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Re: [amibroker] Making use of backtesting for patterns (not buy/sell signals)



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Steve,

If you can write the pattern in AFL....then you can gather all sorts of
statistics....

Anthony
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "scourt2000" <stevehite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:53 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Making use of backtesting for patterns (not buy/sell
signals)


>
> I don't think this is currently possible, but I'd sure like to be
> able to use Amibroker's backtesting engine to search for patterns in
> prices and/or indicators rather than for buy/sell signals of a
> mechanical trading system.  What would be really useful for me would
> be to be able to record a begin/end pair of a pattern I've detected
> and then be able to peruse the collection of patterns found across
> stocks so that I can gather statistics on them (much like Thomas
> Bulkowski did in his "Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns" book).
>
> So, for example, I could double-click on a line in a list of
> discovered pattern matches and then Amibroker would immediately take
> me to the chart with the > and < range arrows demarking the begin
> and end area of the pattern.  In the commentary section, I could
> also have a writeup on the detailed statistics about the pattern.
>
> Steve
>
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