by George Pruitt on January 23, 2020 in Free Trading System, Mean Reversion, Python, TradingSimula-18, Trend Following System
Mean Reversion and Trend Following Produces Smooth Equity Curve Expanding to a large portfolio is easy to do if you have a very large account. Most retail trading accounts can’t cover the margin requirement nor the risk involved with trading many markets. Take a look at this chart. It trades a very small portfolio of […]
READ MOREby George Pruitt on January 3, 2020 in Free Trading System, Python, Sector Analysis, Trend Following System
Limiting sector exposure can help limit draw down. When back testing with most platforms you have to throw a huge portfolio at an algorithm and hope for the best. Does it matter that all six markets in your currency sector is currently long? You bet it does. If a geo-political event occurs then you could […]
READ MOREby George Pruitt on January 2, 2020 in Introduction, Python, Sector Analysis, TradingSimula-18
Here is some code and visual aid to help understand how TradingSimula-18 figures out how many current positions are in the same sector as the market that is currently being tested. Now that I know the sector the current market belongs to I can use that information to extract the total positions in that sector. […]
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