Hi,
I believe that your code says it all ;)
> } // End of for loop over trades at this bar
>
> ...
> trade.AddCustomMetric("My total equity", My_total_equity);
"trade" is null after the loop.
Mike
--- In [email protected], "Markus Witzler" <funny...@...> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I intend to create a proprietary formula for "My_total_equity" to able to
> modify it later on to suit to my individual needs.
>
> Here, I_ use "Value of cash position (bo.cash) + value (all open positions by
> their close)" as a start.
>
> When I run backtest, I get the following message:
>
> "Com Variable not initialized or has invalid type" though I initialized
> "Value_open_positions=0" and also "My_total_equity=0;"
>
> The loop to determine the aggregate value of all open positions goes like
> this:
>
> for (trade = bo.GetFirstOpenPos(); trade; trade = bo.GetNextOpenPos())
>
> { // Loop through all open positions
>
>
> Value_open_positions=Value_open_positions+ trade.getprice(i,"C")*trade.shares;
>
> trade.addCustomMetric("Value of open positions", Value_open_positions);
>
> } // End of for loop over trades at this bar
>
>
> My_total_equity=bo.cash+Value_open_positions;
>
> trade.AddCustomMetric("My total equity", My_total_equity);
>
> Where is the mistake? If the whole code is required, please let me know.
>
> Thanks
>
> Markus
>
