Re: user error?

[Adam Hardy <adam.ts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Out of interest, since I'm just looking at my slippage setting and wondering if 
it's too much ($50 per round-turn), what level do you use?


Adam

altroad1212 on 17/07/08 01:42, wrote:
> Yes, you're right.  But I wasn't using the same setting on both 
> software.  I should have been more clear.  The 'both' I was referring to 
> was two strategies in TS, not both software... but you had no way to 
> know that.  Before I realized what was wrong, I had created two separate 
> strategies to help me eliminate any errors I might be making. 
> TS was using comm/slip, while Metastock was using zero.
>
> vk wrote:
> > I am confused... if you were using the same setting for both software 
> > than
> > you should get the same result, no?
> >
> > vk
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: altroad1212 [mailto:altroad1212@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, 
> > July 16, 2008 6:40 PM
> > To: vk
> > Cc: 'Omega-List'
> > Subject: Re: user error?
> >
> > vk, I was using the same commisson/slippage (not zero) for both.... as 
> > soon as I changed the amount to zero for both it works like it's 
> > supposed too.  Thanks!  No telling how long it would have been until I 
> > figured it out.  Soooo... in fact it was the dreaded User Error!
> >
> >
> >
> > vk wrote:
> >  
> > > Commission and or slippage settings?
> > >
> > > vk
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jimmy Snowden [mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, 
> > > July 16, 2008 4:32 AM
> > > To: altroad1212; Omega-List
> > > Subject: Re: user error?
> > >
> > > Using TS2ki.
> > >
> > > Jimmy
> > >
> > >
> > > I must really be brain dead... at the very least it must be a case of 
> > > user error.  Can someone tell me what obvious thing I am missing?
> > > If I have a simple system that loses 100k, shouldn't it make a profit 
> > > of 100k buy changing the Buy to Sell, and the Sell to a Buy?
> > >
> > > This example is a loser on the chart I'm looking at:
> > >
> > > if c > average(c,50)
> > >  then buy on close;
> > >
> > >
> > > if c < average(c,50)
> > >  then sell on close;
> > >
> > > ----------
> > > If I reverse the buy and sell signals in TS2k, it still is a loser.  
> > > But if I reverse the entry signals in Metastock it is a winner by the 
> > > same amount it had previously lost.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong in TS?
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
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