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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: platykurtic ✭  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Strange Behavior
Date: 10/27/25 8:44 PM
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I've hit this quite a bit. It mainly appears when I'm doing a lot of exploration around a particular screen idea & occurs when I investigate deeper ranks that the initial exploration runs.

As mentioned it appears that the GTR1 server is selecting / 'hitting' the cache and so finding no data for the 'more equities' part of the runs and so reports a whole lot of zeros. The solution is to usually wait a few days & then continue. I've also started running deeper than I'd initially expect to use a screen & then proceeding with shallower runs - that usually works OK.

And sometimes I've found that the enforced 'break' to deeper exploration is a slight benefit as when I return to the work I get the further benefit of fresher eyes.
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