318 results found
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Color Guard display for Date Line or Crosshair marker graph
Add a tiny Color Guard display (just the three colors) as you move the Date cursor or Crosshair cursor across a graph. This would help in backtesting or figuring out why a stock went with or against the general market.
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add backtesting of certain times. ie run search at 10am of search and see what it did hours later
Allow backtesting of times not just end of day data. I want to do a search at 10 am and see what the stock did minutes or hours, days later. not just end of the day.
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Add Average win per trade, average loss per trade and resulting profit factor.
Example: If the average win per trade is $300 and the average loss per trade is $100 then the profit factor is 3 ($300/$100).
Knowing that info helps us evaluate the value of each strategy.
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exchange back test settings
Export / Import a back test. Right now, a user has to post summary page 3 or in some other way communicate the back test settings so other users can duplicate the results. Having a file that users could share would be much more efficient.
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intraday stop
The application settings backtester option unchecked Simulate Intraday Stops does not work. When building a new back test the Simulate Intraday Stops is checked.
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After copying an existing back test allow the user
After copying an existing back test, allow the user to change the $ or % of each holding and create a new test. This would be useful for testing new ideas particularly for buy and hold investors, such as retirees.
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Export/Import of Backtest Strategy Ideas
By allowing the export and import of backtest strategies would these strategies be shared or just archived.
The same successful backtest strategy could be used on one or more VV regions (UK, Europe, Australia, Canada).
These backtest strategies could be posted in a separate area (perhaps this forum) for other users to use and improve upon.
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Bug - Cannot access a backtest error window if anther window is open.
I had the graph layouts window opened while running a backtest and an error occurred. I could not access the backtest error window to click on the ok button because it opened behind the graph layouts window. I could see that the backtest error window was open when I hovered over the VV icon on the Windows Taskbar. Had to close VV using the Task Manager.
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Backtesting: Provide an option to exit positions prior to earnings for those of us who do not hold positions into earnings release dates.
Provide a trade management option to exit positions prior to earnings dates for those of us who do not hold positions into earnings release dates. This would make the back-test more realistic for us that exit prior to earnings. Thanks
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Improvement of stop criteria (RT)
Right now your stop criteria for RT is set to a firm "<" criteria. The problem is that this assumes that everyone using VV is trend trading. But, if I want to use Low/High swing trading, then it could be valuable to set RT criteria to STOP when it is ">=" x.
For example, if I want to buy a stock when the RT is low (maybe crossing above 1) and then sell it when RT reaches 1.10. That would be a very useful stop.
so really, the user should be able to set whether they want > or <…
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Back Test that uses timing signals to select stocks
At this moment it appears that there is no way to run a backtest that will start with only a cash position and select stocks based on a specific timing signal.
Customer support tells me that I have run a back test using a set of stocks and enter trades myself.
Moreover I cannot seem to be able to identify which stocks would have been chosen when a timing signal criteria was satisfied.
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Create a stop loss on portfolio value, not just an individual stock. Ex: if portfolio, goes down 10% +, go to cash. Re-enter on signal
Create stop loss for a portfolio, not just stocks in portfolio. This may help reduce drawdown.
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BackTest based on actual Portfolio holdings
BackTest while using Portfolio inputs. Need capability to use the entered data from portfolio to run tests from different time periods. Meaning if my portfolio was built in 2010 - 2012, I want to test various time period combinations from 2010 to present using actual purchased data, not generic inputs. This keeps my backtest results more accurate based on current asset weighting.
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Backtest report software improvements
The Trade History report is available from the Reports icon at the top of the screen, but not in the menu displayed from a right-click on the back-test row. Easy to fix!
The printout file of MyBacktests does not include the ‘Timing List’ column shown on the screen.
‘Timing List’ is quirky, how about Timing Regime or Timing Signal, or 'Market Timing'?
Would be very helpful for MyBacktests include the Stop criteria as this is one of the most common 'what-ifs' people run, I have observed in user groups.
The Trade History is currently exportable. MyBacktest and Transaction reports should…
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Software bug in Backtester
In VV7 Backtester It is difficult, if not impossible, to reproduce the "Easy Rider" strategy as demonstrated in the 3 Easy Rider videos of 2011 (VV6 was in use at that time).
The problems are:
1. It is only possible to setup Long or Short trades and not both unless Market Timing is checked (Easy Rider requires both Long and Short trades and does not require Market Timing).
2. Once Market Timing is checked it is necessary to elect one Search in the setup process which persists throughout the strategy run. This frustrates selecting the appropriate searches from the Derby…1 vote -
BackTester results grid sorting is slow when results are grouped
To replicate the problem:
Create 100+ backtests
Group the results (e.g. by Start Date)
Click a column header to sort (e.g. by % G/L)
The UI freezes for several seconds while it sorts the results grid.1 vote -
When I try to print my backtest results, I can't get the results to print on one page. If I could select columns to print that would fix it.
If I could select the columns I wanted to print, or reduce the width of a column, I could then get the results I want to print all on one page rather than having the last two columns on the next page.
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backtesting
I have been using the Back test facility for some time now and would offer some observations and comment that I feel might improve the understanding and use of this tool.
There is a possibility that members could be confused between the terminology of a HOLDING in a portfolio and the number of positions within a holding.
You use the term POSITION in the MORE SETTINGS tab where I think you mean HOLDINGs
…When the options are positioned NOT to restrict further investments in a company, multiple positions can arise in one HOLDING. A breakdown of the portfolio clearly shows
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