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Re: [amibroker] Selling price not set properly sometimes



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this may not be the case, but it appears that those sells with the correct
price are within the price range of the previous bar
Try turning off the priceboundchecking
SetOption( "PriceBoundChecking", 0 );


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On 03/12/06, intermilan04 <intermilan04@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a trading system which is intended to work in the following way:
>
> 1. I scan for signals on Day 1.
> 2. I buy signaled stocks at the open on Day 2.
> 3. I sell stocks at the open on Day 3.
>
> In a nutshell, here is a portion of my code that are relevant.
>
> // Options
> SetTradeDelays(1, 1, 1, 1);
>
> Buy = SomeCondition;
> BuyPrice = Open;
> Sell = Ref(Buy, 0);
> SellPrice = Ref(Open, 1);
>
> I'm deliberately doing Sell = Ref(Buy, 0); so that I can free up my
> Equity for next day's purchase of new stocks.  If I do Ref(Buy, 1),
> the Backtester tries to buy stocks next morning, can't do so because I
> have positions from previous day, and sell my stocks, and I end up
> with a cash position which could have been utilized on new stocks.
>
> Well, that became a lengthy explanation but the problem is the
> SellPrice = Ref(Open, 1); code.  While it works most of the times, it
> does not work 100%.  Here is a situation where it failed;
>
> Ticker  Trade   Date    Price   Ex. date        Ex. Price       % chg
> Profit  % Profit
> REGN    Long    2006/11/30      21.5    2006/11/30      21.54   0.19%
> 18      0.10%
> OVTI    Long    2006/11/30      16.6    2006/11/30      16.04   -3.37%
>   -574    -3.46%
> TLAB    Long    2006/11/30      9.99    2006/11/30      10.05   0.60%
> 88      0.52%
> BRCM    Long    2006/11/30      32.88   2006/11/30      32.66   -0.67%
>   -124    -0.75%
>
> I have no problem with REGN, TLAB, BRCM; the Ex. Price is that of the
> Open price of next day.
> But for OVTI, the 16.04 exit price is filthily wrong.  The stock
> gapped down big time to 14.22, and my AmiBroker quote for OVTI of 12/1
> shows 14.22 as well, so it is not the case of me having corrupted
> quote data.  It appears that the 16.04 exit price is the low price of
> the day, but then, I never set my SellPrice at Low.
>
> I will greatly appreciate any insights as to why my problem has
> occurred.  It's driving me crazy because if things like this happen, I
> might get rosier results than what reality might bring.
>
> Regards,
>
> intermilan04
>
>
>
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