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Hello,
> 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?
No, it should not break it.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Merrill" <dmerrill@xxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:06 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] New reporting system
>
>
> 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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