[amibroker] Tomasz - Funny results in backtester.

["Andrew Smith" <andy_kovacs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tomasz - 
 
Im (trying) to get to grips with the futures 
testing varables and testing a system, whereby pointvalue variable is 
calculated as the maximum risk I am initially prepared to lose, say $200, 
divided by the number of points to my exit at entry if the position imediately 
moves against me. In all trades Ive set risk to be: risk=200, and in this 
particular example there are 18 points from my entry to my maximum stoploss, so 
I want to make pointvalue 200/18=11. These calculations work OK in the system 
and are printed in the explorer table. 
 
There is no margin requirement for this kind of 
trade.
 
Someone kindly offerd some advice which has 
improved my results, but checking the values in the backtester/explorer with the 
trade reprt, the values dont correspond to the variables. What am I doing 
wrong?
 
Im using 10,000 initial equity in futures mode, 
and these are the variables Ive set:
 
E=<FONT color=#0000ff 
size=1>Equity(<FONT color=#ff00ff 
size=1>1,-1<FONT 
size=1>);

stop=abs<FONT 
size=1>(C-AR);// this comes out as the number of points to my initial max 
stoploss, 18 in this case.
risk=200<FONT face="Courier New" 
size=1>;
PointValue = round<FONT 
size=1>(risk/stop);
MarginDeposit=<FONT color=#ff00ff 
size=1>1;
PositionSize=MarginDeposit;.