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General instructions
Run the tester over the specified range of years. Available data
runs from 1986 through 2009 for most screens. You may start at any
month of the year, but other than January can only run through 2008/2009.
Stocks are picked from the screens every holding period (between
1 and 24 months) and held for that period.
Instead of selecting from the available screens, you may choose to
enter codes from any of the backtesters to create hybrid
tests. Simply copy the link listed at the top of a run & paste into the form.
Also see the backtester code guide.
If you want to simulate actual trading, you can enter more parameters in
the trading simulator.
You may give your backtest a name for convenience. If you use this
backtest code in other testers, its name will be shown instead of a full
description.
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Occasional Overlap Backtest instructions
Select a set of overlaps, including screens,
ranks, and a limit of stocks.
An overlap may also be marked F for the freshmen
rules to apply.
Marking S will skip the #1 resulting stock in any months where more
than one stock is picked in that particular overlap.
Each overlap is tried in order. If any stocks are picked for that overlap,
they will be the selections for the period. Otherwise, the next overlaps are
tried in succession until one is picked (or all are exhausted).
If there are months without any stocks picked, an "effective CAGR" will be
reported, which is the return including only those months that had
selections.
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