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right, I know how to do that, but unfortunately it's not the issue. the
question is whether backtest code can tell if it's being run against a
watchlist or a single stock. far as I know, your code runs once for each
ticker, and can't tell anything about other tickers being processed before
or after it in the same run.
dave
> A code posted to count tickers in a watchlist
>
> //Count tickers in watchlist function
> //Anthony Faragasso
> //July 4, 2003
> //Single watchlist output
> WatchlistNumber=0;//enter watchlist number
> function CountTickersInWatchList( Listnum )
> {
> // retrive comma-separated list of symbols in watch list
> list = GetCategorySymbols( categoryWatchlist, listnum );
> for( i = 0; ( sym = StrExtract( list, i ) ) != ""; i++ )
> {
> if( i == 0 ) i = 0;
> else i = i ;
> }
> return i;
> }
> Filter=1;
> AddColumn(CountTickersInWatchList( WatchlistNumber),"",1);
>
> Cheers,
> Graham
> http://groups.msn.com/ASXShareTrading
> http://groups.msn.com/FMSAustralia
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Merrill [mailto:dmerrill@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, 12 September 2003 11:25 AM
> To: AmiBroker
> Subject: [amibroker] can backtest code tell how many stocks it's running
> against?
>
>
> I have some backtest code that can be run in two ways:
>
> 1) against a single shortable security, in which case it goes
> both long and
> short,
> or
> 2) against a watchlist containing a pair of non-shortable
> securities, one of
> which has inverse beta (RYVYX and RYVNX typically). in this case, it goes
> long on both, buying the inverse fund as the "short".
>
>
> the internal logic of the code needs to know which mode it's in.
> I could use
> a param statement, or make aminor change in the code, but I wonder if
> there's another way.
>
> specifically, is there any way for backtest code to find out any of the
> following:
>
> - how many stocks are in the total universe of stocks it's
> running against,
> or at least if there's more than one
>
> - if it's running against a single security or a watchlist
>
> - anything about stocks included in the backtest besides the one currently
> being processed
>
>
> any ideas? did I say this in a way that makes sense?
>
> Dave Merrill
>
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