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Dave,
There is no limit to the number of 'External' WatchLists one may
use. Refer to DLL group for the external WLs. (Caution: There is a
bit of learning curve if you want to use external WLs.)
Regards,
- Salil V Gangal
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Merrill" <dmerrill@xxxx>
wrote:
> I wonder if we might get the ability to have more watchlists at
some point,
> especially now that we can fill them from AFL code.
>
> or maybe there's another way to do what I'm thinking about. (not
that 255
> watchlists wouldn't still be useful, it would, even if there's
another way.)
>
> suppose you want to run some strategy on the set of stocks that
rank the
> highest by some criteria over the previous month. for any given
day, you
> could run a backtest, sort the results however you wanted, put the
top
> ranked stocks in a watchlist, then run your analysis on that.
>
> but how can you backtest this concept, as if you'd done that
repeatedly each
> month for a number of years? the only way I could think of was to
define a
> set of watchlists that will hold the highest ranking stocks for
each month
> of the test period, run a scan that fills them, then run an
analysis that
> knows which list to check against for each month.
>
> we can't do the ranking on the fly, since as far as I know, we
can't find
> out what other stocks are being tested besides the current one. am
I missing
> some other approach to this? am I being clear about what I'm trying
to do?
>
> so two questions really: can we get more watchlists, and how else
can I
> approach backtesting this kind of strategy.
>
> thanks,
>
> dave
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