RE: [GT] usability enhancement of scan.pl and sig-sys descriptions

["Weigert, Thomas" <weigert AT mst.edu>]

The backtest scripts use a system file which contains "full system
names", i.e., statements of the form
  SY:TFS|CS:SY:TFS|CS:Stop:Fixed 4|MM:VAR
for example.

I have never seen a system file used in scan.pl (albeit it is
supported), the examples I am aware of are using signals only. 

The code loads a system and extracts buy and sell signals to use in the
scan. Looking at that code it appears that the same system descriptions
are used.

Th.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert A. Schmied [mailto:ras
AT
acm.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:47 PM
> To: devel
AT
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> Subject: [GT] usability enhancement of scan.pl and sig-sys
descriptions
> 
> i believe that there are no other gt scripts (Scripts/*.pl) that use a
> scan.pl type system_file. if that belief is true, then i've found a
> simple
> (relatively) alteration to scan.pl (and sig-sys descriptions) that
> allows a user to 'name' or 'id' a sig-sys description however they
> please. in addition, existing unmodified sig-sys descriptions will
> continue to work just as they do now.
> 
> (humm -- possible that the backtest scripts also use same type of
> system_file.
> in that case, changes might be needed to these scripts (backtests) to
> maintain compatibility and/or add similar enhancements. i don't use
the
> backtests so i've not looked at this.)
>