Re: [amibroker] Position Size problems

["Ara Kaloustian" <ara1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bernard,

Look at positionSize in help.

You can specify a fixed amount of $ for each trade. Only time you can get a 
smaller amount would be if you did not have adequate funds left for full 
position

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bernardedmond01" <bernardedmond01@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:47 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Position Size problems


> Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, I couldn't find any
> references here of past threads...
>
> I want to make sure that every position I enter has a full position
> size (which for my purposes is $50,000).
> When I run the backtest, I see that on some occasions I enter a trade
> but it has a position size of say $5,000. I'm guessing this is because
> it had lower volume that day (correct?).
> The reality is, I would pass on that trade.
> I tried to fix this by having a MA(V,50)>100000 but this doesn't
> always work since volume may be very volatile.
> Can I say in my formula, buy if these conditions are met and this is
> the PS but don't take the trade if PS would be less than what I've
> stipulated?
> TIA,
> Bernard
>
>
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