Hi, I have made a custom indicator. It simply plots 1 when two other indicators are showing buy signals. It's very simple and works fine. I made it to use in the Explorer. Because I don't really know how to program, I thought it would be the easiest way to use the explorer to find these two buy signals. It all seemed to work fine, until I noticed there were stocks which were displaying the buy signal on my custom indicator but were not being discovered by the explorer. Of course these stocks were also selected and just returned a 'normal filter rejection' result. I tested these stocks (that didn't show up in the explorer), finding the dates the indicator shows on the chart and changing the date in >edit>options to the following date. But it cannot find any signals on these stocks. All of my stocks are in the same folder. And I cannot think of any reason why some stocks should be excluded as I said it is very simple eploration:" If(Ref(Fml( "the indicator"),-1)=1, 1,0)" in ColA and "ColA" under Filter. If any one has any idea what I have done wrong I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Thanks for your reply. I had already tried that. I have tried 20, 100, 2000, 5000. Nothing works. It just does not seem logical to me that some stocks should not show up.

{The two indicators were taken from Jose Silva's site} =================== ZigZag Cycle Length =================== ---8 { Price peak/trough cycle length v4.0 } { Warning: last peak/trough is dynamic!} { Plot in own window below price chart } { 6/4/2004 ASX 1152 active stocks exploration, 3.25% ZigZag cycle lengths, mean price cycles: 3.7 trade days for positive price cycles; 4.5 trade days for negative price cycles; 8.2 trade days complete price cycles.} { ©Copyright 2004 Jose Silva } { http://www.metastocktools.com } zzper:=Input("ZigZag reversal %",.001,100,3.25); pds:=Input("avg StdDev periods",2,2520,7); plot:=Input("[1]Cycles, [2]Cycle Avg, [3]Avg StdDev, [4]ZigZag",1,4,1); pk:=PeakBars(1,C,zzper)=0; tr:=TroughBars(1,C,zzper)=0; lastBar:=Cum(1)=LastValue(Cum(1)); lastLeg:=lastBar*LastValue(BarsSince(pk OR tr)); CycleUp:=pk*BarsSince(tr); CycleUpAvg:= Cum(CycleUp)/(Cum(CycleUp>0)+.000001); CycleUpStdDev:=Stdev(CycleUp,pds); CycleUpStdDevAvg:=Cum(CycleUpStdDev) /(Cum(CycleUpStdDev>0)+.000001); CycleDw:=tr*BarsSince(pk); CycleDwAvg:= Cum(CycleDw)/(Cum(CycleDw>0)+.000001); CycleDwStdDev:=Stdev(CycleDw,pds); CycleDwStdDevAvg:=Cum(CycleDwStdDev) /(Cum(CycleDwStdDev>0)+.000001); statCycle:=CycleUp-CycleDw; lastLeg:=If(ValueWhen(1,pk OR tr,statCycle)<0, lastleg,-lastleg)*lastBar; cycle:=statCycle+lastLeg; zz:=Zig(cycle,zzper,%); plotUp:=If(plot=1,0, If(plot=2,CycleUpAvg, If(plot=3,CycleUpStdDevAvg,0))); plotDw:=If(plot=1,cycle, If(plot=2,-CycleDwAvg, If(plot=3,-CycleDwStdDevAvg,zz))); plotUp;plotDw ---8 {And I called this Zig2} pr:=Input("ZigZag reversal %",.01,100,5); x:=Input("use: [1]Open, [2]High, [3]Low, [4]Close,[5]WghtCl",1,5,4);plot:=Input("plot:1]Signals,[2]ZigZag",1,2,1);x:=If(x=1,O,If(x=2,H,If(x=3,L,If(x=4,C,WC()))));zz:=Zig(x,pr,%);sell:=PeakBars(1,x,pr)=0;buy:=TroughBars(1,x,pr)=0;If(plot=1,buy-sell,zz) {The indicator I made,called ZigZig} If(FmlVar("Zig2","BUY") AND FmlVar("ZigZag Cycle Length","PLOTDW") <= -5,1,0) {As I am only interested in searching buy signals} {And the explorer-ColA-:} If(Ref(Fml( "ZigZig"),-1)=1, 1,0) {Filter}ColA { As an example the security CCL from the ASX does not show up on the explorer the last signal for this stock was Jan 4 so I change the date to Jan 5 and it gives normal filter rejection, same for all signals on this stock}

Thanks, I understand. I know Zig Zag the MS indicator changes. I'm not too worried about the indicators, but rather why MS Explorer is only showing select stocks. Until I find out why it is happening I will have to manually screen each of the 200 stocks I am testing to find the ones it missed. Thanks for the warning though.

That is the issue. If we could find a broker which allowed us to trade in hindsight, we'd all be very, very rich, but unfortunately reality gets in the way and we can only trade in real time or slower.


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