Can you access equity mid-run/optimise and use it conditionally?

[KitHaywood]

I am building a custom Strategy and was wondering if it was possible to access current 'equity' of your position/portfolio mid backtest - so within a conditional statement during backtest.run or backtest.optimize .

Can I access it like an array like you can with an indicator e.g.? Do I need to instantiate it in init()?

self._equity.loc[-1]

Is a Broker object involved? Something along the lines of -

if ( ( self.broker._equity.loc[0] - self.broker._equity.loc[-1] ) / self.broker._equity.loc[0] ) > 0.05:
   ...

What is the best way to go about finding your incremental % change in equity - so % change in equity on last?

Thanks

[KitHaywood]

Never mind - problem solved.