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[EquisMetaStock Group] Re: Turtle Trading Rules



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Hi Andrew and Jose

thanks for your considered advice.
Jose the website was a great help - I am strongly considering buying 
tradesim - it seems essentail for proper system testing.

Rgds

Dieter
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jose" <josesilva22@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> Position sizing normalized to risk (volatility) can be done in 
> MetaStock.  See link here for some rough details:
> http://www.reefcap.com/ubb/Forum15/HTML/000189.html
> 
> Variable position sizing can then be referenced by Roy's equity 
> indicators and explorations.
> 
> 
> jose '-)
> 
> 
> 
> --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Andrew Tomlinson" 
> <andrew_tomlinson@xxxx> wrote:
> > Be aware that the key elements of the turtle trading system are 
> based in
> > portfolio management, and are therefore not programmable in 
> Metastock (or in
> > any other system tester that I am aware of).  Positions are sized 
by
> > relative volatility, and you need to put together rules as to 
what 
> to trade
> > when you have more signals than capital.
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wemmer2001 [mailto:dieter@x...] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:03 PM
> > To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Turtle Trading Rules
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi
> > Could anyone please offer advice w.r.t. Metastock Code for the 
> Turtle 
> > Trading System. (The complete system rules can be downloaded from 
> > www.originalturtles.org/docs/turtlerules.pdf)
> > Briefly, one system included in the rules is as follows:
> > 
> > Enter on 55 day breakout, exiting on a 20 day breakout in the 
> > opposite direction (if entered long then exit on 20 day short 
> > breakout).
> > 
> > Stops : Stop is set at 2N. 
> > N = ((ATR(19) + last days ATR)/ 20 
> > {Basically 2 X 20 period Exponential Average True Ranges}
> > 
> > Pyramiding: A maximum of 4 extra units are added when in the 
> position 
> > moves in your favour in the following manner: For each 1/2 N move 
> > after initial entry, add 1 unit. All existing stops are then 
moved 
> to 
> > the same position as the most recent unit's stop, whereafter they 
> > remain fixed and do not form trailinng stops.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Dieter
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
> > 
> >  
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