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> so, can I say, that Metastock will tell how much you can make but not
> how much you have to invest in it?
No. You will get results that have nothing common with reality.
Use www.google.com and you will easily find why MS tester is flawed.
One of hits: http://searchwarp.com/swa18259.htm
(This is for version 8 but it did not change in version 10 as well)
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "metastockv10" <metastockv10@xxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 7:42 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: test
> Thank you so much for this explanation Tomasz,
> so, can I say, that Metastock will tell how much you can make but not
> how much you have to invest in it?
> best regards and once again thank you for your patience.
> pat
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> wrote:
>>
>> Metastock tester is NOT doing portfolio backtest but a set of N
> individual single-symbol tests without reference to each other.
>> Like you were having N-individual accounts and N-times the funds. So
> if you say test on 500 stocks it assumes you have 500x the
>> money.
>> Simply not realistic.
>>
>> AmiBroker does the right thing. It simulates common account and
> trades all securities from single account with trades on one
>> security potentially
>> influencing others by decreasing/increasing account funds as in real
> life.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tomasz Janeczko
>> amibroker.com
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "metastockv10" <metastockv10@xxx>
>> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:43 PM
>> Subject: [amibroker] Re: test
>>
>>
>> > Tomasz,
>> > I have read this chapter about portfolio based backtesting. It is said
>> > that portfolio is your equity+ sum of open positions. Basicly i think
>> > i got it how it works in AB
>> > Could you tell me what they mean in Metastock by portfolio - beacause
>> > it is said that during testing you can opitimize your portfolio. Do
>> > they mean something else by that?
>> > And how it can work without positioning function - It is going to buy
>> > one kind of security for your whole money?
>> > I am sorry that I am asking you about MS - I know you can just don't
>> > care...but it is hard to find all those things from their manual and
>> > as far as i am concerned you are preety oriented in MS also.
>> > I just need to catch some basic differences about MS and AB.
>> > Thanks in advance for your help
>> > best regards pat
>> >
>> >
>> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> You can use simple EMA cross over for example
>> >>
>> >> Buy = Cross( Close, MA( C, 50 ) );
>> >> Sell = Cross( MA( C, 50 ), Close );
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> IN "MS" speek it would be
>> >> Cross( Close, Mov( C, 50, "S" ) )
>> >>
>> >> Cross( Mov( C, 50, "S" ), Close )
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> But frankly speaking the comparision you are trying to do makes
> no sense
>> >> for one fact: MS is not true porfolio-level backtester. They allow
>> > to run on basket,
>> >> but it is not true portfolio-level backtest with one shared equity,
>> > without dynamic
>> >> positionscoring/rotation and scaling. There is simply no comparision
>> > between AB and MS.
>> >>
>> >> Also to see real differences in speed you would need to run serious
>> > backtest
>> >> on for example more than 100000 intraday bars (MS can't do that - it
>> > is limited to 65000)
>> >> or on entire US market (8000+ symbols - again MS can't do that - its
>> > database is limited to 6000 symbols).
>> >>
>> >> Best regards,
>> >> Tomasz Janeczko
>> >> amibroker.com
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "metastockv10" <metastockv10@>
>> >> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 12:39 PM
>> >> Subject: [amibroker] test
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> > does any one can tell me if I can find somewhere, examles of
> systems,
>> >> > which i can use both in Amibroker and Metastock. What I would
> like to
>> >> > do is to insert this system to Amibroker and Metastock and run
> it on
>> >> > both of theme. Then I would like to compere the results. It
> should be
>> >> > something that will take to test about one minute - it can be
>> >> > something very simple becose then you can't notice the
> differences. I
>> >> > know I should write something like that by my self but I can't
> and I
>> >> > am runnig out of time, so there is no chance i will learn it so
> fast.
>> >> > I just need those results. ANy one can help me with that? I can see
>> >> > that testing speed is a hot topic today here because of new
> update of
>> >> > Amibroker.
>> >> > Best Regards
>> >> > Pat
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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