CAC Breakout ported to DOW

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    Cosmic1
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    I thought I would start a new thread for this one as it’s a little different and keeps things a bit more organised. Ok Nicolas?

    The DOW did not seem to like the first 30min breakout. This had me stuck for a while so I tried a few different things. It prefers the first hour BUT we exclude the first 15min candle.

    Optimised to June 2014 IN/OUT Sample

    £1pp Fixed position size. £1000 starting capital. 1.8 Spread.

    Let me know your thoughts or if we can improve further.

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    #12441 quote
    Cosmic1
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    // We do not store datas until the system starts.
    // If it is the first day that the system is launched and if it is afternoon,
    // it will be waiting until the next day for defining sell and buy orders
    
    //UK TIME ZONE
    
    DEFPARAM PreLoadBars = 0
    // Position is closed at 20:30
    DEFPARAM FlatAfter = 203000
    // No new position will be initiated after the 19:45 candlestick
    LimitHour = 200000
    // Market scan begin with the 15 minute candlestick that closed at 15:30
    StartHour = 151500
    // The 24th and 31th days of December will not be traded because market close before 7h45 PM
    IF (Month = 5 AND Day = 1) OR (Month = 12 AND (Day = 24 OR Day = 25 OR Day = 26 OR Day = 30 OR Day = 31)) THEN
    
    TradingDay = 0
    ELSE
    TradingDay = 1
    ENDIF
    // Variables that would be adapted to your preferences
    if time = 144500 then
    
    //PositionSize = max(2,2+ROUND((strategyprofit-1000)/1000)) //gain re-invest trade volume
    PositionSize = 1 //constant trade volume over the time
    endif
    MaxAmplitude = 160
    MinAmplitude = 20
    OrderDistance = 4
    PourcentageMin = 35
    
    // Variable initilization once at system start
    ONCE StartTradingDay = -1
    // Variables that can change in intraday are initiliazed
    // at first bar on each new day
    IF (Time <= StartHour AND StartTradingDay <> 0) OR IntradayBarIndex = 0 THEN
    BuyTreshold = 0
    SellTreshold = 0
    BuyPosition = 0
    SellPosition = 0
    StartTradingDay = 0
    ELSIF Time >= StartHour AND StartTradingDay = 0 AND TradingDay = 1 THEN
    // We store the first trading day bar index
    DayStartIndex = IntradayBarIndex
    StartTradingDay = 1
    ELSIF StartTradingDay = 1 AND Time <= LimitHour THEN
    // For each trading day, we define each 15 minutes
    // the higher and lower price value of the instrument since StartHour
    // until the buy and sell tresholds are not defined
    IF BuyTreshold = 0 OR SellTreshold = 0 THEN
    HighLevel = Highest[IntradayBarIndex - DayStartIndex + 2](High)
    LowLevel = Lowest [IntradayBarIndex - DayStartIndex + 2](Low)
    // Spread calculation between the higher and the
    // lower value of the instrument since StartHour
    DaySpread = HighLevel - LowLevel
    // Minimal spread calculation allowed to consider a significant price breakout
    // of the higher and lower value
    MinSpread = DaySpread * PourcentageMin / 100
    // Buy and sell tresholds for the actual if conditions are met
    IF DaySpread <= MaxAmplitude THEN
    IF SellTreshold = 0 AND (Close - LowLevel) >= MinSpread THEN
    SellTreshold = LowLevel + OrderDistance
    ENDIF
    IF BuyTreshold = 0 AND (HighLevel - Close) >= MinSpread THEN
    BuyTreshold = HighLevel - OrderDistance
    ENDIF
    ENDIF
    ENDIF
    // Creation of the buy and sell orders for the day
    // if the conditions are met
    IF SellTreshold > 0 AND BuyTreshold > 0 AND (BuyTreshold - SellTreshold) >= MinAmplitude THEN
    IF BuyPosition = 0 THEN
    IF LongOnMarket THEN
    BuyPosition = 1
    ELSE
    BUY PositionSize CONTRACT AT BuyTreshold STOP
    ENDIF
    ENDIF
    IF SellPosition = 0 THEN
    IF ShortOnMarket THEN
    SellPosition = 1
    ELSE
    SELLSHORT PositionSize CONTRACT AT SellTreshold STOP
    ENDIF
    ENDIF
    ENDIF
    ENDIF
    // Conditions definitions to exit market when a buy or sell order is already launched
    IF LongOnMarket AND ((Time <= LimitHour AND SellPosition = 1) OR Time > LimitHour) THEN
    SELL AT SellTreshold STOP
    ELSIF ShortOnMarket AND ((Time <= LimitHour AND BuyPosition = 1) OR Time > LimitHour) THEN
    EXITSHORT AT BuyTreshold STOP
    ENDIF
    // Maximal risk definition of loss per position
    // in case of bad evolution of the instrument price
    SET STOP PLOSS MaxAmplitude
    //set target pprofit //70 //160
    
    #12479 quote
    Nicolas
    Keymaster
    Master

    Don’t worry, I like things organised too 🙂

    Thanks for this new version of the now famous breakout strategy! To have a better clue if the optimized OOS area have the same behaviour of the IS one, you can make a comparison of how much average trades you have on the 2 samples. Once you get that, you can also have a look on trades symmetry comparison : BUY quantity vs SELL quantity ratio.

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    #12498 quote
    Cosmic1
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    I will leave this here to compare later.

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    #12516 quote
    Nicolas
    Keymaster
    Master

    Well, the trades symmetry seems good between OOS and IS (the first 2 screenshots on the left), the average buy gain is higher though, I believe it is due to 2015 bullish rally on whole indices. Maybe you could test only 2015 period to see what happen between long and short average gain. Good job Cosmic1!

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CAC Breakout ported to DOW


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