The Reporting General section of the Preferences dialog sets general reporting preferences:

 

ReportingGeneral

 

Reporting Folder

Determines the destination folder for the HTML reports that are generated by Trading Blox when you run historical tests.

 

CSI Unfair Advantage Folder

This is the folder in which CSI UA is located if you have it installed. This program is optional, but the location is used when building the Stock Dictionary on the Data Folders and Options Preferences page.

 

Large Test Reporting Threshold

Sets the number of distinct parameter combinations (or runs) which determines the cutoff between a Small Test and a Large Test (see the next section Report Content Specification for more details). In the above example, tests with 8 or less distinct parameter combinations will use the settings for Small Tests, test with 9 or more distinct parameter combinations will use the Large Test settings.

 

Days of results and orders to keep

Set the number of days of historical results and orders to keep in the Results and Orders folder. Defaults to 90 days. If you set this value to 30, Trading Blox will delete any results files and order files that are more than 30 days old. This will be done on startup every time.

 

Play Sound when test completes

Turns the test completion sound on or off.

 

Graph Closed Equity

When checked, the closed equity line will be graphed along with the open equity in the summary results graph. If left unchecked, the closed equity will not be graphed.

 

Show Results for Order Generation

If this box is checked, the test results for the test run prior to order generation will be displayed. If this is unchecked, just the order generation report will be displayed. Default is unchecked.

 

 

Measure of Goodness Index

This is used for the Multi-Parameter chart and the Parameter Stepping Graphs. This can be a number between 1 and 8 to use built in statistics, or a number greater than 8 for custom statistics. The numbers represent the left to right index of the Summary Statistics for a test as follows:

 

1 -- End Balance

2 -- CAGR

3 -- MAR

4 -- Sharpe

5 -- Annual Sharpe

6 -- Max Total Equity Drawdown

7 -- Longest Drawdown

8 -- Number of trades

9+ -- Custom statistics

 

Scaling

Enter the minimum and maximum value for the multi-parameter graph. Enter zero to have the chart auto scale.

 

Base Currency

Enter the system wide base currency to use. The default is USD.This is the currency that all market results will be converted back into. You must have a forex pair in the Forex Data Folder to convert back from any foreign futures or stocks, back into the system wide base currency.

 

Base Currency Symbol

Enter the symbol of the system wide base currency to use.