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[amibroker] Adding a Custom Metric to Backtest Report



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I have been able to add custom metrics to the Optimization Reports, but for some reason can't add a column to the Trade List Backtest report. Hoping someone might be able to chime in here, as the custom backtester confuses me.

What I want to do is fairly simple. In my actual trading system, I cycle through hundreds of possible conditions per bar. If any one condition is true, then I Buy. I want to add a custom metric to the backtest report that lists which condition generated the Buy signal.

For the sake of debugging, below is a very simplified AFL (not my actual system). I simply want to feedback the condition number into the backtester. But it does not work. If I add an optimize statement at the top, it will add the custom metric to the Optimization report. But even then that column does not reflect correct values.

So how do I add the column to the Backtest report? I would have thought the below code would do the trick. And how do I feedback the correct values? Perhaps I need to FPUT each condition, during the loop, to an external file, then FGET the file for every trade in the backtester? That might work, but feels inefficient:


//------------------------------------------------------------------------
// SIMPLE TRADING SYSTEM BASED ON VARIOUS CONDITIONS
//------------------------------------------------------------------------

FastMA       =    
MA( C, 10 );
SlowMA       =    
MA( C, 20 );

Condition1   =
Cross(FastMA, SlowMA);
Condition2   =
Cross(SlowMA, FastMA);
Condition3   =
Cross(C,      SlowMA);
Condition4   =
Cross(SlowMA, C     );

for(a = 1; a < 5; a++)
{
Condition    =
VarGet( "Condition" + NumToStr( a, 1.0, 0 ) );    
Buy          = Condition;
Sell         = BarsSince(Buy) > 12;
}


//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// WANT TO ADD THE CUSTOM COLUMN, "CONDITION" TO BACKTEST REPORT
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

SetCustomBacktestProc( "" );

if ( Status( "action" ) == actionPortfolio )
{
bo =
GetBacktesterObject();
bo.Backtest(
1 );                                    // Call Backtest but set NoTradeLists to true
bo.AddCustomMetric(
"Condition", a, 0,0,0 );         // Add the custom metric
bo.ListTrades();                                    
// Now generate the backtest report with custom metric
}

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