kmcintyre Elite    Posts: 890 Joined: 10/11/2012 Location: Portland, OR  User Profile | I'm definitely one of those in the camp Mark first mentioned - waiting for the new tools before I spend a lot of time chasing the holy grail (again). I did a lot of work with v1 when all we had were canned RTM strategies. It was valuable and definitely sold me on the OV concept. But it was simply too time consuming (for me anyway) to keep turning the crank when the product was in such a state of flux. Besides, the work I had done offered enough promise that it was worthwhile (IMO) to watch the portfolios work for a while, while monitoring new OV features at a "survey" level. The big piece I'm waiting for is Portfolio Wizard. I particularly hope it includes the ability to solve for user-defined OScript formulas. My sense is that OV is very close to another quantum step in performance. I'm very excited at the prospects. I'm also very thankful to Ed, Steve, Mark, Jim, and others who keep posting such valuable and informative posts re. their experiments. Very encouraging... My only apprehension to date is that the real world has not rewarded me as well as my v1 testing portended. Steve's last post rings so true. The market is not based on scientific laws and certainly is not as predicatble. For me, robustness is very high on the list of metrics I care about. Unbelievably good CAR metrics that indeed prove unbelievable with the passage of time make for an entertaining journey, but not necessarily a highly profitable one. So Cheers! to a new round of tools, another hunt for the perfect compliment of tuning parameters, and another year of monitoring the results! Let the grail chase continue! Keith | |
