Math Problem Help

[glay]

Shouldn't 14500 - 14510 produce -10?

I'm not getting any negative numbers in my calculations. What could be wrong? I'm trying to calculate short position profit with

profit = entry - close();

When the trade goes down it works fine but when it goes up against the position it shows a positive number instead of a negative one!

Hmm? thx

[demarcog]

Hi Geoff,

I also keep track and display in the cursor window a trades P&L using a similiar calcualtion and it seems to work fine.

The only difference in my code is that I'm using an index value when I call the close function, " close(0) ", you may want to try doing that.

I thought that without a index specification close() and other similiar functions in the latest release of eSignal returns a series.

Let me know if it works, if not I'll send you the entire EFS. You may also want to post or email it if this doesn't resolve it.


glen

[glay]

I put 'var' in front of my global variables and used your close(0) suggestion and now it is working.. weird. I never used to do these things.. I should be using proper syntax anyway. Thanks man