Tracking the Solution Service

The TradingSolutions Solution Service is most useful when it is updated at the end of each trading day. This allows you to see the current actions recommended for each of the sample stocks and use that information for when analyzing the next day’s trading. The service is typically updated by 7:30pm U.S. Eastern time.

Updating the Solution Service

The Solution Service can be updated by pressing the Update Solution Service button, by selecting Update Solution Service from the File menu, or by selecting Update Solution Service from the context menu for a Solution Service group in the Portfolio View.

Ä    Note: Your computer must have access to the Internet in order to update the Solution Service information on your computer.

The following information is updated in TradingSolutions when you update the Solution Service:

·      Stock Data

The data in each of the data series currently included in the Solution Service is updated to the most recent data. Typically, only new data will be imported. However, if a stock has not been updated for over a week, a stock has split, or an error in the data has been corrected, the entire data series may be updated.

Ä    Note: If the data for the stocks in the Solution Service is updated from another source, the data associated with the Solution Service may not be imported. If this data does not match the data provided by the Solution Service, different results may occur.

·      Service Signal

Updating the data series associated with the stocks in the Solution Service will result in any calculations for those stocks to be updated. This includes the signals that are designated as the Service Signal for each stock.

Ä    Note: See below for information on analyzing the Service Signal.

·      Solution Service Notes

NeuroDimension will occasionally provide commentary about the stocks and models included in the Solution Service. These notes will appear in the Information View for the Active Solutions group and the data series in that group.

·      Trading Solutions

In order to calculate the Service Signal, each stock in the Solution Service uses a trading solution. These solutions may be updated from time to time to provide better signals.

The following changes may also take place when you update the Solution Service:

·      Solution Service Groups

The first time the Solution Service is updated, a Solution Service group will be added to your portfolio with an Active Solutions subgroup. This Active Solutions subgroup will contain all of the stocks that are currently being tracked by the Solution Service. In addition, the Service Signal will be added as a display field to this group.

·      Previous Solutions

When stocks are no longer tracked by the Solution Service, they are moved to a secondary Solution Service subgroup, called Previous Solutions. If this subgroup does not exist, it will be created automatically.

Analyzing the Service Signal

The Service Signal is a special signal designation that allows TradingSolutions to mark one signal field as the signal being tracked by the Solution Service. It has the same capabilities as the Primary and Secondary signal designations, but can only be set by TradingSolutions and is only available for data series in the Active Solutions group.

You can have the Portfolio View display an analysis of simulated trading of the Service Signal. To do this, right-click on the Active Solutions group and select Modify Display Fields… from its the context menu. This will display the Modify Group Dialog: Display page.

The Modify Group Dialog: Display page includes a list of Common Display Fields that can be added, under which the Service Signal is listed. Expanding the Service Signal entry shows the following entries:

·      Service Signal

·      Current Value of Signal

·      (Create an analysis of this signal…)

Ä    Note: If you have previously created analyses of the Service Signal, they will also be listed here.

To add a new analysis, select (Create an analysis of this signal…) and press the Add to Display button. This will display the Create Signal Analysis Fields Wizard. From there, you can create analyses of the Service Signal, including percent gain and percent of winning trades for a given time period.

&  For more information about special signal designations, see Primary, Secondary, and Service Signals.

&  For more information on analyzing signals, see Analyzing Entry/Exit Signals.