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Thanks, I've tried that, it's not quite what I'm looking for. I want to be able to stop and reverse anywhere where the system tester would ordinarily stop out, i.e. on a specific % or point loss, or break even or whatever, rather than on the value of the parabolic SAR indicator. What are your...

Is it possible to use SAR rather than a simple stop in a Metastock system test? I'm using 7.01, maybe I need to upgrade?

How do you handle the reversals? CMC have 20 point spreads for the Small cap and 250 indices, look at the whipsaws in early Jan, bearing in mind the spread: 02/01/01 Long, market closes at 3180, stop at 3172. 03/01/01 Market opens below stop at 3170, close out and go short for -2, market closes...

Thanks TraderX, MX. I rang Prestel today and signed up, £90/year for UK OHLCV data, hopefully the signon info will arrive tomorrow.

Where do people get their end of day data for AIQ? I just tried a download using the 'Comm' option from Mytrack, and it's trashed my database by downloading US stock data ('cause each ticker in the database wasn't suffixed with '-L'). Is there a workaround or do people use other methods?