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[amibroker] Re: BACKTESTER _ profit dist versus max excursions explained ?



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THANKS YUKII


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Yuki Taga <yukitaga@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi das300,
> 
> Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 1:46:41 PM, you wrote:
> 
> dtca> what is the max adverseor fav exursion exactly?
> 
> This is the maximum of both the favorable move (fav) or negative 
move
> (adverse) that any trade had during its lifetime.
> 
> For example:  If you entered a buy at 100, and during any time 
before
> the sell, the value hit 85, the max adverse would be 15 percent.
> 
> This is a very good statistic to know for any system, because if one
> cannot withstand the maximum adverse moves, one cannot hang around
> for the profits, should they come.
> 
> As for the maximum favorable, if it is consistently higher than the
> actual percentage profit, one might suspect that an earlier (or even
> later) exit might be in order.  In any case, one would not be 
exiting
> optimally if that was true.
> 
> Yuki





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