[amibroker] Re: Only one trade in backtest

["pmxgs" <pmxgs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 I found the problem. It had to do with the stops, which never got hit
   so the sell was never executed, which in turn avoided that other
trades were taken.

 thanks anyway for the help on the timeframe issue.

 regards
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "pmxgs" <pmxgs@xxx> wrote:
>
> I clicked on the show raw trade arrows and I see a lot of arrows,
> which confirm what I thought. There are a lot of signals but the
> backtester only generates one trade. What is more strange is that the
> arrows in the chart appear much sooner than the trade that is
> generated on the backtester, because if the first signal was taken as
> a trade and then no more trades were generated it might had to do with
> the stop loss order or something like that. But there are a lot of
> signals that are simply ignored and I can't find out why.
> Any thoughts?
> 
> thanks
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Graham <kavemanperth@> wrote:
> >
> > I believe applystop in settings window only apply to backtests/scans,
> > could be wrong here
> > To view on chart run the backtest and use Show trade arrows in the
> > chart parameters
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers
> > Graham
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> > 
> > On 28/03/07, pmxgs <pmxgs@> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  this code only generates one trade and it should generate more
> trades.
> > >  I've added the plot functions to confirm if the signals were being
> > > correctly generated, and through the chart i can see that the three
> > > conditions are true several times, but only one trade is generated.
> > > In the backtesting settings I have the stops defined.
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > >  TimeFrameSet(inHourly);
> > > cond1=C>EMA(C,20);
> > > cond2=Ref(MACD(),-2)>0 AND Ref(MACD(),-1)>0;
> > > TimeFrameRestore();
> > > Cond3=C<EMA(C,20);
> > > cond115m=TimeFrameExpand(cond1,inHourly);
> > > cond215m=TimeFrameExpand(cond2,inHourly);
> > > Buy=cond115m AND cond215m AND Cond3;
> > > Sell=0;
> > >
> > > Plot(Cond115m,"cond115m",colorGreen);
> > > Plot(Cond215m,"cond215m",colorBlue);
> > > Plot(Cond3,"cond3",colorRed);
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> >
>




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