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halliday
Posted : Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:24:36 AM
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Friday's Worden Report had a presentation by a Sir Lowest Low. I added the custom indicators to a chart and liked them so much that I want to see them in SnapSheets. Can you direct me in programming them? Here are the formulas:

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Sir Lowest Low

My approach for a buy is first to find the lowest low in the last 20 days. A buy alert is triggered when the price has moved up from this low a distance equal to three times the average daily range. (A buy alert is just that. Other factors must be evaluated before action is taken.)

The PCF to calculate this procedure is:

MinL20 + 3 * ((H - L) + (H1 - L1) + (H2 - L2) + (H3 - L3) + (H4 - L4) + (H5 - L5) + (H6 - L6) + (H7 - L7) + (H8 - L8) + (H9 - L9) + (H10 - L10) + (H11 - L11) + (H12 - L12) + (H13 - L13) + (H14 - L14)) / 15

For a sell signal, I allow less room to move. Since stocks move more quickly down than up, I use 2.5 times the average daily range.  The formula would be: 

MaxH20 - 2.5 * ((H - L) + (H1 - L1) + (H2 - L2) + (H3 - L3) + (H4 - L4) + (H5 - L5) + (H6 - L6) + (H7 - L7) + (H8 - L8) + (H9 - L9) + (H10 - L10) + (H11 - L11) + (H12 - L12) + (H13 - L13) + (H14 - L14)) / 15

The above formulas can then be plotted as Custom Indicators on the price chart.  When setting this up be sure to check "plot using price scale." A buy can be triggered by the close crossing the plot line. Or to be a little safer, let the bar completely separate from the line. 


Thanks,

Bill
Craig_S
Posted : Saturday, November 11, 2006 4:15:01 PM


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I created both plots and attached. Be sure to connect (and scale) them to Price History when you add them.

Look at how the Block Diagrams are constructed... very simple.

Save them in the following folder:
\My Documents\My SnapSheets\Tool Parts\Chart
Once there, you can add it using the ADD STUDY button and choosing MY COMPUTER.

Attachments:
SLL Buy.plot - 4 KB, downloaded 874 time(s).
SLL Sell.plot - 4 KB, downloaded 894 time(s).



- Craig
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halliday
Posted : Sunday, November 12, 2006 8:45:26 AM
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Very Nice Craig;

These plots make quite a dramatic impact on the Price Chart!

Thank you for programming them and thank Sir Lowest Low for presenting them.

Bill
Craig_S
Posted : Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:54:51 AM


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Did you check out how I made them? See how I took the logic of SLL's PCF and translated into a Block Diagram?

Any questions?

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halliday
Posted : Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:37:18 PM
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Yes,

You split the PCF into two parts!

1)
You got the High and Low and calculated the difference between them. Then you got a 15 day moving average of the difference and multiplied that by 3.

2)
You also found the minimum Low for the last 20 days.

You then added the average price change to the minimum Low.


It makes since after seeing what you did.
Someday, I'll be able to do it for myself.




Craig_S
Posted : Sunday, November 12, 2006 4:33:25 PM


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Great... I wanted to be sure you understood my translation.

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That day is closer than you may think!

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