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Percent Profitable Metric

Percent Profitable is not an evaluation metric … it’s a perspective tool. In the real world, Percent Profitable provides no worth when reviewing the performance of a system. Think about it, a friend, colleague, newsletter writer or system vendor tells you they are 90% accurate in their trade selections. You think WOW, they must really [...]

By |2016-12-22T17:57:43-05:00February 1st, 2016|Categories: General|

Trades by the Hour

Futures trading runs 24 hours a day from Sunday night until Friday's close.  It can be done with a dedicated team of employees working in shifts or with a slew of computers following automated systems.  Either way, running a trading desk, is obviously a full time job. In this blog post I thought I'd show a snap shot [...]

By |2016-12-22T17:57:43-05:00January 22nd, 2016|Categories: General|

Seasonal Accuracy

Our Seasonal Accuracy charts compare the current years performance against our 5/10/15/20 year charts. When the current years performance closely matches any of our seasonal charts a grey box is drawn to highlight periods of high correlation.  That way we have a better idea when we may want to follow seasonal turning points (see Chart [...]

By |2016-12-22T17:57:44-05:00January 13th, 2016|Categories: General|
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