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Dave,
1. As for additional options... well you know that we have already
so many switches that people get lost :-))) but I will think about it
2. Additional field "Comment" field (suggested by Herman too)
is a good idea and will be added at some point.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Merrill" <dmerrill@xxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:41 AM
Subject: [amibroker] New reporting system
> ...is really really great!
>
> But I have some suggestions, or rather, I think I do. Feedback from the
> group would be good, so Tomasz can get a sense of what would help the most
> people the most, and if this stuff is important at all.
>
>
> My first idea is two new preferences:
>
> - Save backtests (radio buttons)
> a) Always
> Results of all backtests are saved. This is how it works now.
> b) Named formulas only
> Only formulas with a name have their results saved; no name = not
> saved.
> c) Require a formula name for all backtests
> If no name is provided, you're alerted and the backtest won't run.
>
> - Use filename as default formula name (checkbox)
> When checked, the report system uses the name of the last file loaded as
> the name for the saved backtest if SetFormulaName() isn't called. This is
> how it works now. When unchecked, only SetFormulaName() sets it. In
> combination with the last of the above options, can require that
> SetFormulaName() be called explicitly by all backtests.
>
> The problems with my work process that I'm trying to solve are these:
>
> - Whenever I load a saved formula into the AFL window, the reporting system
> uses the name of that file as the title of the saved report, unless I call
> SetFormulaName(). Even if I've retyped over the entire formula to do
> something completely unrelated, that filename is remembered and used,
> resulting in misleading and disorganized test archives.
>
> - I forget to call SetFormulaName(), so tests go unnamed, or use an
> unrelated name from the last loaded formula.
>
> Neither of these problems are AB's fault, of course, they're due to my work
> process not having fully caught up to AB's current capability. I'm trying to
> get it to help me adapt (:-)
>
>
> The second suggestion I have is an optional second parameter to
> SetFormulaName(), that sets a "detailed name", for lack of a better word.
> This is looking forward to a day when the report explorer has filtering
> capability. At that point, I think I'd want to filter the list down to
> reports with a certain name ("CMO5", say), and within those, still see a
> name that distinguishes each test or type of test ("Plain", "With ADX-RSI
> confirmation", etc). To accomplish that, I'd call SetFormulaName("CMO5",
> "Plain"), then SetFormulaName("CMO5", "With ADX-RSI confirmation"), and so
> on.
>
>
> My last suggestion is that optimization results optionally also be archived,
> one summary line per optimization step, with no details. It would be up to
> us to distinguish each step by including relevant optimization parameters in
> our SetFormulaName() call.
>
>
> What do people think of these suggestions? Are they worth Tomasz spending
> any time on? (Not that they're necessarily the most important things in any
> case.) I'm really so impressed with the new reporting capabilities. They are
> still new, so it's possible I'll get used to them and not care about any of
> these ideas in the long run, but I doubt it. It's also possible that Tomasz
> has even better ideas already in the works that cover all this, or that
> other folks here can improve on them.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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