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Re: [trading] [amibroker] Newbie question - short trades



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short =  your sell criteria;
cover =  cover criteria;

make sure to select "Short" trades in the System backtester settings


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "trageley" <trageley@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 9:16 AM
Subject: [trading] [amibroker] Newbie question - short trades


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> Hi All,
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> I have a simple question that I couldn't figure out from the 
> documentation.  If I'm setting up a backtesting strategy where I 
> want to place short trades, I cannot seem to get my trades to show 
> up.  The editor specified that Buy and Sell signals must be defined, 
> so I just set Buy = 0 and Sell = 0 b/c I don't want to place long 
> trades - I just want to define Short and Cover.  Unfortunately, this 
> didn't work.  Can anyone tell me how I work define a system that 
> defines short trades?
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> Thanks a lot!
> tom
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> Check AmiBroker web page at:
> http://www.amibroker.com/
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> Check group FAQ at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/files/groupfaq.html 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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