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Dr. Kochs 8% Dip Buyer on ESRX
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What's New?
Sept 29, 2020
  • Quantacula Studio Build Q217 released, with a new Broker Interface so you can use the Signal Hub to place trades to your TD Ameritrade account.
June 27, 2020
June 13, 2020
  • Introducing the Quantacula Stock Screener! You can screen the entire US stock market using finely detailed custom screening criteria created using our drag and drop Building Blocks. Save and publish your favorite Screens with the Quantacula community!
May 13, 2020
  • Quantacula Studio Q211 released, with a useful new feature that lets you save and quickly load Indicator Sets in your charts.
May 8, 2020
  • We added a new Model Ranking page, with all of the Published Models run against the same Q100 Universe and using the same backtest settings.
New Forum Topic: Strategy sends always orders to Signal Hub
Q DrKoch wrote 8 days ago

... even if the strategy runs on historical data which end months ago.

I think a strategy should send orders to Signal Hub only if the order is created for a recent bar.
(e.g. the last available bar is less than 5 days ago)

New Model: Combined Tester
Published by saravanan 15 days ago

You can buy the automated system at my website vspuzzler.com

APR: 4.12% • Win Rate: 52.50% • Sharpe: 0.88
New Screen: RSI Pinpoint
Published by Q Glitch on 6/6/2020

4 consecutive down days, and the RSI(14) turns up after having been in oversold territory within the past 3 bars.

New Forum Topic: TD Ameritrade
TDMan wrote 1 day ago

I wonder if there is a broker adaptor coming for TD or Etrade?

New Forum Topic: Exception in Optimization
Q DrKoch wrote 8 days ago

I get this Exception:

New Screen: RSI4 Crosses RSI14
Published by Q Glitch on 8/7/2020

RSI4 crosses above RSI14 while RSI14 is oversold.

Jacob Amaral - Algo Software Review Quantacula
Published on 5/28/2020
New Forum Topic: Sequence of Calls to UserModelBase Model Executuon Functions During a Backtest
Q DrKoch wrote 5 days ago

I wondered when and how the model execution functions of UserMofdelBase are called during a backtest.
To get a clear picture I wote the following C# Coded Model, which sports all model execution functions:

New Forum Topic: More Results in Metrics Report
Q DrKoch wrote 8 days ago

Is it possible to add my own Statistic (e.g. Result Value) to Q's Metrics Report?
(Like a Sharpe Ratio based on daily returns for example)
Is there an API for this?

New Forum Topic: Web Model Backtest Spinning forever
taylortree wrote on 6/17/2020

Does anyone experience their backtest just spinning forever using the web version? It spins with every model (personal or published). At some point the problem appears to self-resolve - but haven't found a pattern as to why.

New Screen: RSI Oversold Turns Up
Published by Q Glitch on 5/27/2020

RSI (20 period) turns up from oversold level.