[amibroker] Re: Accessing the current "Buy/Short" value during backtesting??

["cnh4_2000" <cnh4_2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cool!!! that did it..Thanks!! 




--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mike" <sfclimbers@xxx> wrote:
>
> Try Ref(Buy, 0) and see if that works for you.
> 
> I don't have access to AmiBroker on this computer, so I can't say 
for 
> sure if it will work. But it should be easy to try.
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cnh4_2000" <cnh4_2000@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm backtesting a system which requires me to take action #1 if 
BUY 
> > was true(and SHORT was false) and take action #2 if SHORT was 
true
> > (and BUY was false). Obviously, this evaluation is done after 
after 
> > the BUY and SHORT signals are checked. 
> > 
> > Here are the different things I've tried which all dont seem to 
be 
> > producing the right result. In other words, when backtesting 
long 
> > trades only, my profit is different when I manually 
> > section "ProfitFactor" compared to when I attempt to dynamically 
> set 
> > it based on whether or not BUY is true.
> > 
> > Attempt 1
> > 
> > ProfitFactor=IIf(Lastvalue(Buy),Value1,Value2);
> > 
> > Attempt 2
> > 
> > ProfitFactor=IIf(Lastvalue(Buy,False),Value1,Value2);
> > 
> > Attempt 3
> > 
> > ProfitFactor=IIf(Buy,Value1,Value2);
> > 
> > Attempt 4
> > 
> > ProfitFactor=IIf(selectedvalue(Buy,False),Value1,Value2);
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > None of these seem to produce the right result during my 
backtest. :
> > ( Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks.
> >
>




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