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Tomasz,

Thank you very much.  I will take a look at detailed log option and
see what I can find.

Regards,

intermilan04

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cstrader232" <cstrader232@xxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks Tomasz!
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 7:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Difference between Scan and Backtest
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > It was explained many times here: the reason is that SCAN reports
> > RAW signals (without checking any contraints), while BACKTEST
> > uses portfolio-level constraints such as amount of available cash,
> > settings such as max. pos size, max. open pos, min. pos size,
allow pos 
> > shrinking,
> > round lot size, etc, etc that may not allow to enter given trade.
> >
> > As for "diagnostics" - it is already there - switch report mode to
> > "DETAILED LOG".
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tomasz Janeczko
> > amibroker.com
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "intermilan04" <intermilan04@xxx>
> > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 9:12 PM
> > Subject: [amibroker] Re: Difference between Scan and Backtest
> >
> >
> >> chuck,
> >>
> >> I'm with you on this.  I myself have seen stocks scanned but not
taken
> >> by the Backtester.  And my system is a daytrading system so this
> >> simply should not happen.
> >>
> >> I do not know the code, so I can only speak from observing the
> >> black-box though.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> intermilan04
> >>
> >> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cstrader232" <cstrader232@> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I would like to chime in on this thread.  I've used AB for years,
> >> but find
> >>> that this discrepancy (scan v. backtest) is the one that I spend the
> >> most
> >>> time on.  In some cases, I simply cannot diagnose the problem.  Even
> >> though
> >>> it seems that there is plenty of cash, no stops, etc, etc, the
> >> backtester
> >>> just does not take some trades that scan sees.  I know this is not
> >> really
> >>> the place for feature requests, but IMHO I do think that we could
> >> use some
> >>> diagnostics from the backtester -- why not a message about why a
> >> given trade
> >>> was not taken?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> chuck
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>> From: "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@>
> >>> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 5:45 AM
> >>> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Difference between Scan and Backtest
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, james smith <jamesmemphis@>
wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> New user here.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I am getting different results with scan and backtest.
> >>> >
> >>> > This topic appears here every few days, please make a search
on old
> >>> > messages to find out hundreds of responses.
> >>> >
> >>> > In short: scan gives RAW signals (may be redundant), backtest
gives
> >>> > actual trades that are subject to constraints such as round
lot size,
> >>> > min. pos size, max. pos size, etc, etc, that may cause that
trade is
> >>> > not entered.
> >>> >
> >>> > Regards,
> >>> > Tomasz Janeczko
> >>> > amibroker.com
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
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> >>> >
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> >>> >
> >>> >
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> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
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> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Please note that this group is for discussion between users only.
> >>
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> >>
> >> For other support material please check also:
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> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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