[amibroker] Re: customized walk forward backtesting possible?

2010-08-23 Thread adexie
Howard, I would love to have access to OS trade list and stats too. I was going through the customized backtest doc, I might be able to achieve what I was hoping to do -- manipulating the parameter from optimization in WF backtest, but it's very difficult to implement. Thanks for all your

[amibroker] Re: customized walk forward backtesting possible?

2010-08-20 Thread adexie
thanks Howard for your suggestion. I guess the difficult part for me is how to code it up. I found this online, http://www.amibroker.com/kb/2008/05/19/historical-portfolio-backtest-metrics/ but it's not very comprehensive on custom backtest. Do you know of any other documentation on this topic?

Re: [amibroker] Re: customized walk forward backtesting possible?

2010-08-20 Thread Howard B
Hi Ade -- I may be misunderstanding, but I don't see that CBT will be involved. I'm thinking something like this may work -- all in pseudo-afl code. /// // ConditionSwitch.afl // // Determine the current condition // // Use whatever foreign series and indicators you need

Re: [amibroker] Re: customized walk forward backtesting possible?

2010-08-20 Thread Keith McCombs
Ade -- If you decide that you do need to use CBT, this is, IMHO, the best document available on the subject. http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/2008/03/16/amibroker-custom-backtester-interface-2/ -- Keith On 8/20/2010 08:50, Howard B wrote: Hi Ade -- I may be misunderstanding, but I don't see

[amibroker] Re: customized walk forward backtesting possible?

2010-08-20 Thread adexie
Thanks Keith. It looks promising. I'll look into that. Best, Ade --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, Keith McCombs kmcco...@... wrote: Ade -- If you decide that you do need to use CBT, this is, IMHO, the best document available on the subject.

[amibroker] Re: customized walk forward backtesting possible?

2010-08-20 Thread adexie
Howard, Thank you for put the pseudo code together. It will be much easier to show what I meant. Please see in the code. /// // ConditionSwitch.afl // // Determine the current condition // // Use whatever foreign series and indicators you need // to set Condition

Re: [amibroker] Re: customized walk forward backtesting possible?

2010-08-20 Thread Howard B
Hi Ade -- It looks like you want the trade list and statistics from all of the out-of-sample runs from a walk forward test. Is this correct? If so, several of us have been asking to have this functionality provided as a feature of AmiBroker. Thanks, Howard On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:37 PM,