My update for May is a couple days late because gtr1 just got updated today. All 9 curated screens continue to beat the S&P over the past 10 years, but only 4 of them continue to beat the index year to date. The results below are through May 31. Hope you all had a great Memorial Day Weekend, and are enjoying the beginning of the summer season. The whole point of mechanical investing is not to look at stocks every day.
You can do this by downloading lohill’s gtr1 helper tool on Windows, and picking the screens you want. The helper tool will launch gtr1 in a browser, and you can set the start and end date to whatever period you want.
Hmm… do you recall what the system requirements are? I’m not having any luck opening the Mac version:
" The application “GTR1 Helper 4.5” can’t be opened."
That is not a message that I would have suspected. When you downloaded the file from the link I gave you it was zipped. When you unzipped it, where did you put then folder that resulted? Can you give me the name that folder for me and make a list of it’s contents?
Looks normal. The older Mac shouldn’t be a problem. I had no problem running it on my Mac when I had Sierra. Are you confident you have no disk space or memory issues? I will send you another link in case there were issues with the last one.
Delete the old folder completely and also delete “GTR1 Helper Main” from your “Documents” folder if it exists. Then try a new install from the new link. I hope this does it.
I think I’ve got it working now; at least it opened after I forced it to by right-clicking and bypassing standard security settings (double-clicking to open the app didn’t work). It asks for a data file; there were two likely suspects in the download, 5H4W and 10H4W. Is it safe to assume the 5H4W is the one being used in this Curated Screens thread?
I don’t pretend to understand GTR (or much of the Helper, at first glance tbh - but I will continue to poke around), but I can at least get some results!
Reality check: If I just want to check the 1 year CAGR for a curated screen, the only GTR parameters I change are the Report market dates, correct? Or are there other parameter edits necessary?
The 1 yr CAGR of the basic screen in question (basic GTR format) would be the first row in the AVG column, the second row is GSD, correct?
Many, many thanks for the assistance!
Edited to add: I am unable to find two of the Curated screens in the Helper: Liquid_Cons and Naz_Cons. I’m presuming they are not including in the GTR database; is there another source available?
Yes, correct. Make sure you select the choice that says Detailed Report on Focus Variant 0 before running the backtest. Then look at the CAGR row and the Avg column.
I am unable to find two of the Curated screens in the Helper: Liquid_Cons and Naz_Cons.
I don’t know what rdutt uses for his curated screens. He devised those much more recently than GTR1 Helper. I assume any with the same names you find in GTR1 Helper are the same screens. The two you mentioned were never in GTR1 Helper and never will be because I would need Robbie’s help to translate them from their original radiscript and I have never seen the radiscript from them.
The 5H4W database is for 5 stocks held for 4 weeks while 10H4W is for a ten stock hold for 4 weeks.
Thanks a bunch, Larry!
I also just noticed that while GTR Helper has the ROE_Cash screen as a selectable option, it is not functional (missing a few fields, apparently). Does this mean that GTR1 can’t calculate it, or just that it’s not fully implemented in the helper? If the former, is there another link to it?
One last question and I promise to shut up (at least for a bit) - where did the GTR1 links you so kindly posted to Naz & Liquid_Cons come from and can I do the same for ROE_Cash?
It was me who posted the Naz_Cons and Lquid_Cons links above. They both come from work done by @musselmant. Larry’s gtr1 helper has all the screens except those 2. It also does not have the ROE_Cash variant reported in the Curated screens. The link for that is
Whoops - my apologies! Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for the edification of this community and especially for still sticking around despite the changes in recent years.
Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for the edification of this community and especially for still sticking around despite the changes in recent years.