How to create and backtest AFL scripts in Amibroker?
How to create and back-test AFL scripts in Amibroker?
AMIBroker is one of the most famous Algo-Trading Tools available in the market today, which uses AFL Scripting. We can use AMIBroker to create, back-test and deploy and strategy.
In today’s episode, we are going to see the following items:
- How to create a simple AFL script?
- How to plot the AFL script to the chart to generate buy and sell signals?
- How to analyse and back-test the AFL Script?
- How to find out net result of back-testing?
To watch this video, use the following link: https://youtu.be/keJ5ldLOPJA
Script used in this episode:
Buy = Ref(Close,-1)>Ref(Open,-1)
AND Ref(Close,-2)< Ref(Open,-2)
AND Ref(Open,-1)<Ref(Close,-2) AND Ref(Close,-1)>Ref(Open,-2);
Sell = Ref(Close,-1)<Ref(Open,-1) AND Ref(Close,-2)> Ref(Open,-2)
AND Ref(Open,-1)>Ref(Close,-2)
AND Ref(Close,-1)<Ref(Open,-2);
Buy = ExRem( Buy, Sell );
Sell = ExRem( Sell, Buy );
PlotShapes(IIf(Buy,shapeUpArrow,shapeNone),colorBlue,0,L,Offset=-10);
PlotShapes(IIf(Sell,shapeDownArrow,shapeNone),colorRed,0,H,Offset=-10);
To Download the script, use the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z_ck4jQ-qpgMK2blYhWUD6s3O_XBzXCt/view?usp=sharing
To download the data files used in the video, use the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Weo6Tb1N6NX-J1OboZEHbRhcjMgNi0dV/view?usp=sharing
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