When backtesting a strategy, I would like to set a beginning account balance and have each trade enter with a variable number of shares/contracts equal to ~100% of the current account value, where the account value is (ideally) growing over time, so the number of shares/contracts is also often growing over time. I tried setting the "account value" to $10,000 and "Set order quantity" to "by account size" in the backtest options, but this does not invest up to 100% of the current account value each entry, but instead appears to invest up to $10,000 each time (the initial account value, not the current account value). Maybe these options should be renamed from "by account size" to "by initial account size" and from "account size" to "initial account size" for clarity?
Is what I want only possible by custom programming inside each strategy? Some past threads actually seem to say this won't be supported until NT7.
One semi-related note is that I find the forum search restriction on <4 letter words to be fairly limiting. I can't do a search for things like "set order quantity", "by account size", "ATR", etc. It also does not allow exact phrase searches, as far as I can tell.
Is what I want only possible by custom programming inside each strategy? Some past threads actually seem to say this won't be supported until NT7.
One semi-related note is that I find the forum search restriction on <4 letter words to be fairly limiting. I can't do a search for things like "set order quantity", "by account size", "ATR", etc. It also does not allow exact phrase searches, as far as I can tell.
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