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Re: Ticker Sample Selector, HELP!



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Hi Hal,
Is it possible to give us the parameters and the formula
of your Optimization ?
Best Regards
Dimitris Tsokakis
--- In amibroker@xxxx, Hal Brehe <infoads@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dimitris,
> 
> I'm using your Relative Slope system, and I thank you for this 
wonderful 
> gift to the group.
> 
> Everything is working well with the system, except that my NYSE 
database is 
> too large to be practical to use with the Optimization feature. 
This is 
> because the total continuous optimization time is approximately 72 
hours or 
> 3, 24 hour days. With the Optimization system requiring 4851 
tries, at the 
> approximate half way mark, the actual optimization time is 90 
> seconds/ticker, and the time between starts at 8 seconds & getting 
longer 
> (this latter time is the time between the end and beginning of the 
next 
> run). I assume it is AB finding the next "try" information). This 
timing 
> was done on a 900MHz P4, a subset of the total record set 
accomplished by 
> making a "scan" for upper and lower price limits which were stored 
as a 
> WATCH LIST (around 2300 tickers), and maximum data record length of 
3-1/4 
> years.
> 
> It is obvious to me that the total time requirement for the 
Optimization 
> run is around 72 hours, or three continuous days.
> 
> In thinking over what would help, I believe that a ticker reduction 
scheme 
> would be an asset. That is to say, make a preliminary "SCAN" to 
reduce the 
> number of tickers. Make a "Watch List" of the result, and make the 
> Optimization run on the Watch List. It might be some scheme to 
eliminate "1 
> out of X" tickers or possibly be made "random" rather than 
sequential. I donno!
> 
> Could you, or anyone else interested, get me started in developing 
this 
> type of routine?
> 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hal