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    Enough sample data?

    I'm not familar with that term. What kind of errors are those? -Mike
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    Enough sample data?

    I just need to know the old symbols for the delisted stocks on NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ & OTCBB. Would CSI be able to provide information that is easily importable into AMI?
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    Enough sample data?

    I just started reading about this topic last week and I'm having a problem locating delisted stocks for back testing. Is there some place that records stocks that aren't listed anymore? -Mike
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    Enough sample data?

    Thanks for the replies, everyone. Its a good suggestion to find out if the profits are centered on certain years. I don't think AMI has this capability, but I can do it via excel. I finally downloaded more data into AMI from 1990 - 2006 and reran the test. The results were: # trades...
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    Enough sample data?

    I've been trading a particular system recently that has proven to be profitable, but I have a question about some of the measures. I run the backtest in AMI Broker and it reports: Profit Factor 9.29 Sharpe Ratio of trades 5.24 All trades 285 Avg. Profit/Loss % 11.88 % I...
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    Ideal Optimization

    I've recently gotten into automated trading first by using stockfetcher and then translating my stockfetcher queries into AMI Broker. Since AMI Broker has an optimization feature, I've been using that to optimize some of my queries. Im running into some questions about what is the "ideal"...
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