These Direxion Daily Gold Miners Inde (NUGT) signals traded as directed would have performed only around 0.7 times as well as buy-hold with an ROI of 56% for the period 22-Oct-18 to 18-Oct-19. However the reward/risk was twice as good as buy-hold because drawdown was only 8% compared with 34% for buy-hold. Furthermore the capital […]
These Gold Miners Bull 3X (NUGT) signals traded as directed would have performed around 1913.6 times better than short-hold with an ROI of 190,993% for the period 06-Dec-10 to 21-Sep-18 The trading signals for Gold Miners Bull 3X (NUGT) were selected for their reward/risk and parameter sensitivity characteristics. Backtests don’t always generate reliable signals which […]
These Direxion Daily Gold Miners (NUGT) signals traded as directed would have performed around 86.8 times better than short-hold with an ROI of 7930% for the period 11-Aug-16 to 14-Sep-18. These trading signals for NUGT were selected from over a million backtest results for their reward/risk and parameter sensitivity characteristics. Backtests don’t always generate reliable […]
In the interests of scientific method, I’d like to continue the multi-algorithm study by discussing the worst results, those for X (United States Steel Corp. ), NUGT(Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X ETF) and DUST(Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bear 3X ETF). There was plenty of potential for disaster in these stocks, very large swings indeed. […]
Please note, this post was corrected 1-3-16 to account for a short-side error in the original calculations. Apologies for this.This NUGT trading strategy (Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X ETF) gave a theoretical $1.8 million profit for a $10K initial investment over 2.1 years. The trading strategy required once a day attention. Signals were triggered […]
“Two heads are better than one”, the saying goes. But can averaging improve trading systems? Can a multi-algorithm technique improve profitability and lower risk? After compiling the “Summary of Strategy Performance”, I was very curious to quantify if and for how long strategies such as those published here were profitable for. To do that, I […]
This update covers 26 strategies published 2/10/15 through 9/18/15. For the analysis we measure the results of investing $10K in each strategy on the day of publication. 17 of the strategies made a loss over the entire period, however 5 of these were strategies that broke down after showing a profit. Overall Results vs HoldTotal […]
This trading strategy is for stock symbol DUST the Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bear 3X ETF. It is the complementary stock to NUGT which I analyzed last week. Its not hard to find strategies which would have exploited the intense volatility of this kind of security, if you have access to an optimizing backtester. The […]