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Re: [amibroker] not understanding positionsize



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Thank you, TJ. That's great news. I'll wait 
until 4.5 rather than learning PT. 
 
BTW, it must be 3:20 AM in Poland right now. 
Do you suffer from insomnia? Get some sleep, will ya'? :-)) 
 
AV
 
 
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  Tomasz Janeczko 
  
  To: <A title=amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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  Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:49 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [amibroker] not 
  understanding positionsize
  
  Al,
   
  What you are referring to I would call portfolio-based 
  position sizing which is more than plain portfolio testing. 
  But it does not matter how we would call it.
  You could do this using similar approach as one used by 
  PortfolioTrader. It builds its own equity table from scratch. 
  It is quite a pain to write on your own. V 4.50 will 
  make it easy. 
   
  Best regards,Tomasz Janeczkoamibroker.com
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    >From: 
    Al 
    Venosa 
    To: <A title=amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    href="">amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:37 
    AM
    Subject: Re: [amibroker] not 
    understanding positionsize
    
    TJ:
     
    That's not what I meant by portfolio 
    testing. I know you can test multiple stocks now, but not as an 
    integrated portfolio. Taking your example, suppose I have a watchlist 
    of 5 stocks. I set my positionsize at -1*buyprice/(2*ATR(10)), which means I 
    want to risk only 1% of my current equity on each stock, using each stock's 
    unique buyprice and volatility. Using the ApplyStop function, I'm going to 
    set my max stoploss for each stock to be 2*ATR(10) below my buyprice, so 
    that if the individual stock declines by that amount, I only lose 1% of 
    equity for that particular stock. Based on that premise, suppose my equity 
    allocation as a result of the positionsize statement will result in 
    $15K in Stock A, $10 K in Stock B, $33 K in Stock C, $25 K in 
    Stock D, and $18 K in Stock E. I have an initial equity of $100 K, 
    which is the sum of those 5 stocks. My equity allocation per stock is 
    different for each even though my risk (as set by the max stoploss) is the 
    same for each (1% of equity). I now wish to backtest those 5 stocks on 
    my system as a portfolio. Each stock may grow or lose money at different 
    rates, affecting the total current equity, and subsequent investments made 
    in each stock are affected by the new equity as well as the new buyprice and 
    the new ATR. The way I've always understood AB to work is that it 
    allocates the positionsize to each stock separately, assuming that each 
    stock has $100 K of equity to start out with. Are you saying I can 
    do what I described above now? I don't think so, but if so, how? 
    AddToComposite does not accomplish this. 
     
    Thank you. 
     
    Al Venosa
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      >From: 
      Tomasz 
      Janeczko 
      To: <A 
      title=amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      href="">amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      
      Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:34 
      PM
      Subject: Re: [amibroker] not 
      understanding positionsize
      
      Hello,
       
      >Amibroker, at least the current version, assumes 
      that your entire portfolio is comprised of only one stock
      This is not true. You can backtest multiple stocks 
      (example: set PositionSize = -20 and backtest over 5 symbol watch list the 
      results,
      and in that case you can create portfolio equity using 
      AddToComposite)
       
      >It is not capable of portfolio 
      backtesting
      Not true. It is capable of portfolio backtesting 
      even now.
      You can run portfolio backtest using PortfolioTrader 
      formula for example.
       
      Correct would be to say that AB does not have native 
      portfolio backtest report.
      And native support will be indeed added in 
      4.50
       
      Best regards,Tomasz Janeczkoamibroker.com
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