as you know, richard arms has a book called 'trading without fear'.... programs such as meta can help in the fear area also by assisting us in developing systems based on thought not luck..... the 19 period moving average is so close to the 20, it almost seems that the 2 should pay nearly the same.... but often that is not the case..... it would also appear to apply when the buy trigger was crossing some level, such as stoch crossing 15 or 16..... being so close they should pay nearly the same, again often thats not the case..... many times the best paying opt values are all over the board and if we change the period or security being tested the best paying opt values often change also...... which would lead us to believe there is an invisable luck factor in the equation..... now if were to develope a system based on a sound idea, the best values should be in a narrow band,...... where 4 pays nearly as well as 5 which pays nearly as well as 6....... it perhaps would give us the leeway to trade without fear, or less of it anyway.... then we would not be so dependent on a cold set number but rather a comfortable warm range of numbers..... that system must be based on thought , not luck..... when running system test returning hundreds of thousands of results, it far more efficient to first run the quickie test..... then focus on the returned results to run the full test on..... nothing likes to be overworked, which includes meta...... if it's a long test and your gettin antsy, you can view the incomplete results while the test is running..... h