Quote from suma66:
Seems like you really put it to the test. But T666 has 50,000 links that say Jack is a complete fraud. You give him some credit I see.
The biggest problem I have with Jack is that he doesn't talk about trading systems the way someone who has written them for years does. I don't think he has the capability to prove his systems. He's rambled on for years on this site, when posting either a TS version or WL version would have sufficed.
Instead he spends untold hours writing mindless, ritalin drivel on this site. I've posted at least 50 published chartscripts on wl4.wealth-lab.com under the alias nexial_1002002 . When those started appearing they were written by spydertrader, so I'm in the end, not sure who gets the credit for putting pen to the paper. If I had to say I think spyder did more of the work than Jack did.
Jack posts about psychology that any rule based strategy trader would know is irrelevant. I don't think Jack is sane is what I'm really saying. There's no point in beating the dead horse about a decade after his first appearance.
These are the results I have for Jack's script taken from spydertrader's publishing at wl4.wealth-lab.com using the program I've posted already since 9/1/2008 on .SPX with 15 minute bars buying SDS and SSO rather than shorting or buying the futurescontract.
Long + Short Long Only Short Only Buy & Hold
Starting Capital $100,000.00
Ending Capital $1,215,616.33 I would note this is 100k to 1.2mill, not 10k to 1m.
Net Profit $1,115,616.33
Net Profit % 1,115.62%
Annualized Gain % 2,871.29%
Exposure 42.88%
Number of Trades 46
Avg Profit/Loss $24,252.53
Avg Bars Held 25.52
Winning Trades 38
Winning % 82.61%
Gross Profit $1,644,812.19
Largest Winning Trades $192,894.52
Avg Profit $43,284.53
Avg Bars Held 23.37
Max Consecutive 17
Losing Trades 8
Losing % 17.39%
Gross Loss $-529,195.86
Largest Losing Trade $-235,749.42
Avg Loss $-66,149.48
Avg Bars Held 35.75
Max Consecutive 2
Max Drawdown $-377,782.00
Max Drawdown Date 3/4/2009
Max Drawdown % -29.12%
Max Drawdown % Date 3/4/2009
APD 0.5096
APAD 0.9095
Wealth-Lab Score 4,746.6722
RAR 6,696.7506
MAR 98.6029
Profit Factor 3.1081
Recovery Factor 2.9531
Sharpe Ratio 2.9248
Sortino Ratio -2.9248
Ulcer Index 8.1076
WL Error Term 24.4350
WL Reward Ratio 117.5075
Luck Coefficient 4.4564
Pessimistic Rate of Return 1.9238
Equity Drop Ratio 0.0016
K-Ratio 0.1080
Seykota Lake Ratio 0.0795
Expectancy 0.7806
Expectancy Score 53.4747
What you'll notice is the big caveat emptor. The length of the backtest is only about 8 months. I need to see at least 1 year of data to make sure it doesn't completely collapse.
There's some key differences in his script. The biggest is the exit on close. This doesn't work, so this actually holds until we get to those levels. Some of the exit conditions are optimized for the correct HersheyStochk levels