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[amibroker] Re: How to vary the Positionsize based on number of possible stocks for that day???



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Yes, it is possible. You can use the custom portfolio backtester to
change the position size of the entry signals.

-Steve


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "mbluhm2001" <mbluhm2001@xxx> wrote:
>
> Each day I get a various number of stocks that I want to posssibly 
> trade the next day. I don't know ahead of time which stocks will hit 
> their price point. Also to lower risk I want to divide my money up 
> into a number of possible slots. So I may make 10 slots and so only 
> take 10 trades, each at 1/10th of my money. I'm thinking that if I 
> have a lot of possible stocks for the next day then I want to raise 
> the number of slots and if I have very few possible stocks then lower 
> the number of slots. This will keep my money invested as much as 
> possible.
> 
> So the problem is that I don't know how to put this all in one 
> program. I know how to write a scan that will give me the stocks for 
> tomorrow and I know how to back test based on a fixed number of 
> slots. But I want to be able to combine the two and know for the next 
> day, in the backtesting program, how many possible stocks so I can 
> increase the number of slots.
> 
> Is this possible with Amibroker backtester and if so can someone 
> point me in the right direction.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
>




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