Hi Firebird400, I just ran a daily backtest on IGXT for the last year and got a 27.94% gain with AIM-Hi. This was at $1000 minimum trade and 5% minimum stock trade, but that was getting in at $0.58. Nothing happened for 3 months and then there was a buy when it got down to $0.49. This was with $20,000 for the position total, 20% cash and a 10% buy safe and a 0% sell safe.
Interestingly there was no trading at all when I dropped down to $2,000 total for the position size and a position return of 15.17% for the year. At $3,000 there was one sell, and a 20.66% return as opposed to the B&H of 18.97%. At $5,000 total position size the gain is 24.83% with minimum trade shares from 1 up to 1223 (17.7349% of a total shares of 6896) but if I set the minimum trade size to 1224 (17.74941%) the return dropped to 16.11%.
So then I said, let's try $50,000. With 1 share minimum trade the return was 26.58%. It starts to improve when the minimum shares gets to 1230 (1.7835%) and keeps getting better until 3329 minimum shares trade (4.8271% of 68965 shares) for a return of 28.79% and drops to 27.59% at 3330 minimum shares trade, or 4.8285%. Tricky!
BTW, all the testing was done with 10% buy safe and a 0% sell safe.
Just shows to go ya that selecting the right dollar amount for a given position as well as the best minimum trade size is quite important for the best return.
Based on this one test it seems like the more money in a position the more critical the minimum trade size is. It also seems like there is a minimum position size for a given position to get good returns.
I'll do a bit more checking and get back to everyone on this.
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