At 09:07 PM 10/12/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>David Vomund is interviewed in October TASC, and talks about the "volume
>accumulation percent indicator" (VAP), which he explains is another way to
>display Chaikins Money Flow. I would like to experiment with it. Do any of
>you know how "VAP" is calculated? He shows a chart displaying it on page
>69.
>Thanks much,
>Dan



VAP-Second Attempt

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· Subject: VAP-Second Attempt
· From: Tom Strickland <tstrickland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
· Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 17:14:49 -0500
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· Sender: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dan,

I contacted David Vomund by e-mail and he was kind enough to mail me the equations required to calculate the VAP. I've programmed them in MetaStock as follows:

Hope this helps.

I previously mailed this to the list but it never made it out. I suppose the reason was that an attached graph showing the VAP may have been too large. If so, the irony is that the graph was generated by MetaStock. Oh well.

Tom

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