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Re: [amibroker] back test trade list



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Perhaps your system runs out of funds, in which case the backtester won't show more trades. Always a 
  good idea to generate an exploration of your signals to compare against the backtester results. 
Can't think of anything else off hand (I don't trade stocks). GRANT

foxblade2000invest wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I portfolio backtest a trading system (in fact any system) and 
> have "trade list" selected in the report settings, I get a very limit 
> list of stocks in the list. I have set the maximum open positions 
> to "1000" so as not to limit this.
> 
> This only occurs if I backtest against a large portfolio - and the 
> stocks in the early part of the alphabet show on the list. (A,B C etc).
> 
> If I test on a limited ammount of stock, say the S&P500, I don't seem 
> to get this problem. 
> 
> The smaller trade list gives me concerns about the acutaul results 
> being generated.
> 
> Any advice much appreciared.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rich
> 
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