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 TJ: 
Certainly I have replaced that. 
  
On the other hand, as I mentioned in my previous 
post, I was partially successful in using rotational mode to simulate my 
system. 
In theory all systems are rotational, as long as 
you can use positionscore to factor in buy/sell/short/cover 
signals. 
The major issue I have with the current rotational 
mode is that the scoreNoRotate control is global and not flexible. 
I would suggest that two new scores be added to 
control individual symbols. 
scoreNoRotateIn       - Not to rotate 
in for that symbol 
scoreNoRotateOut    - 
Not to rotate out for that symbol 
  
(I was trying to post my feature request on the 
feedback site, but it didn't let me log in. My working password in member area 
does not work there for some reason. My user name is mdhuang). 
  
Thanks, 
  
-Mark H. 
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  Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:40 
  AM 
  Subject: Re: [amibroker] Why portfolio 
  backtester does not consider all buy signals? 
  
  
  Hello, 
    
  You need to REPLACE Buy/Sell rules with your OWN (where you 
  can see // YOUR TRADING SYSTEM HERE) 
   Best regards, Tomasz 
  Janeczko amibroker.com 
  
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    Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 5:19 
    PM 
    Subject: Re: [amibroker] Why portfolio 
    backtester does not consider all buy signals? 
    
  
    Ed: 
    Have you had any luck using TJ's sample 
    code? 
    I plugged it in and ran a backtest. Then I got 
    like close to $1billion loss! 
    The last trade was with 1e+010 shares. I 
    thought it was a NULL value and padded my data, but still the same 
    results. 
    I will look more into it and report 
    back, 
      
    Thanks, 
    Mark H. 
      
    
      ----- Original Message -----  
      
      
      Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 8:27 
      AM 
      Subject: Re: [amibroker] Why 
      portfolio backtester does not consider all buy signals? 
      
  
      thanks a lot it looks great at the first 
      glance. So little code necessary to do it.  I am trying to build it 
      into my current system at this moment, 
        
      rgds, Ed 
        
        
      
        ----- Original Message -----  
        
        
        Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:53 
        PM 
        Subject: Re: [amibroker] Why 
        portfolio backtester does not consider all buy signals? 
        
  
        "Who has studied this?" 
          
        I have studied this and these are results of hundreds 
        of my own tests of various systems I have done in the 
        past. 
          
        But I can agree that you may have different 
        opinions/experiences and you may want to test redunant 
        signals. 
        And this is perfectly doable as I have shown using 
        either rotational trading (for some cases) and/or 
        custom backtest procedure (for all remaining cases). I 
        even wrote sample formula for you. 
        See this post: 
        
          
        (I have reposted this sample to the knowledge base 
        know for your convenience): 
        
          
        Also as suggested, I may consider adding an "easy" 
        switch in some future releases. 
         Best regards, Tomasz 
Janeczko amibroker.com 
        
          ----- Original Message -----  
          
          
          Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 8:11 
          AM 
          Subject: Re: [amibroker] Why 
          portfolio backtester does not consider all buy signals? 
          
  
          
          > There are other reasons such as the fact that 
          practice shows that delayed signals are very often very poor performer 
          so it is better to skip trade instead of entering 
          it too late. 
          > This may be true to many systems. 
          But certainly not all of them. My most profitable system happens 
          to do better with later signals. It buys dips and later 
          signals are  
          > more likely to > bounce back. 
          IMO, a backtest software should be neutral to trading systems (i.e. 
          not to prefer a particular  kind of 
          practice) 
            
          Who says delayed signals are poor performers.  
          Who has studied this?  I am certain that redundant signals can be 
          used succesfully in portfolio type systems.  So my request is 
          again to get a simple example of how to do this on a portfolio level. 
          There are examples on a single symbol level but on a portfolio level 
          is what is interesting. 
            
          rgds, Ed      
  
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