Post #608 by RAMc on the Mechanical Investing board

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Jim:
I'm thinking about adding a "pick" program to generate the currently passing tickers. However, I'm a little hesitant, because if there are any bugs, then it will generate erroneous output

Mark:
Couldn't output be compared against RunRadis as a check?

I think a pick program would be the icing on the cake for your backtester!
And I agree with Mark that users could use the Excel based RunRadis program to compare results. Any differences could be analyzed for errors.
No one could fault your open source program freely given to them with any malice. One of the advantages of open source programs is the users have the ability to analyze and fix errors in the programs.

Thanks for all the effort you have put in to this.
Again wish my hacker backtest code looked as well structured as yours.

RAMc

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