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Brian Good feedback, thanks. Yes "feeler trades" is basically where I am at at the moment. Keep probing the market, if good, add more, if bad, too bad. A recent presentation in Perth by a systems developer (who sells his signals commercially so I am not interested: I am too pig headed for this I suppose) is based on this principle. He runs 10 systems over the top 30 US stocks. If on any day there are 7 or more buy signals from the individual systems, this is his buy recommendation. Sort of a weight of evidence theory. Seems based on sound statistics, thousands of trades in his stats, stop and reverse system, in and out of sample testing with smooth equity curve and manageable drawdowns. EOD only and entry/exit on open. Similar I guess to what you are doing by weighting your signals. This may ultimately where I am headed. Sounds like I have more coding to learn: half the fun, though. Regards
ChrisB Brian <brianrichard99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ChrisB, I just completed another "system" that's comprised of about 15 different proprietary indicators, all of them optimized for both EOD and Weekly timeframes, as well as for a specific group of 500 stocks, ETFs and CEFs. I used to look at just two or three indicators (a "system"), but found each indicator has its unique weakness. So now I just go with looking at all of the signals that all of my best indicators generate. I weight each signal. I also look at signals that are up to 3 bars old, and weight those signals less. I will eventually try to automate all of this optimization. Not there yet. I also separated out trending signals from daily buy/sell signals, so I really have a
separate trend system as well. I've read more than once, from reading passages written by very profitable traders, that their systems generally take the same form as the one I've created. Very few boil everything down to one type of trade that they do over and over. Problem with those single setup trades is you still need to look at all important variables outside of the setup that can affect the setup. A mentor statistican friend of mine recommended I build in an additional "trade cancellation" system that lets me know when outside variables are building against the system signal. This helps me sort the best trades out from the bunch. I am using no equity curve. IMO that would just seem to add another layer of unnecessary complexity. Focus on money management -- scaling and scaling out, user "feeler" trades, etc. That will likely get you farther down the road. My personal goal is to use my
system to identify good trades for my discretionary style of trading. Just my toe scents. ~Brian --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kris45mar <kris45mar@xxx> wrote: > > Phew, Yuki. > > Honoured to humbled to receive your lengthy reply. Please be warned: this inspirational, supportive ( and midly cajoling ) reply ( thank you! ) may be transferred into my "Yuki says" handbook! Everything you say strikes a resonant note though, and is taken in good spirit. > > I have 25% DD with 4 wins out of the last 30 discretionary trades. > Looking through my last two years' trades tells me that what worked in 2004 is not working in 2005/6. This brings me to the point in my 2005 trading plan where I defined conditions to stop trading. I
now need a change of direction: the plan is to continue to explore AB, AFL and the superb posts on this board towards developing a mechanical system. It can't be that hard for me to develope one that does better than my 2005 trading year. Whether I can then actually trade it is a whole different ball game. > > You said: > > " > And thank goodness not everyone can do this. We need some productive > members of society, too. ^_- > " > > LOL.... and yet the lesson we learn about ourselves by trading can make us more productive in other areas! > > In summary: > > You will never avoid drawdowns: agreed. > Sharper gains (with a
reliable system) may come when the equity curve is below its MA. Sounds logical, and worth exploring. > > All I am asking is this: > > Markets change over time (that is why there is no Holy Grail) and so should our systems, or the ones we choose to trade with, not respond to this? Or we may choose to stand aside for a while. Or just trade different markets with concurrently different systems to create a smoother equity curve overall? > > Could you comment on whether you trade with one system only or more than one? And if more than one, what would be a trigger to change if the Equity curve is not the signal to do so? Drawdowns? Sleepless nights? Declining expectancy? This has to part of our business plan after all. In 2004 I achieved my trading goals, 2005
was not a successful one. Message: time to stop doing what I am doing: it is not working. Do something else. The goal then is to replace what I am doing with something that does work. > > I realise the answers to these questions are personal, but it is invaluable to get some insight to the philosophies of others, in an attempt to know where to start. > > Regards > > ChrisB > > > > Yuki Taga <yukitaga@xxx> wrote: Hi kris45mar, > > Monday, March 13, 2006, 11:35:06 PM, you wrote: > > k> b. When the Equity is above the MA, then take the signals. >
> k> c. when the equity curve falls below its MA, then either. > > k> i. stop trading that system until such time as the curve goes back above the MA. > > k> ii. or severely reduce position size. > > k> iii. and/or swap over to another system that is now above its MA. > > You will get various opinions on this, however I think it really > boils down to just how logical you suspect your system methodology > is, and whether you suspect it is actually and finally being > arbitraged out of existence. > > If the system
has worked for several business cycles in various > market modes, and has never really gotten into serious trouble -- in > other words, it's a system you can trade -- then it would seem to me, > and indeed is what I do, that the time to be more careful is when > equity has been running well above the MA for some rather lengthy > period of time. I'm inclined to bump *up* position size a little bit > when I start experiencing a losing streak -- in other words when I > get mean reversion or worse of the equity curve. I would certainly > not stop trading when that happens. I think your gut feeling is > exactly opposite of what you should do. > > The sharpest gains and nicest times you are likely to ever have are
> when equity is making the swing from below average to above average. > This is much more fun than the opposite, and you are going to > experience both. So why would you consider stopping trading when > equity dips below average? Immediately, you would then be preparing > to cheat yourself out of your best performing part of the cycle, and > you would be ready to embrace the worst cycle segment of your system: > when equity moves from above average to below average. > > In the end, it all boils down to confidence. You either have a > viable system, or you don't. If you have one, follow it. If you > can't stand the drawdowns ... IMHO, you don't have a viable system, > and probably should not be trading
it. No one should trade any > system that has drawdowns they cannot stomach, and stomach > comfortably, probably max system percentage drawdown times two, maybe > times 2.5 or three. > > But if you really do have a system, take every signal. Period. If you > want to "play" your system a little bit, consider something like > *lightening* position size -- slightly -- when equity has been > running above average for some period of time, and *increasing* it > ... again, slightly ... when equity has been running below the line > for some time. You have to judge when these conditions might apply > after carefully analyzing your system yourself. > > But using the MA of equity to flatly
refuse or take signals is simply > a different form of "Holy Grailism". It is a fear of taking losers, > or an attempt to altogether avoid taking losers, which absolutely > must be taken in any systematic trading. You simply have to have a > system in which you can *stand* to take the losers, and be > comfortable with them. If you don't, you can't trade it, and playing > around using the equity curve as an ultimate filter is not likely to > made a dangerous system safe, or an uncomfortable system comfortable. > > You will never, ever, find a system that has an equity curve that > doesn't dance on both sides of a MA. Life doesn't work that way. But > if the curve is obviously solid, in other words, a real
curve or > slope, and not an amusement park thrill ride, and all the metrics > look nice over thousands of trades and many years, you may want to > think about doing exactly the opposite of what your gut tells you > when you hit a soft patch. > > OTOH, if the last sentence above applies ... why stress yourself at > all? Take the *&$% signals as they come, and relax. ^_^ If you > cannot stand a loss the magnitude of which would tell you that, > indeed, your system is no longer functioning, you are probably not > well enough capitalized to be in this business. Not everybody is. > And thank goodness not everyone can do this. We need some productive > members of society, too.
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