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amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mike" <sfclimbers@xxx> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> Your code snippet does not make sense to me. If both NetProfitpc and
> RecFactor are negative, then ProfitMetric will never be positive
> (i.e. negative plus a negative equals a greater negative), and your
> condition will never be true.
>
> Thus, your _expression_ ProfitMetric = abs( ProfitMetric ); will never
> be evaluated and would have been redundant anyway, since you would
> only have executed it if you had found ProfitMetric to be positive in
> the first place and abs() just renders a negative number positive
> while having no affect on a positive number.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Mike
>
> --- In
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Joe" <j0etr4der@> wrote:
> >
> > If you are using a Custom Metric as your Optimization target in the
> > Walk-Forward settings, you should hand-check your results. I am
> > frequently getting incorrect results, in that the highest value of
> the
> > Custom Metric is not the one selected by W-F for a date range.
> >
> > I documented the problem in the 5.08beta to AB support on May 13th
> and
> > have not received a reply as yet.
> >
> > This is the metric that is currently causing(?) the problem:
> > [code snippet]
> > ProfitMetric = ( NetProfitpc + RecFactor * 20 ) * 10 ;//make them
> > ~equivalant
> > if( 0 > NetProfitpc AND 0 > RecFactor AND 0 <
> ProfitMetric )//if
> > both negative & result positive
> > ProfitMetric = abs( ProfitMetric );
> >
> > bo.AddCustomMetric( "Profit", ProfitMetric );
> > [end code snippet]
> >
> > Other of my metrics exhibit the same type of incorrect results in my
> > testing. I'm using Release 5.10.1 now, so I thought it was
> appropriate
> > to bring this to the attention of the group.
> >
> > Good trading,
> >
> > Joe
> >
>