Pathfinder Trading System

• 05/16/2017 at 7:30 PM #35741
  manel

  Hi – I agree, I’ve never experienced a big dividend adjustment like this before (positive or negative). On reflection it makes sense though as the HS is a large value index so just taking an average rough 3% div yield on large cap indices like Dow, FTSE etc comes to around 750 pts on the HS index  and looking at the 2016 dividends it came to a total of 803 pts so sounds about right.

  To be honest, I usually do look out for the adjustments coming up on short positions (on longs it’s less of an issue as you get credited) but it’s only for the main indices (FTSE, Dow, CAC etc), I totally forgot to monitor this. In the past HS positions I think we’ve been lucky that any short positions were either not held for long and/or not run through large dividend adjustment periods – our luck ran out this time unfortunately. I looked around to see if there any more adjustments due and haven’t yet found a site that gives you upcoming dividend adjustments on this index (if any member knows of one please post here) but I’ve looked up the history based on last few years and it follows roughly the same pattern/adjustment/trend each year. So based on May  2016 (see attached), there were around 140pts of dividends in May with another 30 due by the end of this week and 60 to come in the next 2 weeks. Worth considering in respect of the positions whether or not to close early if there is no movement in the right direction overnight tonight. That’s the thing about the markets, always something new to learn every day 🙂

  https://markets.ft.com/data/indices/tearsheet/historical?s=HSIDPI:HKG

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  05/16/2017 at 9:39 PM #35753
  Oskar Bergvall

  I see alot of bad short trades on HS in the backtesting. Which is the easiest way to remove them to check the result? Tried some but I’m too retarded at programming.

  

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  05/17/2017 at 9:24 AM #35783
  Kurtus

  @Oskar Hello,

  I think the easyest way is to skip the two “Buy”- Commands , like this:

  ->  //BUY positionSize * saisonalPatternMultiplier CONTRACT AT MARKET <-

  Now you see only the short positions.

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  05/17/2017 at 9:28 AM #35785
  Kurtus

  Ups, if you want to see only the Long’s, of course you must skip the “sellshort” command.

  

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  05/17/2017 at 5:33 PM #35876
  Francesco78

  -3 Dax and -1 Nikkei opened this afternoon at 5pm CET.

   

  

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  05/17/2017 at 7:06 PM #35891
  Nico24

  i have nikei -1 oki but dax -1 but not -3 ??

  

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  05/17/2017 at 8:28 PM #35897
  Oskar Bergvall

  Got -1 nikkie, -1 dax

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  05/17/2017 at 8:30 PM #35898
  Francesco78

  Im using a slightly riskier version I presume

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  05/17/2017 at 10:15 PM #35905
  Oskar Bergvall

  I removed the shorts of HS and backtested 2000 units. For some reason it takes as much losses as with the shorts on, but less profit. In other words, it doesn’t take the same positions with them off.

  

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  05/18/2017 at 4:50 PM #36012
  Nico24

  do you the same ? close Nikkei at 19475.3 profit +34.99 euros

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  05/18/2017 at 4:55 PM #36013
  O-jay8

  I can confirm Nikkei

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  05/19/2017 at 8:09 AM #36066
  jamesgodfrey80

  Oskar Bergvall  Your results are different because when the markets falls and say you are in a long position a sell command could  trigger from the falling markets and close the long early.   By removing the sell command the long will either run to the end of its amount of candles or when it reaches it s take profit or stop loss/trailing stop level.

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  05/19/2017 at 9:36 AM #36071
  Oskar Bergvall

  jamesgodfrey80 wrote:

  Oskar Bergvall Your results are different because when the markets falls and say you are in a long position a sell command could trigger from the falling markets and close the long early. By removing the sell command the long will either run to the end of its amount of candles or when it reaches it s take profit or stop loss/trailing stop level.

  I see. Not worth it then. Maybe if it can be changed to remove shorts without affecting the longs.

  

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  05/26/2017 at 9:49 AM #36684
  jamesgodfrey80

  Hi all,

  Has anyone had a problem with their open trading position box?

  The last few short trades on the dax have entered correctly and were shown to be live on my I.G account but not in the prt autotrading box.  A freind has also had a similar issue were it shows to have nothing trading.

  Strange…

  james

  

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  05/26/2017 at 10:12 AM #36689
  GraHal

  Hi James, yes I’ve had this issue for over 2 weeks now!

  Cheers
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