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Can't Trust OT Signals
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Can't Trust OT Signals
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Diamondjag Legend  Posts: 404 Joined: 3/12/2006 Location: Brighton, Colorado  User Profile |
I then ran a single Focus List with "Current List", "Run List" and "Forced for all signals". That makes no difference. Signals again change when you click on a stock. I'm running this on a weekend. There would be no price changes. After you run the Focus List - no signals should change when you bring up the chart! When they do, this makes the Focus List signals worthless! [Edited by Diamondjag on 3/13/2021 4:31 PM] | |||
| Buffalo Elite  Posts: 603 Joined: 7/11/2007 Location: Braintree, MA User Profile |
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| Jim Dean Sage    Posts: 3433 Joined: 3/13/2006 Location: L'ville, GA User Profile |
Both of you already know about this, I’m sure - but some others may not. One possible cause of this can be improperly coded Systems. Another can be inadequate number of historical bars loaded (depending on the math in the system). And it also can be a fluke in OT’s calc engine. | |||
| Diamondjag Legend Posts: 404 Joined: 3/12/2006 Location: Brighton, Colorado User Profile |
Jim, I appreciate your suggestions. I will give them a look and also see if I can further identify if it's in certain Profiles(I know it's in more than one) or what other clues I can find. This is unacceptable. You can't use the Strategies/Profiles because they give you old signals! | |||
| Barry Cohen Idol Posts: 2305 Joined: 1/1/1900 User Profile |
Since you're running analysis on "All Lists in the Profile", I take it you have multiple lists to analyze, so I have a few questions. 1. Are you using the default My Symbols list? 2. Are you using additional My Symbols lists? 3. Are you using any scans? 4. Are you using any dynamic scans? 5. Is your Focus List's active list set to one of the above lists, All Analyzed, or something else? 6. What timeframes exist in the profile? 7. What is your active timeframe? | |||
| Diamondjag Legend Posts: 404 Joined: 3/12/2006 Location: Brighton, Colorado User Profile |
Thank you for weighing in on this. I got sidetracked with taxes. I found this issue on multiple Profiles but not all. And now...some Profiles that were exhibiting this phenonium are not now. It looked like OT was not pulling in that last days data. I picked one Profile to answer the following questions. Other Profiles would have to be answered somewhat differently. With this information...I think it would be best to wait and see what more I find since some of the Profiles that were exhibiting this problem are not exhibiting it now. In answer to your questions: 1. Default My Symbols? There are 5 symbols under this list. I usually have a few symbols under the Default list - SPY, TLT, etc. 2. Additions My Symbols Lists? I have added two additional lists under My Symbols List 3. Scans? Yes 4. Dynamic Scans - No 5. I generally set the Focus List to "My Pullback Scans Up". This comes from a scan I created...."OmniScan" "My Lists" the "Starting Population" is multiple other Nirvana Lists and my created Scans 6. Timeframe is Daily / Weekly / HA_Daily. Strategies test on the Daily and HA_Daily timeframe. 7. Active Timeframe - Daily [Edited by Diamondjag on 3/18/2021 2:27 PM]  Attached file : Symbols - Scans.JPG (34KB - 543 downloads) | |||
| Barry Cohen Idol Posts: 2305 Joined: 1/1/1900 User Profile |
This is what I would expect with that type of behavior. If you see it again, disable On Demand Download & look at the chart data for different lists. Better yet, add the "End Date for Data" column to your Focus List & then you can easily see each symbol's latest bar of data. | |||
| mholstius Regular Posts: 76 Joined: 6/15/2011 User Profile |
Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but did you state that you’re using your Scans as the “starting Population” for a scan? 5. I generally set the Focus List to "My Pullback Scans Up". This comes from a scan I created...."OmniScan" "My Lists" the "Starting Population" is multiple other Nirvana Lists and my created Scans I thought that using another scan as the starting population for a scan wasn’t possible…??? Did I read your post wrong - or am I wrong Barry? Mark | |||
| Diamondjag Legend Posts: 404 Joined: 3/12/2006 Location: Brighton, Colorado User Profile |
I build Lists "My Lists" using all kinds of scans/lists. When you open up using the "Pencil" icon, in the Starting Population, in the upper right click "Add" then click the dropdown under "Folders" and you can build a "List" using pretty much anything you want. [Edited by Diamondjag on 3/19/2021 7:57 PM] Attached file : Starting Population.JPG (258KB - 195 downloads) | |||
| Buffalo Elite Posts: 603 Joined: 7/11/2007 Location: Braintree, MA User Profile |
I do exactly that - multiple different OS's feeding into one combined OS list on my trading platforms. Several different OS lists feed into one overall OS list. Why? 2 reasons - the combined list allows for final over all filtering and a check on the total number of symbols populating the . 2 - If you're using AT it ONLY analyzes/enters trades against the symbols in the current FL not any others. | |||
| mholstius Regular Posts: 76 Joined: 6/15/2011 User Profile |
My bad – I wasn’t very specific in my previous post. I realize that the option is there to use other scans as the starting population for a scan – I’m just trying to clarify with Nirvana (Barry?) whether they sequence correctly or if that may be contributing to the errors you’re seeing. Ex: OS “B” uses OS “A” as a starting population. What happens if OS “B” runs before OS “A” runs? Then OS “B” would be using an incorrect starting population. Just a thought… Mark | |||
| Barry Cohen Idol Posts: 2305 Joined: 1/1/1900 User Profile |
If OS "A" and OS "B" are both enabled when the ToDo List is ran, OS "B" will use the updated starting population. However, if OS "A" is not enabled, OS "B" will use the starting population from the last time OS "A" was ran. Or you can run the ToDo List to update all scans, but most don't like to do that since it increases the ToDo runtime. This would not be related to David's issue either as data & analysis run as separate tasks from scan updates. | |||
| mholstius Regular Posts: 76 Joined: 6/15/2011 User Profile |
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