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Re: [amibroker] Comparitive Buy and Hold returns



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Hello,

Please note that OLD backtester is not portfolio backtester.
It backtests each security *separately* and sums up the results
so your profits will be much higher (approx (number of symbols) * avg. profit )

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "matrix10014" <allansn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 6:35 PM
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??
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> 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..
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> 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% 
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> Annual system % return: 10.11%   Annual B&H % return: 75.32% 
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> 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
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> Thanks
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> Allan 
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