Denny & Jerrod,
I see the point you guys have made.
Naturally, the more complex buy and sell rules you guys create, the more likely that you guys will need additional features, like check boxes, just to be able to manage those highly complex rules.
Maybe I should use complex buy and sell rules, too. However, currently, I make serious attempts to keep them as simple as possible. I’m concerned about using too many rules, because too many (or too complex) rules mean data mining. And data mining usually leads to high sim returns, but low port returns. And if returns on my ports are low, then why did I go through this whole exercise (of creating complex buy and sell rules)? And, if I didn’t need the exercise, then why did I ask for the additional feature Marco has talked about?
I’m still undecided on this issue. As soon as I have some time, I will run a large number of sims, just to help me decide if I can keep all of my buy and sell rules simple. In my whole life, I’ve always tried to keep things simple.
But I see the point you guys have made.
Robert