11 Oct New Master Trend No B/E Strategy
New Master Trend No B/E Strategy
Oct. 11, 2023
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This week we’re examining the topic: Is Trend Following Dead?
Because trend following has struggled mightily this year.
Except for strategies with no moves to break-even.
I like the mental crutch of getting to break-even as much as anyone, but this market has punched that peace-of-mind- move right in the face in 2023.
However, if we can stomach it, not moving to break-even has actually performed nicely.
Hypothetically, it’s been profitable to use trend following strategies with no break-evens.
In our last Newsletter, we mentioned a Master Trend strategy that tested profitably this year. Here was that Report again:
Woohoo. But what has it done over the past five years?
Quite well, actually. Here’s the Curve for the GJPY via Portfolio Architect:
On a hypothetical $15k account (trading 1 lot each time), it’s up over 250%.
Here are the simple details on the GJPY on the 1H chart:
Long Entry: A close above the Upper Band (100 Length, 3 st dev). Opposite for Shorts.
Target: 450 pips
Stop: 190 pips
Move to Break-Even: NO!!!!
Now let’s do something crazy. Let’s take these same settings and put it on the EURUSD. The U.S. has been a mess for a couple of years, so it seems like the EURUSD would have had some big trends.
Here’s the Report for the 1H EURUSD with the same settings in 2023:
It’s hypothetically done quite well.
Not having a break-even has worked again.
But this, of course, is the danger of curve-fitting. Sure, we found a strategy that worked on a tough year like 2023. What about the other recent years?
It turns out the EURUSD version of this strategy has hypothetically done nicely over the past 5 years. Here’s the Portfolio Architect Curve:
Not having a break-even works in completely different market environments.
While relying on break-even doesn’t work well at all in certain conditions.
In our next Newsletter, we’ll look at another example and put together a Master Trend small portfolio.
Talk soon.
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