Freeburg Precious Metal Switch Fund System
MetaStock Indicator

To create the Freeburg Precious Metal Switch Fund system in MetaStock for Windows, you must first create the K ratio as a composite security. To do this, launch The Downloader from MetaStock, and choose New and then Composite from The Downloader's File menu. Make sure the directory specified is the directory where your weekly GMI and Handy and Harman data are located. Name the composite the K ratio, then choose the Barron's Gold Mining Index as the Primary symbol and Handy and Harman prices as the secondary symbol. Next, choose Divide as the Operator and the click the OK button to add the composite. Open the K ratio chart in MetaStock, Plot the Bollinger Bands Indicator and enter 46 for the number of periods and 2.3 for the standard deviations. Plot Bollinger Bands again and enter 4 for the periods and 1.6 for the Standard Deviations.

The data necessary for this chart/indicator, is extremely difficult to obtain. The only source we are aware of on diskette is the author of the article. The data is in a Lotus spreadsheet. It must be output to ASCII and then converted to MetaStock data files. He will make a small charge for this data.

To keep the GMI data updated, it is only available from Barrons magazine and must be manually input. The Handy & Harman data must also be manually updated. This may be obtained from the Wall Street Journal as well.