Mike: Running the portfolio code as a SCAN seems to be an answer. I can see the list of trades.
--- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <sfclimb...@...> wrote: > > Run your script as an exploration, outputting Buy and Sell and any other > interesting data. > > The trades won't show up 'till the next bar of data (i.e. after today's > close). But, the signals are immediately available (i.e. yesterday's close). > > Trade the signals, not the backtest. > > Mike > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "graphman27" <steve@> wrote: > > > > As I complete the creation of Amibroker signals and their subsequent > > portfolios, I'm having a logistical problem. When I am creating and > > backtesting portfolios, I use Buy and Sell Delays of +1 for both mutual > > funds and ETFs. This works best for mutual fund accuracy and, since I use > > EOD data only, it works well for ETFs as well. > > > > Here is my question. When I finish backtesting a portfolio and want to > > "switch" to "live" trades, I seem to have a problem. If I leave the > > Settings for Reports at Buy+1 and Sell+1, when I run the trade reports each > > morning to see what the EOD data did from the previous night, I get one day > > delayed trades. In other words, if a signal actually got generated last > > night, it will not show up on the trade report until the next day's CLOSE, > > which is obviously too late. Is the only way to alleviate that problem to > > go back into settings and change them to Buy+0 and Sell+0? If so, I worry > > that as I switch back and forth between wanting "live" trades for taking > > action and going back into signal backtesting mode, I will forget to switch > > between +0 and +1 in the settings. Since I am now "live" with two > > portfolios and will probably keep working on new ones for months to come, > > is there a better, fail-safe way of doing this? Otherwise, I will be > > manually switching many times per day/week. > > > > Remember: These are portfolios with multiple signals inside of them, so I > > don't want to run each signal separately and look for arrows on charts. > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Steve. > > >
