must be nice that gold was in a bull market almost all of that period. I don't and never will trust 'personal judgement'. How did that work out for Paulson recently, or Bill Miller? Or what about that London Whale? lol. Eventually everyone comes down to earth, hard.
Thanks pistolpt, I agree. It's still interesting to see. I was skeptical at first but apparently the system extends to oil, S&P and russell. I think its good to watch and learn while i try and do build a system myself! Cheers
$19,400. Thanks. Interesting that you have only 3 posts and the first one advertises "someone's" system.
Thats excellent! How many parameters are you using(if you dont mind me asking)? I've been trying and back testing some systems so far with no real luck! Yeah i was searching for forums for automated trading and came across this one. I plan to be an active member here though! I've spent hours just reading these forums.
Updated Results: Jul: +6.40% Aug:+16.04% Sep:+22.53% Oct: -5.52% Nov: +4.32% This month I am getting whipsawed like a SoB. November was similarly sucky.
See below scan for the best results of various technical indicators applied to VXX (tracks VIX). VXX Scans 400% is the maximum you cloud get on VXX over the past 10 years if you would know thise settings 10 years ago. Regarding your graph: 1. The Profit on your graph went from $10 to $14K over the eight years... Is it 140,000%... WOW. It is 17,000% profit a yer in average. These guys should be wealthiest in the world. 2. I can accept strong profit on VIX during 2008-2009 when the market was quite volatile.But in the first months of 2012 when volatility was very low??? When it came from?
Dude, you need to learn about compounding returns. 1) That's 85% profit per year on average. Still ridiculous. Just compounded. Think about it. 2) Simple, you go short VXX or buy the inverse, XIV. All your base are belong to us.
30.88% Jan 2012 50.2% Feb 2012 37.13% Mar 2012 (2.77%) Apr 2012 83.26% YTD 2012 ????? I can only see the sum of these four months should be 70.26%!!!!!