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Thanks for the kind words. If you are happy with the managed acct, and the person running it wants to be your mentor, I would pursue that route big time. Nothing beats someone to guide you through the trading morass...
On another note, glad you decided to ignore the few 1 star reviews of my book. There are people out there who would give 1 star to a book that had $50 bills in between each page. These folks probably also give 1 stars to folks like Pardo and Kauffman, and those guys are legends...
I can certainly attest to Kevin's book being excellent. I purchased it two weeks ago and finished it in one weekend, I just didn't want to put it down (while taking lots of notes). I will certainly read it again sometime.
The only thing I disagree with is Monte Carlo analysis. However that has nothing to do with the quality of Kevin's book. It is just me not agreeing with the value of Monte Carlo. Kevin, i've been meaning to pop you a pm sometime to hear your thoughts on why I do not think it has any real value. I would like to hear your take after hearing my reasoning.
Kevin, does this just apply to new purchases going forward,...or could I shoot you an email with my order confirmation from a couple weeks ago?
@DarkPoolTrading I'm also curious on your take on Monte Carlo Sim. As we know, the pragmatic approach is to view one concept from multiple very different viewpoints.
Perhaps another thread where it can be debated? @kevinkdog
do monte carlo sim results fools us? or backtesting.
i did backtesting with few years data, hiding some data , did monte carlo but results where bad.
incubation was best but when i repeated the process with walk forward,incubation and again back testing with unseen data it was good but not in monte carlo.
only one positives i found with monte carlo,it can predict or advice best capital amt to be employed with less ruin and dd.
If you build your system incorrectly, and use data from it in Monte Carlo, then the results will be bogus.
If you build your system correctly, especially with walkforward analysis (again, done correctly), then my experience is that Monte Carlo can be a big benefit.
But if you believe your results are suspect before MC, I certainly would not use them.
i mean i am working on strategy, its complete visual with no programming.. i did paper trade , simulation trades and is in incubation period. I have incubation data of 3 years with different market sentiments
can i directly use data from incubation to monte carlo sim!
I would say 3 years is not enough data for MC simulation, but then again, I don;t use incubation data when I run the MC (I use walkforward out of sample results). Although after having 3 years of incubation data, do you really need more confirmation of your system's performance? How much more incubation data do you need?
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In your book you mention testing a strategy on 10 minute bars and then varying the test by 1 minute to see how it changes the performance of the system. How do you decide how much of a performance decrease is acceptable when changing the bar timeframe by 1 minute? For example if a strategy makes 200% profit but drops to 50% would you still feel it is ok to trade?
Thanks for the question. I still do this kind of testing on occasion, but nowadays I don't normally do it as part of my development process. Why not? Well, I guess I have seen too many times where a 10 minute bar creates a great strategy, but a 9 minute or even 11 minute doesn't. I have concluded that some of that performance difference could be real, since many more people are using 10 minute charts to be entering and exiting, and my strategy may have caught some of that actual price behavior.
So, I guess I am saying I would not be turned off any longer by the case you present. I would likely still find it acceptable.
What I would not do is try the system with 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 minute bars, and then pick the best one overall. I think that is bad optimizing.