Quote from cstfx:
Collective2 is not real trading. It is hypothetical, no real money on the line trading.
http://www.collective2.com/content/how_hypo_technical.htm
(key phrase: Hypothetical results can be vastly different than the real-life results you can achieve in your trading account, almost always for the worse.)
You are not risking anything by having an account there. Which may explain why he has 6 different "systems" but chose to only boast about the hypothetical returns he has amassed this month already. At the end of the month, he is able to go to the hypothetical mall and purchase some hypothetical extravagance for his hard work this month.
neke puts his money on the line and bleeds his losses here on the board. I asked you (bwolinsky) to post your real results in a real account like neke does and instead you post "hypothetical results".
You're full of shit. You can see covestor.com, and I guarantee I'm not going to be giving you my statements. Covestor is as close as you can come, if you don't believe c2. Collective2 is as close to real world trading as you're going to get. Think not? I'd bet lots of money you have no ability to trade. You thinking that just because they're hypoethical results makes them invalid only shows your naievete, because I know you have no ability to trade as well as I do. Think not, have a look at the equity curve on both www.collective2.com/go/pairsqidqld and the curve from my backtest. Then you decide if you would committ serious money to it, and if you're answer isn't yes, you're an idiot and have no idea what you're talking about.
Think it should be free? The most profitable research ever written should be freely published? I did that with superbands, and nobody paid attention.
How about this, I'll give you the benfit of the doubt. You go back to Wealth Lab specifically, and generate returns greater than that with wl scores exceeding those on the site. You're not going to be able to.
I forgot what Neke was posting, b/c I only pay attention to real time calls, like on sites like collective2 and covestor, and if there isn't anything else to be gained than to only see someone's "fake calls", then why would they be betting they're reputation on it? I'm damned if I do, and damned if I don't if you're not going to pay attention to irreversible market calls. My system in particular could be duplicated to within 1% of it's current value from the worst case scenario.
I'll tell you my rule of thumb. If it's half the APR, and just as much of the drawdown, I tell you, I'd still trade everything I have on it, whether it's with QID, QLD, or QQQQ, or with futures up to $50 million.
Starting capital is 100k and has these results:
Long + Short
Starting Capital $100,000.00
Ending Capital $1,588,422.27
Net Profit $1,488,422.27
Net Profit % 1488.42%
Annualized Gain % 170.24%
Exposure 37.96%
Cash Interest $45,243.05
Margin Loan Interest ($33,720.32)
Total Commission ($1,136.00)
DividendsPaid $0.00
Number of Trades 71
Avg Profit/Loss $20,963.69
Avg Profit/Loss % 2.30%
Avg Bars Held 2.07
Winning Trades 51
Winning % 71.83%
Gross Profit $2,570,408.14
Avg Profit $50,400.16
Avg Profit % 4.43%
Avg Bars Held 2.22
Max Consecutive 8
Losing Trades 20
Losing % 28.17%
Gross Loss ($1,093,508.60)
Avg Loss ($54,675.43)
Avg Loss % -3.15%
Avg Bars Held 1.7
Max Consecutive 4
Max Drawdown ($317,840.06)
Max Drawdown Date 11/4/2008
Max Drawdown % -28.68%
Max Drawdown % Date 11/4/2008
Wealth-Lab Score 319.7834
RAR 448.408
Profit Factor 2.3506
Recovery Factor 4.6829
Payoff Ratio 1.4066
Sharpe Ratio 1.9842
Ulcer Index 7.8509
WL Error Term 12.001
WL Reward Ratio 14.1852
Luck Coefficient 3.6389
Pessimistic Rate of Return 2.5209
Equity Drop Ratio 0.0307