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Roy
I will take your advice and if you could check your
results as well please. One test over one trade should be enough. I am using ver
9 and don't remember this problem with ver 8. MS support agreed with me. At
best the tester is a visual guide as to whether the system is worth exploring
further.
Martin Blain
Burlington Ontario
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 1:00
AM
Subject: Re: [EquisMetaStock Group]
system tester problem
Hi Marty
> I can only assume that nobody uses the
system tester. I have never
> heard anybody mention this problem
before. The results from the
> tester will not show an acurate gain or
loss as a percentage. If the
> system picked up a buy at 7.60 and was
stopped out at 5.70 is should
> show a 25% loss. By changing the
settings and even though the price
> in and out where the same the
percentage ranges from a 2%loss to a
> 500% loss. I also found that is
not wise to check the quick test
> box. All these problems can be seen
simply by reviewing each trade.
> Martin
As you become more
familiar with the System Tester you'll find that there are ways to
do make
it do most things that initially don't appear to work. There were many bugs
in
the 8.0 version but most of those were fixed in 8.01 and 9.0.
Unfortunately, finding out
what doesn't work is part of the process of
finding out what does work, and necessary
before ways around a problem can
be devised.
A very helpful document with comments by Tom Sprunger can
be found in the files
section of this group. Everyone should read it before
trying to use the Enhanced System
Tester (I'm not suggesting you haven't
read it, but if you haven't then it's a good place to
start).
I
included suggestions for a number of perceived deficiencies in recent issues
of my
newsletter (subscribers only), and I'll be following up with more
suggestions for making
things work as intended in the March and April
issues. I'll certainly be checking out the
point you raise about
percentages but have nothing specific that I can offer just
yet.
Kind regards
Roy
Larsen
www.metastocktips.co.nz
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