RE: [amibroker] system % rule of thumb?

["Herman van den Bergen" <psytek@xxxxxxxx>]

from personal experience 60-70% winning trades seems attainable in general
systems, i.e. those that are profitable acrross a group of stocks. Single
stocks system can do better, perhaps 80-85% but I (actually me and my
partner) traded only one such system for about 6-8 months (1-2 day trade
durations). The company got reorganized and the system died. Believe it or
not: trading systems suffer fatal heart attacks!

Of course the % winning trades is not proportional to % profit so you should
look at the whole picture.

good luck,
herman.


  -----Original Message-----
  From: YEA RIGHT [mailto:suedeuno@xxxxxxxxx]
  Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 7:20 PM
  To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [amibroker] system % rule of thumb?


  What realistically tradeable winning % does everyone here shoot for
  when developing and backtesting a system?



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