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Backtest TOS Excel Alpha Beta Sharpe

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hmmmmm some form of very highly compressed morse code?

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you showed the strategy on a one minute chart and although the results look good I don't think it's really feasible nor realistic. I do think you may be onto something but further testing needs to be done. Following a strat in thinkorswim and entering manually is not as easy as one would think. A retail trader will have better chances of success entering 1-2 times a day. I use a 5 minute chart for my algos with manual entry.

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I totally agree.. but for now, that is what i have... and you work with what you ahve not what you wish you have..

meanwhile... i am on quantopian and quantiacs...
and i will be running this through quantiacs engine against their futures contracts and other things
that should give me more realistic tighter results with figures like sharpe and alpha...

i know i have something here... but anyone who can write code to do a crossover can have "something"

have to take it through the whole wash rinse and dry cycle...
right now its more the oh sh*t im excited and the potential and as i said gobsmacked
i have seen tons of charts and things over the past 20 plus years and nothing did this well

it does leave a lot on the table, but if it does that in exchange for lower risk in terms of risk vs reward
i can live with that...

while it works on 1 minute bar chart, it also is the place where you can find failures too
mostly because the reversals can be drastic and volatile... while up the time scale that is less common and more smoothed out...

for instance... the 1 minute chart and day can stop you out because it drops 2 dollars, and returns
but on the day chart for that time, its just a wick not an event... and so wont effect things as much

im just a bit impatient and need to earn a living to keep going given unemployment..
so forgive me on the 1 minute chart...

ultimately if its really good, i have a few friends and may start a fund..
at the very least, i could pick a couple of hundred stock and put out day status newsletter..
that may make me a buck or two as it reports go long, go short, stay pat...

and i thought you would have liked my compressed morse code joke...
hmmm have to work on that comedic side of my personality more..

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ok.. picked MA Mastercard and ran the 5 minute with 500shares for one day...
as its an interesting question of how it performs at that time scale

BULL 5 min intraday 500 shares




BEAR 5 min intraday 500 shares



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