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Chuck have you tried just
using average volumes to adjust the volume setting.
Don't know if this works
correctly, but something to consider
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Chuck Rademacher
[mailto:chuck_rademacher@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, 20 June 2003
8:02 AMTo: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: [amibroker]
Historical volume filtering
I
was about to send this email to "b", but I would welcome comments from anyone
else interested in such historical work.
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At
the risk of having some of you ask why it matters, my backtesting generally
goes back to 1985. Just yesterday, I posted a message to
this group saying that I always use one set of parameters across all stocks
and across all timeframes. One of the downsides of this
approach (perhaps) is that volume has changed over time. I suppose
that one could argue that volatility changes over time as well.
Volatility, however, goes through cycles and volume just keeps
growing.
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The
question that I have involves volume filtering. To me, it is
essential that volume filters be applied to actual volume and not backadjusted
volume. My concern, however, is that if I apply a filter requiring
an average of 300,000 shares, I don't get very many hits back in the late 80's
and early 90's.
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I
have a solution in mind and would appreciate some input or dialogue on the
subject. It seems to me that volume
filtering should be based on some percentage of the total volume of all
NYSE stocks (for instance). I haven't done my homework yet, but
let's say that the average volume today is ten times more than it was in
1985. If I decide to filter today at 300,000 shares, wouldn't it
make sense to filter based on 30,000 shares in 1985. I can
probably answer that question myself by saying that I don't think 30,000 would
be an adequate filter in 1985. But I could scale it from 100,000
to 300,000 progressively between 1985 and 2003 based on mathematical
equation.
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You
may ask why backtesting to 1985 (or any other date) is
important. There are dozens of reasons, but the most
important reason to me is that prospective investors in any funds that I
manage want to see how a proposed system would have performed over a
statistically meaningful period of time. You can argue about the
relevance of such information, but THEY EXPECT TO SEE IT. For the
record, I also think that it is very important.
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