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Re: [amibroker] Using Optimization to Create Surface Charts



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Hi
 
Very interesting !
 
Tomasz if could in a ...future release include this 
feature !
 
 
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 7:07 
PM
Subject: [amibroker] Using Optimization 
to Create Surface Charts
Fellow AB'ers,If you use Optimization on two 
variables you can plot the results with Excel as a surface chart. I find 
surface charts helpful in visualizinghow a trading system behaves and 
whether or not I can trust the backtestresults to be robust and 
non-spurious.It's a pretty straightforward process: Run the 
Exploration, Export as aCSV, Open with Excel, create a Pivot Table and 
finally make a 3-D SurfaceChart.Attached is an example I created 
using a sample database of 50 stocksspanning 10.7 years diversified across 
industries and capitalization. Thetrading system is a simple Donchian 
breakout: Buy at open tomorrow iftoday's Close exceeds an X-day High,and 
Sell at open if today's Low islower than a Y-day Low.The results 
are very promising and are likely robust:Risk adjusted ann. return: 
22.82% Ratio avg win/avg loss: 1.99 Profit factor: 1.56   
Avg. # of bars in winners: 41.9 Total number of trades: 
1318Percent profitable: 43.9% Number winning trades: 579 That 
22.8% RAR is a pretty good result, I think. The database spans bulland 
bear markets and contains some poorly performing stocks [along withsome 
good ones].When you look at a surface chart you want to see a fairly 
flat surface, allwith a positive return. High peaks and low valleys tend 
to indicate datamining and are probably not reproducible. Since the 
attached chart isfairly flat, I believe this system will be tradable and 
repeatable.There's one more test that needs to be done, which is to 
statistically testthe results against random noise trades, but due tolack 
of time I'll savethat for later ;-)Regards,Jim 
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