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Add buy & hold comparison to backtest results
An important issue for me is always would I be better off trading this system over this time frame vs buying the market. Please add a buy & hold equity curve for the SPY or VVC to the backtest results to help with that evaluation.
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Add portfolio setting
Add custom portfolio setting for new BackTests. It exists for a quick test, where it is largely irrelevant.
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the ability create user defined backtester signals in addition to of C/UP, GLB, DEW, etc
It would be powerful to create our own backtester UP and DOWN signals instead of using the existing VV signals. The VV signals are good but it would be nice to use the DEW UP signal AND some other technical signal.Or as an example a cerrtain candle located 20% below the 20ma.
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BackTest breakdown: After running a backtest over several confirmed ups, I'd like to be able to break it down into each specific c/u
I recently ran a backtest from 1996-2016 covering 58 confirmed ups. In order to see the graph of each confirmed up individually, I had to run each test individually. Could a feature be added to BackTester that would allow any individual backtest, likely based on date, to be seen individually?
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2 votes
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stop criteria using rule parameters
Use the rule parameters to trigger the Stop Criteria in BackTester; when the rule is selecting the top n number of stocks, and during the test period a stock no longer meets the rule parameters. A simple example would be Select the 10 top stocks sorted by Price descending, and trigger a sell when a stock no longer conforms (is not in the top 10) and buy the new top 10 stock to replace it.
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Short-list of Best Perforing Searches for Different Market Conditions
With hundreds searches, newbies & others need a short-list of best performing searches for different market conditions and trading-investing styles. Even with current categories, there are often a myriad of searches and a daunting task for new subscribers and other subscribers to wade through the long list of searches, as well as decipher the cryptic search descriptions.
VV HQ has both the expertise and back-testing systems to perform tests to find the best performing searches and create a short-list (1-3) searches for different market conditions, as well as styles of trading-investing.
Our local user group is often asked so what…
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CREATE A STOP CRITERIA THAT IS BASED ON A PERIOD OF TIME SUCH AS 1-WEEK
If we were able to use a period of time as a stop criteria for the back tester we could rebalance our portfolio on a weekly or monthly basis with the current top stocks from a search. Any stocks that dropped from the top ten list would be sold and new replacements would be purchased from the current top ten stocks in the search.
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Add a "tightening stops" function to the backtester.
Hi. Quite often, when the market is about to head lower, the folks who give the Daily Color Guard presentations talk about tightening up your stops. However, the backtester doesn't allow for this option, other than doing it manually, which would be really tedious for any extended length of backtest. In addition to Buy Long, Sell Short, Go to Cash, or No Action, it would be extremely helpful to have the option of tightening the stops on what's currently in your portfolio. Thanks!
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Integrate color guard timing recommendations in backtester or allow nested timing signals
When using the longer term timing signals, I would like to be able to tell the backtester to not purchase new positions when the shorter term signals are down. For instance, if using the confirmed calls timing system I'd like to not purchase positions when the primary wave is down even though the confirmed call is still up. It would be nice to be able to do this in any combination of signals, but certainly we should be able to simulate the color guard recommendation (which seems to be in large part based on the primary wave).
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Provide a printed list the on and off dates of confirmed calls, primary wave, DEW, etc.
This would give us the ability to back test many ideas that may not be in VV by using EXCEL or other software. I'd like to back test ideas like going long at a DEW buy signal and sell at a CC sell signal. If VV has that ability please let me know.
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Make Back Tester use Price - Actual for split stocks
Seems like it would be more accurate if VV7 back tester used Price - Actual instead of price for stocks that have split.
Would have to add fields for actual close, open, high, and low price so that VV7 could get an actual average price (Next Day’s Average) or actual open price (Next Day’s Open) for back tester.
Example: Low priced stocks that have split have a higher price but the price actual is the actual low price of the stock before it split. Back tester uses the higher split adjusted price when calculating initial cost. In most cases this…
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Allow different timing signals for entry and exit
For instance; conservative entry at C/Up and quicker exit at DEW down. I notice that the C/Dn allows too much loss
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Backtester - Market Timing / Direction
When back testing an idea be able to say I only want to buy if the market is up on a particular day. This would be in a confirmed up condition. If it was a confirmed up condition and the market was down on a given day, I might want to refrain from buying on that day. Same for a down market - I might not want to short on an up day.
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Simple or weighted MA stop criteria
It would be great if we could use a simple or weighted MA for stop criteria in our back tests. If it were set up just the way it is in the graphs you could select either simple or weighted, and then adjust the days to match the moving average you were wanting to test.
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Run autotester like the VectorVest stock challange -- buy Monday open and sell Friday close
Select a unisearch and turn off market timing
Have autotester buy stocks on Monday at open
Have autotester hold those stocks for one week and sell on Friday at close
Then repeat those steps for the time period chosen for the test -- at least a few years.
This is how the VectorVest Stock Challenge works.
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Use the genius to back-test our present portfolios.
This would give us a way to see "what if" we had our present positions and as the price hit our stop criteria we replaced it with a stock from the Uni-search list.
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Improve Limit Repurchases Setting Feature and Wording
The Limit Repurchases settings needs to be improved:
1. Improve the feature:
Currently: it will simply not repurchase any stock in the number of days whether you had a loss or a gain. The Wash Sale rule only applies to losses.
Future: allow the limit repurchases of losses only in the number of days. There is no need to limit repurchases of stock with gains. better still, make a checkbox for each and users can choose.- Improve the wording: Currently: there is confusion amongst subscribers and support staff about the wording "Don't repurchase the same stock for 30 days after…
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