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I've believe that "days in test" includes weekends and holidays, which would
be different from "bars in test" or number of records in your test set.
MetaStock counts them, although you probably have the preference established
not to show those days in your charts.
You can demonstrate this by an example (e.g. loading only bars from say last
Tuesday) and running a "Maximum Profit System" test (so that you get some
results) and looking at the number of days in test. The "bars in test" you
should be able to count as six, but the report will show 8 days in test,
accounting for the two weekend days.
Dave Nadeau
Jeff Ledermann wrote:
> It worse than that...
> Try adding up the total bars in and total bars out of trades
> and you'll get a third completely different number.
>
> Makes you wonder about the other numbers on that report.
>
> Jeff.
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed something strange in the system testing report, generated by
> > MS EOD, 7.02:
> >
> > I loaded a security which has only 3433 records (I chkd from downloader
> > to confirm this), but when I chkd the system testing report, it says:
> > Days in Test: 4367.
> >
> > Now the question is: when does that additional 934 days come from?
> >
> > When I try opening counters that has shorter history (1511 records) and
> > do the *same* system testing, I got: Days in Test: 2199. Now the
> > difference is 688.
> >
> > Can anyone enlighten me what is the cause of this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Ong Hock Choon
> > hcong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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