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There’s a certain theme that keeps pounding me in the head and won’t stop.

It’s pounding me because it’s the “secret” to trading that I haven’t used to its fullest extent.

That secret is: multiple trading systems that do different things.

As I’ve said before, I’ve spent over 2,500 hours on the Hornet robot in my lifetime. Why? Because hard work always pays off and focus is the key.

And I’m pretty happy with that journey. The Hornet robot worked very well until Tradestation shut down its Forex division, and I’m currently building a massive portfolio of Hornet robots to trade live. More on that in upcoming Newsletters.

But other traders have quietly hinted that no one strategy can solve all of a trader’s problems. In fact, looking for just one strategy is why most traders fail.

Why? Because the only way to get one strategy to be acceptable is to walk the perilous line of curve-fitting. And no matter how careful you are, forcing one strategy to be great is very, very difficult.

You know what’s easier?

Putting together a group of pretty good strategies.

They’re pretty good, which means they’re not over-fit. Further, when one fails, the others pick up the slack because they trade differently.

Seems logical, right?

Then how come almost nobody does this (including the former me)?

Because it’s not as fun as “conquering” a single strategy. And, as BMW tells us, “pretty good” is not good enough.

As I’ve become aware of the power of pretty good strategies, I created a “Simple ‘Holy Grail'” portfolio on my website. (See it here.)

This portfolio uses the 3 MA Cross robot we talked about in the last Newsletter plus the basic 1-hour Master Trend GBPJPY robot plus the 1-hour Master Trend RSI strategy discussed in the Master Trend course videos.

Are they different methodologies?

The 30M MA Cross robot is pure trend following. It doesn’t have a hard stop or target.

The simple Bollinger Band™ robot is a breakout robot that only trades extreme breakouts and has hard targets and stops.

The RSI Master Trend robot trades breakouts with a different indicator and has different-sized targets and stops.

Are they all pretty good strategies?

Yes.

Could I piece together more strategies and/or more pairs that trade differently?

Yes. These all use the GJPY and could be combined with a mean-reversion strategy (or more things that are different).

But how has it done?

Using Portfolio Tester for the testing and Portfolio Architect for the analyzing, here is the Report for the past 5 years trading 1 lot each time on a hypothetical $20k account:

And here are the Annual Returns:

Each of these strategies has weaknesses on their own.

But together they make an impressive hypothetical portfolio.

Hmm. 

Talk to you soon.