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To allow a series of concurrent trades to be active in the Enhanced System Tester you need to make
sufficient capital available. You could try setting the total amount of capital to $1,000,000 and
specify that each trade use only 1% of available capital. You can vary the amount of capital and the
percentage to more closely match your own situation, but allowing any trade to use 100% of available
capital is most likely the cause of your stated problem.
Look for Tom Sprunger's article in the files section (Sprunger Guide to ver 8.x Sys Tester ) for
more ideas on System Tester problems and solutions. The System Tester is one tool that you need to
experiment with to get the best out of. No one said it was perfect, but as with most problems in
MetaStock there are solutions if you look for them.
Kind regards
Roy Larsen
www.metastocktips.co.nz
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----- Original Message -----
From: "ranjithnets" <no_reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:35 AM
Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Problems with System Tester
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to compare the efficiency of a few simple systems.
> In order to do a true comparision, I was taking the buy price
> to trigger the sell.
>
> Buy Order:
> Fml("Buy1") > 0
> Sell Order:
> b:= ValueWhen(1, Fml("Buy1") > 0, c);
> h >= b * 1.3 OR
> l <= b * 0.7 OR
> BarsSince(Buy1>0) >= 21;
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>
> The Enhanced System Tester has the following problems.
>
> 1) Buy signal is generated only after the bought(already)
> security is sold. The System Test ignores all the occurances of buy
> signals, based on the custom indicator shown below, until the
> security that was bought previously was sold completely. This would
> be a problem when I want to evaluate systems based on number of buy
> signals generated.
> 2) When I use the closing price, of the day when the Buy signal
> occurred, to trigger the selling point, this closing price keeps
> moving due to occurance of more buy signals succeeding the buy
> signal for which the System Test bought. This affects the selling
> point. I want to associate the closing price, when the security was
> bought, in order to correctly trigger the selling.
> 3) I am unable to trigger the Sell signal after certain days
> elapsed since the purchase of the security. This is due to the fact
> that the days since signal occurred keep moving when more Buy
> signals occur. So, I am unable to keep the actual number of days
> elapsed to generate a Sell.
>
> Please suggest ideas to do real comparision of systems.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> RP
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