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Matthew Finch

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4 years ago #247211

Im sure this may have been asked before, but Im wondering if anyone would like to share their favourite ranking for generating random trades, with a view of having the best long-term probability of passing further robustness tests.

As an example, I am using (D1 EURUSD)

Net Profit > 0 

Average Win > Average Loss

Max DD% < 40%

Stability > 0.5

Avg Trades Per Month > 1

Ret/DD Ratio > 1.5

Would anyone recommend changing these or adding to them?

Thanks, M

 

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hankeys

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4 years ago #247217

i mostly use profit factor > 1.3, win% > 30%, RDD > 0.5/per year, number of trades > 30/per year

if you dont tell us, how long data you are using, the ranking RDD 1.5 cant be analysed

net profit > 0 is unnecessary, because you are using RDD > 1

why to compare avg win and loss? its your choice..

maxDD in percent doesnt mean nothing, because you are not telling us your capital and MM. i am always using ranking criteria which are not capital or MM addicted

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Matthew Finch

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4 years ago #247218

That’s helpful, thanks Hankeys.

I guess there is no strictly right or wrong answer to the settings, although some are logically incompatible with one another, like the net profit and RDD, as you mention. The RDD is then linked to losses over the testing period and makes more sense than net profit alone, so its more of a measure of fitness over time rather than an end number.

The data I have is from 2003 to 2019, i.e. 16 years so I should set my RDD to 8, then?

For MM I have 2% fixed amount of account and my capital starts at 500. I chose Max DD% as 40% since I saw a youtube video saying that one measure of a good strategy is that you dont need to incur a large amount of loss over the testing period. Should this Max DD be linked to the number of test years, like the RDD%?

Also, you dont use stability at the generation stage to search for better equity curves?

Thanks, M

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tomas262

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4 years ago #247220

Another approach to this would be to use as few criteria as possible. In such case I would only use these two: Profit Factor > 1.2 and # of Trades > X (usually at least 100 trades depending on trading timetrame) so there is statistical significance for the profit factor value. The problem with the criteria you mentioned above can be it can filter out very robust strategies while keeping strategies that look “perfect” but are not robust at all

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hankeys

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4 years ago #247222

i cant tell exactly the settings i would use fo D1 strategies, because i dont trade them and dont use them…i like exit on friday to avoid weekly gaps, and for D1 strategies this doesnt make more sense

for EURUSD i will take 0.5 RDD per year as a minimum

about stability – i dont use it, because good PF and RDD will make the EQ look good, stability will be for 100% bigger than 0.5

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Matthew Finch

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4 years ago #247225

Thats great, thank you. I would not have thought of these approaches looking my strategies in a vacuum; I think I might be too caught up on the stability aspect (while even a high stability does not seem to always give that perfect equity curve – Ive got some at 0.81 which are still quite jagged)

I think Tomas is right – too many criteria – Ive got many strategies which look great but do not pass the robustness tests, the trick to learn is to generate strategies which just do not look good cosmetically…

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4 years ago #250161

RDD

 

Hello, tomas262,

Is the RDD that they said Ret/DD Ratio in SQ?

 

And is 1.2 for profit factor  the reasonable lower limit?  Have the calculation of  profit factor in SQ considerd the commission and slippage cost or not? (Futures markets)

 

 

 

 

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