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Re: [amibroker] backtesting problem



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You already have the idea of adding the date to the buy statement. For
buy signals that occur only for April 2005 it would be

 Buy=BuyConditions and month()==4 and year()==2005;

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On 3/10/06, ianjw2 <ijw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to backtest several systems against a specific timeframe.
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> i.e. All buy triggers that occur for April 2004.
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>   Buy=Buy condition + [ ....April 2004....]
>   Sell=Sell condition
> [ .... whenever signal exits ...]
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> I have created a list of trigger signals for the particular time period
> I want, but if, within the backtester, I increase the parameters to
> allow for the triggered positions to exit, then I get extra buy
> signals  for my selected symbols for that entire period. [April
> 2004 ... dec 2005]. It would seem to me that the system code needs a
> time frame included. This I don't know how to do.
>
> Any generous souls out there who can help me out?
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> Ian
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