I'm serious ... No really ... I need some input there :D Before August 15 2005 ... Patrick :mrgreen:

:lol: Thanks Jose for your list. Patrick :mrgreen:

I'm going to automatically assume that you have already compiled the existing 50 topics in the Wish List forum. I don't know of anything else at present. :D

Not to mention real tools for systematic traders - such as a trade manager that allows to compare walk forwards of a system to results from backtests. I'm doing this in excel (that's why I brought up the wish for an export function) but if MS had this capability this would be a huge shift towards professionalism. Maybe this could be an Enterprise version ;-) Just my two cents, FWIW. :-) Martin

1. Some sort of simple trade manager, that ideally is able to send the data to Quicken/ MS Money. 2. System optimizer/tester: a. An output that just gives small results graphs that can be viewed say ten or twelve to a page. Then be able to select the graphs for a summary (which in turn has the same ability, so you can perform a "grand summary"). Then be able to page through the results quickly and kee the interesting ones. Then make this part of the "clean-up" Rather than completely deleting the entire optimization, keep the selected results and delete what's not needed. b. An interactive graph of results, on which you can drag the mouse cursor over a span of dates to get a summary of the results for that time span. Thus one set of parameters for a bear market could easily be compared to another set of parameters that did better during a bullish period covered in your results. This can be more quickly extracted from the current data than to run the test with each time span. c. Use percentages instead of dollars. Such things as a maximum loss of $8000 is actually quite meaningless compared to a maximum loss of 8%. This $8000 could be at the start of the timespan and represent 8%, or it could be toward the end where it might be 4%. I'd be more interested in percent shifts than $. 3. Experts that can display more than one symbol/tick. ie a go-long arrow on the same tick that has an end-short arrow. Plus additional symbols that can warn about a full moon if so desired. 4. Experts (formulas) that can switch to another security. Thus when my energy stock goes down, sell it and buy chemicals; switch between pro-funds, etc. 5. User formulas that can take and pass variables just like the built-in indicators. The optimizer also must be able to process these as "OPT1" etc 6. While we're on the subject, the optimizer should be able to take a much larger system. It should AT LEAST be able to take any expert that can be written, drop it into the optimizer and select the variables to be optimized. 7. Scrap it all and use a Vis Basic or Pascal language. Much, much more easy to debug, and still simple enough for anybody that can use the system you use now.

The system tester ought to be able to handle trading mutual funds in my 401k: no commissions, no minimum balance, 100% goes to buy or sell.

No problem Martin, thanks for the feedback ;) :D I don't mind criticism as long as it is constructive and done politely. Patrick :mrgreen:

Or at least 64K - this is a must-have in this post-DOS age. I don't know how I could forget to include this important point in my whish list. Importing formulae into MetaStock has become a nightmare - surely it would not take much effort to bring back the formula folders in MS v7.xx? And whilst we are here, how about bringing back the "select folders" (not individual securities) function in the Explorer? This has been the source of countless headaches for MetaStock users. jose '-) http://metastocktools.com .

Or maybe a function in the language like AmiBroker's PlotOHLC, which allows to plot a custom OHCL chart... I guess some people would be able to find some use to that one ;) Patrick (aka Nag) Edit: I forgot to mention the possibility to plot lines of different colors within the same self defined indicator...