| johnpaulca 12,036 posts
 msg #113477
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 | 5/16/2013 7:06:16 PM 
 someone bought 118,800 shares at $69.11, he doesn't believe it has much downside to spend that kind of money. I don't have a buy as yet on the 2-hr but it's looking like higher prices ahead.... unless the markets collapse.
 
 
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| Dylan 43 posts
 msg #113478
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 | 5/16/2013 8:16:33 PM 
 Hi - Why am I getting a different equity and entered stocks from the back-test on Page 2 while using the same parameters?
 
 Approach Name: Buy the DIP
 Test started on  2012-12-31 ended on 0000-00-00, covering 83 days (12-31-12 to 4-31-2013) 5 max open position.
 
 Exit used: ROC(7,1) above 2
 
 Filter used:
 
 S&P 500
 ROC(7,1) crossed below -2
 ROC(80,1) above 20
 close above MA(200)
 
 Trade Statistics
 There were 50 total stocks entered. Of those, 45 or 90.00% were complete and 5 or 10.00% were open.
 Of the 45 completed trades, 35 trades or 77.78%resulted in a net gain.
 Your average net change for completed trades was: 1.81%.
 The average draw down of your approach was: -3.26%.
 The average max profit of your approach was: 3.46%
 The Reward/Risk ratio for this approach is: 4.22
 Annualized Return on Investment (ROI): 61.99%, the ROI of ^SPX was: 38.25%.
 
 Equity Summary
 Starting Account Value: $100,000.00 Fees per trade: $8.95
 Ending Account Value: $114,645.47. Cash: $11.25 Market value of holdings at end: $114,634.22 (paid: $116,060.47)
 Realized gain/loss: $16,519.22 ($367.09 per trade.)
 Total Commissions Paid: $850.25
 Unrealized gain/loss: $-1,426.25.
 
 Exit Statistics
 Stop Loss was triggered 0 times or 0.00% of the time.
 Stop Profit was triggered 0 times or 0.00% of the time.
 Trailing Stop Loss was triggered 0 times or 0.00% of the time.
 You held for the maximum period of time (0 days) 0 times or 0.00% of the time.
 An exit trigger was executed 45 times or 100.00% of the time.
 
 -thx
 Dylan
 
 
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| Kevin_in_GA 4,599 posts
 msg #113479
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 | 5/16/2013 9:36:41 PM 
 Look at the equity per trade - I held it at $20,000 per trade .  You probably just said to hold only 5 positions max.  That allows for progressively larger bets to be place, and a higher overall return.
 
 
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| Kasmodean 2 posts
 msg #113522
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 | 5/17/2013 4:10:32 PM 
 Hey Kevin,  Thanks for all your help!
 
 I have one question if you don't mind.
 
 How did you test all 7200 cases so fast??  Do you use another program?
 
 
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| mahkoh 1,065 posts
 msg #113524
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 | 5/17/2013 5:35:48 PM 
 
 
 
 According to help section the "draw line at" command generates horizontal lines in the indicator pane, but in this case I get a bunch of blue vertical lines in between the price and indicator panes. Is there another way?
 
 
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| four 5,087 posts
 msg #113526
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 | 5/17/2013 8:54:28 PM 
 kasmodean,
 
 He used [Stratasearch]
 
 
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| Kevin_in_GA 4,599 posts
 msg #113528
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 | 5/17/2013 10:12:32 PM 
 The lines draw fine if you are using Flash charts, but only the -2 line shows up in the HTML5 charts.
 
 SF - please confirm and fix if possible.
 
 
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| mahkoh 1,065 posts
 msg #113530
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 | 5/18/2013 1:42:46 AM 
 Kevin, I think you refer to the charts that pop up when you click on the symbol in the filter results?
 I'd like to see them as well in the original results.
 I think I do recall another thread where you accomplished this in some way but I cannot find it anymore.
 
 It really is a pain to have to create workarounds when Stockfetcher makes a change to their product.
 
 
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| stockfetcher 980 posts
 msg #113531
 | 5/18/2013 8:09:35 AM 
 Kevin,
 
 Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This problem has been resolved.
 
 mahkoh,
 
 
 For a number of reasons, we are dropping support for flash charts in the results. We hope to offer an html5 solution in the near future.
 
 Best Regards,
 StockFetcher
 
 
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| mahkoh 1,065 posts
 msg #113541
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 | 5/18/2013 7:17:10 PM 
 Thanks for the quick fix.
 
 My reason for wanting to implement these two lines is to see how the ROC value oscilates between entry and exit as I found the filter to have pretty large drawdowns, especially during difficult periods for the market.
 I was looking to see if there might be an improvement there by changing the entry from crossing below 2 to the ROC moving up for the first time after having crossed below 2.
 
 
 
 
 It's a mixed bag; underperformance when both filters perform well, but somewhat better when both perform poorly.
 What surprised me is that this filter has about 50 % more trades than the original.
 I have not done extensive backtesting on this yet as being a regular SF subscriber I can only test 4 month periods at a time.
 
 
 
 
 
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