Find the market with the right breakout structure, build a strategy without code, and backtest it in AmiBroker as an AFL formula. Every strategy's tested in BreakoutOS before it reaches your Analysis window.
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The research happens in BreakoutOS. The finished strategy lands in AmiBroker as an AFL formula you can backtest in the Analysis window and apply to a chart.
Breakout Radar scores each session of a market for breakout direction and how long breakouts typically last, so you start where the structure's there.
Hypothetical backtestBreakout Trading PRO builds and tests breakout strategies for that market, point-and-click, using the Mr Breakouts Formula. Pick the one you want to take further.
The export writes the strategy as an AmiBroker AFL formula. The header lists the session and timezone settings to match.
Paste it into the AFL Editor and save it. Then run a backtest from the Analysis window, like any formula you'd written yourself.
One strategy, backtested in BreakoutOS, then exported and backtested again in AmiBroker. The AFL export reproduces the BreakoutOS results closely, so the system you run is the strategy you researched.
Hypothetical backtest
Hypothetical backtest| Measure | BreakoutOS | AmiBroker |
|---|---|---|
| Trades | 409 | 409 |
| Win rate | 57.5% | 57.5% |
| Average trade | +$287 | +$287 |
| Net profit | +$117,585 | +$117,585 |
The same 409 trades on both platforms, with the same entries, exits and net profit. AmiBroker's chart ends at $127,585 because it includes the $10,000 starting capital. Hypothetical backtest results on both sides, not live trading. See the Hypothetical Performance Disclosure at the foot of this page.
The entry, the exit and the filters you tested in BreakoutOS, written out as AFL.
The code header spells out the session and timezone the strategy was tested on, so the trades land on the same bars.
Small gaps can still come from your data source, your database's time settings or the backtester settings. There's a guide inside BreakoutOS for tracking them down.
Systems you've written in AFL yourself, or adapted from code you found? A nice-looking backtest doesn't prove much, so import them into BreakoutOS Scale and put them through four tools.
Scores your strategy against a thousand strategies with the same DNA, across nine checks.
Finds out which indicators work best for your strategy.
Combines several strategies into one portfolio, so you see how they work together.
Gives each strategy a traffic light, so you know when to keep going and when to pause.
BreakoutOS does the research and the testing. AmiBroker runs the formula on your own data. Here's how the two fit together, from picking a market to monitoring a portfolio.
Score each market and session for breakout potential.
BuildGenerate tested strategy candidates, without code.
BuildPaste the AFL into AmiBroker and backtest it in the Analysis window.
AmiBrokerNine checks against a thousand look-alike strategies.
ScaleFind the indicators that work best for it.
ScaleSeveral strategies, one portfolio.
ScaleA traffic light for every strategy.
ScaleWorks across most major markets
BreakoutOS builds and tests breakout strategies on all of them. Which ones you test in AmiBroker depends on your data source.
BreakoutOS Build has the four tools you need to go from a market to a strategy, with AFL export on every strategy you build.
BreakoutOS Scale has the tools to audit, improve, combine and monitor the strategies you've already got, plus every Build tool.
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