how many new strategies do you come up per year?

Discussion in 'Automated Trading' started by pepper_john, Aug 1, 2013.

  1. As everyone knows, systematic trading is very competitive and one has to reinvent himself constantly to stay in the game. My question is how many strategies you come up each year?
     
  2. Define "come up with". I mena that serious - in todays time with the internet, a lot of "lets try this out" or "work on the basis of something i see on a forum" happens.

    Is that part of the "coming up with"? Or a 0 because it is not invented?

    I see a ton of strats going through my development side that at least originate on some forum posts somewhere initially.
     

  3. Sorry I was not clear. I meant to ask

    "how many new strategies do you put into production each year"
     
  4. Well, that is a lot less than what one tries out ;) Obviously.
     
  5. about 1 per month

    variations on core themes
     
  6. eyedy

    eyedy

    Maybe one or two every year

    But i change my system parameters every morning to be adaptive and it's been working pretty well for me
     
  7. Bob111

    Bob111

    so you have 12 new systems every year? wow..30 something since registering on ET?

    i come up with ONE back in 2005 and it's still work and produced enough money that i don't have to 'come up ' with new ones every year. quality over quantity :p
     
  8. new exchanges

    new dark venues

    new order types

    new products

    new regulation

    How can you stand still?
     
  9. Handle123

    Handle123

    Had made the first one in 1995, haven't changed parameters since 1999, and one a year in last three years. Am always working on something, but cause of what I seek is strict on losing percentages, it is very tough to get anything to back/forward test to my standards. Am going back to more mid term strategies last several months, more overall profits for me and less trading as opposed to day trading.
     
  10. Bob111

    Bob111

    same here. i became somewhat spoiled by steady returns from day trading and even if i do have a new profitable system- i tend to throw them out,cause they aren't 'good enough' to me.
     
    #10     Aug 2, 2013