| four 5,087 posts
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 | 3/15/2010 1:58:54 AM 
 
 
 
 -- added entry calculation -- 3/25/2010
 
 
 
 
 March 22, 2010 - UDN was not bought and continued to fall down...
 
 Question: anyway to backtest with the added entry calculation?
 
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| enderfusion 4 posts
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 | 3/25/2010 12:32:07 PM 
 Using a 5% stop profit/ 8% stop loss strategy, this has been quite successful.  I hit 5% this week on IKAN, CHLN, DRN. Success rate is about 80% over the last few weeks.
 
 
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| miketranz 978 posts
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 | 3/25/2010 5:13:21 PM 
 Any filter that returns that kind of % I'd like to know about.What time frame are you trading?Mind sharing the details,like entry,exit,ect.Thanks,Mike....
 
 
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| Kevin_in_GA 4,599 posts
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 | 3/25/2010 7:07:01 PM 
 Quick backtest on this since the beginning of the year:
 
 Test started on 12/31/2009 ended on 03/25/2010, covering 57 days
 Filter used:
 
 CLOSE CROSSED ABOVE PP 14 DAY LOW
 PP EQUALS PP 14 DAY LOW 1 DAY AGO
 
 HIGH > PP
 CLOSE > PP
 LOW < PP
 OPEN < PP
 HIGH > PP 14 DAY LOW
 LOW < PP 14 DAY LOW
 
 VOLUME > 10000
 CLOSE > 1
 
 Trade Statistics
 There were 129 total stocks entered. Of those, 107 or 82.95% were complete and 22 or 17.05% were open.
 Of the 107 completed trades, 78 trades or 72.90% resulted in a net gain.
 Your average net change for completed trades was: 1.53%.
 The average draw down of your approach was: -5.16%.
 The average max profit of your approach was: 5.01%
 The Reward/Risk ratio for this approach is: 1.76
 Annualized Return on Investment (ROI): 47.17%, the ROI of ^SPX was: 15.05%.
 
 Exit Statistics
 Stop Loss was triggered 26 times or 24.30% of the time.
 Stop Profit was triggered 68 times or 63.55% of the time.
 Trailing Stop Loss was triggered 0 times or 0.00% of the time.
 You held for the maximum period of time (25 days) 13 times or 12.15% of the time.
 
 
 HOWEVER - looking at the equity summary, you didn't do very well after almost 4 months:
 
 Available Cash: $100676.84
 Total (Cash + Market): $100676.84
 
 You only netted 0.67% on 129 total trades, and SF's equity summary does not take commission costs into account.
 
 
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| four 5,087 posts
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 | 3/26/2010 12:14:08 AM 
 set{var1, day point range / 5}
 set{buy, max(close,open) + var1}
 draw buy on plot close
 add column separator
 add column var1
 add column buy
 
 - add above to filter
 - retest and you get ?
 
 Thanks for the help, again
 
 
 - OR -
 
 set{var1, day point range / 5}
 set{buy, min(close,open) + var1}
 draw buy on plot close
 add column separator
 add column var1
 add column buy
 
 - add above to filter
 - retest and you get ?
 
 Thanks for the help, again
 
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| enderfusion 4 posts
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 | 3/29/2010 5:27:16 PM 
 True, I guess you have to count on a little bit of savvy to pick out the losers. The backtest equity results are because of the 10% stop loss. In reality I would examine the chart and probably call it quits around 5% if the chart was turning bearish. Overall this filter has been picking out some nice pivot plays though. Here are the ones for the last 2 weeks.
 
 Symbol------  Buy------    Sell---------     Percent    ------ Days held
 DRN------ 185.24	----- 197.31	       ----      6.51%	------  4
 CHLN	------   3.96	   ------     4.17	-----                 5.30%	  --------              5
 IKAN	------- 2.54	  ------     2.95	        -----       16.14%	            -------         4
 DYN	 -------   1.43	  ------     1.36	         -----    -4.89%	             ---------       2
 WRB	-------  25.69	   ------ ----------                            1.90%
 ABAT	-------    3.88	  ------ ------------                         	3.35%
 
 I trade mostly at the open of the day, so prices are not quite at the stop profit limit of the backtesting. I just entered WRB and ABAT so we'll see how those do. WRB has been trending slowly up. ABAT looks good too.
 
 
 
 
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| enderfusion 4 posts
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 | 3/30/2010 5:02:08 PM 
 ABAT just hit its 5% stop profit. Another winner.
 
 
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| enderfusion 4 posts
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 | 4/1/2010 11:19:27 AM 
 GAZ up %5.
 
 
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| four 5,087 posts
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 | 4/1/2010 1:35:35 PM 
 @enderfusion
 
 Glad you like the filter.
 Have fun playing it with your style and preferences.
 
 
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| duke56468 683 posts
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 | 4/1/2010 9:23:25 PM 
 CLOSE CROSSED ABOVE PP 28 DAY LOW
 PP EQUALS PP 28 DAY LOW 1 DAY AGO
 
 HIGH > PP
 CLOSE > PP
 LOW < PP
 OPEN < PP
 HIGH > PP 14 DAY LOW
 LOW < PP 14 DAY LOW
 
 VOLUME > 10000
 CLOSE > 1
 
 set{var1, day point range / 5}
 set{buy, max(close,open) + var1}
 draw buy on plot close
 add column separator
 add column var1
 add column buy
 
 
 
 Trade Statistics
 There were 58 total stocks entered. Of those, 49 or 84.48% were complete and 9 or 15.52% were open.
 Of the 49 completed trades, 40 trades or 81.63%resulted in a net gain.
 Your average net change for completed trades was: 2.72%.
 The average draw down of your approach was: -3.70%.
 
 The average max profit of your approach was: 5.79%
 The Reward/Risk ratio for this approach is: 2.85
 Annualized Return on Investment (ROI): 117.36%, the ROI of ^SPX was: 15.05%.
 
 Exit Statistics
 Stop Loss was triggered 9 times or 18.37% of the time.
 Stop Profit was triggered 40 times or 81.63% of the time.
 Trailing Stop Loss was triggered 0 times or 0.00% of the time.
 You held for the maximum period of time (0 days) 0 times or 0.00% of the time.
 An exit trigger was executed 0 times or 0.00% of the time.
 
 
 Summary
 Invested In Stock: $-0.00
 Market Value of Stock: $0.00
 Market Value - Invested: $0.00
 Available Cash: $102636.02
 Total (Cash + Market): $102636.02
 
 Kevin  when I run the same dates that you did with the PP 28 day, the results do seem better.  I also used max 5 trades/day and max 50 positions
 
 
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