[rajatheroyal]

I wanted to test one long only strategy which buys on 10th of every month.But the problem is suppose the 10 th is holiday it should buy at next working day.Can anybody help me to know how to give the condition that 10th is holiday

[Tams]

in backtest...

if the data does not exist on the 10th, it must be a holiday...



;-)

[suriNotes]

hi,

Here is a post about an EasyLanguage function to check if a given calendar date (from 1998 to 2010)
is a Trading or a Half-Day or a Holiday

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...html#post79435

regards,
Suri

[rajatheroyal]

Originally Posted by Tams »

in backtest...

if the data does not exist on the 10th, it must be a holiday...



;-)

yes i know that.But i have to give condition if 10 th is a holiday then buy on the next working day.So for that i have to check if 10 th was a holiday or not this the problem.

[rajatheroyal]

Originally Posted by suriNotes »

hi,

Here is a post about an EasyLanguage function to check if a given calendar date (from 1998 to 2010)
is a Trading or a Half-Day or a Holiday

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...html#post79435

regards,
Suri

Thanks sir,but this is for US market i think.I m from India and i wan to check indian holidays for the past data so for that is there any fuction or how to give condition that if a day is holiday then do so and so.

[Kiwi]

Unless an Indian has written one you are unlikely to find one.

[suriNotes]

Originally Posted by rajatheroyal »

Thanks sir,but this is for US market i think.I m from India and i wan to check indian holidays for the past data so for that is there any fuction or how to give condition that if a day is holiday then do so and so.

Hi rajatheroyal,

You could compile a list of Holidays/Half-Days from Indian Exchanges and replace the U.S. exchanges HOLIDAYS data in the ELD posted.

Regards,
Suri

[Tams]

Originally Posted by rajatheroyal »

yes i know that.But i have to give condition if 10 th is a holiday then buy on the next working day.So for that i have to check if 10 th was a holiday or not this the problem.

if you can describe your thought process...
you can program it

I can write it out for you,
but I would do you a disservice,
because you will come back again,
and again,
to ask similar "thinking required" questions,
like what you are doing now.

my suggestion:
write out your thoughts,
one logic at a time,
one action at a time,
one action per sentence,
ONE SENTENCE PER LINE
I repeat,
ONE SENTENCE PER LINE

you can make it if you want to,