Mark Holstius Elite    Posts: 744 Joined: 10/11/2012 Location: Sleepy Hollow, IL  User Profile | Thanks for your reflections Keith, Here's hoping the current DD is just the normal day to day MTM action and will recover - and that the theory of taking a large # of small, diversified trades ends up winning over time. Adding a confirmation block sounds good, but will take a lot of testing to see its true effect. In that vein, my research on stops showed that while a stop may help in a certain number of cases, it may have an overall negative effect on the portfolio; https://www.omnitrader.com/currentclients/omnivestforum/thread-view.asp?threadid=7846&posts=8 Any particular limit or modification may be worth it to an individual trader - it’s always a risk / reward "comfort level" tradeoff. Sigh. I’m working on improvements to my large analysis spreadsheet and hope to have some additional information about what constitutes “normal behavior” for the FTM HD portfolio sometime in the near future. Hope you’re having a good weekend - looks like the weather’s nice in Durban, Mark You’re right - Jim Dean’s recent MTV work looks great and shows real promise. | |
