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moving average crossover help

Hi everyone,

I am attempting to use a sample algorithm to buy/sell depending on moving average crossovers. I was hoping someone would be able to look at my code and tell me why my back-test only has one transaction. Based on the number of moving average crossovers there should have been more than one transaction.

Also note that I have attempted to modify this code so that short selling is not possible.

Let me know if you can be of any help.

Thanks,
Joe

2 responses

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Line 13 - you want a >=, not just >. You never have >100 shares.

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Thank you, Dan! That makes perfect sense and the code works as expected now.