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RE: Trying to optimise beacktesting but TS doesnt have feature



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I also got a message saying TS4 can do it, or at least almost.

Does anybody know why such a feature is removed? I thought backtesting was
one of the major selling points for Tradestation, and in my opinion it must
be important for whoever is actually risking money on the systems they
develop?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Johnson [mailto:janitor@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 12:08 AM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Trying to optimise beacktesting but TS doesnt have feature
> 
> 
> Tradestation's predecessor, System Writer Plus,
> did what you want. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bengtsson, Mats [mailto:mats.bengtsson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 1:43 AM
> > To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Trying to optimise beacktesting but Tradestation 
> do not have
> > the feature
> > 
> > I am moving away from an old DOS-based test program called 
> TAS which allowed
> > me to do backtesting on all symbols in my symbol universe, 
> and then optimise
> > paramters on those runs.
> > 
> > Trying to do the same in Tradestation, I have had no luck. 
> This is not
> > supported by Tradestation 2000, and it is not supported through the
> > functions in the developer kit.
> > 
> > So my question to this list is if anyone knows a product 
> that helps doing
> > this? (Describing a system, running it on all stocks in the 
> symbol list,
> > changing some parameters, rerunning the system, ...)
> > 
> > --- Mats ---
> > Cap Gemini Sverige AB
> > European company of the year 1999
>