Fri 27 Feb 2009
Forex / Futures Systems Results for February 27, 2009
Posted by Ed Mamula under Forex Trading ResultsResults since last update (2 weeks):
Cable Glider — 0 wins , 1 loss, 1 scratch (partial loss)
Euro Ranger — 2 wins, 0 losses
Darth Fader — 0 wins, 0 losses
Cable Glider is now the system with the deepest current drawdown. I took a loss early last week, and scratched another loser before it could reach my stop loss. Cable Glider is a filtered trend following system, and it had an extremely hard time. In fact, this month’s loss was the system’s worst ever. I managed to dodge a good portion of those losses with manual overrides though. This month’s loss in the Cable Glider snaps a 5 month winning streak for this iteration of the system.
The Euro Ranger system went 2 and 0 in the last two weeks and showed a profit for the month. In January, the system showed a net loss for the first time since December 2006.
Darth Fader was idle. It would look to sell strength in the stock futures, and there’s been almost no strength whatsover in the last couple of weeks, as the market has fallen to fresh 11 year lows.
My actual results trading the Troika systems in February was a positive 2.1%. My actual trading return year to date is positive 9.0%
I don’t have much to report on the systems development front. Although the Darth Fader system has done well for me so far in the S&P futures, I keep tinkering with alternative ideas. It seems I’m leaving a lot of opportunity untapped…
