Re: error with stops in short trade back-test

[cliffelion@xxxx]

Hi Tomasz,

I was trying to find an example for you and now the problem seems to 
have gone away. Must be something stupid that I was doing. 
(settings are percemt, exit at stop checked)

Still does not find trade if shift-double-click in analysis window.

Regards,

Cliff Elion

--- In amibroker@xxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <tj@xxxx> wrote:
> Dear Cliff,
> 
> What settings are you using?
> Percentage, Point, Exit at stop checked or not?
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: cliffelion@xxxx 
> To: amibroker@xxxx 
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 11:37 PM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: error with stops in short trade back-test
> 
> 
> Hi Tomasz,
> 
> I am using 3.60.3. (upgrade to 3.60.0) I also noticed that when I 
> shift-double click on a short trade it does not move to that 
trade.
> 
> The problem I see occurs is that short trades are closed by a 
stop 
> ie. displayed as: Short (stop)in the direction of the trade! .. 
the 
> trades should close when the price goes up not when the price 
goes 
> down on a short trade.
> 
> Cliff
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <tj@xxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Cliff,
> > 
> > Make sure you are using the latest version (3.60.3) as there 
were 
> small fixes to handling
> > stops. With this version backtester shows trades closed by stop 
by 
> displaying Long (stop)
> > or Short (stop) in the result list.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Tomasz Janeczko
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: cliffelion@xxxx 
> > To: amibroker@xxxx 
> > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 3:00 AM
> > Subject: [amibroker] error with stops in short trade back-test
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am back testing long and short positions. When I enable 
stops 
> as a 
> > percentage, the back-tester appears to exit good short trades 
> > incorrectly - is anyone having problems with this???
> > 
> > 
> > Cliff Elion
> > 
> > 
> > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of 
> Service.
> 
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Sponsor 
> 
> 
> 
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of 
Service.