Perhaps your system runs out of funds, in which case the backtester won't show
more trades. Always a
good idea to generate an exploration of your signals to compare against the
backtester results.
Can't think of anything else off hand (I don't trade stocks). GRANT
foxblade2000invest wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I portfolio backtest a trading system (in fact any system) and
> have "trade list" selected in the report settings, I get a very limit
> list of stocks in the list. I have set the maximum open positions
> to "1000" so as not to limit this.
>
> This only occurs if I backtest against a large portfolio - and the
> stocks in the early part of the alphabet show on the list. (A,B C etc).
>
> If I test on a limited ammount of stock, say the S&P500, I don't seem
> to get this problem.
>
> The smaller trade list gives me concerns about the acutaul results
> being generated.
>
> Any advice much appreciared.
>
> Cheers,
> Rich
>
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