With a little bit of fiddling the Signal Repeat setting for certain indicators can really improve the strategy's statistics.  I guess that is because indicators may not be perfectly synchronized -- but if they give signals within a few bars of one another then that is still good enough to get good results.

Thank you, footon...

It isn't directly involved with adding. If adding is chosen in the strategy properties for same direction signal and all indis of a strategy give a signal, then adding takes place.

Signal repeat cannot be a strategy feature because it is dealing with an individual indicator(s). If repeat is set at 10 and at bar nr 20 it gives a signal, that same signal gets repeated in next 10 following bars as per setting.

Just to be clear:

1. This is not adding.  This is opening a new trade, right?

2. Even if only one indicator has Signal Repeat greater than 0, then as long as the other indicators give a signal then a new position gets opened, right?   And if that is the case, why is Signal Repeat an indicator setting -- shouldn't it be under 'Common Options' since it seems to apply to the strategy as a whole and requires all indicators to be in agreement.

Adding takes place if it is set up in strategy properties. In signal repeat example everything stays the same - if there's overall buy signal (all 3 indis confirm a buy or a sell), trading goes accordingly.

As I experiment a bit with Signal Repeat then I can see that a number of indicators can be influenced in a positive way -- such that the statistics improve quite significantly.

But I'm not really clear about the implications.  Is this sort of like adding to my position but in an artificial way?  I suspect not because Signal Repeat applies just to the indicator, not a strategy as a whole.

Suppose I have 3 indicators and only one of them has Signal Repeat greater than 0.  When the one with Signal Repeat signals a buy then what really happens?

Using Signal Repeat on Momentum indicator got a result with profit almost 6 times greater than what I had before.

NBar was 6 (Nbar does not have Signal Repeat as it is exit)

I have a really simple strategy , I am not satisfied with it yet, but the Signal Repeat certainly enhanced it

Thanks!

I will try that...  I have not used that in the past, I will take a couple from the Multitester results and see what I can make happen

Thanks again for the idea.

I wonder if we need to have a group of nbar indicators, ie 5 6 7 8 9 etc...

or one that the range is say  5 to 15 and another that is 15 to 30

or one that is 5 to 40

I am looking at the results of Multitester and see that it has  several different results for nBar, I am wondering whjt may be a right approach.  What would be most efficient.

Better to use Signal repeat function.

or one that the range is say  5 to 15 and another that is 15 to 30

or one that is 5 to 40

I am looking at the results of Multitester and see that it has  several different results for nBar, I am wondering whjt may be a right approach.  What would be most efficient.

I have no idea what this will end up as, I will let it run for a few hours and see what develops.

Of course the mutitester will change the results, I will have to see what happens... maybe have to exclude them from the multi tester.

You have raised an interesting issue.!

And if you don't mind my asking -- do you also use TP when using 'N Bars Exit'?  Or do you rely solely on the indicator to close the trade in your favor after N bars?

Sometimes 18 does a nice job on daily.......... I learned that from the Multi testerer results.

I didn't make any supplemental copies yet, but I would make for 5 10 15 20 25.

Only reason I did not do that is that I did not take time to learn how LOL

However, I think I'm still missing something.  When back testing with about 8000 bars and N Bars set (by the generator at 1023) the resulting chart and statistics show hundreds of trades.  And 'N Bars Exit' is the only closing logic.  With N Bars set so high I would expect 0 trades -- yet, trades are still closing.

Ohhh - you know what?  A light bulb just went on.  I think I know why the trades are closing -- I always use SL and TP in 'Strategy Properties' and those are creating the close signals.

I wonder -- is it possible to add either another statistic or visual cue that shows the proportion of trades that close using SL and TP?  Right now I can't tell whether my closing logic is really smart or actually doing nothing.  In my case I guess it really wasn't doing anything -- but I'll fix that by following Blaiserboy's and Popov's advice.

Thanks...