RichardL Veteran   Posts: 134 Joined: 9/18/2004  User Profile | Hi The original thread was started to share Chart Templates that suit the poster's trading. Then we got requests to describe our trading methods to go along with the templates posted. Then it kindof moved to developing strategies to automatically pull out opportunities that were already pre-qualified to suit the posted Template/Trading method. Couple of things therefore - I don't think we as a group of users have even scratched the surface on whats really possible & would therefore *really* appreciate others' views & thoughts on what works for them, in the same way. Also I don't use the strategy exclusively, its part of a clutch of ones I use in different profiles, each with hopefully optimised restricted sets of symbols that historically worked well with them (hence the BT FT cull). Please don't believe 100% BT and 100% FT other than in the context that the symbols that gave that result *that day* were a culled list that had specifically resulted from a reduction to the set of symbols that gave those stats (on the basis of moving forward, you'd have more chance that those symbols, at least in the short term < 1 month, would continue to work well). I bet that testing again a few days forward would have different stats. Thats why I honestly believe that a true *walk-forward* tester module is the *only* way to really find out how the systems perform "for real". My current approach, as reported in this thread and other postings, is for me only a poor second to walk-forwarding. I get variable results with richard.ots not least because I have the poor habit to try and second guess it & therefore not likely to get rich till I learn to trade better :-) All the best Richard | |
