Top 10 trading systems - my comments

Considering that these are the 10 best systems, I can only conclude that a lot of systems have been struggling in the past 3 or so years, or there is too much emphasis being placed on historical performance.

I was interested to see that Fitschen is still selling Aberration (and also I-Master) but he doesn't recommend the use of these systems alone but rather as a combo, so that if one is not working the others can pick up the slack.

I must say, trading systems like Aberration, Basis II and Trendchannel which have gone nowhere in the past 2 or 3 years takes a special type of trader.

Stuckey's system Golden SX has been superceded by his Catscan 3 Plus system which would appear to be a better alternative system at this time.

Ready-Set-Go is a weekly trading system which is quite surprising considering that its drawdowns are low.

R-Breaker is having a tough time recently. I suspect some adjustment of the system parameters would help. But certainly the lack of volatility in the SP market is has been a major issue. When I spoke to John Hill at one of the trading expos, he thinks that R-Breaker will recover in the future. We'll see how long we'll have to wait for this.

Richard
 
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"systems can stay in drawdowns far longer than trading accounts can retain adequate capital"

You can quote me on that.

My take: once a system goes beyond it's historically-tested worst drawdown, it's time to "pull the plug"...or make a change.
 
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"systems can stay in drawdowns far longer than trading accounts can retain adequate capital"

You can quote me on that.
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Probably right.


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My take: once a system goes beyond it's historically-tested worst drawdown, it's time to "pull the plug"...or make a change.
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Wouldn't think so.
 
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Considering that these are the 10 best systems, I can only conclude that a lot of systems have been struggling in the past 3 or so years, or there is too much emphasis being placed on historical performance.

I was interested to see that Fitschen is still selling Aberration (and also I-Master) but he doesn't recommend the use of these systems alone but rather as a combo, so that if one is not working the others can pick up the slack.

I must say, trading systems like Aberration, Basis II and Trendchannel which have gone nowhere in the past 2 or 3 years takes a special type of trader.

Stuckey's system Golden SX has been superceded by his Catscan 3 Plus system which would appear to be a better alternative system at this time.

Ready-Set-Go is a weekly trading system which is quite surprising considering that its drawdowns are low.

R-Breaker is having a tough time recently. I suspect some adjustment of the system parameters would help. But certainly the lack of volatility in the SP market is has been a major issue. When I spoke to John Hill at one of the trading expos, he thinks that R-Breaker will recover in the future. We'll see how long we'll have to wait for this.

Richard
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Also interesting, 7 are longer term trend mostly;
3 are smaller term trend/countertrend.:cool:

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