A Simulation Suite embodies a complete group of settings for a simulation. The settings include which systems are part of the simulation, the parameters for each system, and global parameters like slippage, commissions, etc.

Trading Blox's Simulation Suites let you work on different trading ideas at the same time. For example, you might have one suite that contains the settings for the systems you are currently trading, and several others that contain settings for ideas and ongoing research.

The current Simulation Suite is specified in the Suite List Area:

Selecting another Simulation Suite will replace the contents of the System List Area and Edit Area with the editors corresponding to that Simulation Suite.

You can create a new Simulation Suite by selecting a Simulation Suite and then pressing the New... button or selecting New Suite... from the Suite menu. This will copy the parameters and settings from the currently selected Simulation Suite and bring up a dialog for entering the name:

The dialog allows you to create a new suite with a different name. Selecting OK will create a new suite with the name you specify. This new Suite will contain the same settings as the Simulation Suite that was selected when the New... button was pressed.

You can delete Simulation Suites by selecting one and then pressing the Delete button or selecting Delete Suite... from the Suite menu.

You can rename an existing Simulation Suite by selecting it and pressing the Rename... button or selecting Rename Suite... from the Suite menu.

Locking Suites

Simulation Suites can be locked which will disable all editing controls for the system parameters and settings. This will help prevent inadvertent changes to a system.

To lock a Simulation Suite, simply press the Lock button.

or select Lock Suite from the Suite menu.

When a Simulation Suite has been locked, the button changes to an Unlock button which can be used to unlock the Simulation Suite. Similarly, the Lock Suite menu item changed to Unlock Suite when the current suite is a locked Simulation Suite. Note that this does not prevent changes to the system or the blox, so to truly lock a suite a second copy of the entire Trading Blox folder should be used. An example would be for production order generation where changes could be disastrous.

The Walk Forward Suite can be used to walk forward test any system.

This process uses the measure of goodness as defined in preferences, so the measure can be a custom statistic combination of many goodness measures.
 
1) Set the Run (Index) parameter to step from 1 to 5, step 1. (Or more as needed)
2) Set the Optimization Run parameter to step true to false. (Required)
3) Using this suite, select your chosen system and set your optimization parameters to step as desired. Can step just about any parameters in your system, except dates.
4) Set your start and end dates to make sure you have enough data loaded to complete the walk forward test, given the parameters. Only data loaded between the start and end dates can be used for the test. A Jan 1 start date works well, since the end date for the  yearly option is hard coded to Dec 31.
5) This will likely be considered a large simulation run, so turn on all reporting for the large simulation run, and turn off the multi parameter graphs.
 

Further discussion on the process and options can be found here:

http://www.tradingblox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7323

Or visit the walk forward section of the manual.