Quote from Trader666:
Here you go again, trying to obfuscate the poor performance of your "methods."
For those not familiar, I backtested Jack Hershey's model of the price, volume relationship on 1000 S&P stocks over a 5 year period by buying the "0 to 7 turn" described in "Tomorrowâs Paper Today" (attached) and exiting 5 days later.
Now I'll address each of your red herrings:
1) The wrong market -- please show us where in your paper it says the "P, V relation" doesn't apply to stocks or where it says it only applies to some prescreened universe. This is one of your standard "smoke and mirrors" techniques -- adding conditions AFTER THE FACT, in this case after the publication of "Tomorrow's Paper Today."
2) Not using the underlying relationship -- I used Spydertrader's code for the scoring.
3) Exits -- I've told you many times before why I used time exits instead of the 4 to 3 transitions called for in "Tomorrow's Paper Today." And the reason is, your "model" is so BROKEN that the transitions from 4 to 3 are VASTLY outnumbered by the 0 to 7 transitions... enough to make the average trade last for YEARS. So I exiting 5 days later (which worked better than 1,2,3, or 4 days). Time exits are a legitimate way to test entries. You can pretend they're not but that will only make you look even more ignorant about backtesting.
P.S. Why hasn't ScottD updated us?
