F. Trading System Example from Mechanica
“Part of back-testing is to determine position sizing and risk management strategies that fit within your drawdown tolerance envelope.”
—Ed Seykota1
In this appendix, Bob Spear shows how a trader might construct a simple, mechanical trend following system on Trading Recipes Portfolio Engineering Software. His newest software, surpassing Trading Recipes, is called Mechanica (www.mechanicasoftware.com).
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For this example we start with a broad look at the system’s trading ideas, which echo many of the ideas discussed in this book. We construct a hypothetical portfolio and run a backtest up to a certain point in ...
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