Recent content by macgibby

My system works just fine during last 5 years, including the bear market. However it doesn't produce good results when I run it during 1990-1998. Does it really matter that my backtesting doesn't work far back, but works during last 5 years and has over 500 trades? Anybody had similar...

When going with the long term trend do you guys find it's better to buy breakouts or wait for pullbacks?

Does AIQ systems have historical fundamental data?

I didn't stop trading my system because it wasn't performing , I just wasn't trading at all last two days, I was sick. And also I noticed that over last 2 years my system had maximum 5 winning trades in a row. And it just had 5 winning trades last two days. That's why I'm thinking now if I...

why? can you explain?

I have this dilemma: last 2 days I wasn't trading but when I checked my system it performed very well and had a lot of winning trades. Do I just keep trading it tomorrow or wait till my system generates couple of losses. I feel like even though I am the one who developed my system I have a hard...

I just asked a general question to get an idea if anybody trading systems with high win/loss ratio. Don't want to complicate things in this post...

What is the win/loss ratio of the system that you guys trading? I'm trying different things and usually get 40% win/loss with 3:1 profit factor. I was wondering how many trade 60%+ win/loss or higher profit factor.

Did you ever think that this system might use % of capital on every trade and keeps compounding? So if you lose 20% in the beginning it'll be only $4000 vs when you have 60,000 then 20% would be 12,000?

What drawdown % is normal? is 20% too high?

Thanks for all your comments BUT anybody can tell me if these results too good to be true or it can be done? :confused: