Currently I am using the wizard, but I will go on to coding them myself when I am more familiar with NT.
- If I have a strategy analyzer window open and have run a backtest, then wish to tweak the strategy, it seems that if I use the wizard to edit the strategy, all open strategy analyzers will not see the changes. I need to kill open strategy analyzers and reopen them for them to see the new code. Simply running the backtest again will not result in it using the new code.
- Each time I do a backtest, I need to re-enter the backtest parameters (Time frame, data series type daily/weekly etc). This is highly annoying when coupled with issue (1).
- When using a data series set to "week", bars always end on a friday. Is there a way to change this?
- All my backtests use US dollars, even when the instrument they are using is set to GB Pounds. Is there a way to change this?
- Is there a way to add date information to the Trades tab in the backtest result? Some way of telling what date it opened and closed a position would be nice without having to go to the chart and figure it out.
- Is there not a way to easily select various date ranges for backtests? For example, it should be easy to select a desired time frame, and have the application automatically select the appropriate time range for you based upon the "Data Series Type" (Daily / Weekly etc) and "Min Bars Required" settings.
For example, let us say I wish to backtest 2013 with Weekly data and my MinBarsRequired is 1. Some easy way to select the last week of 2012 (Thus satisfying the data for MinBarsRequired) plus the whole of 2013 would be nice.
When answering these questions, if the issue is a non-factor when writing code manually, please let me know as it may well be worth just ditching the wizard.
TIA
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