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jackmack
334 posts
msg #132770
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11/24/2016 11:22:05 AM

Kevin_in_GA
I was thinking about the position sizing and what would help in keeping with the 5.
Then I started to think about the entry and exit signals.
Maybe this was covered already in the thread but I didn't see it so... is the following feasible?
If any of the long signals fire ultimately that would mean get long - and if the next signal to get long fires you would again get long.
Then you would hold no more than 5 long positions if you got the signal to do so from 5 different filters UNTIL a short signal fires then you exit your longs and go short 1 position in the same manner as above until you would have a max of 5 short positions then hold until a long signal fires.

How would that perform?
Much worse I suspect but until I get SS I don't have the means to see how it did in back testing.

I know the thought is moving away from your signals but if ANY one of them is signaling long or short ultimately it would mean just that - no?

Thank you

jackmack
334 posts
msg #132771
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11/24/2016 12:00:58 PM

Never mind
That is a bad idea I just listed above

dtatu
143 posts
msg #132773
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11/24/2016 12:40:32 PM

... and Corr with GDX, which, I think, is more reasonable , than a 3x reverse splitted N times DUST, is:
^vix 10 day 0.42
^vix 50 day 0.12
^vix 100 day -0.41

Indeed: only dust

nibor100
1,046 posts
msg #132782
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11/25/2016 11:33:42 AM

Using the past 6 months of ^VIX data downloaded from Yahoo Finance into Excel, I determined that if one went short each day, then 85.8% of the time there would be a profitable exit possible at an Open, within the next 10 days.

If one went long each day then 82.5% of the time there would be profitable exit possible at an Open, over the following 10 days.

However, if one went both long and short each day then just 68% of the time would both trades have a possible profitable exit within the next 10 days.

Possibly shows how regularly volatile the ^VIX is when Open prices are used for entries and exits.
Ed S.



ferndave
65 posts
msg #132904
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11/30/2016 9:19:15 AM

I scripted a backtest on the signals from 3-31 to 11-16, using TVIX and XIV, bought or sold at 5 minutes after open, with $10k. 111% return. -13.3% drawdown. Sharpe of 2.83. Ordering at 30 minutes after open dropped the returns around 20%.

Buy signal triggered for 11/30.

shillllihs
6,047 posts
msg #132921
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11/30/2016 1:48:00 PM

Is this thing long short or what now? Knock knock.
Looks like everyone made out great and moved to the Hamptons.

mahkoh
1,065 posts
msg #132937
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modified
11/30/2016 5:56:43 PM

Currently 3 long VIX signals on my end. Those from 11/17 and 11/21 are slightly down and up resp.
The last from 11/30 up some 6 %.

I've done some digging on NUGT and DUST and their assumed decay rate. I figured if you had gone short on both and rebalance every night at the close you could have made a small riskfree fortune?
The result actually surprised me a bit. A "pair trade" short of $ 5000 both sides from 1/1/2013 until 11/25/2016 (984 trading days) results in a total profit of $ 2962.85, or about $ 3 a day. If you take into account that rebalancing every night would take $ 2 a day ($ 1 a leg at IB's rate) you're left with 994.85. And that's not taking cost to borrow into account.

Unless of course I messed up my excel formulas..



dtatu
143 posts
msg #132938
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modified
11/30/2016 6:13:43 PM

Re . ferndave post

1.111% down to 20% for a 25 min delay in a buy/sell , using the same instruments? Anybody can explain it?

2. Do you, guys, think it's a good idea to use a 2X for buys( TVIX) and a 1X for sells( XIV) ?

3.what about backtesting a 2X , wasting , vehicle, reverse splitted N times?
- if you buy 5 units, in the backtest, at , example 1000$, you risk immensely more % of your account, no? Can one apply this kind of data to forward-test the system, while controlling the money management side of it, too?

dtatu
143 posts
msg #132939
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11/30/2016 6:18:51 PM

makhoh

Re.Currently 3 long VIX signals on my end. Those from 11/17 and 11/21 are slightly down and up resp.
The last from 11/30 up some 6 %.

What instrument do you use to calculate the unrealized P&L ?


dtatu
143 posts
msg #132941
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modified
11/30/2016 7:04:23 PM

...well, I suppose is ^VIX, which is NOT a tradable vehicle.
I think , we are trying to find the best instrument to mirror a ^VIX system ?
Reporting that ^VIX is almost unchanged sine Nov 17 does not help too much, as , in the Real world,
VXX is down 7% and TVIX is down 14%.
My FUTURE spread 1-2 is down 25%, for example.
Just saying : let's talk real world, no?We all know that the Virtual system works: let's see if it also works on the Planet Earth?

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