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Dan Lewies's avatar

Definitely too many parameters. Trying to adjust them for better results will probably lead to overfitting. I also think that’s those stop losses could lead to problems. Possible to do better. Thanks for the post. From a new subscriber.

Just a question. What is your live execution trading platform ?

TradeQuantiX's avatar

Totally agree. In the next part we try to make the system more simple. I use real test as my backtesting platform and signal generation and I use interactive brokers for trading

Flo's avatar

Excited for the second part. I thought exactly the same: too many rules for the entry setup

TradeQuantiX's avatar

Thanks Flo! Yes we will definitely have to simplify the entry!

Martin's avatar

Great post, looking forward to the next one!

Cory's avatar

Great write up! Looking forward to following along!

RunQuant's avatar

Rule3_1: #PercentRank MA(C*V, 20) or Rule3_1: #PercentRank if(inspy, MA(C*V, 20), -9999)

Gilad's avatar

Amazing work! thank you, following with great interest!

TradeQuantiX's avatar

Thank you! Glad you liked it

Travis's avatar

Nicely written :) look forward to part 2

Andrew's avatar

I copied the code you provided at the bottom and pasted it into RT, and my MaxDD value is -12.34% vs -21.13% in your article. How can this be? Thanks

TradeQuantiX's avatar

hmm good question. I just tried it too and get the same results as you. I wonder if there was a realtest update that slightly altered how it backtests a bit? I've been looking into it but don't have an answer for you right now

Andrew's avatar

You might be right about RT update. Yet another thing to worry about now, since this is a big difference in the MaxDD value.

TradeQuantiX's avatar

Yea because I had used an older realtest version for a long time and only just upgraded to the latest version. I’d imagine it was a bug fix in real test but I can’t say for sure

aziz's avatar

Thank you

For Realtest software is it necessary to purchase the new license every year ?

TradeQuantiX's avatar

If you want the new updates you have to buy a license ever year for 150$ or so. But you can still use the software as is after 1 year.