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Re: [amibroker] Profit Stop Issue



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Eric

Check the settings.  Is the trade exits intraday at stop, or at trade price 
only ?

Another thing ...   If your profit is, let's say 4.95% on Monday.   If there 
is a 25% GapUp on the next day,  your profit will be more than 5%.  It will 
be 29.95% !

Claude


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "eric paradis" <thechemistrybetweenus@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 3:41 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Profit Stop Issue


>I have an issue with the profit stop while
> backtesting.
> I have set the backtester to stop out when there is
> more than a 5% profit. However, the profit stop
> sometimes delays beyond this until the system has made
> a significant % beyond 5%. Sometimes it exceeds 20%,
> occasionally going above 100%. I have my delays set to
> 1.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
>
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