I used Omnitrader for about 3 months. I noticed that the program "Optimized" the trades. It would trigger a buy signal for a symbol, for say Jan 15, then if the stock price went up slightly the program would "optimize" the trade by going back to Jan 11 and show that the buy signal occured at a lower price on the 11th and not the 15th! I asked the people at Omnitrader if I could call my broker and get the lower price of 4 days ago, well Omnitrader does it, can my broker do it also? I am getting my $295 back from Omnitrader in two weeks, enough said. My question is this: Does Metastock "Optimize" trades also? Or is it honest?

Lets get a few things out front about trading, we all trade or invest for one thing, MONEY. when it comes to money , the two emotions that affect us is FEAR and GREED. Now comes the hard part, YOU HAVE TO WORK FOR IT! Everybody wants the easy way out, JUST FORK OVER THE MONEY. So you buy a software package that shows fantastic EQUITY CURVES. In a few short weeks or months, I'll be on EASY STREET. Unfortunately, you do not spend the time to do the research to follow up on the software and this great system. All software developers have to make great claims of Equity Curves that shoot through the roof. Otherwise you wouldn't buy it! How those profits were derived is a guess. Do they take a trade from the highs and lows, Peaks and Troughs, Zig Zag, trade the close of the signal bar or the open of the signal bar? SYSTEM TESTING A SYSTEM SHOULD BE WYSIWYG ! What you see is what you get, no suprises! APPLES TO APPLES,ORANGES TO ORANGES In Metastock, you can create an expert for this system, but now when you want to test it, Metastock gives you plenty of tricks to puff up those EQUITY CURVES with the SIMULATION FUNCTION that only work in the SYSTEM TESTER. SIMULATION FUNCTIONS DO NOT WORK IN EXPERTS OR EXPLORATIONS! It is ludicrous to give yourself false hope when trading. You have to deal with the TRUTH, the hard cold facts, no gimmicks! Set RULES AND STICK TO THEM, MAKE SURE THAT YOU USE STOPS! STOP DREAMING ABOUT THE EQUITY CURVES

Highlights long A:=RSI(18)=Trough(1,RSI(18),14); B:=RSI(18)=Peak(1,RSI(18),14); State:=If(BarsSince(A)<BarsSince(B),1,0); State=1 Short A:=RSI(18)=Trough(1,RSI(18),14); B:=RSI(18)=Peak(1,RSI(18),14); State:=If(BarsSince(A)<BarsSince(B),1,0); State=0 Symbols Long entry A:=RSI(18)=Trough(1,RSI(18),14); B:=RSI(18)=Peak(1,RSI(18),14); State:=If(BarsSince(A)<BarsSince(B),1,0); State>Ref(State,-1) Short entry A:=RSI(18)=Trough(1,RSI(18),14); B:=RSI(18)=Peak(1,RSI(18),14); State:=If(BarsSince(A)<BarsSince(B),1,0); State<Ref(State,-1) DO NOT EVEN THINK OF TRADING THIS SYSTEM Try and figure it out?

Now if I were dishonest, I could password protect this system and sell it as a black box system. Please no hint's!!!

I posted this expert to show how easy it is to create misleading systems. The use of Peak and trough functions are dynamic and the last leg of the swing will change , thus making this type of system useless! I repeat DO NOT TRADE THIS SYSTEM!!! As for my favorite system, I use a 3 bar net system which I have not posted on this forum.

Henry - Are you willing to post your system either publicly or privately? -- Keith