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[amibroker] Re: Top 200 stocks by volume



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Dave
Take a look at messages 50428 and 50457.  They might be what you want

Andrew

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "dcrotty2003" <dcrotty2003@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Hi Mark, and thanks for the reply.
> 
> Sounds a bit tricky, I have no knowledge of JScript.
> 
> Would anyone have already coded something similar in JScript that 
> Mark suggested and I may be able to modify it.
> 
> Otherwise, any other suggestions on how to do it? Thanks.
> 
> Dave
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mark H" <amibroker@xxxx> wrote:
> > I haven't tried that, but based on what I read in the help file, 
> you can do an automatic script to accomplish that.
> > 
> > 1. load the explore formula and settings
> > 2. invoke the explore
> > 3. save the results to a file
> > 4. read the file and choose the top 200 tickers
> > 5. clear existing watchlist
> > 6. set the 200 tickers to watchlist
> > 
> > You can even add the backtest steps:
> > 
> > 7. load the backtest formula and settings
> > 8. invoke the backtest
> > 9. save the reports to files.
> > 
> > All these can be done in JScript. After that, the whole process 
is 
> just one click away.
> > 
> > - Mark H.
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: dcrotty2003 
> >   To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> >   Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 4:51 PM
> >   Subject: [amibroker] Top 200 stocks by volume
> > 
> > 
> >   Hi,
> > 
> >   From a newbie EOD trader. Instead of backtesting using todays 
> index, 
> >   is it possible to create a daily list of 200 only stocks from 
a 
> list 
> >   of 1000 filtered by moving average volume and my system 
> backtested on 
> >   this list?
> > 
> >   I know I could do an explore to pick out the top 200 and save 
it 
> to a 
> >   watchlist then backtest on the list, but I want the list to be 
> >   changed everyday within the backtest.
> > 
> >   I don't want if using the rank function to only buy top-down 
> stocks 
> >   with the highest volume but to buy any of the 200 selected 
stocks.
> > 
> >   Thanks for any help.
> > 
> >   Dave


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