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Re: [amibroker] Strange stop loss functionality, BUG?



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Hi,

It was already discussed in this mailing list that Stop loss feature
works by closing the position using the price field defined in
settings. So position is not closed at exact stop level.
This will be changed in the future.

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
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http://www.amibroker.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <d-erland@xxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 4:30 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Strange stop loss functionality, BUG?


> Hi,
> 
> When using stop loss when back-testing ("Settings" under Auto-
> Analysis) I get some strage behaviour. When enabling stop-loss, long 
> positions are entered at other dates than when disabling it, 
> and "return on account" is very high (about 1000 times higher than 
> when not enabling stop-loss). Also, the stop loss doesn't seem to 
> work as I get losses higher than my stop-loss percent.
> 
> Is this a known problem, or have I misunderstood how it should work?
> 
> Regards,
> Dag Erlandsen
> 
> 
> 
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