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davelansing replied Sep 13, 2014image Updated money flow indices for EUR, GBP, and CHF. 5-day trend for EUR, GBP, and CHF indicates recent short-term money flow into these currencies (remember, each index is built with the EUR, GBP, or CHF as the quote currency. Therefore an ...
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davelansing replied Sep 12, 2014Update as of 5 pm EST, 9/12/14 Current month start date: 8/19/14 Current month end date: 9/16/14 Month 4, Day 21 Account balance (8/19/14): $213.60 Account balance (9/12/14): $223.16 Current month's %gain = 4.5% Floating P/L = -$46.13 Net Asset ...
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davelansing replied Sep 11, 2014Update as of 8:30 pm EST, 9/11/14 Current month start date: 8/19/14 Current month end date: 9/16/14 Month 4, Day 20 Account balance (8/19/14 AM): $213.60 Account balance (9/10/14): $221.86 Current month's %gain = 3.9% Floating P/L = -$51.53 Net ...
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davelansing replied Sep 10, 2014Update as of 8:30 pm EST, 9/10/14 Current month start date: 8/19/14 Current month end date: 9/16/14 Month 4, Day 19 Account balance (8/19/14 AM): $213.60 Account balance (9/10/14): $220.14 %gain = 3.1% Floating P/L = -$60.46 Net Asset Value = ...
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davelansing replied Sep 10, 2014Neil, Yes, during my back testing, I closed out combinations of profitable trades + losing trades when the %gain for those combinations achieved my target of 1%. Again, easy to do when sitting at my laptop back testing the data. In "Live" trading... ...
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davelansing replied Sep 10, 2014Update as of 11:00 pm EST, 9/9/14 Current month start date: 8/19/14 Current month end date: 9/16/14 Month 4, Day 18 Account balance (8/19/14 AM): $213.60 Account balance (9/9/14): $219.97 %gain = 3.0% Floating P/L = -$64.31 Net Asset Value = $155.66 ...
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davelansing replied Sep 9, 2014Hi Neil, When I initially ran my back tests, I used a "buy all" approach for all currency pairs as mentioned in my first post... and the results were reasonably good. This approach allowed me to set up pseudo-hedges without too much thinking... in ...
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davelansing replied Sep 6, 2014I've uploaded my "Percent Directional Similarity" spreadsheet for all currency pairs that I trade (7 majors and 21 crosses). As briefly explained in post 155 of this thread, the algorithm first assigns a binary score ("1" or "0") to the week-to-week ...
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davelansing replied Sep 5, 2014Update as of 5:00 pm EST, 9/5/14 Current month start date: 8/19/14 Current month end date: 9/16/14 Month 4, Day 15 Account balance (8/19/14 AM): $213.60 Account balance (9/5/14): $217.09 %gain = 1.63% Floating P/L = -$68.10 Net Asset Value = $148.99 ...
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davelansing replied Sep 4, 2014Update as of 9:00pm EST, 9/4/14 Current month start date: 8/19/14 Current month end date: 9/16/14 Month 4, Day 14 Account balance (8/19/14 AM): $213.60 Account balance (9/4/14): $216.84 %gain = 1.52% Floating P/L = -$67.87 Net Asset Value = $148.98 ...
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davelansing replied Sep 3, 2014Update as of 9:00pm EST, 9/3/14 Current month start date: 8/19/14 Current month end date: 9/16/14 Month 4, Day 13 Account balance (8/19/14 AM): $213.60 Account balance (9/3/14): $216.86 %gain = 1.52% Floating P/L = -$46.15 Net Asset Value = $170.67 ...
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davelansing replied Sep 2, 2014Update as of 9:00pm EST, 9/2/14 Current month start date: 8/19/14 Current month end date: 9/16/14 Month 4, Day 12 Account balance (8/19/14 AM): $213.60 Account balance (9/2/14): $216.86 %gain = 1.52% Floating P/L = -$42.62 Net Asset Value = $174.23 ...
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davelansing replied Aug 31, 2014image This algorithm calculates the number of units needed to hedge pairs (either buy/buy or buy/sell based on their % Directional Similarity) taking into account differences in their weekly volatility...
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davelansing replied Aug 31, 2014image Note: the "green" vertical line in each index window simply marks the reference week when the close is taken for each base currency in order to calculate, for each base currency, the number of pips gained (green) or lost (red) from the ...
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davelansing replied Aug 31, 2014image This is my “Price Direction Similarity” algorithm. The currency pair highlighted in blue is the “Reference Pair” , and I can input any currency pair as the reference pair. This simple binary algorithm calculates a week-to-week directional ...
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davelansing replied Aug 30, 2014Update as of 5:00pm EST, 8/29/14 Current month start date: 8/19/14 Current month end date: 9/16/14 Month 4, Day 10 Account balance (8/19/14 AM): $213.60 Account balance (8/29/14): $215.80 %gain = 1.02% Floating P/L = -$44.14 Net Asset Value = ...
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davelansing replied Aug 28, 2014Update as of 10:00pm EST, 8/28/14 Current month start date: 8/19/14 Current month end date: 9/16/14 Month 4, Day 9 Account balance (8/19/14 AM): $213.60 Account balance (8/28/14): $215.80 %gain = 1.02% Floating P/L = -$44.39 Net Asset Value = ...
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