New ATR based trailing-stop

21 05 2008

We had some action today.  Good, things were getting a little dull.

In the meantime, I came up with a new ATR based trailing stop.  The indicator was inspired by a visual inspection of Jan Arps’ trender.   I did a quick “breakout and trailing stop” backtest using the Nasdaq 100 and got some pretty good results.

I love it when two simple rules give such nice returns.





TDST Channel

15 05 2008

TDST Channel

I have been playing around a little more with RealCode and came up with this pretty cool channel tool. The channel lines are formed by historic TDST lines. I used the “color if” block to hide the TDST line when the price was either above or below the appropriate line.

I did some quick backtests on buying the pullback after a breakout above the green TDST line. Here are the results for the Nasdaq 100.  I’m pretty impressed by the results.

Backtest results using Nasdaq 100