Exporting a Profit Table from an optimization

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evanscje
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Exporting a Profit Table from an optimization

Postby evanscje » 21 Sep 2010

I am looking to write to a file a table of data. This is how it should look:
Column 1 = date
Column 2-21 = daily net profit time series for each iteration of an input from value 1 to 20
Row 1 Labels are Date, Iteration # (if possible)

If the code only allows me to generate rows - no problem, I can transpose it all in excel later.

Any ideas?

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Re: Exporting a Profit Table from an optimization

Postby Dave Masalov » 22 Sep 2010

Dear evanscje,

Please take a look on 'FileAppend' and 'print' functions in PLE. They allow you to write the data to the text file, which you can then import in Excel.

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Re: Exporting a Profit Table from an optimization

Postby evanscje » 22 Sep 2010

I am very familiar with the function .. my problem is with this specific application :
I need to append a file with additional columns for every optimization iteration

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Re: Exporting a Profit Table from an optimization

Postby evanscje » 22 Sep 2010

Here's what I have so far:

variables:
int ArrayIndex( 0 ) ;

arrays:
Double NetProfitArray[10000]( 0 ),
Int TradesArray[10000]( 0 ),
Int DateArray[10000]( 0 ) ;


// If the prior bar date is not equal to the current bar date then this is a new day.
// Capture the date, netprofit, associated with the first bar
// of the new day.
if Date[1] <> Date then
begin

NetProfitArray[ArrayIndex] = NetProfit ;
TradesArray[ArrayIndex] = TotalTrades ;
DateArray[ArrayIndex] = Date ;

// Increment the array index by one for each new day.
ArrayIndex = ArrayIndex + 1 ;

// If the array index exceeds the maximum array size of 100 then issue an error
// to halt the strategy and inform you that the array sizes must be increased
if ArrayIndex > 10000 then
RaiseRunTimeError(" Increase sizes of NetProfit." ) ;

end ;


// Output the array values on the last bar of the chart each time after the strategy has completely run for a given optimization
If LastBarOnChart then
begin

// Add a "Date", "NetProfit" and "#Trades" value to the record for each increment of the ArrayIndex
for Value1 = 0 to ArrayIndex - 1
begin
FileAppend("C:\test5.csv", NumToStr( DateArray[Value1], 0 ) + "," );
FileAppend("C:\test5.csv", NewLine) ;
FileAppend("C:\test5.csv", NumToStr( NetProfitArray[Value1], 2 ) + "," ) ;
end ;

end ;

This does produce columns! .. the first column is profit (why is it not in column 2?) and the second column is date (in a format that Excel can’t read) When I run an optimization only those 2 columns are produced ??

Any help would be much appreciated

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Re: Exporting a Profit Table from an optimization

Postby Dave Masalov » 23 Sep 2010

Dear evanscje,

Firstly, you write to the file with the "," divider:

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begin
FileAppend("C:\test5.csv", NumToStr( DateArray[Value1], 0 ) + "," );
FileAppend("C:\test5.csv", NewLine) ;
FileAppend("C:\test5.csv", NumToStr( NetProfitArray[Value1], 2 ) + "," ) ;
end ;
Why do you add newline before netprofit value? It is understandable why NetProfit is the first column.

Please try this one:

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begin
FileAppend("C:\test5.csv", NumToStr( DateArray[Value1], 0 ) + "," + NumToStr( NetProfitArray[Value1], 2 ) + ",");
FileAppend("C:\test5.csv", NewLine) ;
end ;
It is more convinient to add data for Date in Julian format

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DateArray[ArrayIndex] = datetojulian(Date) ;
Then, if you set the right sell format in Excel, it will recognize the date.


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