Market filter
Market filter
is it possible to have filter on Index (like 200 WMA). System will exit all positions if Index falls below 200 Week Moving average.
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200-week is probably too slow, 200-day is more practical. Yes, if you trade individual stocks, a filter on the index is almost necessary, you don't want to go long in a bear market, and you don't want to miss too much of a bull market. How you define bull and bear markets is up to you, either your x-period moving average filter, a moving average cross over, or other types of filters: this structure means up, that structure means up no more etc.
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Re: Market filter
Why wouldn't (shouldn't) it be possible?joefcr wrote:is it possible to have filter on Index (like 200 WMA). System will exit all positions if Index falls below 200 Week Moving average.
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I have just come across this paper which proposes using a filter based on the VIX.
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Thanks for the link and when I read the abstract it struck me as the opposite of what many researchers and traders believe and have observed. But after reading the paper it is clearer what they are saying and a word of warning. The VIX system is counter-trend (at the med to long term time frame) to the index price. If you are interested in the links between volatility, predictability, and technical trading there are quite a few papers going back to the works of Blake LeBaron (perhaps others are even earlier) in the late 1980's and early 1990's
Thanks for the link and when I read the abstract it struck me as the opposite of what many researchers and traders believe and have observed. But after reading the paper it is clearer what they are saying and a word of warning. The VIX system is counter-trend (at the med to long term time frame) to the index price. If you are interested in the links between volatility, predictability, and technical trading there are quite a few papers going back to the works of Blake LeBaron (perhaps others are even earlier) in the late 1980's and early 1990's
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