Adding Strategies to a Strategy Group
A strategy is used in Portfolio Maestro by adding it to a Strategy Group. To generate a useful analysis, you must have both an entry strategy and a matching exit strategy. (Some strategies may include both entry and exit components.)
- Select the Manage Strategy Groups icon.
- Click the Add Strategy button. The Add Strategy dialog is displayed.
- For EasyLanguage strategies, select the EL Strategy tab.
- Select a check box next to the desired strategy to add it to the strategy group. More than one strategy may be selected; however for it to be valid a strategy must have both an entry and an exit.
- Click OK when finished. The strategies are displayed in the Contents panel.
Strategy Pairs
More than one strategy may be selected; but to generate backtesting results, your strategy groups need to include strategies that generate a both entries and an exits.
Example
If you select MovAvgCrossLE entry, you could use MovAvgCrossLX to exit. Acceptable entry and exit pairs are:
Entry Type | Exit Type | ||
Long Entry | LE | Long Exit | LX |
Long Entry | LE | Short Entry | SE |
Short Entry | SE | Short Exit | SX |
Short Entry | SE | Long Exit | LE |
Reminder: a strategies in a group must trade during the course of the portfolio backtest to produce usable performance results.