Recent Content by baggs

  1. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    This is the "actively managed" portion of my portfolio. The rest is in passive lower "risk" assets.
    Post by: baggs, Mar 1, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  2. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    Ugh, as I mentioned earlier, I have a lot of experience trading (6 years). I understand that psychology is more important than all else. That's a...
    Post by: baggs, Mar 1, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  3. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    What objective method would you choose to identify volatility? Beta, ATR, ect ...? What time frame? Or would you use something more general like VIX?
    Post by: baggs, Mar 1, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  4. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    Thanks for the reply. The problem with this is that it's taken me a long time to build an indicator that was this "accurate" for my mid-long term...
    Post by: baggs, Mar 1, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  5. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    While I very much appreciate you taking the time to respond, I don't think you read my initial post. I've been trading/investing for years. In my...
    Post by: baggs, Mar 1, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  6. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    It would be interesting to see what would happen if I flipped the system and used terrible companies during downtrends.
    Post by: baggs, Mar 1, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  7. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    I'm not saying I'll hold no matter what. I'm saying that each red line is a sell signal, that correlates with overbought and a break in uptrend....
    Post by: baggs, Mar 1, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  8. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    Thanks again guys for your input :) @eganon69: I will not use trendlines as I said before this needs to be 100% objective. Zero decisions made...
    Post by: baggs, Mar 1, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  9. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    The profit taking signals occur when a stock is both overbought and breaking a shorter term uptrend. So the odds of getting a profit-taking signal...
    Post by: baggs, Feb 28, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    Thank you Eganon for the thoughtful reply. To clarify a few things: 1) My goal is to completely remove discretion. The entires/exits shown...
    Post by: baggs, Feb 28, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  11. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    How do you figure?
    Post by: baggs, Feb 28, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  12. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    The last 3 charts cover the 2008 fall. You'll see that in each those cases several profit taking signals were triggered before the fall. Meaning,...
    Post by: baggs, Feb 28, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  13. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    To make it easier: Green lines = $60,000 entry Red lines = $15,000 profit taking (remaining position is still being held) Generally speaking
    Post by: baggs, Feb 28, 2017 in forum: Strategy Building

  14. Please Critique (Poke Holes) in My Entry/Exit Strategy

    Long time lurker, first time poster. Goal: 15% or greater per year (averaged over 5 years). Account Size: Approximately $900,000 (taxable acct)...
    Thread by: baggs, Feb 28, 2017, 39 replies, in forum: Strategy Building