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[amibroker] Re: A simple system - why doesn't a trade show up?



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Actually, what does this option really do (it's not detailed in the
docs)?  I'm guessing it allows resizes the other positions to allow
the cash for all the positions?

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Graham <kavemanperth@xxx> wrote:
>
> You are using positionsize = 25% of equity, then you could get a
> situation where the available cash is less than 25% of equity
> You can switch on allowshrinking, if you want smaller trade sizes
> SetOption( "AllowPositionShrinking", 1 );
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> Graham Kav
> AFL Writing Service
> http://www.aflwriting.com
> 
> 
> On 23/03/2008, droskill <droskill@xxx> wrote:
> > Hey all, was just playing around with a stupid idea - coded it up and
> >  ran it against a watch list that contained: SPY, QQQQ, EEM, IEF.
> >
> >  Here's what I don't get - if you run this against those
instruments (I
> >  use TC2007 for data), and then I select to show the actual trades for
> >  the instrument IEF, I can see a trade where the cross happened - yet
> >  this trade doesn't show up on the list, and there are definitely open
> >  position slots (obviously if I have 4 positions and only 4 equities).
> >
> >  Anyone got any idea what's going on here?
> >
> >  Thanks!
> >
> >  /d/
> >
> >  Here's the system (trading LONG only):
> >  ----------------------------
> >  PosQty = 4; // You can define here how many open positions you want
> >  SetOption("MaxOpenPositions", PosQty );
> >  PositionSize = -100/PosQty;
> >
> >
> >  MA1 = MA(C,200);
> >  MA2 = MA(MA1,50);
> >
> >  Buy = Cross(MA1,MA2) OR MA1 > MA2;
> >  Sell = Cross(MA2,MA1) OR MA1 < MA2;
> >
> >  Short = Sell;
> >  Cover = Buy;
> >
> >  PositionScore = ROC (C, 50);
> >
> >
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