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Kevin:
On 20 Jul 2004 17:19:43 -0000, equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>I am hoping that someone on the list can help me with a frustrating System
>>Tester problem.
>>
>>I have been experimenting with the tester and had come up with some
>>interesting results using a canned metastock simulation but selecting only
>>the long buys and sells. The only Stop setting I used was a trailing Loss on
>>Longs set at 4.00%
To make sure we are on the same page, is this setting on the Stops tab
of the System Editor? What version of MS are you using?
If your answer to the first question is "yes", and you are using Ver.
8.01 or Ver. 9, then there is a bug in the Trailing calculation, when
% is used. This was confirmed to my by Equis support earlier this
year. (I was having a problem that no matter what % or periods were
set, the trade always stopped out on the day it was made.)
According to support, the Trailing Stop function only works if
"points" is chosen on this tab, AND "Points only Test" is selected on
the Perform Trading Simulation->System Testing Options screen.
I don't understand why you and your friend should be getting different
results, but then I don't know exactly what causes the bug.
Try running points only on both machines, and see if the results
match.
Harry
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