Does anyone know why the GTR1 back-tester doesn’t have data since 10 March? When I run the screener, that is that default date. When I try writing in today’s date directly I get an error message:
end=20230320 is invalid. (Nearest market date is 20230310.)
Thanks,
Baltassar
In the WER Yahoo group, Robbie wrote this tonight:
<<It hasn’t been updated since 3/10/2023 due to a hard drive failure. I’m having to get the data recovered because Backblaze was not backing up everything I intended for it to.>>
Thanks.
A tough week for Robbie, obviously.
Baltassar
Anyone have an update on GTR1 resuming? I looked around for the WER Yahoo group, but didn’t see it.
It appears that Robbie’s hard drive is not recoverable. He is estimating ‘months’ to reprogram.
Charlie
Oooh. Ouch! Painful.
It’s amazing that Robbie did not have an adequate backup of all of that hard work!!
Sorry to hear that.
'38Packard
→ backup-aholic
I guess we can blame ourselves for not sending him the hardware or the service
Actually, he did have backups going. What happened was that an update to the OS changed the settings to his backups, and thus it went from full to partial backups.
If anyone knows of an academic in a finance or econ department, please let me (and Robbie) know.
–Gabriel
Interesting. Thanks for that bit of context. Will keep an eye out for such an academic.
Kim
DW works at a local college in their career counseling dept. They work with students and other college service providers to help students polish their resume, develop interview skills, dress for success, etc.
Many students need internship credits on their resume. Would Robbie be able to specify the functional requirements so that a college intern (or intern team) would be able to reproduce the model? I’m thinking finance graduate students.
'38Packard
Does he need data, coding, or tech help?
I believe he needs data; hence his search for an academic.
DB2
Given the terms and conditions of the CRSP data or other sources (Vee Ell), am I correct in thinking that’s a big ask? I thought that data was pretty locked down at least legally. I’ll put out some feelers but for the donor the risk is pretty asymmetric.
Hi Brian,
He needs an academic in Finance or Econ to be able to access the full CRISP database. I don’t think he needs either tech help or coding help. Mostly it is to reconstruct the database that he had before.
–G
Do you know if GTR/Geary need on going access or is this to rebuild some piece of the past historical DB of GTR one time?
My understanding is that it is a one-time access to rebuild, not a continuous scraping (that part he already has).
But I might be wrong. If you want to email me directly at elkaim@gmail.com, I can put you in touch with Robbie.
–G
I have not heard from back from my person with access. I’ll let you know.
Sounds good. Thank you.
–G