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Nope. Just read through the materials that they send with it. Several PDF files of strategies and what they are based on. Added indicators to my charts to match what was in the manuals and wasn't impressed with the results.
When Sharkindicators folks had this on sale, I purchased these packs mainly to further my knowledge of using Bloodhound. IMO, it was worth it since I was able to understand and see how some of the solvers I have not used in the past actually worked in action.
Si provided workspace templates for these packs as a daily time frame. I tried various other time frames and was able to get profitable backtest results on one or two of these packs using uniRenko bars. (Yes, I know, one has to code exits properly to get the uniRenkos to backtest properly). Not yet to the point where I would trade with real money yet though, still tweaking.
this morning i've watched some intro-videos to get familier with bloodhound. But i've haven't seen anything about backtesting the created strategies? Is it not possible to backtest the new created systems with the common NT backtest + optimizing engine?
Is there really only one result value (-1 to 1) from the system? I would need additional values for stop- and target levels and so on.
In fact, there is no selled winning system in the world. But i don't meant any "ready" systems, i don't know the the company is selling any systems too.
My question targets the development process of strategies with Bloodhound. It seems that you can't produce full backtestable NT strategies as the result of the buildung process. You can only visualize your signal locations. That is, what i've seen so far.
Back testing is accomplished using NT Strategy Performance feature and/or doing Market Replay. I use both methods. You will not be able to optimize using NT Strategy Analyzer's Optimize feature however. To optimize, one will have to manually change Bloodhound solver parameter values via trial and error. That's how I do it at least.
As far as targets and stops are concerned, these are accomplished using Blackbird. One can also use Blackbird to trail stops, among other neat features.
Hope this helps.
Blue skies,
PilotTrader
P.S. Best way to figure out if Bloodhound and Blackbird will work for you would be to take the SharkIndicator 30-day free trial offer, IMO.
P.S. BTW, Bloodhound comes with a strategy called 'SiRaven'. With SiRaven, you will be able to backtest your Bloodhound templates where you can set entry parameters (i.e. market entry, limit, etc.) and specify fixed stops & targets, and limited Stop Loss trail. However, IMO, serious traders would really need to get Blackbird functionality to be able to trade optimally.
Thanks PilotTrader, for help me with that question. I think i don't give them a chance, because it's not fully integrated. It doesn't make sense to me to release 2 products to get one thing done.
You misunderstand the products. They are entirely different functionally...Bloodhound allows you to create "solvers" based on indicators, and code sophisticated logic between indicators to enable your strategy of entering and exiting trades. This is all accomplished within a visual programming interface. Blackbird does all of the trade management functions once you are ready to put on a trade. Very different capabilities. Watching the Shark webinars hosted by NinjaTrader will clarify those differences for you. They are fully integrated with one another.
Thanks Geoff, i've get it now. It's still not my product, because my system development is more complex. So i also need the trade management parameter in an early stage.
will be great if BH developer clarify more aspects about parameters and modification I will to do into my custom indicators to get full working into BH system we are interested really to migrate our algorithms to BH software but we need to know the guide to fix some indicators source code to get ready into BH there is no way clear for me yet if we need provide public methods to draw functions or classes to get the signal available to Bh or giet visible using other parameters into BH or source code im developer and i wanna know it before try it as solution.