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EasyLanguage Code for Optimal F (Multi-Charts and VBA too!)

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Optimal F in EasyLanguage for TradeStation and MultiCharts

Here is the code for the Optimal F calculation.  For a really good explanation of Optimal f, I refer you to Ralph Vince’s Book Portfolio Management FORMULAS.  We had programmed this years ago for our Excalibur software and I was surprised the EasyLanguage code was not really all that accessible on the internet.  Finding the Optimal f is found through an iterative process or in programmers terms a loop.  The code is really quite simple and I put it into a Function.  I decided to create this function because I wanted to demonstrate the ideas from my last post on how a function can store variable and array data.  Plus this code should be readily available somewhere out there.

//OptimalFGeo by George Pruitt
//My interpretation Sept. 2018
//www.georgepruitt.com
//georgeppruitt@gmail.com

input: minNumTrades(numericSimple);
vars: totalTradesCount(0),tradeCnt(0);
array: tradesArray[500](0);

vars: iCnt(00),jCnt(00),grandTot(0),highI(0);
vars: optF(0.0),gMean(0.0),fVal(0.0),HPR(0.0),TWR(0.0),hiTWR(0.0);
vars: biggestLoser(0.0),gat(0.0);

totalTradesCount = totalTrades;
If totalTradesCount > totalTradesCount[1] then
begin
	tradeCnt = tradeCnt + 1; 
	tradesArray[tradeCnt] = positionProfit(1);
end;

// Taken from my Fortran library - GPP and Vince Book PMF

optF = 0.0;
gMean = 1.00;
gat   = 0.00;
//Only calculate if new trade
IF(tradeCnt>minNumTrades and totalTradesCount > totalTradesCount[1]) then 
Begin
	biggestLoser = 0;
	grandTot = 0;
	For iCnt = 1 to tradeCnt //get the biggest loser
	begin
   		grandTot = grandTot + tradesArray[iCnt];
   		IF(tradesArray[iCnt]<biggestLoser) then biggestLoser = tradesArray[iCnt];
	end;
//	print(grandTot," ",biggestLoser);
	IF({grandTot > 0 and} biggestLoser <0) then 
	begin
//		print("Inside TWR Calculations");
		highI = 0;
		hiTWR = 0.0;
		for iCnt = 1 to 100
		begin
			fVal = .01 * iCnt;
			TWR = 1.0;
			for jCnt = 1 to tradeCnt // calculate the Terminal Wealth Relative
			begin
    			HPR = 1. + (fVal * (-1*tradesArray[jCnt]) / biggestLoser);
    			TWR = TWR * HPR;
 //   			print(fVal," ",iCnt," " ,jCnt," Trades ",tradesArray[jCnt]," HPR ",HPR:6:4," TWR : ",TWR:6:4," hiTWR",hiTWR:6:4," bl ",biggestLoser);
			end;
//			print(iCnt," ",TWR," ",hiTWR);
			IF(TWR>hiTWR) THEN
			begin
    			hiTWR = TWR;
    			optF = fVal;    	// assign optF to fVal in case its the correct one		
			end
			else
    			break;                     //highest f found - stop looping
		end;		
		If (TWR <= hiTWR or optF >= 0.999999) then
		begin
			TWR  = hiTWR;
			OptimalFGeo = optF;  //assign optF to the name of the function
		end;	
		gmean = power(TWR,(1.0 / tradeCnt));
		
		if(optF<>0) then GAT   = (gMean - 1.0) * (biggestLoser / -(optF));		
		print(d," gmean ",gmean:6:4," ",GAT:6:4);  // I calculate the GMEAN and GeoAvgTrade
	end;
end;
Optimal F Calculation by Ralph Vince code by George Pruitt

VBA version of Optimal F

For those of you who have a list of trades and want to see how this works in Excel here is the VBA code:

Sub OptimalF()

    Dim tradesArray(1000) As Double
    i = 0
    biggestLoser = 0#
    Do While (Cells(3 + i, 1) <> "")
        tradesArray(i) = Cells(3 + i, 1)
        If tradesArray(i) < bigLoser Then biggestLoser = tradesArray(i)
        i = i + 1
    Loop
    tradeCnt = i - 1
    highI = 0
    hiTWR = 0#
    rc = 3
    For fVal = 0.01 To 1 Step 0.01
        TWR = 1#
        For jCnt = 0 To tradeCnt
            HPR = 1# + (fVal * (-1 * tradesArray(jCnt)) / biggestLoser)
            TWR = TWR * HPR
            Cells(rc, 5) = jCnt
            Cells(rc, 6) = tradesArray(jCnt)
            Cells(rc, 7) = HPR
            Cells(rc, 8) = TWR
            rc = rc + 1
        Next jCnt
        Cells(rc, 9) = fVal
        Cells(rc, 10) = TWR
        rc = rc + 1

        If (TWR > hiTWR) Then
            hiTWR = TWR
            optF = fVal
        Else
            Exit For
        End If

    Next fVal
    If (TWR <= hiTWR Or optF >= 0.999999) Then
        TWR = hiTWR
        OptimalFGeo = optF
    End If
    Cells(rc, 8) = "Opt f"
    Cells(rc, 9) = optF
    rc = rc + 1
    gMean = TWR ^ (1# / (tradeCnt + 1))
    If (optF <> 0) Then GAT = (gMean - 1#) * (biggestLoser / -(optF))
    Cells(rc, 8) = "Geo Mean"
    Cells(rc, 9) = gMean
    rc = rc + 1
    Cells(rc, 8) = "Geo Avg Trade"
    Cells(rc, 9) = GAT

End Sub
VBA code for Optimal F

I will attach the eld and .xlsm file a little later.

Click Here for OptimalF Spreadsheet.

 

 

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2 thoughts on “EasyLanguage Code for Optimal F (Multi-Charts and VBA too!)”

  1. I believe there is an error in line 8 of the VBA code. There is a variable named \”bigLoser\” which is not referred to anywhere else in the code.

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