I would like some help creating an indicator that will count the number of new highs in a watch list between the most recent (current) date and a user specificed date in the past.   In other words, if the user defined date was January 1, the indicator would show the number of stocks in a list which now trade above their January 1, price.  Obviously, this would not work on any time frames less than daily.

Thanks,
Bob

Bruce:  Fiddling with this indicator I changed "high" to "low" (see below) attempting to get and indicator that will show the count below its price as of a specified date.

*** StockFinder RealCode Condition - Version 5.0 www.worden.com
'|*** Copy and paste this header and code into StockFinder *********
'|*** Condition:Price below Date High
'|******************************************************************
'# HighDate = UserInput.Date = "12/31/2010"
'# Cumulative
Static Basis As Single
If isFirstBar Then
 Basis = Price.Bar.lowValue(Price.IndexForDate(HighDate))
End If
If Price.Last > Basis Then
 Pass
End If


It seems to work OK, (I think) but the high and low indicator don't add up to 100%.  I assume this is because it is looking at the high of one bar and the low of the other bar, on the two indicators.  I then tried to replace "high" with "close" to no avail: lots of error messages.

If I'm correct in my assumption, and if using the closing price would allow two indicators, one showing items above its close on a certain date and the other showing items below, to display two separate values equaling 100%, (for instance 22% above and 78% below - on the same date) would you please make that change to the formula.  I've looked at the RealCode reference book and am stumbling.

Thanks,
Bob