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General instructions
Run the tester over the specified range of years. Available data
runs from 1986 through 2007 for most screens. You may start at any
month of the year, but other than January can only run through 2006/2007.
Stocks are picked from the screens every holding period (between
1 and 24 months) and held for that period.
Instead of selecting from the available screens, you may choose to
enter codes from any of the backtesters to create hybrid
tests. Simply copy the link listed at the top of a run & paste into the form.
Also see the backtester code guide.
If you want to simulate actual trading, you can enter more parameters in
the trading simulator.
You may give your backtest a name for convenience. If you use this
backtest code in other testers, its name will be shown instead of a full
description.
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"Crystal Ball" Backtest instructions
Choose which screen to select the stocks from. All the stocks from the screen
selected are ordered by their upoming returns for the period in question
(that's why this isn't a real screen). Select a limit of how many of
the best stocks you want to get the return for. A limit of 1 would show the
stock that's destined to be the best for the upcoming period.
Alternately, you can enter more screens, and the Crystal Ball will
choose the best-performing screen for each period (or if a limit is
specified, the top stocks from the top screen). If you check the
seasonal box, it will choose one winning screen for each calendar
month, which the same set of screens chosen every year
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