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Re: RE: [amibroker] Comparitive Buy and Hold returns



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Dingo,I see that,but I hesitate to trust those numbers in the old backtest until i understand how they arrive at the statistics they do..For instance they have a $3657774.41 profit on a 100,000 account in 250 trading days for Buy and hold..That is not 75.32%...

Allan
 


----- Original Message -----
From: dingo <dingo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, July 10, 2006 1:33 pm
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Comparitive Buy and Hold returns
> Annual B&H % return: 75.32% 
> 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of matrix10014 
> > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 12:35 PM 
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > Subject: [amibroker] Comparitive Buy and Hold returns 
> > 
> > Can someone please tell me where in reports you can easily 
> > see how your system did relative to a buy and hold strategy?? 
> > 
> > I did see some Buy and Hold stats in the Old backtester,but 
> > some of the numbers were of by a factor of 10-100.. 
> > 
> > 
> > Total net profit: 532108.89   Total commissions paid: 0.00 
> > Return on account: 6.82 %    Open position gain/loss 11931.24 
> > Buy&Hold profit: 3657774.41   Bars (avg. days) in test: 13351 
> (250) 
> > Buy&Hold % return: 46.89%   System to Buy&Hold index: -85.45% 
> >   
> > Annual system % return: 10.11%   Annual B&H % return: 75.32% 
> >   
> > 
> > those numbers posted were on a $100,000 account!!I have no idea 
> where 
> > the total net profit number of 532,108.89 came from..And I 
> > really dont 
> > know how a 532,108 profit only generates a 6.82% return on a 
> $100000 
> > account 
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > 
> > Allan 
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