Recent content by oscar74

Nice to see a discussion going re my question. Thanks for all the replies!

I've been playing with metastock for a few months now - and - having a slight knack for programming - haven't found it too difficult to come up with a handful of systems that appear to have some success. I'm well aware of the pitfalls of backtesting, but: should a system that works well on a...

I wonder if its possible for a system test to reference how long ago the last trade was on that stock? The reason is: If my condition is met, my system buys the stock, holds for 5 days and then sells. If the original condition is still true, I do NOT want to buy again like my system does at...