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Hey Quants, I've been working on a mean reversion algo for DGAZ, Drawdown is definitely an issue. I'm new to coding and the community so I'd love to hear your feedback.
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Kon Rad
Nice. Though why would 47% drawdown be an issue? Drawdown should be up to 2x as high as return, so if a strategy returns 20% annually then you can have 40% drawdown. Warren Buffett's Berkshire had 50% drawdown while returning 20% annually and most people think it's the best investment that ever existed. My concern would be rather with your cherry-picking of specific testing period, instead of testing the full period since 2012 when DGAZ reached $650/share and later crashed down to as low as $13. You've basically decided to trade only the "good years" when it started recovering... :-)
Jared Broad
Recommend using a fixed position size (say $5k) to reduce the exponential component of the resulting equity curve. That way you'll have a clearer picture of the strategy performance over time, i.e. MarketOrder( "DGAZ", 5000/stockPrice)
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Casey Barclay
What I've started to do with high performing high DD strategies, is just cut the amount invested, so it's 160% 50% DD, cut it in half now you have a 80% 25% DD strategy, which is quite amazing, cut in half some more until you get to your desired risk / reward.
Question is does this work on any other ETF?
Sebastian Groß
Hi, nice numbers. I have looked into your algo and found a lot of parameters with odd numbers. How did you come up with those?
Farhan Alam
Never mind, figured out the error
Casey Barclay
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