Traders' Roundtable

To do custom blox you need the Builder edition. Many people start with the Professional edition since you can drag and drop different entry/exit/portfolio/money/risk blox into a system. It's a great way to get started with this system building backtesting discipline. But to do the custom ranking you...

Hi Seraphim, Welcome to the forum! I'm sure you will enjoy it. In Trading Blox we have a sophisticated Portfolio Manager block that allows a system to rank all the instruments in the portfolio every day by any criteria. What this means is you can create your own custom "relative strength" ...

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Hi Geoffrey,

Welcome to the forum!

Tim

What I would look for is new settings and preferences in the new version, that might default differently than you expect. The smallest change to any setting in the backadjusting algorythm used for your data will affect your test results in a snowball (snowball down a hill, not thrown) type manner.

Yes, there is an extensive Trading Blox forum and Blox Marketplace available to customers.

If you are using our forex files, or forex files from CSI to do the futures currency conversion, you don't need to check the reverse conversion checkbox.

If you get data from other sources, that may be reversed, you would want to check the box.

Some customers use external text editors to create blox, they are just transparent xml files in their raw form. Setting up the parameters, indicators, and variables would be easier in the TBB editor since it is all just point and click. The code is just text, so that is fine either way. The tough pa...

The TBB blox basic code is comprised of various parameters, indicators, variables, blox, and scripts. You need to create the systems from within TBB, since they are all interconnected to the outerloop of execution.

Maybe it's not either/or -- one may serve a different purpose than the other... Just a thought.

And if we can help in any way to get your black box system onto Trading Blox, please let us know. More than happy to assist.

Hi mike168, I can't speak for Tradersstudio, but I can give you an update on your first two questions. 1) VeriTrader is no longer available. The new version is now called Trading Blox Professional. This product has all the features of VeriTrader plus many more new enhancements. 2) When Trading Blox ...

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Yes. The CSI stock volume data is in 100's.

Barli,

Yes you need continuous contracts generally to trade long moving averages. With a product like CSI UA you can create these files easily, and with a plethora of backadjusting options.

Tim

Yes, it's New Years Eve -- what are we doing on this forum ?!?!

Thanks for sharing, Marc.

I'm certain you will find the right person for you -- best of luck with that.

Happy New Year!

Tim

Great point, Sluggo, thanks for that. I keep to the usual US suspects for the benefit of our customers that don't have access to world futures in their CSI subscription. But perhaps your point is that we should do more to encourage our customer base to pay a few extra bucks for the data, and look be...

Hi pakua42, Keep the questions coming -- best way to learn! I've attached the results for a test run of the Triple Moving Average system on 28 futures for 2005, using a variety of parameters and assumptions. The value of this information is limited, as you have no way to verify for robustness withou...

We could change the commission to be per share one way.

We could also change the per ticket cost to be a minimum instead of additive.