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Saturday, 02/07/2009 5:00:41 PM

Saturday, February 07, 2009 5:00:41 PM

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Posting this again. MaxDD = 0% Any comments?

The MaxDD or 0% may indicate about 100% trading success if I understand the category. ( which I may not) But sure looks good.


What is Max DD, Profit Factor, ROA & Risk . Also under "System Performances", do those stats cover those systems from inception?

SolutionMaxdd: This is known as the max draw down, this is the biggest losing period, peak to valley, on the equity curve of the systems. So if the MaxDD was $10,000 then that means that if you were to start your account on the biggest losing period peak to valley that you would lose $10,000 so theoretically is you traded this system with 10001 dollars you would be able to survive the worst period and potentially still go on to profit. In reality, you would never trade this system with an account just slightly larger than the draw down. You would typically trade this account at some multiple of this amount according to your risk parameters.

SO if you wanted to risk just 10% of your account and the biggest draw down of the system you were looking at was 10k then you would need a 100k account to trade it in order to only risk 10% or 10k of your account.

Profit Factor is the Gross Profit of the system divided by the Gross Loss and gives you an indication of the profitablity of a system.

ROA: is the return on account. This is the percent return on your account and can be stated as annual ROA, Net ROA ( after fees) or ROA over the lifetime of the account.

Risk: is the percentage amount you could lose of your account plus a buffer of 30% that we add as extra protection. This helps you properly determine the account size for your risk tolerance level.

Unless notified otherwise, the performance is from inception or from the date set in the date filter for those systems.

https://www.gfxsl.com/support/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=27

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