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[Programming Help] - incorrect position opening in Spreadsheet System for Trading

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[2020-06-11 12:54:18]
ULADZIMIR VALASACH - Posts: 38
I'm testing a simple strategy in Spreadsheet System for Trading: buy if the price exceeds Auto Retracement/Projection, Period High of the previous bar (top orange indicator).
Formula is: Buy Entry = J14>AA4
Why is the purchase happening here (see Attachment)? Because the condition did not happen!
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[2020-06-11 15:00:55]
Sawtooth - Posts: 3982
You must us an absolute reference to J14:
=$J$14>AA4
[2020-06-11 19:17:56]
ULADZIMIR VALASACH - Posts: 38
Thank you very much - you helped me a lot!
Where did you get the information?
[2020-06-11 19:43:58]
bradh - Posts: 854
Where did you get the information?

If you are not familiar with Excel, there are absolute and relative references. When you copy a cell with relative references (=J14) down one row, =J14 will become =J15. If you put a $ in front of the row or column, it will keep the original row and/or column value, so =J$14, when copied down one row, stays =J$14. Since rows 4 on down are copies of row 3, and you always want to use the value in J14, you need to fix it so it doesn't change when copied. That is what the absolute reference does.

More info here: Working with Spreadsheets: Relative and Absolute References
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[2020-06-12 10:36:18]
ULADZIMIR VALASACH - Posts: 38
I did not know - thank you very much for the clarification !!

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