well, im re-igniting my stats thread, since I love market stats so much....
Here is my new stat, which I am trading right now. Using daily data since 1980, and my own proprietary volatility and moving averages, my system called a setup which it has only seen 18 times since 1980.
Basically at 1400 ES, it wanted to start considering a long.
The average buy point was 4.5% below initial alert.
Tonight we hit pretty much 9% under.
of these 18 setups that occured, if you bought in at the 4.5% level, with 12 months, the market would have traded on average 23.5% higher since your entry.
the worst 12 month period was 7% higher and the best was 51% higher.