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by nzbryant
Tue May 24, 2011 6:26 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: counter trend systems
Replies: 13
Views: 8786

Percent accuracy?

Longmemory

Why do you note the percent wins rather than returns and drawdowns for your systems? Percent wins is not very meaningful. Put a 0.5% profit target on anything and you will get about 80-90% wins but not high returns.

Rod
by nzbryant
Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:54 am
Forum: Trader Psychology
Topic: I decided to override the system today
Replies: 13
Views: 16310

Why ? The main reason was, it's been two or three years since my last override and I just felt like jumping the system again , simply for the hell of it. At 15 filled trades per day, one cheat per three years is an "override rate" of 85 parts per million (PPM), which would pass ISO-9000 q...
by nzbryant
Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:55 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Global Exchange Traded Funds (ETF´s), End of Day data vendor
Replies: 6
Views: 4922

You're hilarious Sluggo. Good value.
by nzbryant
Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:14 am
Forum: Trader Psychology
Topic: As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
Replies: 12
Views: 19890

Brain that changes itself

Horizon21786 wrote: One of my best reads last year on the brain was:

"The Brain that Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge, MD - easy read and very interesting.
Completely concur. That is one of the most enlightening books I have read.
by nzbryant
Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:58 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Short S&P system?
Replies: 9
Views: 7026

The issue is that picking tops is almost impossible mathematically. Strategies that do it also short on strong trends that keep on going up! I beg to suggest that this is not the issue. Picking temporary tops isn't that impossible. And tops don't have to last forever, just long enough to make money...
by nzbryant
Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:56 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Short S&P system?
Replies: 9
Views: 7026

Re: Short S&P system?

You cannot know where the peak was until it has passed. In effect, traders trying to find peaks only helps the trend traders cause that much more. Instead of trying to trade or find peaks, jump to smaller time frames and trend trade those time frames. For 2-5 day trades look at 10 - 15 bar Donchian...
by nzbryant
Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:28 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Short S&P system?
Replies: 9
Views: 7026

I've found that a top down approach works well with the S&P 500. First, determine the intermdiate-term trend. No small feat there. Then use a counter-trend strategy to sell short on rallies. That's the easy part. Getting out of your system's way and not screwing up...a lot harder. D DanzMan, so...
by nzbryant
Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:09 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Short S&P system?
Replies: 9
Views: 7026

Thats a good answer Sluggo - thanks. Landry and Connors swing trading books.
(To be honest I dont have Tblox (I use C#, but will use Tblox when the cost is a smaller percentage of my account)).
by nzbryant
Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:37 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Short S&P system?
Replies: 9
Views: 7026

Short S&P system?

Hi all. I've been testing various ideas for a short S&P system. The purpose is, if you have a portfolio of stocks, you may want to hedge, at peaks, against market declines like this week. Ive tried CCI, RSI, ADX, DI+/- and ROC. Nothing really works. Perhaps the answer lies in market internals li...
by nzbryant
Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:28 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Align portfolio with old positions
Replies: 4
Views: 3464

Levi Risky doing that, as your new positions may not have the same edge as if they had been entered at the correct time/price. I would wait for new signals, personally. If you are just concerned about sizing, then your method makes sense, else you could be risking too much. You could use your method...
by nzbryant
Tue May 12, 2009 1:45 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: AESO - pe ratio should be lower?
Replies: 1
Views: 4950

P/E

This is a mechanical trading forum. Why are you asking "why"?
by nzbryant
Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:49 am
Forum: Trader Psychology
Topic: Mind set in executing an order successfully?
Replies: 6
Views: 9333

When entering orders, think "accuracy". I.e. accurate as per your written and robustly tested system.
by nzbryant
Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:03 am
Forum: Money Management
Topic: simple money management...
Replies: 13
Views: 15375

Dont use this system. You could have 8 losses in a row, one win, then another 8 losses.

Just use testing.
by nzbryant
Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:36 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Open Old Positions When Starting to Trade a System?
Replies: 6
Views: 6269

Post

Great post Sluggo, as always.
by nzbryant
Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:24 am
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: What Equities to Use in My Basket?
Replies: 3
Views: 3245

Stock screening

Smartmoney.com has a great screener, that I use on the first Sunday of every month to determine my stock universe for the month. You have to subscribe, but its only about 9.95/mth and good.
by nzbryant
Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:25 pm
Forum: Testing and Simulation
Topic: Query to the System Design Community
Replies: 29
Views: 16511

Here is one way a systems researcher might explore the question of which markets are, in general, the friendliest to trendfollowing systems. Choose ten or twenty very different trend-following mechanical trading systems. (not just the same single system with twenty different parameter settings). Se...
by nzbryant
Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:50 pm
Forum: Futures Markets
Topic: Why not trade E-Mini's long term with EMAs?
Replies: 4
Views: 5690

I agree. I lost over half my account trading forex, even though I had backtested many methods, but then found the 'Holy Grail' by trading just long term trends. I pay much lower spread per month as a percent of my account by doing so, get whipsawed less or not at all by unexpected intraday moves (as...