Let's look a little closer at your post...
Quote from Trader666:
"A Team" Approach -- Add a boatload of ADDITIONAL conditions that were not in Jack's original document and declare that the "P,V relation" works after all.
Yes please note how the "A Team" Approach used ADDITIONAL conditions that Jack, the documents original author, recommended in several of his subsequent posts.
SO for redundancy...
Quote from Trader666:
For the Nth time, there's NOTHING about which portfolio to use in the original document...
You are absolutely correct mon ami. What we do have is several posts, like
this one, BY THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR might I add, that describes what types of portfolios to use. You have fabulously demonstrated what types of portfolios don't work! So, for anyone starting down the trail, it is good for them, to learn from what you did, and begin where you left off by using recommend portfolios as opposed to T6 like portfolios which gave him results like...
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/attachments/the-turd-jpg.30579/
By using the portfolios constructed from
recommended conditions that were found in subsequent posts, you get an EQ curve that looks more like this...
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/attachments/6monthbacktest-jpg.39201/
Ultimately, it is up to the trader as to whether they prefer a negative EQ curve over a positive EQ curve. I always assumed most traders preferred positive EQ curves. It is hard to find an instance where a negative EQ curve is preferred. But so has been the path of T6...
To the bank, or not to the bank! That is the question... The choice is the trader's. If the trader prefers T6's EQ curve, do as he has done. If the trader does not prefer T6's EQ curve, begin where he left off or jump to the ORIGINAL AUTHOR'S RECOMMENDATION.