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  1. Please make the "pending orders" list exportable (via copy/paste; print, email etc.). I know I can use the snipping tool, but that's far from convenient. I'd like to get a list of the next days trades that I can take to work to execute the next day or email to my broker for them to execute.

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  2. Currently we can use preset timing systems where each part of the timing system is programmed. Example: GLB RT Kicker up signal is matched with a C/Dn down signal. A useful facility which would add flexibility, would be to allow the user to mix and match different components of a timing signal. For example, user might want to test the results of GLB RT Kicker Up signal, combined with a DEW down signal. Another Example: DEW Up signal matched with a C/Dn down signal. User could then create tests using these timing system component combinations to see which combinations work…

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  3. Currently we have the ability to group backtests. But when you have a long list of backtests (I currently have over 500), it can take a long time to find one. So a useful feature would be a filter where user can search by 1. name (user types in a word and the filter finds all tests matching) 2. start date , the application will automatically find the bactests grouped by this start date (so user doesn't have to scroll up and down to find the required date) 3. end date (same logic as for start date).

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  4. I think it's a great idea to run backtests on an RT kicker combo strategy "S&P500 Stop Asc/Contra ETFs", and list this as a model portfolio and include it in the Daily Color Guard discussion. This is important since we are not allowed to short stocks in an IRA account, but are allowed to buy contra ETFs.

    5 votes

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  5. Many, many users have discovered that rerunning backtests at a later date can produce different results -- sometimes radically different. We need to be able to automatically record the date of the run. It is really inconvenient to have to put this in the description field, which is length-limited.

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  6. In the Back Testing page allow the user to move Backtests into folders in order to store and organize. This will allow the user to store their results for the future without having to sort through hundreds of back tests. Also along with this allow the user to share their back tests with other users.

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  7. I am trying to use autotest to automate my buy/sell decisions. The tool would be more useful if you could update the recommendations with the actual shares and prices rather than the next day open or average depending on the option you have selected.

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  8. The AutoTester checkboxes for "Close any position when entering this situation" are not sufficient, when the signal includes a Neutral phase.

    When checked... When the signal transitions Up-Neutral-Up, positions entered on the first Up signal are closed on the second Up signal. This is also a problem, and unrealistic, for Down-Neutral-Down transitions.

    When unchecked... Transitions from Up(Neutral) to Down will not close long positions. Transitions from Down(Neutral) to Up will not close short (or long Contra) positions.

    A more realistic behavior is to close positions which were entered during the opposite signal. When the signal is Up, allow (optional) closure…

    10 votes

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  9. Backtest menu when grouped such as upsearch, Consider saving my settings. Everytime I sign on I have to select the upsearch and sort by my preferred sorting. this is a bit of a time waster.
    I'd like to sign on and see my backtests saved as I set, (ie., upsearch then sorted by either name or %GL)

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  10. There is a bug in backtester. When I step the test period forward one day at a time It does not detect a CDn and does not go to cash. If I back up a few days and then let it calculate forward those few days all at once it does detect the CDn and goes to cash.

    Ed Koehler

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  11. to have the abiltiy to use multiple entry and exit criteria such as entering with primary wave or exiting with dew and other combinations

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  12. Currently only "canned" buy/sell signals can be used, i.e., GLB, GLB/RT, DEW, and CC. For example, right now the HUI "Gold Bugs" index cannot be backtested because there is now way to tell the backtester to buy when the 10 day moving average on the HUI stop price moves about the 65 day HUI stop price MA, and sell when it crosses below.

    Some other backtesters allow this. For example, years ago I used Omega Research's Tradestation 2000 on which any buy sell signal could be encoded by the user.

    Giving people this flexibility may pose problems for your current…

    17 votes

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  13. Unisearch is a very strong platform for selecting stocks for a portfolio. However in the backtester, the options for selecting which stocks to sell is severely limited. The ability to create custom stop criteria integrated with backtests & autotester would be a powerful expansion of the Vectorvest tool.

    42 votes

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  14. The power of technical analysis to generate timing signals is not as strong as it could be. Note that DEW is the top contender for the ETF challenge and GLB/RT kicker is just emerging as a strong signal. In the case of the latter, using confirmed down as an exit signal is not as strong as it could be.

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  15. Currently we can step into the market by opening X positions per day until we reach total positions. I would like to add the option to delay X days before executing this logic. In manual testing of the DEW signal I have greatly reduced Max Drawdown using a delay while maintaining good gains.

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  16. Add a Transaction Type column to all reports in Auto BackTester to show the reason for each transaction listed. Show Stop Loss Actions like Met Stop X% Gain or Met Stop X% Loss etc. Also Show Timing Signal Changed to C/Dn or C/Up or Neutral depending on Market Timing Signal used for Backtest.
    Overall I want to know what triggered the transaction.

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  17. 2 votes

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  18. Make the Neutral Signal smaller and/or C/Dn signal larger or otherwise rearrange

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  19. Add the following conditions to the BackTester/AutoTester Platform upon set-up before the backtest starts to run.

    Ability to select condition upon either Entry or Exit :

    1) Comparing the MTI value (such as MTI > 1.0)
    2) Comparing the BSR value (such as BSR > 1.0)
    3) Comparing the RT value (such as RT > 1.0)
    4) Compare the color of the VV-Price value (such as color <> Red)

    So for example, a backtest can be set such as buy when MTI > 1.0
    and sell when the MTI <= 1.0

    Using this VV indicators to determine entry and exit,…

    22 votes

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  20. Allow MTI to be used in Backtester as a timing Indicator AND also allow MTI value to be used as a STOP

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