Mark Holstius Elite    Posts: 744 Joined: 10/11/2012 Location: Sleepy Hollow, IL  User Profile | An excellent question, Buffalo… and I wish I had a definitive answer. That’s why I keep exploring refinements to the system. I feel an added sense of responsibility when other people are mirroring my trading. In looking over the history, I couldn’t verify that Rev06 was doing anything out of the ordinary. It had numerous times in the past when it was flat or in a DD, and the recent 3 months might prove to be just another one of those. To be sure, we probably won’t know for another year or so. RTMs “make their money” during volatile periods, and often when the indexes are flat. As you know, they don’t like trends without pullbacks - and this has been an “interesting” 3 months. This is a major update that refines much of the system, and I hope it’ll be an improvement. The history looks good, and it’s still essentially a “walk forward” since the Dynamic Lists are picking the stocks each day. I’ve added 10 more Dynamic Lists, included volatility as a factor in all 15 lists, added an additional 19 RTM systems, and increased the # of custom strategies from 40 to 200. That’s 3X the # of Dynamic Lists, ~5X the # of RTMs, and 5X the # of Custom Strategies. All that adds a lot of diversification to the trades, and allows for more refinement of the allocation to a particular trade. Will it work going forward? Only time will tell… I’m live with it in my IRA & Margin accounts and don’t plan on modifying anything until Nirvana gives us the capability to do limit orders. Not sure how long it will be for that, but I’m hoping limit entries will improve things even more when they come. As always, I’m open to suggestions… and grateful for the support. Mark P.S. You’re right - it’s nice of Angela to make things easier… | |
