Hello All,

I'm trying to modify the exisiting exploration "Equis-Performance Daily" to include some other dates from which to calculate performance: quarter to date, year to date, since buy date, etc.,where the dates would all be manually coded in. As I'm just a novice at coding, I tried doing it the "slow & ugly way" with code from this board (credit to Jose and Patrick) but quickly exceeded the maximum number of variables allowed. Also, I'm not comfortable detecting the current security in the exploration (which is needed for the "since buy date") just by comparing the current closing price.

It was mentioned in a related post that an external function could solve the problem rather easily but I don't know where to start. I would assume that Equis could do this, or some custom programmer familiar with MetaStock but what would be a reasonable price to pay? Is there a resource list of custom programmers anywhere? Any recommendations from people on this board would be greatly appreciated. TIA,

Jim