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Just
would like to say thanks to Andrew, Lionel and Harry for responding. Your
feedback does not solve the problem but makes me feel a little better. I will
try using points as a trailing loss but % would have been much more convenient.
I
am not usually critical of Metastock but with all the negative comments on the
enhanced tester, for there to be this kind of bug still not ‘patched’
so long after 8.01 has been released is fairly ordinary stuff.
But
as someone well versed in MS pointed out to me recently you have to work within
the limitations.
Thanks
again guys,
Kevin
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>>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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