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Laurent:
These kinds of suggestions have been made for the past few years by many
users. Dont hold your breath.
Lionel Issen
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurent GITTLER <lgittler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: suggestions@xxxxxxxxx <suggestions@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: 'Metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 10:48 AM
Subject: System Tester Suggestions : Explorer questions or suggested
enhancements
>About a subject asked about 2 months ago by equis, here are some new
>suggestions I would like to get in Metastock.
>
>Has anyone any idea on how to start several explorations automatically, or
>to set the current date to some date in the past for explorer back-test ?
>
>Here is what I want to do :
>
>Trying to program new explorations, I discovered also that there are some
>limitations in Metastock,
>
>1) I would like more columns also in the explorer (A-F is just not
enough).
>
>2) I would like also that some explorations be chained. When I get the end
>of day data, I would like to start different explorations and start them
>one after the other automatically, so that I can see them later. As an
>option, If possible, I would like the reports be printed automatically as
>well.
>
>3) I would like to use variables, in the exploration and have a real
>programming language with procedures so that I can fine tune my
>explorations.
>
>4) I would like those explorations be used as system tests on a set of
>securities, not jus one security (so I can see whether the are really godd
>or bad), Basically I am coding technical patterns using bollinger bands
and
>other home made technical indicators, and I get about 4 to 8 hits per day
>only on 8500 stocks, and the securities are often changing day after day.
>Basically, it's like a cup and handle, triple bottom, and so on, it
>statistically happens very rarely and I would like to make sure I could
make
>consistent returns using those patterns.
>
>So I would like to automate the test process in the past on all
securities,
>for that I need to set a date in the past to back-test my explorations.
The
>only way I found is to use two different data directories, one stopping at
>the date I wish to use for backtests in the past, the other one for real
>up-to-date data, so that I can make sure my buy and sell explorations
>signals (I use to different explorers for that) are good.
>
>Maybe there is a simpler way to use that in explorers (I use formulas like
>highestsincebars()and other functions relative to the current date). I
would
>like to easily set the current date to some date in the past.
>
>Has anyone any idea on how to start several explorations automatically, or
>to set the current date to some date in the past for explorer back-test ?
>
>Thank you
>
>Laurent GITTLER
>
>
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