Uneven Strategies Working with Different Profitabilities in Portfolio Building Part One ~ forex trading kaskus

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One of the first questions I asked myself when I begun the development of portfolios within Asirikuy was : What if the profitabiliy of the trading systems used is very different ? What will happen if one system is much more profitable than the other one in the long term ? I started to wonder if the most unprofitable system would just drain out the profitability of the best one or if things would improve with time as the systems traded together. Today I will be writing the first part of a two part post which will talk about my finding around portfolio trading of uneven systems and the effect of doing these types of pair-ups in the overall draw down and profitability of a given portfolio.

In order to pair two uneven systems I needed to find two likely long term profitable systems that traded with similar frequency but which had significant differences in profitability that would become larger in the long term. The most suitable system I found was Watukushay No.2 which trades on both the EUR/USD and the GBP/USD. Although both instances are bound to be long term profitable, the EUR/USD instance achieves higher profitabilities in simulation due to the higher presence of the inefficiency exploited by Watukushay No.2 on this currency pair. By pairing up both systems I would be able to see the overall effect in long term portfolio trading allowing me to see if one system would be able to drain the other one or if - despite their differences in profitability - they would achieve a joint effort towards more profitable territory.

To make things even more interesting I decided to increase the Risk used on these tests to 5 also extending the backtests to include 2010 months up until May first. The results - shown below - let us see the big difference in profitability between the EUR/USD and GBP/USD instances of Watukushay No.2 as compounding effects become more pronounced. The contribution of the less profitable GBP/USD instance becomes less significant as time goes by and the EUR/USD instance starts to take a very important place within the portfolio. In the year 2009-2010, most of the position sizes taken are the responsability of the EUR/USD instance while the GBP/USD instance contributes about 5-10% of the trading volume. It is extremely interesting here to note that -in the long term - a portfolio setup eliminates unprofitable strategies by itself, since less account percentage is allocated as the instances fail to accurately perform, effectively protecting the account from the less perfoming strategies.
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However what happens during the whole ten year period ? What happens with the overall losing period length, maximum draw down, etc ? For the Risk 5 tests, the maximum draw down period length and the maximum draw down values for the EUR/USD instance were 658 days and 26.96% while for the GBP/USD instance they were 1026 and 59.41%. However, the portfolio achieves a wonderful effect and achieves - within the ten year period - to reduce the maximum draw down period to 433 days and the maximum draw down to 30.66% just a little bit higher than the EUR/USD instance and much lower than the GBP/USD instance.
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It is also very interesing to evaluate the yearly profits of the portfolio (shown above) which allow us to see how the EUR/USD instance takes over as times goes by. Of particular importance is the year 2002 in which Watukushay No.2 achieves its highest profit on the EUR/USD (note that high risks exaggerate these effects), leaving behind the GBP/USD instance in terms of equity gains. As time evolves even further we note how the EUR/USD instance keeps growing the account and the contribution of the GBP/USD instance becomes very small. In the end, the profitability of the GBP/USD instance achieves a minor increase in average yearly profitability for the account, from 41 to 42% showing that the addition of this instance, eventhough much less profitable did add up to draw down period reduction and increases in profitability in the long term.

Of course, there are still several questions unanswered which will be addressed on the next part, released tomorrow. For example, what happens if we decide to start to trade a portfolio like this just before the worst draw down period of the worst performing system ? Will this expose us to higher risk ? Is the long term risk indicative of the highest possible draw down even when different starting periods are taken into account ? Tomorrow I will try to answer these questions as I continue to research the depths of the world of portfolio trading and combinations of Asirikuy systems.

From todays post we can definitely conclude that the best idea is to combine trading systems with similar profit targets, however if one of the systems does start to fail it is very probable that its trading contribution will be slowly eliminated by the account growth caused by the other systems. This is very powerful in the sense that the portfolio self-manages the profitability of trading strategies and automatically rewards systems that perform better and punishes systems that perform worse.

If you would like to learn more about automated trading system development and how you too can learn to develop your own long term profitable systems please consider buying my ebook on automated trading or joining Asirikuy to receive all ebook purchase benefits, weekly updates, check the live accounts I am running with several expert advisors and get in the road towards long term success in the forex market using automated trading systems. I hope you enjoyed the article !

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Some Trading Advice Trade What you See ~ forex trading kuwait

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It is incredible to see how many traders out there start calling different future price levels and saying that a certain currency pair will fall or rise in the long term and how another will not, etc. One of the first things that new forex traders are tempted to do is to issue forecasts of future price movements of currencies and act accordingly. On todays post I want to write about this practice and how the forecasting of currency pairs should be avoided if you wish to become successful in currency trading. Particularly I want to pinpoint the dangers and flaws of fundamental forecasting and how trading based entirely on price action - with the application of some sound trading principles - is in my mind the best way to achieve success either in manual trading or in the design of automated trading systems.

First of all, it is good to know what I refer to as forecasting. When a person says "The EUR/USD will be 1.60 in 2 years", that is what I call forecasting, an attempt to predict the future based on some evidence that holds no predictive power over such a wide range of possible outcomes. Predicting economic cycles, wide movements, bottoms, tops and similar unpredictable market outcomes are some of the fundamental reasons why new traders fail.

It is easy to understand why so many people fall victim to forecasting. We like to be right and forecasting a given price level that in the long term becomes true is very satisfying. For example, if you said in December 2009 that the EUR/USD would reach 1.3 next year, you would have made a very accurate forecast of what would have happened in the future. However there was no substantial evidence to guide you towards this conclusion and hitting the nail on the head with your prediction might have been a simple lucky guess. Of course, I can say that next year the EUR/USD will reach 1 or 1.5 and probably I would be right about one those forecasts due to the yearly volatility of this forex currency pair.

However what we have to understand here is that we cannot come up with conclusions outside of what is being showed by a certain currency pairs price action. I saw many people talking about the EUR/USD reaching a bottom around 1.32-33 when in fact there was no evidence to believe this to be true. Of course, in the end the people who make money are the people who play the market by two extremely simple principles. Take into account support and resistance levels and follow the trend.

Why would you be willing to go against a trend that is so crystal clear on the charts ? There is a reason why trends develop and taking trades against long term trends is suicidal most of the time. Reversals are quite rare and they take long periods of time to develop and for this reason they are not a good strategy to trade, it is much better to wait until a reversal happens and a new trend develops than attempting to enter the "beginning" of a new trend by guessing a reversal is in place. When you watch support and resistance levels not only are you able to accurately gauge the probabilities of price movements but you are also able to get into very good spots for long term trend following.

What you need to understand here as a trader is that you should read the information the market tells you and make an educated guess regarding price movement based on the simple assumption that trends will most of the time continue and support and resistance levels will shape price action. It is a matter of interpreting what the market is telling you and forming a high probability outcome based on these two simple market principles.

So in the future you should not try to forecast the price level of a currency in a few years or attempt to "call" the bottom or top of the current trend. You should focus on following price action relative to support and resistance levels and following trends, entering them on favorable positions based on your first analysis. Trading what you see on the charts instead of what you hear on the news or what you think will happen in the future is vital in order for you to achieve long term success in forex trading. Of course, the above technique is what has worked for me but other ways of analyzing price action and coming up with good probability reading may obviously be possible. Just remember : do not attempt to forecast, just follow your charts.

If you would like to learn how you can develop your own long term profitable strategies using forex automated trading please consider buying my ebook on automated trading or joining Asirikuy to receive all ebook purchase benefits, weekly updates, check the live accounts I am running with several expert advisors and get in the road towards long term success in the forex market using automated trading systems. I hope you enjoyed the article !

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Uneven Strategies Working with Different Profitabilities in Portfolio Building Part Two ~ forex trading keywords

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Yesterday I started to discuss the effect of running a portfolio with systems that have very uneven performance. I used the GBP/USD and EUR/USD instances to exemplify this case and show you exactly what the effect of running systems with very different profitabilities is along a very wide range of years. However once post was not enough to discuss all the effects of running such uneven strategies and several questions still remained. On todays post I will finish my discussion on this matter, answering the remaining matters as clearly as I can. I will attempt to discuss the effect of different starting times in running a portfolio and how this affects the global profitability and risk/draw down targets of a portfolio built upon the join venture of uneven strategies.

On part one of this post I was able to show you how running a portfolio of two long term profitable systems has an overall profitable effect regardless of the global differences in profitability. I showed you how the GBP/USD and EUR/USD instances contributed somewhat equal profit/draw down percentage in the beginning of the account and how the contributing power of the GBP/USD instance grew smaller as trading progressed. Of course, this means that the portfolio starting time may prove decisive as different startup periods may lend themselves to different contributions of the separate systems. Some very important questions start to come out as a consequence of this matter. Will the account face higher risk targets if the account is started right before the worst draw down of the worst performing strategy ? Will long term draw down targets be an underestimation of the potential draw down ?

In order to answer these questions I looked at an account started right before a very significant draw down period of the GBP/USD instance which started in mid 2009. I ran a test from January 2009 until May 2010 and compared the results obtained for the 10 year portfolio for these same months. The first thing we can take into account is the draw down figures of both tests. The maximum draw down in 2009 of the 10 year test was near 9% while the maximum draw down for the test from 2009 to 2010 is 28%. It is however worth noting that this 28% is inline with the maximum historical draw down of the 10 year portfolio which is 30%. Looking at the equity curves of both systems displaying percentage gains and looking at monthly performance gives us a better idea of what is going on.
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As you can see, the 10 year portfolio has already diminished the participation of the GBP/USD instance significantly while the 1 year and a half test still has both experts contributing roughly the same since they havent had a chance to compound profits significantly. The result is that the strong draw down period on the GBP/USD eliminates a lot of the profit of the EUR/USD instance but the profit made by the later is enough to hedge the loses made by the GBP/USD account and put the overall portfolio in a profitable point.

I have to say that a careful analysis of similar periods - in which an account is started right before the worst draw down case of the worst performing instance - reveals that this is exactly when the maximum draw down portfolio levels are reached. In this case, a level of about 28% was reached which is close to the expected maximum historical draw down of the ten year portfolio (starting in 2000) at 30%. Running different initial periods were the account is started right before a GBP/USD instance unfavorable period shows us that draw down between 20-30% show almost all the time. However, the EUR/USD instance is always able to hedge this draw down and get the account to the other side.

As we saw on part number one of this article, the overall larger compounding effect of the EUR/USD instance ends up eliminating most contributions of the GBP/USD instance as it fails to perform up to the same level. Interestingly, this shows that the startup point does not increase risk but the 10 year maximum draw down appears to be the draw down combinatorial "upper-limit" that determines the draw down attained when experts are started within an unfavorable period. The 10 year estimation therefore becomes a valid estimate of future draw down limits and doubling it provides and accurate worst-case scenario.

In the case of systems with very different performance levels, the use of a continuous portfolio in which the most profitable systems take lead seems to be a good solution. However it is still easy to wonder if there is any other better way. Is there a better way when systems have similar profit levels ? Is there a way of examining portfolios in which we can be absolutely sure that the importance of the startup point is not critical ? How can we trade a portfolio in such a way that a very clear draw down limit is attained ? Answering all these questions and studying portfolios in depth has led me to the development of a series of portfolio guidelines and investment rules that I will talk about on tomorrows post and that will be discussed in depth this Sunday on an Asirikuy video... Stay tuned for the release of the Atinalla project.

If you would like to learn more about my journey in automated trading and how you too can develop a portfolio of likely long term profitable systems based on sound trading tactics please consider buying my ebook on automated trading or joining Asirikuy to receive all ebook purchase benefits, weekly updates, check the live accounts I am running with several expert advisors and get in the road towards long term success in the forex market using automated trading systems. I hope you enjoyed the article !

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