mholstius Regular  Posts: 76 Joined: 6/15/2011  User Profile | Hi Bill, Excellent question - and I’m sorry I didn’t explain that further in the post. Nirvana always uses the account starting equity (not margin available) as the basis for calculating the # shares to purchase, given the % of equity chosen. When it’s doubled to 20%, it’s still using the $100,000 account equity for the calculation - not the $200,000 margin available. So, the 20% of account starting equity is 10% of the 2X $200,000 margin available. Here’s a snag of the first few trades in 2003 and you can see that the trades are identical - except for the # of shares being doubled. Hope that explains it… Also, if you ever want to work with the trades in excel and hadn’t already noticed this, here’s a snag of how to export them into excel; Thanks for keeping an eye on what I’m doing. Peer review is important. Mark [Edited by mholstius on 2/28/2018 6:21 PM]  Attached file : 00 Allocation Results.jpg (114KB - 1175 downloads) Attached file : 01 Export Trades Hint.jpg (141KB - 1281 downloads) |
