Anyone knows why do I get that odd profit distribution chart in the backtester report? A setting that I miss perhaps or something, everything else seems correct
"Point value" at Window->Information is ok for this contract ?
I believe that in Futures Mode your % Profit will be based on your margin deposit, not on # shares x entry price as it would be for stocks. Notice that your Position Value column shows $1100 in each case, despite the price changing for each trade and the number of contracts being static at 1.
As @mradtke mentioned, in Futures mode profit% is calculated based on your investment, which is Margin Deposit.
Yes indeed, that`s where I get those numbers from, I fail to see the usefulness of that column though, thank you all for your answers
I guess the question would be, how would you calculated % P/L on a Futures trade if not by using the margin as the cost basis?
Tomasz and experts, maybe it has been answered elsewhere, but how can we also have in the results the percent P/L based on equity of a futures trade along with the number reported based on margin? I know, custom backtest, but I do not know how to use that. Basically, I refer to this quantity:
100xtrade profit/(closed equity at the time the trade was placed)
Thanks
Please read the manual
https://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_futbacktest.html
https://www.amibroker.com/guide/w_report.html
Everything is in the manual and percent P/L and all other metrics are in the report already.