are emminent.... again that system would be independent of price...... other possible examples come to mind..... h