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Hello,
The Foreign function has the parameter that decides if it fills gaps
with nulls or with previous value. Use the default if you want previous values.
Indicators use QuickAFL, but AA does not (at the moment), so for backtest
you don't need to worry about quickafl at all.
You can turn off quickafl in indicators if you wish using SetBarsRequired function.
All loops that go throgh all bars should always use bars from 0 to BarCount - 1 regardless of when
there are run and regardless of quickafl.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "loveyourenemynow" <loveyourenemynow@xxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:09 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: IQ data holes for illiquid symbols in portofolio backtesting
> Thank you Tomasz.
>
> I tried that but I seems to get empty values instead of the previous.
> I use foreign
> Does the padding work also for the cusomized portion of the backtest?
> Then I loop through the bars I get empty value for an index for which
> data should exist. I am backtesting using only the last n days in 1
> minute mode, and I noticed that array[20] gives different values for
> different selected bar in the indicator pan, same code.
> I than found in the help:
>
> When QuickAFL is ON, the BarIndex() may not be equal with array item
> index.
>
> Actual array item
> corresponding to bar index can be found this way:
>
> bi = BarIndex();
> arrayitem = SelectedValue( bi ) - bi[ 0 ];
> "Close at selected bar:" + Close[ arrayitem ];
>
> so should I do the same in the custom backtesting, or it takes care of
> it automatically?
>
> Or may be the customized backtesting should loop not between 1 and
> barcount but (barcount- numer of last quotations) and barcount?
>
> Thanks
> Ly
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In AA there is a "Pad and align to reference symbol" option
> (settings screen) that takes care of it.
>> http://www.amibroker.com/guide/w_settings.html
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tomasz Janeczko
>> amibroker.com
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "loveyourenemynow" <loveyourenemynow@xxx>
>> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:13 PM
>> Subject: [amibroker] Re: IQ data holes for illiquid symbols in
> portofolio backtesting
>>
>>
>> > If the more liquid stock is the active symbol, AB fix the problem at
>> > least at indicator level from what I can see, but if the active stock
>> > is the illiquid missing quotes one, also the liquid is on the same
>> > time stamps but I am not sure if barnumber are consistent
>> >
>> > I hope in backtesting at portolio level ... all the bar of the most
>> > symbols are use
>> >
>> > LY
>> >
>> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "loveyourenemynow"
>> > <loveyourenemynow@> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I have realized that IQ data skips bars for illiquid symbols(if there
>> >> is no trade I guess), so that c[i] and c[i+1] in minute time
> frame for
>> >> example could correspond to an actual time difference of 5 or even
>> >> more time.
>> >> If I backtest a portfolio this will imply that I am looking a
>> >> different times for different stocks depending on their data
>> > availability.
>> >> For example
>> >>
>> >> c[100] is at timenume()==132200 for sym1
>> >> c[100] is at timenume()==132700 for sym2
>> >>
>> >> timenum() is not valued on per symbol bases, so I wonder what does it
>> >> return when is called in these cases.
>> >>
>> >> The consequence is that the backtesting would be totally unreliable.
>> >> Compressing data at longer time scales should fix, but still
> depending
>> >> on the liquidity I would not now at what scale to go, and I am not
>> >> sure how IB would deal with compression in such a scenario.
>> >>
>> >> Anybody had the same problem?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Ly
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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