Re: [amibroker] Re: Back testing only some results showing

[Sidney Kaiser <skbiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Your backtest is running out of money because so many stocks are meeting your criteria.  Increase the funds to $100k or $1M.

Sid

tridean34 <tridean34@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That's OK - I was hoping the answer would have been an obvious one. I
did a scan and that does fine, scanning all tickers no probs.

I changed the Max# number of postions to 1000 and stil did nothing.

I'll have to go thorugh the help files again...

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mike" wrote:
>
> Sounds like you have a very loose strategy with a fixed maximum
> number of positions allowed (see Settings), and that you are not
> using a PositionScore value to alter the default prioritization
> (which is either alphabetical or perhaps order of appearance in the
> watchlist, I don't recall).
>
> That being the case, any of the following would help; Make your Buy
> crieria more restrictive, or work with a smaller number of symbols,
> or increase the number of allowable positions, or add PositionScore
> logic to your code, or ...
>
> Mike
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "tridean34" wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> > I recently bought the standard version and I noticed when I
> backtest
> I
> > a getting a low of results from tickers starting with 'A', and
then
> > jsut a trickle of some others.
> >
> >
> > For example, there are around 160 results for tickers starting
with
> A,
> > and the other 40 go only up to G, and then nothing.
> >
> > I've gone through the Automatic Analysis settings and I can not
> find
> > anything that tells me what is doing this
> >
> > Cheers
> > Dean
> >
>



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