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Arthur Deco
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 1898 |
01-20-11 08:22 PM
Quote from eSignal Support:
Arthur and Samsara:
We appreciate your efforts to try v11. If either of you are interested in testing new versions of 11 before they are made public, please PM me and provide your email address. You both are obviously well-versed in the use of our product and while you may not have time to give feedback nor want to be "beta-testers", we want to at least present the opportunity to do so directly with us.
Thanks.
Why, that is a very kind offer! How much does it pay? I have loved/hated your product through innumerable versions. But I fear that at my advanced age, death no longer being optional, I may die before it does what I need it to do. And in retrospect, I think some of my bitchiong was overblown, perhaps akin to what my horror would be if my beloved wife, whom I married when I started with you, got cosmetic surgery and came out looking like Joan Rivers.
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Arthur Deco
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 1898 |
01-20-11 08:38 PM
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On a side note, I ALWAYS get XML errors when backtesting. After about 5 runs, the Strategy Analyzer always fails. This is likely due to said 600-line fatass being too much to handle. Plus, recently there have been periods in the backtest where I believe the script stopped running altogether (one bizarre trade spanning 3/20/2010 - 5/21/2010, despite plenty of logic to cover). I'd like to see how it runs in 11, but the core javascript has seriously changed.
I forgot to mention a couple of things. Whatever the fuck the source of that XML error is, how soon it occurs depends on how many samples there are in the BT. When I run 120 days of 390 minutes, it crashes in maybe 50-60 tests.
A stupid suggestion. Perhaps you have code that exits the trade at the close, and on 3/20/2010 in your data set the close was earlier, or missing? I exit a trade at 12:58 PT if not stopped out, and as I don't trade short sessions (holidays), I have code to exclude those days so the trade won't run into multiple days.
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Registered: Jan 2002
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01-20-11 08:39 PM
No direct compensation but for your stand-up skills and product-related feedback, I would be happy to see what I could do for you... you will need to PM me though.
Thanks.
P.S. Anyone considering plastic surgery really ought to check out Ms. Rivers...scared me straight!
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Arthur Deco
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 1898 |
01-20-11 09:01 PM
Quote from eSignal Support:
No direct compensation but for your stand-up skills and product-related feedback, I would be happy to see what I could do for you... you will need to PM me though.
Thanks.
P.S. Anyone considering plastic surgery really ought to check out Ms. Rivers...scared me straight!
Damn! I was hoping to make more money testing than I do trading. There go my hopes for a late life career change. I thank you most kindly for your offer, but losing my anonymity would cost me more than any remuneration you would consider reasonable. I don't want my present to catch up with me. However, I will continue to test the two versions fish-by-fowl and try to post more helpfully. I have an ulterior motive in that by posting publicly I hope you will prioritize fixing first what pisses me off the most just to shut me up. The more I look at it, the more I like it. But then again I had that experience with my first wife.
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Arthur Deco
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 1898 |
01-20-11 09:16 PM
Now it's time to bitch again. The data window in 11 doesn't allow you to hide the names of the parameters being shown. Like you can't hide "price" or the study title. On some charts I like to keep the data window up all the time, so that lack of functionality wastes screen space.
Also sometimes when I left click on a study the software doesn't recognize that it's a study and brings up the menu for the chart, not the study. But I must say that the ability to call up the script directly from the chart and to initiate a backtest from the study pane is great. And the fact that the watch list has the time in seconds saves me screen space and computation because in 10.6 I get the seconds from a scrunched down bare one-second chart.
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