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Re: [amibroker] Tharp's ATR-based PositionSizing



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Herman,
allways remember there a LOT more people reading with great
interest than the number that feel they a able/qualified to contribute.

I personally think lurking on a list like this is one of the best ways to 
BECOME able/qualified.

Nigel


On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 05:25 am, Herman van den Bergen wrote:
> Thank you Al, you say: "if it was 1%, then an 8.95% profit is
> fantastic and much better than 120% without position sizing". It
> was 1% so now my spirits are UP again :-) but what is "much
> better" how do I optimize for something I can't measure or
> display (the Tharp equity curve is virtually flat).
>
> btw I did read whatever emails and help I could find, hopefully I
> am doing something really dumb...
>
> Best regards,
> Herman.
>
> Ps. My hammering on this topic is getting embarrassing but if
> this stuff is really as big as it is supposed to be then we'll
> have lots of happy people when we get to the bottom of this.
> Perhaps even a nice piece of code to tag on to our systems:
> #include Tharp.afl and magic: no more risk of ruin :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Venosa [mailto:avcinci@x...]