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Re: [amibroker] How to know buy price when building a backtest



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You will probably need to use a For loop to define your trade signals.
This way you have complete control over your prices for exits.


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On 25/06/06, mikelaurataylor <mikelaurataylor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If I build a model for buying/selling and I want to, for instance,
> create my own artificial stop based on the buy price i need to know
> the buy price of my item.
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> Even if I use the exrem statement on a buy the buyprice array does not
> necessarily remain the original buy price if other buys occur (but do
> not  get executed.)
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> I know you can set a % stop in the program so the backtest program
> must know what the buy price was so I was wondering if there is a way
> to get this amount without delving into the backtesting interface.
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> Hope I asked the question clearly enough for someone to help.
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> Thanks
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> Mike
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