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Strategies & Market Trends : Win Lose or Draw : Be A Steve, Make A Call -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Softechie who wrote (11196)	5/8/2003 4:03:05 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11447

so ya think you're a good trader? can you match these results? (not directed at you softie, you're just the most recent post) i backtested a method that on every close of the dow would coin-toss to decide (a) long or short, (b) how much of a dip to long or pop to short, (c) how much profit to sell on, and (d) how long to wait until shutting down a losing trade. here are the results over the past 1500 trading days. i find them immensely amusing. 1500 Bars of Price Data were used in testing DJIA. . System Results Buy and Hold Results Profit/Loss $ $774,824.75 $17,302.49 Profit per Bar $441.24 $11.54 Total Trades 1,257 1 Avg Profit/Loss $616.41 $17,302.49 Avg Bars Held 1.40 1,499.00 Total Winners 1,162 1 Avg Profit/Loss $905.34 $17,302.49 Avg Bars Held 1.14 1,499.00 Total Losers 95 0 Avg Profit/Loss $-2,917.65 $0.00 Avg Bars Held 4.59 0.00