Have you turned off "allow position size shrinking"?
Perhaps alternatively you could set the minimum position value as well.
Dave
> bernardedmond01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is that correct? It doesn't seem to work that way when I run it.
> I specify each position size as $50,000 but I get partial fills.
> When I look to see the actual trade in chart form, I see volume was
> down that day...The position size in the report then shows the lower
> position size.
>
> --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com, "Ara Kaloustian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Bernard,
> >
> > Look at positionSize in help.
> >
> > You can specify a fixed amount of $ for each trade. Only time you
> can get a
> > smaller amount would be if you did not have adequate funds left
> for full
> > position
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "bernardedmond01" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <amibroker@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:47 PM
> > Subject: [amibroker] Position Size problems
> >
> >
> > > Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, I couldn't find any
> > > references here of past threads...
> > >
> > > I want to make sure that every position I enter has a full
> position
> > > size (which for my purposes is $50,000).
> > > When I run the backtest, I see that on some occasions I enter a
> trade
> > > but it has a position size of say $5,000. I'm guessing this is
> because
> > > it had lower volume that day (correct?).
> > > The reality is, I would pass on that trade.
> > > I tried to fix this by having a MA(V,50)>100000 but this doesn't
> > > always work since volume may be very volatile.
> > > Can I say in my formula, buy if these conditions are met and
> this is
> > > the PS but don't take the trade if PS would be less than what
> I've
> > > stipulated?
> > > TIA,
> > > Bernard
> > >
> > >
> > >
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