In general I find it very difficult to debug my screens. Whenever I try to write a custom formula I have no way to check the results.
Is there any plan to add formulas in the column set definition?
I voted for your request Sterling. It is very important. Perhaps one reason it has not gotten too many votes up to now is your feature request is very rich and sentance, [color=red]Allow users to see the actual values! [/color], is near end.
Perhaps there are contractural constraints we are unaware of that prevent some values resulting from formulas from being displayed. I hope that is not the case.
I came up with a price/volume Sim that buy stocks after a 2SD down move. Nothing exceptional in terms of returns, but it might be a good base for some of us:
Kurt, I believe it is the case. I have read some old posts by Marco indicating that Reuters would charge a lot more for the data if the data values were actually displayed. In an unrelated thread however, Marco clued me in to the fact that the screener can be used (albeit somewhat clumsily) to check values returned by a formula. You can screen for ticker and formula equality/inequality and then see whether the screen returns nothing or 1 stock.