RE: user error?

["vk" <volker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am confused... if you were using the same setting for both software than
you should get the same result, no?

vk

-----Original Message-----
From: altroad1212 [mailto:altroad1212@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:40 PM
To: vk
Cc: 'Omega-List'
Subject: Re: user error?

vk, I was using the same commisson/slippage (not zero) for both.... as 
soon as I changed the amount to zero for both it works like it's 
supposed too.  Thanks!  No telling how long it would have been until I 
figured it out.  Soooo... in fact it was the dreaded User Error!



vk wrote:
> Commission and or slippage settings?
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> vk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy Snowden [mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:32 AM
> To: altroad1212; Omega-List
> Subject: Re: user error?
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> Using TS2ki.
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> Jimmy
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> I must really be brain dead... at the very least it must be a case of 
> user error.  Can someone tell me what obvious thing I am missing?
> If I have a simple system that loses 100k, shouldn't it make a profit of 
> 100k buy changing the Buy to Sell, and the Sell to a Buy?
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> This example is a loser on the chart I'm looking at:
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> if c > average(c,50)
>  then buy on close;
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> if c < average(c,50)
>  then sell on close;
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> If I reverse the buy and sell signals in TS2k, it still is a loser.  But 
> if I reverse the entry signals in Metastock it is a winner by the same 
> amount it had previously lost.
>
> What am I doing wrong in TS?
> Thanks!
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