Is it possible to do a system test that uses forward looking criteria, to look for commonalities in days with larger gains and losses? Something like

long entry:

c<ref(c,1)*1.05

(and c<> various moving averages etc)

Tried it but got goose eggs..
thanks
:)

Again, the Users Manual discusses the Ref() function:  using a negative value will look into the data history and using a positive value will look into the future data.

Of course, looking into the future cannot be traded in real life, and its use in a system test should only be to do some sort of hindsight based statistical or other analysis.  Use with caution.


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Oops, there was another error causing my non-results; thanks for the help!