BioComp Dakota 3.0

WHAT IS BIOCOMP DAKOTA?

Swarm Adapted Trading Systems

BioComp Dakota enables you to create and use adaptive trading systems with 100% walk-forward out-of-sample performance evaluation. Dakota "steps-forward" one bar at a time, recalculating signals as though you were trading in real-life. Dakota's results show you the truth about your trading systems before and while trading them.

Create Adaptive Trading Systems

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"Adapt or Die" they say. Perhaps the wording is a bit strong, but it's true, especially in the financial markets. What is driving the markets is constantly changing, shifting, moving about. A lot of systems start out performing well, however they don't change with the times and their performance erodes as a result. You need something in your arsenal of tools that adapts, shifts and tracks equity performance.

Why is Dakota Different?

BioComp Dakota uses "Swarm Technology"(tm) to adapt the parameters of programmed trading systems to shifting market conditions in an attempt to create and maintain Dakotaable market timing signals, that is, when to buy, sell or exit from the markets in a Dakotaable manner. Dakota uses Swarm adaptation technology, not optimization. You don't want Swarm Optimization which "jumps" from one set of trading system parameters to another, but adaptation, where the swarm tracks performance smoothly. Systems with Swarm Adaptation algorithms are rare as most Swarm Technologies are focused on ill-fated optimization.

Highly Customizable

Dakota enables you to create unique solutions through the many types of data you use, pre-processing, bot types, different forms of initialization, performance metrics, trading system parameter adaptation algorithms, how signals are merged from multiple instances of the selected trading systems, parallel swarms of trading systems and the ability to have parent-child swarms and the ability to move trading systems about between swarms. If you can program in Visual Basic or C# using Microsoft Visual Studio Express (Free from Microsoft) you can create your own customizations. The possiblities are literally endless.

Run N Time

Robustness Verification

Various features enable you to check the robustness of your systems, including "Run N Times" for a walk-forward repeatability study and the "Ticker Bot Explorer" that enables you to see equity performance across a range of parameters to find sweet spots and avoid equity holes. Run N Times shows you the robustness of your system by re-walking it forward 10 times with different parameter initializations and a bit of randomness in the adaptation.


KEY BENEFITS

Swarm Adapted Trading Systems

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

Fluidly adapt to changing market conditions bar by bar. You decide which system parameters to adapt.

OUT OF SAMPLE RESULTS

Dakota walks forward a bar at a time to give you 100% out of sample performance. See reality. Don't be tricked.

NO BRITTLE SYSTEMS

Dakota's adaptation technologies adjust system parameters along the way, as market conditions change rather than having over-optimized trading parameters that tend to "break" as soon as you start trading.

WORKS FOR MANY SECURITIES

Works for stocks, futures, forex, bonds, ETFs and other securities. It is not suitable for options.

HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE

Just about every major function in Dakota is implemented as an "add-in". That means you can create your own or use 3rd party capabilities throughout Dakota.

EXCELLENT SUPPORT

We stand behind our products and have a dedicated site just to support them. USA based staff are alert to your needs. We also offer classes to get the most out of your investment.



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KEY FEATURES

What we deliver to you

Adaptive Trading Systems

The trading systems you run in Dakota generally have parameters (e.g., indicator periods). Dakota adapts these parameters bar by bar using a specified adaption algorithm.

Swarms of Trading Systems

Your selected trading system is replicated into a swarm of many instances, each with different initial parameter values.

Parallel Swarms

You can run more than one swarm simultaneously, each using completely different trading systems. The parallel swarms' trading signals are automatically combined.

Parent/Child Swarms

A swarm can have subordinate swarms and can be configured to move top performers up into the parent swarm and move poor performers down to the child swarm, as one option.

Ticker-Bot Explorer

You can explore the equity performance of your trading system across a range of parameter values through time... in a 3D plot.

"Run N Times"

You can run a swarm of trading systems through a history, each with differing initial parameter values, to see a plot of a Monte Carlo analysis of equity curves. This builds confidence that that trading system works on the selected security.

Indicator Building

You can feed your trading systems any of billions of indicator combinations using a set of included time series functions.

Charts and Stats

Dakota displays an OHLC bar or candle stick chart with the trading signal and resulting equity curve, along with a variety of very useful equity metrics on the system's performance.

3D Swarm Display

You can watch the swarm of trading systems "fly about" in their parameter space.

Data Sources

Use Date,OHLC text data files; comma or tab delimited or Metastock formatted data.

Works with End Day or Intra-Day Data

You can use end-of-day or intra-day data.

Highly Extensible

There are 6 types of add-ins. Implement your own algorithms for generating bot trading signals, initializing each bots adapted parameter values, governing the movement of each bot within the adapted parameter space, measuring the performance of bots and swarms, moving bots between swarms and merging bot signals.


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TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

What kind of computer do you need?

BioComp Dakota has the following technical requirements:

  • Works on XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10
  • 4 GB RAM minimum, 8-16 GB is typical
  • Minimal hard disk space to install
  • Uses .NET 3.5
  • Internet connection required to activate and to easily move your license from one machine to another

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Dakota 3 is a great product.

Author Ed New York, USA

I've been able to do a lot with Dakota 3. Love the framework..

Author James Sydney, Australia

I think BioComp Dakota is a better approach because it is all forward testing

Author David Perth, Australia

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DISCLAIMER: BioComp Dakota is not a trading system. It is a software tool for creating market timing systems. BioComp Dakota's output is not, and should not be considered, trading advice. This web page and others associated with it on this web site may make statements regarding performance of market timing systems created using BioComp Dakota or for trading and/or trading systems to which BioComp Dakota may contribute information. This performance is hypothetical or, such in the case of performance statements by customers or members of the press, cannot be or have not been substantiated by records of actual trading and thus must be treated as hypothetical. Hypothetical or simulated performance results have certain inherent limitations. Unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not represent actual trading. Also, since the trades have not actually been executed, the results may have under- or over-compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve Dakotas or losses similar to those shown.