Quote from jack hershey:
For those who use indicators to trade, it is NOT a good idea to use 50% as a signal on a STOCH tuned to "overbought" and "oversold"signals.
From a trading strategist point of view, it is necesary to use any indicator as the designer intended. For the cash cow the indicators were "tuned" for trading from two trading strategy viewpoints each for each of the four indicators.
Obviously there is a "mix up" that occurred when the OP, as a trading strategist, chose to rearrange the stuff that he did. Trader666 did the same thing in his backtesting and it destroyed any trading possibilities.
One of the two trading viewpoints is "signals". Obviously most trading strategies orient to making money and signals play a small role in that process. Indicators, on the other hand, primarily, deal with the making money part of trading strategies.
the Cash cow's primary trading strategy is to make money. The KEYS to making money deal with thre things:
1. Being in the market. You have to not be sidelined if you are using a trading strategy to make money. So an AM entry on open is required. Correspondingly, at the end of the day you exit. These are the functions, respectively of Entry and Exit. They have no other functions that are used in the cash cow.
2. You have to keep on the right side of the market. The bulk of a trading strategy as developed by an expert trading strategist is to keep the trader on the right side of the market. There is no doubt that this occurs on two levels: the P, V relationship handles all. secondly if constrained by anything (like a challenge) then this is done with the tools of the trade. The cash cow uses four indicators of hwich price is NOT included.
Obviously there is a by product of staying on the right side of the market: profit segments are taken in a very timely manner at all times.
3. Operate at the capacity of the market at all times. The market has a nominal capacity value determine by carrying capacity tests. The trading strategist deals with variations of the capacity by measures and by strategies. Volume is the KEY and patial fills are the strategic means. Partial fills have two salient characterisitcs: size and frequency as determined by separation of fills strategies.
None of the above are being done by the OP. And he has "mixed up" the functions of the indicators and their providing of information for logical operation of an ATS. Also he doe not get the use and purpose of Sidelining, Entry and Exit in trading.
It's your system, Jack, certified by you. Nothing's been modified from the original version except for some optimization in values and removing the sell on close.
There's no program that has surfaced drawing straight lines and predicting market movement out there, so I conclude that it doesn't exist. Scottd then, is in TS working on cash cow, but hasn't posted in over half a year now.
