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Re: [amibroker] virtual trades (not IB paper account)



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Simply perform backtest everyday   - it *is* actually executing virutal trades.

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Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bh.hicks" <bh.hicks@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:59 PM
Subject: [amibroker] virtual trades (not IB paper account)


> Does Amibroker have a mechanism for executing virtual trades during backtesting and tracking those results independently from 
> actual trades?  As I mentioned in my flurry of questions last week, I am in the process of migrating some stuff over to AB from 
> Traders Studio and TStudio has a way of doing this.
>
> If not, there may be a work-around.  The way I use it is a system is coded to track the performance of the past n-trades to longer 
> historical performance metrics and has the ability to shut itself down during periods of under-performance.  That is the easy 
> part.  The virtual trades however allow the system to keep trading itself virtually and can turn itself back on when the n-trade 
> expectancy rises back to some predetermined level.  This allows backtesting results to mirror the affects of doing in real-time 
> what is a relatively intuitive thing to do when a system starts to under-perform.
>
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