BaconSwordfish. After many hours I finally got it. You need two new counters in a for loop with an if end statement like so assuming you already have x and y saved into arrays.
for l=1:length(x)
if x(l)>0
xQ14=x(x>0); %x is positive in quadrants 1 & 4
end
if x(l)<0
xQ23=x(x<0);
end
end
