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Re: [amibroker] how many days of data is loaded in backtesting



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Forgive me to ask this basic question. I have read through manual 
and couldn't figure out the answer.

Let us say we have 10 years data (2500). In a backtest code line 
like,

value = close * 2;

how many days of data is loaded? 10 years (2500)or less? Can it be 
set in configuration settings? The reason I ask is if I want to do a 
exploration for the last quote only, it doesn't make sense to load 
and calculate based the whole 10 years data, as our interest is only 
the last quote. Only if AB can only load the last day of data, the 
calculation will be much more efficient and fast.

Secondly, when we use addtocomposite() function, can we append the 
new data to the existing symbol generated by previous runs of 
addtocomposite(). The same logic applis here. I don't want to run 
calculation for the whole database every day.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Gary



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