I am also finding that over time, I find the more conservative (consistant) methods have the most success for me.
Using a simple 50 day moving average is a pretty full proof system on any stock. The 50 sma give me decent gains, and avoids the whipsaws (and losses) of more active indicators. Rik Rasmussen Best Charts Yahoo Group Moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bestcharts/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Jawed Ashraf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [bestcharts] Re: BC versions 4.32/4.321 > > > > > I regularly re-optimise a stock to assess the "drift" away from my current > "optimisation", i.e. to see if the stock appears to be losing correlation > with how I once thought it was trading. But I keep the original > optimisation until I have strong evidence that the old optimisation is no > good. > > It's not necessarily obvious when a stock needs to be > re-evaluated this way. > It's something I'm working on. It's ultimately about having > "confidence" in > an "optimisation". > > The other thing I should have said earlier is that in finding an > optimisation for a stock I'm looking for the most consistent > (across several > BT periods) rather than the one that returns the highest > gain/trade, having > found that the stock appears to offer consistency. > > Jawed > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Rcy2bD/UOnJAA/cosFAA/GHeqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bestcharts/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
