I finally have a strategy that backtests very nicely. Ironically, over the last month or so I have programmed many strategies that I thought would work well, which kept failing miserably. I’ve spent many hours and late nights hacking away in
NinjaTrader over the last few weeks coding different strategies to no avail. So yesterday, just out of desperate frustration I pulled a “George Costanza”
So when my algorithm says to buy, I make it sell instead of buy, and when it’s in the conditions I thought would be good to sell, I buy. And wouldn't you know it I started seeing profits. I added a few tweaks and played with different settings and now I have these results below.
This is on the ES Sept
contract, Jun1 to now
I don't like losing that much money on just one trade, but the retracements can take a while and they need room to wiggle to achieve high success ratios.
This is on the June ES contract, Mar 1 – Jun 1
Works well on forex
contracts too, here’s 10 contracts on the Sept 6E
That’s 87 winning trades and only 1 losing trade! I actually had it making more money in some cases, but at the cost of a lower winning percentage ratio (85-88%). I'd rather have a higher probability of success than more money with higher account
volatility.
I’m looking for huge moves in price and, instead of chasing it like I normally would, quickly go in the opposite direction if the move is statistically irrational . It all lines up nicely with some of the things I picked up recently in “Fooled by Randomness”.
I’m going to keep
backtesting farther back in time and with other instruments. If that goes well then later this month I’m going to start forward testing this and, if the testing goes well, plan to go live with this on small positions in August in full auto-trade mode (I don't even know how to do that in NT yet)
Sorry for not giving more details, you don't have to believe me if you think I'm full of it, making it up, or just trying to create hype so I can promote something (which I'm not), I just had to share my excitement with someone. I'll post updates as I proceed.
