only a few trades record

[clm1966]

When running the MACD Crossover default exploration, even though I have 500 stocks with 5 years of data, only around 35 trades record. I have 1998-fall2003 and only trades in the last 2 months are recording.
I had this problem when I first installed and managed to get past it by reinstalling tradesim. I have MS7.2 on a win98 machine. I had the tradesim 4.1 dll and tradesim3.4 both working fine. Unfortunately I had to reinstall windows, Metastock and tradesim. Since then I cannot get tradesim to record trades over all the data. I have run all the windows updates I can find. I have reinstalled tradesim several times, uninstalling first and deleting any remaining files.

I also start the exploration by deleting the existing "MACD Crossover" trade database so the record trades function can start with a fresh database.

EntryTrigger := Cross(MACD(),Mov(MACD(),9,E));
EntryPrice := CLOSE;
ExitTrigger := Cross(Mov(MACD(),9,E),MACD());
ExitPrice := CLOSE;
ExtFml( "TradeSim.Initialize");
ExtFml( "TradeSim.RecordTrades",
"MACD Crossover", { Trade Data Filename }
LONG, { Trade Position Type }
EntryTrigger, { Entry Trigger }
EntryPrice, { Entry Price }
0, { Optional Initial Stop }
ExitTrigger, { Exit Trigger }
ExitPrice, { Exit Price }
START); { Recorder Control }

Same error is occuring with other explorations.
Thanks for any ideas,
Chris

[David Samborsky]

Hello Chris

I have seen this problem and it is more to do with Metastock than anything else.

First thing to do is to delete your trade database file and try regenrating it again.

Also Check the Explorer options for the data length. Make sure it set for 5 years ie 1250 records. Also you may have the periodicity set to Weekly rather than daily.

Check the Explorer report and also check the TradeSim ErrorLog after you have run a trade database exploration for more information.

[clm1966]

David,

That is it. On the explorer like you suggested, clicking options button,
opens the explorer options dialog window. There click load ### records where load minimum records was selected before.

BTW, 3.4 is really good. I like the frequency distributions as well as the database loading speed.

Many thanks,
Chris