The Equis - Momentum Indicators - Expert System in MS 11 produces good results. It appears to use a 14 bar period on MACD and RSI; however, the Stochasitc is listed only as 5-3, but no period indicated. Does anyone know if this is a 14-bar period for the Stochastic?

I ran back test for 1 year as long-only on grop of my favorites in two ways: the formula as written that requires multiple criteria, and then I copied and edited and then isolated the components and ran agaginst the group aslo with good results. I have a few select N100's but mostly hard asset companies.

Thanks Justin. This is helpful. I realize now in reading your response that my question is more complex than I had thought. Because the system - esp the Stochastic subset - tested well on several stocks, I wanted to test it against some systems that I was also successful using previously. Unfortunately these are only availalbe outside of Metastock (they are proprieatry systems on Thinkorswim platform - namely Persons PPS). Thus, I went to Thinkorswim to set-up something parallel to do simple comparisons to the TOS system. I thought this would be s iple comparison since Stochastics are on all charts. I was able to set (Fast, Full, or Slow) Stochastics as 5,3 but the customization also asks for period and the default period is 14 on the TOS chart and 10 on the Prophet chart. Do you have any suggestions for these settings to make something comparable? As I am sure you have experienced, it is great to find a system you like but even better when you can compare it to something you have used in the past. Unfortunately when they are on different platforms and some are proprietary, it is frustrating to be so close to a good test! Any suggestions would be helpful if you can.

Good suggestion Mark. I was using the 1 year to narrow the field down to a few test to keep chart from having too many indicators. Now that I have narrowed the field, I can run a more robust test. So Far I like the Equis CCI (14 period; however, I got good results on 5 period too.), and I like the RSI as already mentioned as well as the Williams %R and Stoc 70/30 that came in MS11. Three questions remain before I start the bigger test: 1. Any suggestions on adequate length of time (I think it asks for periods and as you point out I put I used 250)? 2. Any thoughts on my formula question to make something comparable? 3. I found some good back testing research on using Money Flow Index but could not figure out how to make it a formula so posted that separately. Thanks for helping me to do a better job on the testing! Much appreciated.