I was curious to see how many trades the volatility systems would have done this year across all 14 of them. Remember, while they may produce similar trades to mean reversion, they are based on the Bollinger Bands and the respective volatility instrument for each symbol.   

    total trades was 171 trades across all 14 symbols. See 1st attached image showing a simple summary table by month and the totals. Also, I could count these differently and get a smaller number, if there's a 2nd entry, I'm counting each entry as a trade instead of one total trade, however I currently do this with the SPY/ES mean reversion systems so might as well keep it the same.

    By the way, for 2024 the SPY mean reversion systems did 29 trades, while the MES systems did 35 trades, see 2nd and 3rd images

    how much overlap  between the volatility systems and the mean reversion? I didn't count that, there is some overlap but also not a lot - you get a lot of volatility system trades when the mean reversion systems are flat - but of course what helps is that there are14 stock symbols  for the volatility systems, whereas SPY/MES is only 2, so logically you are going to get a lot of different trades that do not overlap SPY/ES

    Really excited about this Matt!

    Posted by waves7 on 28th of Dec 2024 at 07:04 pm

    Really excited about this Matt! To clarify, for the table of the volatility system, for the months that have more then 1 for a trade, let's pretend a month that has two trades in the table, is it that the system could have had two entries, (a 1st entry and a 2nd entry) and that's counted as the 2 or is the 2 showing two separate first entries? I think you're saying the first example but I wanted to check. 

    yep so let's say a

    Posted by matt on 28th of Dec 2024 at 07:07 pm

    yep so let's say a volatility system had 2 entries and  1 final exit, I'm counting it as 2 trades because of the 2 entries - again it's one half dozen the other, you could also count it as one total trade as well. It's just personal preference 

    Great, yeah that makes the

    Posted by waves7 on 28th of Dec 2024 at 08:08 pm

    Great, yeah that makes the most sense to me too. For the system stats of the regular reversion to mean trades, are those calculated the same way? So for example the CCI stats show a total of 48 trades. Those are counted as each individual trades, whether or not it's a 1st, 2nd, 3rd entry?  So if there was three entries then those 3 would equal 3 of those 48 trades? 

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