318 results found
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Add dividend stop criteria to backtester
Add an option to stop criteria such as "hold for X days". Where 'X' would typically be 30/60/90 days. This would allow for backtesting against a strategy that was focused on collecting dividends.
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2 votes
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Make Backtest Commission more robust
Interactive Brokers charges 0.005 per share with a $1 min per trade and a max fee based on purchase amount. Your price per share field only goes as low as 0.01 and no max or min inputs.
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Backtest - Multiple STOP Criteria
Allow for combination STOP criteria - example: 30% Gain and/or 15% TRAILING STOP. This is possible in Prographics 6 Simulator but not VV7.
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Run BackTest with Technical Indicators
CREATE A BACKTEST ON TECH. INDICATORS EXAMPLE MACD RUN A TEST TO SEE HOW MANY WINNERS IT HAD ON A PARTICULAR STOCK AND TIME PERIOD MAYBE THAT AIN;T THE RIGHT INDICATOR FOR THAT PARTICULAR STOCK MAYBE A RSI WOULD WORK BETTER SO YOU SEE IF THE RSI WOULD WORK OR MAYBE ANOTHER INDICATOR UNTIL YOU FIND WHICH ONE PRODUCES THE BEST RESULTS
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Allow full charting capabilities on Backtested Models
Since Dr. D said there is NO model which will work all the time, it would be nice to be able to chart trendlines and use other market timing tools on the model's performance chart to help determine when it's time to abandon that model or start using it again.
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Add 'pain threshold' to backtester options
the pain threshold would allow users to set a threshold for max drawdown. Once their overall portfolio had declined by x% all positions would be closed to prevent extreme losses.
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Multiple Stop criteria-Back testing
Allow users to have multiple stop criteria when back testing. Have all stock, sector and industry factors available to select from.
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Better clarification is needed for the Backtester “Customized Trading System” rules for “Stop Criteria” of the “Trailing Stop” feature.
Better clarification is needed for the Backtester “Customized Trading System” rules for “Stop Criteria” of the “Trailing Stop” feature. Specifically, better wording is needed for the relationship between the 2 kinds of stop criteria:
- Trailing Stop percentage and
- Gain or Loss percentage
The current wording says that the Gain or Loss is “optional” (provided 1 or 2 percentages are entered). New wording will to indicate that condition 1 or condition 2 will satisfy the stop, whichever occurs first. Not only should the wording be enhanced, but an enhancement of the display of the 2 features at the bottom left of…
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Add new backtest grouping: Group by Unisearch.
This would help the user to see under which conditions a search is optimal. It could also be used to compare results to the existing grouping by timing system.
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Backtests should include the subscription costs of VectorVest version and plug-ins being used.
Commissions are accounted for in VV back testing, but not the cost of using the VV data. The last webinar had a 5 1/2 year backtest w/ $4500 worth of commissions, but no impact on results from VV costs of anywhere from $3000 to over $12000 depending on version and plug-ins. Could these costs be added to the Back Tester?
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I would like the auto tester to give a choice to autom add funds to any green light you're using, whether it's confirmed calls etc., to see
I would like the auto tester to give a choice to autom add funds to any green light you're using, whether it's confirmed calls etc., to see how it would work out for periods of time. Say I'm using the conf calls, and I started my portf with 10G, when I'm setting the backtest, I'd like the system to be able to add $200 or whatever amount of your choice or no amount to whenever a green light confirmed call came, to see how that would play out over a period of time. I thought that would be a good…
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Allow Backtest to be Re-Run on Search Change
If a backtest is completed, and the search parameters/sort is modified, the backtest is not enabled to be re-run (Finish and Rerun). Some change must be made to the backtest parms, or a complete BT copy must be made.
Sometimes, I am able to manually re-run to the start date, then push the Run To bar to the end date. This tends to produce execution failure messages.
It seems that a back test defintion would know the last update timestamp of its currently selected search, and treat that as a re-runnable change.
Other than that, a brute-force Rerun command would…
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Add delisted and bought out stocks
Vectorvest does not contain historical information for stocks that we're traded but are now delisted. For example, try to find circut city (CC) in the historical database. For backtesting purposes it seems that this would be pertinent info. For example, screens that were run 5 years ago would show different results than the same screens run over the same time period today because today's database no longer contains some of those stocks.
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Allow use of Watchlists in Backtester
I would like to create lists of stocks (watchlists) that I could then use when running Backtests, instead of Backtest selecting from the entire universe of stocks.
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Include dividend Yield in Backtests and Portfolio Growth
For my long stocks I would like to see an option in the Backtest as well as the Portfolio that automatically calculates the Dividend Yield and re-invests that yeild into the stock. I believe this will more accurately portray my portfolio and backtests, especially in my long searches/tests.
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backtest improvements
I would like to run a backtest where it takes profit (closes trade) at an exact percentage of profit and where it will take a stop loss at end of day price or opening of next day price. I see huge differences here between the stop loss and the take profit percentages over a year long backtest.
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