Thanks, i'll feel better with a full year of real-time trades. Though I'm pleased with how the 4 months has gone, that ain't much in a market which gyrates as much as ours do.
Despite a lot of efforts, I've never found a way to step off an original mvp buy that drew down and also get back on and not miss the ride up. To put it another way, its a lot easier to eyeball a chart and speculate on coulda-woulda, than it is to encode exactly what you would do. Anything that I have coded, got you out at X, but could cost you Y when things reversed. And the cost profit is everything because each of these signals which had a large drawdown 'during' the trade, ended with a profit. Draws that big only come during events that big: subprime meltdown, LTCM meltdown, Asian Tiger collapse, and nasdaq bear mkt. Ironically, mvp's biggest years were during the nasdaq bear, because the program can and does short
To date, no original buy in this version has ever failed to end with a profit.
The completed trades drawdowns are very tame in comparison, if you look at some of the system stats at the griup site.