Wealth-Lab FAQ

General

Why are there no Current & Past Data Sets showing?
How can I speed up a strategy backtest in Wealth-Lab 6.9?

Help

Where can I get help on using Wealth-Lab?

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Why are there no Current & Past Data Sets showing?

You need to have an active subscription to Norgate Data at the Platinum or Diamond level to be able to access Current & Past watchlists. If you have recently upgraded, please make sure you have run an update within Norgate Data Updater. You'll also need to restart the Wealth Lab app.

How can I speed up a strategy backtest in Wealth-Lab 6.9?

• In Wealth-Lab 6.9, limit the Data Range of your backtest:
  
  
• In addition, if you are using Wealth-Lab 6.9, you should consider upgrading to Wealth-Lab 8. It has the ability to your CPU to its maximum extent through multithreading.
• If you are backtesting against many securities (such as index constituents), it doesn't make any sense to calculate the buy-and-hold across all securities in the DataSet. Instead, set the Benchmark Buy & Hold to a specific symbol, for example $SPXTR (S&P 500 Total Return Index) inside File->Preferences->Backtest Settings, and change the field Benchmark Buy & Hold.



Where can I get help on using Wealth-Lab?


For help with using Wealth-Lab see the Wealth-Lab website.

There is a Wealth-Lab Discussion Community on that web site where users regularly interact.

For Wealth-Lab 6.9, the old forum is available here:Wealth-Lab 6 Forum but most discussion now happens on the Wealth-Lab 8 forum.