Quote from Trader666:
Wrong again Jack!
I tested one of my entry methods under the exact same conditions and parameters I used for testing your "method" -- 5 day exits, same stocks, same time period, NO prescreened "universe," same transaction fees, etc., and got this equity curve.
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Perhaps you may want to fill in those interested on what you did with capital to produce that curve.
A while back I mentioned a person using the batting order for 6 weeks and a maximum of 27K in caopital over 19 trades (18 profitable and one a wash) earned 6k plus in net profits.
We know from the curve you did not compound since the curve is what it is and it is not plotted semilog. the curve shows an unknown amount of capital was used to make 200 dollars a trade. Your other curve shows an unknown amount of capital was used to lose about 20 dollars a trade,
You post like wolinsky. He posted a graph that showed he was sidelined all the time for years and only did 39 trades over that period and he made little money in each trade.
My data is posted on a chart that was produced automatically by Excel.
The slope of this complex chart may be calculated by a reader. Let's say dave is reading at his firm and one of his quants is reading too. At the end of the reading he will calculate and call a producer of a radio show that he and his quant can appear upon as a result of doing field research on a subjective method that is being used by learners who have Schwab accounts. That reader can see how the chart will grow from 1JAN10 it's beginning to the week 52 of 2010. As suggested to you before, a geometri code book may be consulted by your quant.
Or he can use what is called "proportion. This is the exquation of two ratios where one of them has an unknown.
In this example a protractor substitute is not needed but little colored blocks invented by an Italian nun may be used.
We have given three numbers 6 and 6 and 52. Let the unknown be alpha. the proportion once calculated for alpha will reveal the profits for the year with only original capital used to make money.
An advanced consideration would invlove exponents and profit per cycle. This would involve using a calculator which I know quants do not have. the profit per cycle may be determined. this variant method has a cheater in it: the profits are reinvasted but only stating in March. Here the math must be divided into two segments. Call them beta and gamma. Bets is the first linear part. Gamma is a non linear part.
The third problem is comparing alpha and the sum of beta and gamma.
The learner is going through 8 stages of increasing his effectiveness and efficiency. Each stage is quantified and has a name: doubling. this is like taking the rate one begins at and making it work better. The initial rate is in hand. One of the ratios in the proportion established this.
All you readers can keep your eyes peeled as PVT trading becomes documented by using charts and proportions and the compound interest formulae.