Why does strategy tester discard results?

2010.08.30 18:29:16 There were 20 passes done during optimization, 20 results have been discarded as insignificant

Got this message on the journal. cant figure out why. Data issue?

Presumably because most people are not interested in the losing results of the optimisation.

If you really feel the need to see them, then right click on the optimisation tab(only visible if you have run an optimisation) and un-tick the 'Skip Useless Options results'

i've been having the hardest time figuring out how to see my losing results. "most people" are weird.

If the results are not profitable (or possibly assumed unprofitable if they branch from an unprofitable set combination and you are using the genetic algo testing option) they are discarded.

You can show them by going to the results tab, right clicking, and unchecking "skip useless results".

You'll have to run the optimization again to collect these results after making the change.