Another Robot That Beats the Market

Another Robot That Beats the Market

Dec. 20, 2023

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This week we’re seeing if robots really beat the market.

I was told recently that one of my robots fell short of the market. But actual research showed otherwise.

Let’s see if that was just a one-off, or if like I’ve said many times, systems almost always beat buy-and-hold.

Today, we’ll keep the apples-to-apples comparison (kind of) and compare the SPY to a breakout system on the E-Mini Futures contract (@ES.D, regular trading hours).

Here are the details of this system.

I’ve talked a lot recently about how much I’m loving Bollinger Bandsâ„¢. Here’s another example.

The 10-Minute BB E-Mini Breakout

  • Long Only Entry: When price breaks above the Upper Band (60 length, 2.4 std dev).
  • Target: 4x the Average True Range (ATR, length 14)
  • Stop: 1x the ATR
  • Close: At the end of the day

Astute readers will note that this is in line with all the Band systems I’ve been talking about using different, unrelated instruments.

Here is the SPY with dividends reinvested from 1/8/07-12/17/23:

Buying and holding this index fund ETF hypothetically turned $10k into $45k for a return of 359%.

Here’s the 10M Band system over the same time period:

It turned a hypothetical $10k into $59k.

Again, a system with no compounding beat the market by a substantial margin.

Here’s the % Equity Curve via Portfolio Architect:

It had a little drawdown during the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes, but it’s hypothetically handled the rest quite nicely.

Bollinger Bandsâ„¢ strike again.

And once again the research shows the market can be beat.

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