Long short game

Like I said you can go long only but there are huge drawdowns. I think for my 755 round run, the peak was $8 million. So my criteria is that you must have 100 long or short TRADES. Not rounds.

Yes, but that it is (probably) impractical to do in a short period of time with $10K.

 

Here is a greasemonkey script that will keep track of how many times you've gone long/short. Paste results when you reach 100 long or short trades. So you need to beat $100K in 100 _trades_ which is the long only baseline. It adds the following in the page. When Long+Short = 100, then paste your results. Note that when you click "Start new game" you have to refresh the page. Not sure why, but it is what it is.

Code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name  Nooby's LongShortGame script
// @grant  GM.getValue
// @grant  GM.setValue
// @include  https://longshortgame.com/games/*
// @include  https://longshortgame.com/rounds/*
// @require  http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

(async ($) => {
   var SETTINGS_KEY="__nooby_state";

  var initialize = () => {
  console.log("Initializing?");
  if (document.URL.endsWith("games/new")) {
  console.log("Starting new game, resetting state");
  state = {};
  GM.setValue(SETTINGS_KEY,"{}").then(() => console.log("Done"));
  } 
  };

  initialize();

  var state = JSON.parse(await GM.getValue(SETTINGS_KEY,"{}"));
  $("main").append("Nooby's script state:" + JSON.stringify(state));

  console.log(state);

  $(".container .button-area input.btn").each((_,x) => {
  $(x).click(() => {
  var decision = x.value;
  console.log(decision);
  if (state.hasOwnProperty(decision))
     state[decision] = state[decision]+1;
     else
  state[decision] = 1
  var value = JSON.stringify(state);
  GM.setValue(SETTINGS_KEY,value).then(() => console.log(state));
 
  });
  });


})(jQuery);

 

Round: #100
Balance: $23,520.36

All jokes and Python scripts aside, here are results running the closest to my real strategy as the given constraints allow. So a mix of "No Trade" and "Long" since I very rarely short. Unlike the game, when trading for real, I only deal with index ETFs and futures so no individual stocks. Also after buying I'm subject to flatten the trade any amount of time from seconds to days to weeks (when the thesis plays out) so the 40 day thing here isn't representative. I think if I could flatten at my discretion in the game, I would do better.

This was fun though thanks @nooby_mcnoob!

 

48 trades in, I reached $100K. So I'm better than long only

 

Final result after 100 trades around $180K, so beats 100 long only trades.

 

250 trades total to hit 7 figures. Note that I did slack off a bit and take shitty trades because now I'm getting sleepy:



Let's see how many to get to 2 million.

 

291 trades to get to 2 million.

 

374 to 3 million. I want to see how many trades it takes me to get to 5 million. At this rate, it looks like it'll be JUST slightly less than blindly going long so maybe I'm not that good. Also it's 3am and I should go to sleep.

 

5 million in 393 trades. So quite a bit better than blindly going long for everything? And now it's bed time.

 

Did you just do long only? My ratio of trades taken to total trades is about 40% so a lot of trades not taken.