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by babelproofreader
Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:41 am
Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
Topic: 20% upside?
Replies: 1
Views: 3315

Re: 20% upside?

This rule sounds very subjective - it could be almost anything, i.e. distance to nearest support/resistance defined by previous lows/highs; distance to a Fibonacci ratio retracement or extension; a point at which some fundamental valuation signals an over valued or "good" value price, etc....
by babelproofreader
Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:34 am
Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
Topic: Should trading system be stopped?
Replies: 6
Views: 7711

Re: Should trading system be stopped?

oem7110 wrote:Does anyone have any suggestions on what the formula is for gap-less indicators?
Thanks, to everyone very much for any suggestions :>
Add the "distance" of the gap to all prices prior to the gap that fall within the moving window.
by babelproofreader
Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:04 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Trading a large number of systems without a large account
Replies: 9
Views: 13481

Combining "experts" in this way is known as Linear Opinion Pools. Googling this term brings up several links to academic papers, such as those linked in my answer to my own question on this forum.
by babelproofreader
Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:52 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: IntraDay trading: profit target or market-on-close?
Replies: 4
Views: 4469

I always use brute Force method. Just run through the parameters and look at performance. Sorry, but I disagree with this. It demonstrates two serious biases: data mining bias and hindsight bias. Data mining bias because, given a set of data, you torture it enough to give results that are pleasing ...
by babelproofreader
Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:43 pm
Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
Topic: Indicators that are scaled in the range 0 to 1
Replies: 3
Views: 5258

Indicators that are scaled in the range 0 to 1

I have a simple request; can the board suggest indicators that are scaled in the 0 to 1 range, or can be easily adapted to be so?
by babelproofreader
Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:45 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Minimum Correlation Algorithm
Replies: 0
Views: 7325

Minimum Correlation Algorithm

Over time there have been several different threads on correlation on this board, so I thought readers might be interested in a new approach using correlation called the "Minimum Correlation Algorithm." An academic paper, a spreadsheet and more information is available from here.
by babelproofreader
Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:11 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Curve Fitting or appropriate market selection
Replies: 15
Views: 12363

if a market has NOT been profitable for 30 straight years, or 20 straight years, or even 10 straight years, then shouldn't I assume some characteristic about that market makes it unlikely to trade profitably in the future? Well, yeah! You have a lot of evidence that shows no matter how you tweak th...
by babelproofreader
Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:55 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Rolling Correlations
Replies: 3
Views: 3971

You might also find the ideas here useful.
by babelproofreader
Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:38 am
Forum: Money Management
Topic: How to determine the positions size for each trade?
Replies: 11
Views: 12057

When it comes to the Kelly Ratio I've always liked this series of online tutorials.
by babelproofreader
Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:55 pm
Forum: Trend Indicators and Signals
Topic: Spurious indicators, or uses thereof
Replies: 3
Views: 5611

Spurious indicators, or uses thereof

In one of the Market Wizard interviews I remember reading a quote to the effect that "angle techniques are no technique at all," I presumed at the time referring to Gann angles, on the grounds that angles drawn on charts are entirely dependent on the scale to which the y-axis is drawn, whi...
by babelproofreader
Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:04 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: What to make of this chart?
Replies: 19
Views: 13912

stopsareforwimps,

If you're looking for more statistically sophisticated tests than a simple rolling window back test, try reading the reference manual for this R package and the papers referenced in it.
by babelproofreader
Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:18 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: CTA Performance Index
Replies: 28
Views: 16633

The code for my attempt at a simple mechanical benchmark is here. I chose to go with R code and a function written using the Rcpp package. Feedback on this code would be welcome.
by babelproofreader
Thu May 10, 2012 8:53 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: CTA Performance Index
Replies: 28
Views: 16633

Further to my above post, I have started coding my benchmark suite but have a conceptual problem. At the moment the benchmark suite consists of 5 basic systems, 2 of which are stop and reverse types and the other 3 can sometimes be flat. The problem is, assuming 1 contract per signal per system only...
by babelproofreader
Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:55 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: CTA Performance Index
Replies: 28
Views: 16633

Coincidently I have recently been toying with the idea of creating a benchmark suite of typical, mechanical trend following systems. If I actually get around to doing this, I'll post code on my blog and link to it from this thread. The code will be almost certainly be a C++ .oct function for Octave ...
by babelproofreader
Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:54 pm
Forum: Testing Software
Topic: R Tutorials
Replies: 4
Views: 6801

R Tutorials

A link for those who might be interested in learning to use R for trading/testing purposes. Knowledge of R will then enable one to use some of the R packages listed here.

Edit 1: and one more useful link.
Edit 2: and yet another.
by babelproofreader
Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:37 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Testing Results Question
Replies: 17
Views: 10980

I assume you are not using (or properly using) stops. You cant calculate R-multiples, expectancy, avg risk, etc without stops. If the exit (stop) is undefined when (before) an entry signal is triggered, then you have no means to define the risk on the trade or size the position based on that risk. ...
by babelproofreader
Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:26 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Most of us are using insufficient data for testing
Replies: 25
Views: 15940

If you don't have enough data for back testing, why not create it? On my blog there are two posts, here and here (both with code), which show different approaches to creating synthetic data. By adjusting the input parameters you could simulate different market environments and stress test your tradi...
by babelproofreader
Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:53 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: annual profit target
Replies: 16
Views: 10619

Quote: ...It might use "Robust Annual Return" (as described in Way Of The Turtle ) to measure profits... An even more robust measure would be to replace the linear regression in the RAR% calculation with a repeated median regression (explanation here and here). Some time ago I coded the r...