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Anyplace I can get a description of the syntax of the overlay expression? Can I divide the current price by the closing price for the stock in question?
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Hey Paulie,
If I understand what you wish, I don't think that's possible. With expressions we're dealing with symbols only. Can't use symbol fields in an expression as far as I know.
The "overlay" expression is the same as a regular expression that one could enter into symbol box in the Expression Toolbar, or into a quotesheet.
The simplest expression is a symbol
IBM for example.
Or a spread can be done (using 6.0 format here)
IBM - MSFT
or as a percentage
MSFT / IBM
or another way to express percentage
((($NDX / $SPX) - 1) * 100)
or one could invert Yen
((1 / CME:6J #F) * 100) [there's a format issue in 6.0 with Yen requiring the * 100].
In 6.0 a space is required before and after operators.
In 5.1 a space before operator and seems to work with or without a space after operator.
If entering into quotesheet, a fully qualified expression with parens ( ) is required.
(IBM - MSFT)
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Thanks.
I think I've got it. Space as a delimiter, parens to order operations. And no auto yesterday's close.
Yesterday, I manually entered the close and it worked.
I guess that's good enough.
Thanks again.Comment
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