How am I doing on trying to find a strategy?

wrbtrader · Apr 1, 2020

farmerjohn1324 said:
This is what I've been working on the past 2 nights. I downloaded an Excel spreadsheet of all the daily numbers for the S&P since 1991. So it's about 30 years of data.

I determined the following things...

The S&P goes up 53.54% of days, and down 46.4% of days.
It gains at least 1% on 12.8% of days, and loses at least 1% 11.9% of days.
It gains 2%+ 3.07% of days, -2% on 3.6% of days.
Gains 3%+ on 1.1% of days, loses at least 3% 1.2% of days.

The goal is to make a strategy that I can trade S&P emini futures on. Since this is so highly leveraged, I would be risking about 10% of the account if I waited for the index to gain/lose 1%.

So I went further and divided everything into decimals of a percent within the first percentile of gain/loss.

0.1% = gains 46.97% of days, loses 40.57% of days
0.2% = gains 41.19% of days, loses 34.85%
0.3% = gains 35.87%, loses 29.95%
0.4% = gains 31.47%, loses 25.97%
0.5% = gains 27.07%, loses 22.84%
0.6% = gains 23.37%, loses 20.11%
0.7% = gains 20.11%, loses 17.58%
0.8% = gains 17.34%, loses 15.51%
0.9% = gains 14.87%, loses 13.35%

Since I'm trying to do all of this as day trading. (meaning that I will close the trade within 24 hours of opening it), then the percentages of the stop-loss and take-profit should probably be at least 75% when added together to happen on any given day.

One thing that jumps out at me is that it's more likely for the index to gain 2% than it is to lose 1%. I always want to go bull, and I really want to do the same strategy every day. The market is bull unless something very strange is going on, such as recent times.

One other problem is that I'm having trouble entering both a stop-loss and a take-profit on the Schwab futures account. It wants me to have margin to cover both, as if I would want to execute both of them instead of just one or the other.

Thoughts? I'm happy to elaborate further or to do more research.

And I also know that this doesn't account for intraday volatilty, but that's a little too much research for me.
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This strategy that you're trying to design...

How long will you simulate it after you've completed the strategy ?

You designing an automated trading system or a trade method in which you'll be manually entering your trade entries / exits ?

You have enough income or job to support yourself the first year after you traverse into real money trading ?

wrbtrader

farmerjohn1324 · Apr 1, 2020

wrbtrader said:
This strategy that you're trying to design...

How long will you simulate it after you've completed the strategy ?

You designing an automated trading system or a trade method in which you'll be manually entering your trade entries / exits ?

You have enough income or job to support yourself the first year after you traverse into real money trading ?

wrbtrader
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I have another business (home building) that will always take priority over trading. Trading is supplementary.

wrbtrader · Apr 1, 2020

farmerjohn1324 said:
I have another business (home building) that will always take priority over trading. Trading is supplementary.
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How long will you simulate it after you've completed the strategy ?

You designing an automated trading system or a trade method in which you'll be manually entering your trade entries / exits ?

wrbtrader

farmerjohn1324 · Apr 1, 2020

wrbtrader said:

How long will you simulate it after you've completed the strategy ?

You designing an automated trading system or a trade method in which you'll be manually entering your trade entries / exits ?

wrbtrader
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1. I'm not sure. I may start by buying just 1 Micro e-mini, and then work up to larger amounts.

2. Either one. I want to just enter 1 trade per day, so it's not very time consuming.

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