My pleasure. I'm encouraged by VP's responsivness in assisting us. Unfortunately the data providers are unwilling to reveal where their data comes from or do much at all to resolve the issue. This limits what VP can do to help us but at least they ...

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I advised Len that the average differences in data discrepancies we are experiencing are not the problem but the anomolies over 10 pips are the real issue. I mentioned that such discrepancies do not occur in the real world with such frequency and ...

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Enclosed is the answer to my query about discrepancies between providers of VP data: ______________________________________________________ Good Afternoon:<o></o> Lane asked me to look into the problem you reported. In short, the prices reported ...

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Data discrepancies — I sent a note off to one of VP's directors and advised him of the issue. Let's see what they come up with. In the mean time each of you could lodge a complaint to your respective providers and ask them about the data ...

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Comparison — Ok so here is the comparison. I've run a few different scenarios through this data but I did not include them in the spreadsheet because they were cumbersome to explain. However the data as it sits I believe to be accurate for ...

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Data — All data from the three providers CSI, GEN, CRB is now in. Thanks for posting it for me guys. I'll post the massaged results in the next day or so. Again thanks for all your efforts. This has been an illuminating exercise. FT

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This put a giant smile on my face. There is no question that "set and forget" has a pretty good chance with VP. For many it will be the most profitable way because some people do a worse job when monitoring than when not. Good trading, FT

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Just a quick question. Are you both using the same data provider? If so that is the most likely reason your results will be similar. After looking at CRB and CSI I'm very interested in also comparing Genesis' history to those two. Dr4x when is the ...

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Hi Deecos, Welcome to this VP forum! Your input is very pertinent to what we are doing here. We greatly look forward to your involvement. thanks, FT

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One of the reasons for data discrepancies may be due to something I noticed in your history spreadsheet. All of the currencies were forex pairs except one. The BP-cash.hst does not have the same identity in VP as GBP-USD cash.hst output file. Now ...

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Please use "formatted ASCII" and "floating point". And just export all the fields since that is easier. Thanks, FT

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Indeed you never know what may have happened when someone goes AWOL on these forums. You're the real goods bb. No Kidding. The things I'm hearing make this a rather big deal and, if the problem is consistent enough should warrant some answers from ...

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Ok so you have an excuse to be busy. We get it. <grin> Thanks a lot for your contribution here. Dr. Wow who are the data providers? 5 to 15 pips is a lot considering that is roughly 5 to 15 percent wrong. Let's try to keep an eye on this ...

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Yes that is an important part of trading this system effectively is to have some sort of trend definition. If you'll recall we elected to leave that out of this test just to see what would happen if we did not define trend. The unfortunate thing ...

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I'd suggest on strategy #1 to scrap the dual targets and just use the median for both lots. That is the simplest strategy and there is something conceptually unstable about using targets that are smaller than the stop losses. Effectively what is ...

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Great. That was the only explanation that made sense. I've heard the answer to that is "no". Anyone else? Good point. The daily range is frequently around 100 to 120 pips with many of the currencies. I'd probably make a minor modification -- if the ...

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Just viewed — Hi Rocket, I just viewed your results from week 1 and have a couple questions: I notice the winners that week were 20 pips and 25 pips and that your stops were 25 pips. Did the 20 pip winners represent the median price where you ...

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Glad to have clarified that point. Thanks. That sounds great. How do we share access to the daily data from each of the participants? I also want to echo BB's gratitude to each of you for assisting this testing experiment. Also special thanks to you ...

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Not at all. If the daily results are recorded for each day you only have one trade per day for each currency for each strategy. That is hardly a jumble. If we don't record on a daily basis we eliminate patterns that may emerge based on day of week. ...

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New Thread — Take note of the new thread for posting results. Please make decisions about what will be posted there, in what format, and what will not be posted there. I suggested using a date format for post titles. That should make ...

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