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Re: [amibroker] backtester -- margin mode discrepancy



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Hi Tomasz,

Tuesday, December 30, 2003, 10:35:27 AM, you wrote:

TJ> Yuki,

TJ> If you set margin requirement to 30 it means
TJ> that you have 30% of YOUR funds and 70% of borrowed funds.
TJ> So your buying power is actually 1/0.3 = 3.3333 times higher
TJ> (not 3 times higher).

TJ> Your buying power would be 3 times higher if your
TJ> margin requirement was 33.

Precisely my point, TJ.  Please re-read my problem; I think you
missed it.  The margin account runs short of equity; the cash account
does not -- yet the margin account, as you point out above, has MORE
BP.

Yuki



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