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Peter suggested that I forward this to the rest of the list - hope it helps
y'all out.
BJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Iovanella <ivo1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Peter Gibson <Peter_Gibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: Portfolio Maximizer
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Gibson <Peter_Gibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 2:35 AM
>Subject: Portfolio Maximizer
>
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>>Looking for feedback for anyone who has purchased Portfolio Maximizer:
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>>- ease of use in applying systems once a portfolio has been set up i.e.
>once
>>I have set up a portfolio can I simply apply a system and print out the
>>portfolio statistics?
>
>Hi - I've got PM, and am a bit mixed on how I feel about it. It is truly a
>powerful tool, and has greatly assisted me in evaluating my trading systems
>across many timeframes and commodities. I can find any profitable systems
>on any timeframe in any commodity, create individual reports for each of
>them, and then compile all of these into a portfolio report and from there
>pare the portfolio down until only the strongest systems emerge. In my
>experience, the evaluations have lead to much more profitable trading. I
>took a system that proved profitable on 150 different timeframes - as
>determined by the System Report in TS - and weeded out all but 9 which I
now
>trade. Which would have been a lot harder to do using only the System
>Report to go on.
>
>However, there are many drawbacks. It is a very time-consuming process to
>manually find all profitable systems across many commodites, save them
>individually, and then go back at the end to put them all into a Portfolio
>Report. The good thing here is that you can put as many individual reports
>into a Portfolio report as you want; the drawback is that, unless you put
>them in a few at a time (5-10) the program freezes up on you. It is also
>kind of slow, and I'm running it on a PII-266 machine with 64 MB RAM.
>
>>- program relatively bug free?
>
>Nope. There's one big bug that has caused some headaches for me, and
>there's no fix in the works; you have to wait for and buy version 5 to get
>around this one. The program is supposed to export any data you wish into
>an Excel (or any other delimited text format) spreadsheet. While this
works
>with Individual Reports, it does not work with a Portfolio Report.
>Omega/RINA know this, but continue to sell the product, which baffles me.
>Especially at the price they ask, you would think they'd let you know it
>doesn't work properly if they're going to sell it at all. I called to
>complain about it, and was promptly offered a free upgrade when the new
>version comes out - sometime around October to coincide with the TS 5.0
>release. So, be careful.
>
>>- any other comments?
>
>I feel it really is an invaluable tool, but would definitely like to see it
>work a whole lot better than it currently does.
>
>Hope this helps you make a decision.
>
>BJ
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