Portfolio Doing Well
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toddone46
8 years ago #113755
The portfolio I developed using StrategyQuant is working very well. I started it in a live account April 1, 2015 and it is up 14% and over 1000 pips. Drawdown is minimal at 11%, my goal is to have drawdown capped at 20%, but ideally below 15%. Although it’s too early to conclude success after only 2 months, the strategies’ drawdowns and smooth upward performance results are indicative of the back testing and forward testing results I had. So it’s looking real good overall.
After I made 10%, I doubled the lot size. This is a test live account (demo account was giving different trade results than the live account so I do not want to rely on a demo account’s results). I am using a $1,000 account with a .01 micro lot to start, and am now using a .02 micro lot, and will continue to increase as profits grow to compound the returns.
The attached pic is of when I started this portfolio in a live test account April 1, 2015. So it has accurate readings related only to this portfolio and filters out previous results from other strategies. I also have the entire account tracked on MYfxbook (http://www.myfxbook.com/members/PrincipAnalysis/principle-analysis-sq-portfolio/1244436) but this documents the account since its inception which distorts the data related to this portfolio since I tested a grid trading strategy before and it was very wild so I stopped using it. You can see on the MYfxbook link that the performance became significantly smoothed out once I started using the current StrategyQuant portfolio April 1st though.
I just wanted to drop by and post my results and at least short term success in using StrategyQuant to develop my own EAs. So far so good. I will be back again later with an updated report.
mikeyc
7 years ago #137286
Wow, the skepticism and negativity in here is dismal!
If we were to just focus on the portfolio of this particular thread http://www.myfxbook.com/members/PrincipAnalysis/principle-analysis-sq-portfolio/1244436 then what exactly is so wrong with it?
It’s not even been running a year people!
There was a period of stagnation from June 26th to Septermber 8th. Less than two and half months.
And then another period of stagnation from September 8th until now. Who knows how much longer it will stagnate…but who knows what the maximum stagnation was during testing?? Only the creator of the portfolio.
I’ve seen countless strategies with long periods of stagnation. Even with a large portfolio of strategies 100 days + of stagnation has been common. That’s over 3 months of a portfolio not making new highs!
TIP: if you don’t like stagnation and slow gains…create more profitable strategies to fill in the gaps. Simple.
And no, I completely disagree that people successful portfolios are going to brag about it. Not everyone is like that.
Also, by all accounts, the owner of this particular portfolio has already said the results are good enough for him and in line with his own expectations.
I don’t know what the big deal is and I think everyone just needs to get back to building new and better strategies.
That myfxbook system has now been stopped and the money withdrawn. It did make an overall profit, but return/DD was 1 over a year.