Comments on: Vortex indicator

By: Jez

Jez — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:36:53 +0000

the announcement for the 3.4 beta (with all added features) is in the Customer Support forum… so inaccessible to the public unfortunately – I havent seen a release summary on their site…

By: Damian

Damian — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:18:39 +0000

I can’t believe they don’t have walk-forward yet. Is there any place where they announce what is in each release? I’m wondering if they have a major release coming up any time soon.

By: Jez

Jez — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:10:52 +0000

I went through a lot of information this weekend (through Trading Blox forum and user manual) and if I can recall correctly, there are 2 “extra data” fields which could be used to import anything else (including fundamental data) and which are available during simulation. On top of that there is the possibility to import other files during simulation (which I assume could also be used for fundamental data) – I havent tried those myself yet though.

I was also pleased to see that they are working on Walk-Forward in their latest beta (3.4).

As far as I am aware, Trading Blox deals with intra-day data (not so well from comments I read) but I dont think real-time (ie backtest only).

Agree with the info on their website, could be more complete (although manuals are available in full…) – as mentioned the customer-only section (with free code, etc.) really adds a dimension to the forum + info available. Shame you cannot see it before you purchase (although I understand why they do it). I guess the trial (which is full TBB available for a week) is a great way to learn more about the Trading Blox Builder platform

By: Damian

Damian — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:53:45 +0000

Yeah, I’m with you on Tradersstudio – just disappointment after disappointment. Still doesn’t have the new version out. I remember hearing that TBB can now deal with fundamental info (earnings, etc) – can you confirm?

It does amaze me that their website contains basically no useful information on the program.

Does it deal with real-time data at all?

By: Jez

Jez — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:16:55 +0000

Hi Damian, That’s more or less the idea. I wish I had more posts like these available when I was researching which back-testing platform to use. Glad you are finding it useful.
I’ll definitely try to keep the TBB tutorial/demo angle in some of the posts.

One thing to note as well is that I was “mightily” impressed with the richness of information in the customer-only section of the TB forum. I had fun playing with TB at the weekend but I hit a few issues/interrogations, etc. (learning curve stuff). Every time so far, there was an answer for me waiting at the end of a forum or user manual search. Great! (I really dont regret TradersStudio)

By: Damian

Damian — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:44:55 +0000

Great stuff – thanks for giving me a sense of what I’m missing. I hope you keep posting on your progress, because I’d just love to learn more about TBB.