Hello Everyone,
Its that time again... I need some more help. I'm trying to write a system tester that trades the same way I trade in real life. I'm using Metastock 10 EOD.

Here is how I trade:
When a buy signal is generated, I set a "contingent" buy order at the high of the bar that generated the buy signal. If the intraday price goes higher than my contigent order within the next 4 days, then I'm entered long. If the price fails to go higher than the high of the "signal bar" within 4 days, then the signal is considered a failure and the contingent order is canceled.

When I'm long a position, I place a stop at the low of the previous days bar. If the intraday price moves below the stop, I'm out of the position.

What I don't know:
I don't know how to reference the high of the specific bar that generated the "buy" signal. I also am unsure what the value of "P" really is. I know the system tester figures buying and selling at intraday price levels, but I suspect "P" isn't the correct value to use. In my mind, "P" should equal "Current Price", but I read it to be the "Close" price in the manual.

How do I write?
Long Entry = Intraday Price > High of the Bar that was {Buy Signal}, but only if {Buy Signal} was within 4 days ago.


This is my 1st guess, but I have no confidence that I'm even close to correct.

A1:={Buy Signal};
LE:=P > alert(highestsince(1, A1, C),4)
LX:=P<ref(L,-1)

LE

Thanks in advance for the education,
J32driver