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What do you think about the following article: Techniques for Analyzing
Systems -> http://www.moneysoftware.com/article_1.htm ?
Frank
Gaius Marius wrote:
Gaius Marius wrote:
> Can some of the more experience systems developer answer a few questions?
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> Of all the criteria on the systems report in TS, what would you consider as
> an important criteria in developing a trading system? And what would you
> consider as acceptable numbers for the following:
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> 1) Percentage of winning trades?
> 2) Ratio of Avg. Win/Loss?
> 3) Profit Factor?
> 4) Ratio Largest Win/Largest Loss?
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> I know that some people consider a smooth equity curve as a good criteria
> but it's hard to see it in TS. I've been told that a Sharpe ratio is also a
> good criteria but that's not in the indicator library. And I couldn't get
> the one Mark Brown posted the other day to work. I've also looked at the K
> Ratio from Lars Kestner but that's not widely followed and there's few
> reports/articles on it. There's the return retracement in the Portfolio
> Maximizer but I can't get that to work on intraday trading systems.
>
> Any answers would be helpful.
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