I don't focus on squeezing every last drop of blood out of
trades - obviously I try to get what I can, but my focus is on
reducing risk, higher winning percentage, less draw down, vs system
trades that can catch longer trades but also that carry larger draw
down potential as well - and with reversion to mean like systems -
I like to use multiple different indicators for exit opportunities,
in case the the main indicator happened to just barely miss the
exit conditions
also, since I give all trades out to all 22 systems - there's a
lot of system trades, there were 130 system trades last year!
There's enough systems always doing something that I need to
need to try and squeeze every last drop out of one particular
system
Thank you for your hard work, Matt! These systems are never
going to be perfect and will always miss something.
If I were to devise a trending indicator, I would use a momentum
in notes as my leading indicator, and a duration and a range of the
consolidation from which the prior move resulted as my input
factors to calculate stored energy from prior squeeze.
Sometimes these correlations are broken, and yet sometimes
they work well. Based on the work of John Carter, a squeeze
lasts between 8 to 10 bars on the time frame on which the chart is
viewed, FWIW.
also if we had only 1 system -then yeah you want to try and get
it to capture as much of a move as possible - but when you have 22
systems, almost always one of them is doing something, you don't
need to worry about capturing the whole move on one system
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I don't focus on squeezing
SPY and ES systems closing out the SPY bear long
Posted by matt on 9th of Jan 2023 at 12:34 pm
I don't focus on squeezing every last drop of blood out of trades - obviously I try to get what I can, but my focus is on reducing risk, higher winning percentage, less draw down, vs system trades that can catch longer trades but also that carry larger draw down potential as well - and with reversion to mean like systems - I like to use multiple different indicators for exit opportunities, in case the the main indicator happened to just barely miss the exit conditions
also, since I give all trades out to all 22 systems - there's a lot of system trades, there were 130 system trades last year! There's enough systems always doing something that I need to need to try and squeeze every last drop out of one particular system
Thank you for your hard
Posted by junkie on 9th of Jan 2023 at 02:08 pm
Thank you for your hard work, Matt! These systems are never going to be perfect and will always miss something.
If I were to devise a trending indicator, I would use a momentum in notes as my leading indicator, and a duration and a range of the consolidation from which the prior move resulted as my input factors to calculate stored energy from prior squeeze. Sometimes these correlations are broken, and yet sometimes they work well. Based on the work of John Carter, a squeeze lasts between 8 to 10 bars on the time frame on which the chart is viewed, FWIW.
also if we had only
Posted by matt on 9th of Jan 2023 at 12:36 pm
also if we had only 1 system -then yeah you want to try and get it to capture as much of a move as possible - but when you have 22 systems, almost always one of them is doing something, you don't need to worry about capturing the whole move on one system