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 Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com 
  ----- Original Message -----  
  
  
  Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 1:26 
  AM 
  Subject: [amibroker] Adding a Custom 
  Metric to Backtest Report 
  
  I have been able to add custom metrics to the Optimization 
  Reports, but for some reason can't add a column to the Trade List Backtest 
  report. Hoping someone might be able to chime in here, as the custom 
  backtester confuses me.
  What I want to do is fairly simple. In my 
  actual trading system, I cycle through hundreds of possible conditions per 
  bar. If any one condition is true, then I Buy. I want to add a custom metric 
  to the backtest report that lists which condition generated the Buy 
  signal.
  For the sake of debugging, below is a very simplified AFL (not 
  my actual system). I simply want to feedback the condition number into the 
  backtester. But it does not work. If I add an optimize statement at the top, 
  it will add the custom metric to the Optimization report. But even then 
  that column does not reflect correct values. 
  So how do I add the 
  column to the Backtest report? I would have thought the below code 
  would do the trick. And how do I feedback the correct values? Perhaps I need 
  to FPUT each condition, during the loop, to an external file, then FGET the 
  file for every trade in the backtester? That might work, but feels 
  inefficient:
 
 
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------ // SIMPLE TRADING SYSTEM BASED ON 
  VARIOUS CONDITIONS //------------------------------------------------------------------------
  FastMA       
  =    MA( C, 10 
  ); SlowMA       
  =    MA( C, 20 
  );
  Condition1   = Cross(FastMA, 
  SlowMA); Condition2   = Cross(SlowMA, 
  FastMA); Condition3   = Cross(C,      SlowMA); Condition4   
  = Cross(SlowMA, 
  C     );
  for(a = 1; a < 5; 
  a++) { Condition    = VarGet( "Condition" + NumToStr( a, 1.0, 0 ) );     
   Buy          = 
  Condition; Sell         = BarsSince(Buy) > 12; }
 
  //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- // WANT TO ADD THE CUSTOM COLUMN, 
  "CONDITION" TO BACKTEST REPORT //---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  SetCustomBacktestProc( "" );
  if ( Status( "action" ) == actionPortfolio ) { bo = 
  GetBacktesterObject(); bo.Backtest( 1 
  );                                    
  // Call Backtest but set NoTradeLists to 
  true bo.AddCustomMetric( "Condition", a, 0,0,0 
  );         // Add the custom metric  bo.ListTrades();                                     
  // Now generate the backtest report with custom 
  metric  }
    
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