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by alfaman
Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:49 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: By What Measure? - How do You Know if a System is Good?
Replies: 84
Views: 101220

Your idea is a good one for sure. The only problem is that if I show a twenty year equity curve (a data set that most in this forum deem a minimum), the scale would make the first 4-5 yrs appear flat, unless a logarithmic illustration is used, whereby the lake would be meaningless, at least visually...
by alfaman
Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:36 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: By What Measure? - How do You Know if a System is Good?
Replies: 84
Views: 101220

What is a reasonable value for Lake Ratio

I have been evaluating several long term trend following systems using a multitude of qualitative criteria. Most systems show strengths in different areas as one would expect. Following on the thread of this forum, I too find the MAR measure extremely narrow in focus. I do however like Seykota's Lak...
by alfaman
Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:48 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: CSI Data and Negative Numbers
Replies: 4
Views: 4812

Thanks for the reference to the TR board. I saw that post and apparently it is written in PERL, which is Greek to me, and frankly I don't feel like learning Greek at this point. I guess the raise out of negative option is the only road, and that results are going to be the same. It would be nice if ...
by alfaman
Tue Jul 20, 2004 3:33 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: CSI Data and Negative Numbers
Replies: 4
Views: 4812

CSI Data and Negative Numbers

I hope this is the right forum for this question. My question is regarding the elimination of negative values in CSI for use w/ TR(or perhaps another testing platform). I can see that in CSI UA the "raise negative series" option on the back-adjust function does eliminate negative values, b...