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> 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
I know, and it's not like you don't have anything else to do either. Still,
if new users aren't careful, they'll end up with an enormous amount of stuff
in their reports folder (I have over 20 Megs since yesterday afternoon!),
with blank or misleading labels on it, making it hard to make use of. Some
switches, with conservative defaults, might actually make things easier for
people who aren't paying attention.
> 2. Additional field "Comment" field (suggested by Herman too)
> is a good idea and will be added at some point.
Actually, I forgot about that, as another request: A third field, besides
the two levels of FormulaName I'm suggesting. Something like Comments or
Notes, that was enterable from the report explorer, *after* the backtest has
run and you've examined the results. You could use it to flag results that
were particularly interesting, to find them again, and to keep track of what
was interesting about them. I do that in Excel, for both optimizations and
backtests, and often filter on non-blank comments once I've flagged the
interesting rows and want to narrow in on only them.
Speaking of Excel, the rlst file looks like tab-delimited text. If we add a
column on the end of it for comments like that, will anything break in AB or
the explorer? Obviously we need to save it as text, not an xls, and not edit
other things, but would that work if we were careful?
Thanks again so much for all this bounty of great stuff, really wonderful
(:-)
Dave
> 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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