One of the readers of this blog, Mark, alerted me to a new indicator/system published from Connors/Alvarez : The ConnorsRSI. What is the ConnorsRSI? It consists of three components:a. Short term Relative Strength, i.e., RSI(3).b. Counting consecutive up and down days (streaks) and “normalizing” the data using RSI(streak,2). The result is a bounded, 0-100 indicator.c. Magnitude of the move …
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Quiz System
Here’s the Equity curve: And here’s the code: Buy=Sell=Short=Cover=0;if (StrFind(“WOODGDXEPUIDXPALLJJG”, Name()))Buy=Sell=1;qty=6;SetOption(“MaxOpenPositions”,qty);;PositionSize=-98/qty;SetTradeDelays(0,1,1,1);BuyPrice=C;SellPrice=O;ShortPrice=O;CoverPrice=C; What’s happening here? This is a variation of Jay Kaeppel’s post at optionetics but using some extra ETFs that have exhibited the same kind of behavior. Original article: http://www.optionetics.com/market/articles/2012/11/28/kaeppels-corner-the-greatest-gold-stock-system-youll-probably-never-use It buys equal amounts of each of these 6 etfs: WOOD,GDX,EPU,IDX,PALL,JJG.It buys on the close …
Quantopian Multiple Strategy algorithm
I implemented a Multi-Strategy algo in python that can be backtested in Quantopian. Quantopian is an online tool/community where you can code your own algorithm (or copy someone else’s) and backtest against historical 1-minute data. Yes, that is 1-min intraday data of all major U.S. stocks, for free. This is what the backtest looks like …
Better than mean-reversion? An Adaptive Multi-Strategy System
Mean reversion strategies have been very popular since 2009. They have performed exceptionally well for the past 10 years, performing well even during the 2008-09 bear market. Different versions have been popularized, notably by Larry Connors and Cezar Alvarez (previous post) as well as many others in the blog-o-spere such as David Varadi of CSS analytics (DV2) and Michael Stokes @ MarketSci. …
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Backtest Multiple Strategies
If you are serious about trading and/or investing and are willing to commit a good amount of your net worth, you may choose not to follow just one strategy. You may be better off splitting your capital amongst not just different asset classes or stocks or etfs but also different strategies that trade those assets. How can …
