Simple System for Beginners

Quote from hanseng1:

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If you use $12.5 slippage and $5 commission per trade, you would've lost your rear in any contract (other than the Russell, which I did not test) over the last three years.

As a side note, I used intraday continuous futures for the tests.
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Thanks for testing and posting the results.
 
If there is a major flaw in the code, please let me know and I'll fix it. As it is now, it is not profitable once adjusted for slippage.

I can post the Tradestation results in Excel format tomorrow if there is any interest. It is on my work computer at the office, so I do not have access to it right now.
 
Signals for 9-01-2004

open of day session = 546.60


Long signal = 546.60*1.0033 = 548.40 Stop
Short signal = 546.60*.9967 = 544.80 Stop

Place the stop orders at 1300 CST
 
Quote from AnomalyResearch:

Signals for 9-01-2004

open of day session = 546.60


Long signal = 546.60*1.0033 = 548.40 Stop
Short signal = 546.60*.9967 = 544.80 Stop

Place the stop orders at 1300 CST
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AR, I don't know how interested you are in pursuing this, but if you want to do it for a few weeks or so, I suggest starting a new thread with the Russell in the title (or whatever you're trading). If someone were then to begin a separate thread applying this to the NQ, and another thread applying it to the ES (or whatever), keeping everything straight would be much simpler, and each thread would be much shorter.

Just a thought.
 
Hi dbphoenix,
Thanks for the advice on starting a new thread.

I wont be posting here very much. I just wanted to clarify for anyone still reading this thread what the signals actually are.
This is the system:

1) use the day session opening price
2) wait til 1300CST to place the orders
3) take only 1 trade per day. If you are stopped out do not renter that day.
4) exit at 1500 CST if not stopped out
5) trade the ER2 contract

I cant speak to the results people get from testing other times, using trailing stops,tweaking this changing that etc. For example the system Hanseng1 tested is not even close to the above rules.
Have no idea where he got that shit. Whatever.
I will post monthly the results of "walk forward" trading of the rules as stated above.
 
Gotcha. I mention it only because we went through this a couple of years ago and it's now next to impossible to find anything.

You've earned many kharma points for initiating the discussion in the first place.
 
Quote from hanseng1:

As it is now, it is not profitable once adjusted for slippage.
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How about testing it for ER2? And did you test it for bonds and notes too?
 
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