Hello Tony

Attempted to contact Mike Mayo last week without success. Thought the project may have expired so glad to hear the two day trial is still available.

There is no doubt CIRA is inferior to TRB (GTSi) but the cost comparison compensates. The integrity of the back test results compared to PPPro is a worry. Don't know what to think. (Data sample difference?)

What version is CIRA up to now? Does it have the TAB update screen working as anticipated February last?

TIA

Using version 1.03. January 2002 is as recent as data gets and no, no sign of TAB update screen.

Sounds like it may have drawn the last breath.

How does the parameter/filters settings that are available with CIRA stack up against PPPro? When I had a look at PPPro it didn't appear nearly as comprehensive as either CIRA or TRB software.

PPPro has nearly all the things I would be interested in. There are no end of extra parameters covered in this CIRA program, and winline too from your experience, but to my quick perusal I think most are so pedantic and specialised as to be maybe not too long term relevant. ie Easy to make a system that has historically worked with all this stuff, but inversely difficult to make it happen in real time.
The problem with PPPro, apart from my inability to generate profit/time graphs from excel, is that they have only made available a little over 12 months historical SP price data which is not enough to base any thing on.

the killer of all is plain and simple greed.

darkydog2002, couldn't agree more!

Reply to becareful

re: 2. Some systems are developed/sold by people with good intentions who honestly believe they have found a working system but either they don't understand statistics well enough to realise that it will fail in the end...

I agree with the statement that many systems are developed by picking the best criteria from a few years of stats and then are passed off as the best system ever, but please don't imply that that this sort of system would obviously have to be a losing system.
Almost every system has to rely on past stats, specially those that are based on form, because after all, form is based on past results and stats.

[ This Message was edited by: quapi on 2003-01-07 21:01 ]

Anyone that has developed a system on past data, would split the data in half then create the proposed system then run that system on the other half of the original untouched data and compare results....