For the mean reversion strategies that I have created in the past and are trading now, they typically enter at the next day’s open or wait for a further pullback intraday before entering. My current mean reversion strategy, which enters on a limit down, was doing great until a few months ago when the performance started to slip. Looking at the missed trades and the trades taken, it seemed like the best trades would have been entering at open or waiting for some intraday confirmation.
Waiting for a pullback to take out the previous day’s high was very popular when I started trading. But my testing then showed that it was better to wait for a further intraday pullback to enter. Have the markets changed such that waiting for confirmation is better?
Continue reading
Click here for the spreadsheet.
|
