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Re: [amibroker] Backtesting and TimeFrameExpand(xxx,inWeekly, expandFirst);

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Hello,
 
Please read carefully what is written in the User's Guide http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_timeframe.html
along with TimeFrameExpand, quote:
 
TimeFrameExpand( array, interval, mode = expandLast ) - expands time-compressed array from 'interval' time frame to base time frame ('interval' must match the value used in TimeFrameCompress or TimeFrameSet)
Available modes:
expandLast - the compressed value is expanded starting from last bar within given period (so for example weekly close/high/low is available on Friday's bar)
expandFirst - the compressed value is expanded starting from first bar within given period (so for example weekly open is available from Monday's bar)
expandPoint - the resulting array gets not empty values only for the last bar within given period (all remaining bars are Null (empty)).

Caveat: expandFirst used on price different than open may look into the future. For example if you create weekly HIGH series, expanding it to daily interval using expandFirst will enable you to know on MONDAY what was the high for entire week.

 

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: roarke555
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:04 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Backtesting and TimeFrameExpand(xxx,inWeekly, expandFirst);

Hi all,

First, thanks for AB.. Its really good appliacations and I'm
spending a lot of time with it. Anyway, looks like I found some
backtesting bug..

I was really suprised with results from my new system, but later I
found that backtesting is cheating probably.. Im using weekly
timeframe to compute MACD and then expanding it to daily and I
wanted use expandFirst.. So I'm getting signals after monday.. I
know, that if week will continue in wrong direction,then signal
disappear.. Its ok, but when I use backtesting, it probably use
values for whole next week and use signal from monday (ie first day
of this week).. So backtesting works with whole week,but buying at
monday and this is why I getting so good results (85% wiinners, 250%
annual return¨)

Could somebody confirm this and help me to get real results ? Or its
bug (feature) in the AB ?:)

thank you very much..
Roarke

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