{"id":883,"date":"2014-12-05T06:15:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/kb\/?p=883"},"modified":"2014-12-06T06:16:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T11:16:55","slug":"how-to-backtest-symbols-individually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/2014\/12\/05\/how-to-backtest-symbols-individually\/","title":{"rendered":"How to backtest symbols individually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, when we run backtest over a group or watchlist of symbols \u2013 AmiBroker will perform a portfolio test. However, there is also an Individual mode of the backtest available, where every symbol is tested individually and independently. <\/p><p>Once we send the formula to <strong>Analysis<\/strong> window and define group of symbols to run code on (<strong>Apply To<\/strong>), in order to run an individual backtest, it is necessary to unfold the menu next to Backtest button and choose <strong>Individual Backtest<\/strong> from the menu.<\/p><p><img src=\"\/\/www.amibroker.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/indback1.png\" alt=\"Individual Backtest\" \/><\/p><p>To get full report generated for each of the tests, it is required to first go to <strong>Analysis\u2013>Settings->Report<\/strong> tab and mark <strong>Generate detailed reports for each symbol in individual backtests<\/strong> option.<\/p><p><img src=\"\/\/www.amibroker.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/indback2.png\" alt=\"Individual Backtest Report\" \/><\/p><p>Then the full reports can be accessed through the <strong>Report Explorer<\/strong>.<\/p><p><img src=\"\/\/www.amibroker.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/indback3.png\" alt=\"Report Explorer\" \/><\/p><p>The letter <strong>I<\/strong> indicates that the report contains results of an individual test. Double-clicking on the particular results line will show full contents of the backtest report.<\/p><p><img src=\"\/\/www.amibroker.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/indback4.png\" alt=\"Report Explorer List\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, when we run backtest over a group or watchlist of symbols \u2013 AmiBroker will perform a portfolio test. However, there is also an Individual mode of the backtest available, where every symbol is tested individually and independently. Once we send the formula to Analysis window and define group of symbols to run code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[14,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amibroker.com\/wordpress\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}