I have been playing with X_Dev for awhile, went through user manual, etc.
Some questions/comments:
1. How can one adjust Cash Reserved for dividends/distribution paid? As far as I understand dividends are ignored during backtesting... But they could be significant part of cash received. I trade mostly dividend paying stocks yielding >= 10%, and, yes, they could be very volatile and fit the assumptions.
2. The procedure of parameters optimizing described in the manual (set everything to "1", change Lower Band first, etc.) could be easily done by progam itself. Why don't implement an "Easy" button which starts this computerized rough estimate, and let the user to proceed from there?
3. What we are, actually, trying to do here: to maximize Profit/Loss function in Portfolio Summary area, that depends on multiple parametres (some of which are correlated). The recommended sequential procedure doesn't guarantee that one will get even close to "global" maximum. It could be number of local extrememums where we will probably stop most of the time. It would be really great if X_Dev could embed one of "global optimization" algorithms.
... I have a few more questions, but they are even more boring than these ones. :)