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exploration using a custom period?

Last post 09-08-2009, 21:05 by johnl. 1 replies.
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  •  09-07-2009, 8:52 30622

    exploration using a custom period?

    Tried to use the search but I guess I didnt use the correct keyword because I am certain this have been asked before! :)

    I want to do exploration that calculates correlation between index and stocks using historical timeperiod. I mean I can do the correlation exploration clicking index and then Correl(P,C,250,0). This works fine but now it is using the LATEST 250 days in my database. Can I somehow use other 250 days? For example 250 days in 2000-2001?

    Obviously my main goal is to backtest a system that uses "index-stock" -pair and I need to find index-stock combos that have the highest correlation, for example 2001-2002, and then I use my method 2002-2003 to see if it would have made any money.  Thanks!
  •  09-08-2009, 21:05 30637 in reply to 30622

    Re: exploration using a custom period?


     Maybe try using "OPTIONS" button on bottom of exploration window to go back
     into the data you need.  I've gone back to 1995 etc. when I want to test through the
     2000 tech crash.
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