Amibroker Basic Settings

Below are the basic settings for All Trading Systems.

Other than this, user has to adjust some settings according to their Trading System;

Database Settings:Number of Bars:

You should enter Reasonable Value. Normally, for 1-minute time frame, the ideal value is
50000.entering high number here will reduce performance of Amibroker.

Intraday Settings:Trading hours should match the exchange trading hours.

For example; NSE Start: 0915 End: 1530

Preferences:Menu Bar Tools Preferences

IntraDay:-

Here You can Set

Your Preferred
Interval for Back
testing

Set to Zero For

Data Plug-in

Data:-

Each bar Consumes 40 bytes. So 50000

Bars means, each symbol Require 2Mb.
Enter the No of symbols you want to
trade in the Box In-memory cache size
For Ex:- 50
In max.MegaBytes..2mb per symbol
So for 50 Symbol = 50*2 = 100 mb
100mb is the min required. Since we
have more RAM, we can put 4 times of
min Reqd Say 400 for better
performance

Select Your Default Database

to be loaded when AmiBroker
Starts.

Axis/Grids:

Colors:

Back tester Settings:

Normally, AFL will give manipulated Results

due to wrong back tester settings.

Initial Equity Set it No

of Symbols * Trade Value
Positions: Long & Short
Periodicity: It should
match the Chart
Interval/or the Interval
to which you are using
Your Trading System