personally I like your cash cow system better if you can get it to work forward testing.
Quote from oraclewizard77:
personally I like your cash cow system better if you can get it to work forward testing.
Quote from jack hershey:
What look back duration do you use to set the volume filter(s); we are using 20 days on 5 minute bars. This is a 1600 element sample, roughly. For BW, his sample would be about 500 elements if he used 20 days for his filters.
BW also has an artificial data feed limitation. With respect to volume almost any feed will do.
The cash cow is based on indicators and volume and does not use price. Obviously volume could be used for more than filtering but here in this thread it seems to be that BW uses volume status to gate his signals for Entry or Exit. The cash cow only uses Entry on the open and Exit on the close. All other turns are Reversals. Using style as part of a trading strategist's approach could be scary to most strategists. BW is not using a reversal strategy for some reason or other.
Quote from MandelbrotSet:
20000 contracts on the ES is nothing.
You've screwed-up jack's over-optimized programming.![]()
LOL, this place is a madhouse.
Quote from bwolinsky:
I tried adding the reversal, and there's too much chop. On some days you're hovering around 50 for most of the day and keep crossing over and under and exiting your position.
Volume, Jack, is the key to the whole system. 20000 .SPX contracts is not 20000 ES contracts, as I've tried to explain to you. I have no trades on 5 minute bars that trade 20000 contracts in WL5.
I guess I need to go back to the TS code from Scottd. I had submitted a TS program for review from a third party that has been tracking it after optimizing the volume conditions some for 15 minute bars.
What you're saying is that Cash Cow was built for 5 minute bars on obviously ES data, and was shown to be unprofitable when working in TS.
You can't play around with volume relationships like that.Quote from bwolinsky:
Yeah, well, SpyderTrader was a WL programmer, not a TS coder. This system only works on .SPX. The results don't indicate failure, however, and I'm still watching the weather change.
I don't really do anything. It's all automated once you write the program.
It really depends on the time frame, Mandy. The first forward trade was a winner. Little drawdown.
Quote from jack hershey:
The trading stategy of the Cash Cow is to build a basic core intraday trading core that trades channels on the 5 minute ES using reversal trading. Raw price/volume data (P, V) was converted to about 31 information components. These were assembled on four levels of logic and iteratively refined (five versions).
The basic core corresponds to beginner and in May version 1.3.3 was doing 25K/month with 5 contracts, 7,500/Month in all of June with 5 contracts.
Now, with versions 1.3.4 and 1.3.5 we are backtesting May and June. The basic core is done (complete for channel trading) as we see it.
Three more shells will be added: basic supreme (channel trading using "order of events"), intermediate (traverse trading with leading indicators of ES) and expert (tape trading, with leading indicators of ES).
I checked Fidelity. They do not offer trading on ES.
I do not know what TS stands for regarding the Cash Cow. Usually it means Trade Station. Trade Station is unfamiliar to any of us.
Regarding the applicability of the cash cow to other futures indexes we are totally uninformed. Anyone trading any other market and wishing to experiment, let us know.
There is a lot of proof at this point that the cash cow is not being used on the SPX on the Fidelity platform for intraday trading.