Cornix's TA Performance

[atticus]

Quote from cornix:

Surf's journal is much less about actual trading, yet it's alive and well.

I suggest move the general TA debate into a separate thread indeed and myself will just stick to posting performance here with on-topic discussion only.

+1

 

[cornix]

I started this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=273468 in order to discuss TA as "objective vs. psychological/savant skill" in general. Every participant of this thread is welcome there as debate will be on topic in the right place now.

 

[cornix]

Two trades today. One -1.50 and another (second mouse gets the cheese) +2.75.

 

[cornix]

One trade today with average closing fill for -1 tick.

 

[R. Raskolnikov]

On what time frame? Across how many set's of multiple time frames? Did you include any other indicators overlapped with breakout signals?

My guess is you tested something very very simple and have drawn large conclusions based off of that.

Quote from marketsurfer:

Corn,

Take breakouts for instance, we tested 100's of thousands of breakout trades and the outcome was overall negative----- surf

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from cornix:

One trade today with average closing fill for -1 tick.

http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3822702#post3822702

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from R. Raskolnikov:

On what time frame? Across how many set's of multiple time frames? Did you include any other indicators overlapped with breakout signals?

My guess is you tested something very very simple and have drawn large conclusions based off of that.

Yes, it was a simple strategy-- My post was inappropriate for Corn's journal so I moved it to his TA thread. surf

 

[cornix]

Two trades today.

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from cornix:

Two trades today.

What are your percentage gains/losses so far in this experiment?

thanks!

 

[cornix]

Quote from marketsurfer:

What are your percentage gains/losses so far in this experiment?

thanks!

Ha, good question... Problem is I live in two places and two Sierra Chart instances contain data for trades performed from each home respectively, so data is split a bit. Current place has 40% profitable trades on 5 trades sample. The other place I'll check when visit it again.