futures trend-following journal

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CapitalG

Does anyone know of a good futures trend-following journal? I've been looking around, and can't seem to find anyone who posts trades and P/L. Any info is welcome...

thanks!
 
I hate to be the ONLY PERSON to reply to my own post... but I'll try to get things started. All I've been able to find is this guy's blog:

www.capitalview.blogspot.com

and he's only been posting for two months or so. Anyone know any other journals, logs, etc?

c'mon!
 
Check out JWH's site for monthly commentary.

Check out Dunn Capital.com

Im assuming you mean commodity / futures trend following.
 
thanks, psytrade, that is helpful. What I'd really like to see is what someone like Dunn's (or any trend-follower's) portfolio looks like, how and when they add to positions, and how the composition of the portfolio is changing over time.

any other ideas out there?
 
Capital, Dunn will show you , but you need $10 million in the account.

You might peruse collective2.com they might have some futures traders, though its probably all daytrading eminis. And the real risk of this stuff should have you running the other way.

The only way might be finding a good backtesting platform for futures. Trading recipes or the like. Not too sure myself. I only test a continuous contract at a time, and I have a hard time beating the index with my current stuff Im putting together.
 
What type of trend-following are you interested in following? Any journal on longer-term trend following is going to be pretty boring. There ain't much "action."

You can also use the old turtle rules and just follow along. Take you about 15 mintues a day in excel, tops. Either the shorter-term or longer-term systems will give you an idea of what it "feels" like.

If you really want to test systems, try:

http://www.tradingblox.com

http://www.tradingblox.com/forum/
 
You can also take a look at TradersStudio for developing and testing portfolio based systems. We designed this product for that purpose. TradersStudio can optimize parameters for a system on a basket of market and allow you to analyze the combined results on the basket as well as each market.

You can take a look at the TradersStudio tutorials

http://tradersstudio.com/Default.aspx?tabid=81
http://tradersstudio.com/Default.aspx?tabid=82

TradersStudio can also translate existing TradeStation EasyLanguage code.
 
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