DUST Signals Equity

Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bear 3X ETF (DUST) Signals-Daily

These Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bear 3X ETF (DUST) signals traded as directed would have performed around 117.8 times better than buy-hold with an ROI of 9504% for the period 11-Aug-16 to 14-Sep-18 These trading signals for DUST were selected from over a million backtest results for their reward/risk and parameter sensitivity characteristics. Backtests don’t […]

Multi-algorithm test results for NUGT (4 algorithms)

Multi-algorithm study results for NUGT DUST and X

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. […]

DUST Daily Trading Strategy

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 […]

AAPL $31,000,000 trading strategy, equity curve

AAPL $31,000,000 Algorithm

This AAPL trading strategy would have given a return of $31,712,009 for every dollar invested in December 1980. That’s 123,000 times better than buy-hold, with nearly four times the annualized return (61.4% vs 16.7% for buy-hold) and roughly half the drawdown which  amounts to over six times better reward/risk than buy-hold. This is a variation […]

Multi-algorithm trading strategy testing- Portfolio and Methodology

“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 […]

Summary of Signalgorithm trading strategy Oct 2016

Summary of Strategy Performance Oct 2016

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 […]

NUGT Trading Strategy (Daily)

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 […]