Superalgos - Tutorial Step - The Testing Mechanism

Tutorial Step - The Testing Mechanism

The final concern is defining how the idea is to be tested. This too is dependent on the type of strategy!

The focus of the trading idea is the entry point, not the management of the trade or the exit. However...

How do we measure if the entry points are good or bad? What period do we use for testing?

The first question leads us to acknowledge that we may need to define some arbitrary stop loss and take profit targets so that we can determine if the resulting entry points are likely to be hits or fails. We will deal with the second question in the next tutorial.

Defining a Trading Idea — TOC

You just did step 11 in the tutorial.

1. Defining a Trading Idea Tutorial

2. Tutorial - Defining a Trading Idea

3. Tutorial Step - Before we start...

4. Tutorial Step - Ready to Mine..?

5. Tutorial Step - Let's Mine Some Data..!

6. Tutorial Step - Why Test Trading Ideas..?

7. Tutorial Step - The Trading Process

8. Tutorial Step - The Appropriate Context

9. Tutorial Step - The Entry Rules

10. Tutorial Step - The Prediction

11. Tutorial Step - The Testing Mechanism

12. Tutorial Step - Let's Go On a Field Trip!

13. Tutorial Step - Are We Up to Date..?

14. Tutorial Step - BB On the Charts!

15. Tutorial Step - Bollinger Bands Rules

16. Tutorial Step - Can You Think of Any Ideas?

17. Tutorial Step - Breakdown of the BBs

18. Tutorial Step - What Else is Going On?

19. Tutorial Step - Let's Zoom Out!

20. Tutorial Step - The Big Picture!

21. Tutorial Step - What Do We Make of This?

22. Tutorial Step - Look to Your Left!

23. Tutorial Step - Wouldn't It Be Nice?

24. Tutorial Step - March 7th to March 12th

25. Tutorial Step - We've got Two Hypotheses!

26. Tutorial Step - What Is Missing?

27. Tutorial Step - Let's Define the First Two!

28. Tutorial Step - Entry Rules

29. Tutorial Step - Predictions and Testing

30. Tutorial Step - Et Voilà..!

31. Tutorial Step - Ready For The Next One..?

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