[amibroker] Re: Question about using SetPositionSize

["Mike" <sfclimbers@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can't. You must write a custom backtest loop and apply the value,
as a percentage and corrected for sign, against the bar by bar equity
property of the backtester object.

http://www.amibroker.com/guide/a_custombacktest.html

Mike

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Joe" <j0etr4der@xxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> When using SetPositionSize like this:
> 
> SetPositionSize ( 20, spsPercentOfEquity );
> 
> how do you determine what the position size is in the formula since
> real-time portfolio equity is not accessible?
> 
> 
> PosSize = PositionSize;
> 
> returns -20 in this case.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe
>



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