Glad, I could help! 8-) d
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louis Préfontaine Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [amibroker] What's wrong with my formula (trouble with custombacktest) Hi Graham, Wouldn't it be implicit to AB that if I set a maximum of 5 trades (SetOption("MaxOpenPositions", 5 );) each would be about 20%? Anyway I added SetPositionSize( 20, spsPercentOfEquity ); and it works well... But I thought this was custom backtest; I still have a lot to learn I guess! Thanks for your patience! Louis 2008/3/22, Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Now we can answer what your real problem is. You need to specify a Positionsize, if not defined then AB assumes 100% of equity is used per trade, thus only one trade at one time -- Cheers Graham Kav AFL Writing Service http://www.aflwriting.com On 23/03/2008, Louis Préfontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, sorry for posting "code that has no relevance at all" (still, in the manual it looks like setoption has a relevance to customizing backtesting...), but I just can't see what is the problem. If I use auto-analysis and try to backtest my list of tickers, it won't do more than one trade at a time EVEN IF I click on "settings" and change the max number of positions to 10. The only way I could have more than one position at any time is to use custom variables. Maybe I have no clue about what it is, but that's why I am asking, dingo. Louis
