My Automated Trading Journal - CL on NinjaTrader

Discussion in 'Journals' started by arsene007, Aug 3, 2019.

  1. arsene007

    arsene007

    Hi Everyone,

    so was thinking of sharing here the results on a weekly or biweekly basis of a strategy that I have developed on crude oil , backtested and deployed using NinjaTrader. The strategy is trend following and mean reversion combined in one. I started trading since May with a starting capital of 4500 usd. It is fully automated and I leave my computer at home while working in my day job as a data scientist.
    By now, it has done more than 200% return with a max drawdown of - 64% of the starting capital.

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  2. traider

    traider

    What is the sharpe ratio? Drawdown of 64% is huge, is there anyway to minimise that?
     
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  3. arsene007

    arsene007

    Sharpe ratio of 0.88. For the drawdown, it can be minimized if I start with a larger capital, say 10 000 usd for example. then you only have about 30% drawdown. That's another way to look at it. But I have done a lot of digging and work to bring it to that level.
     
  4. RedDuke

    RedDuke

    Who is your broker?
     
  5. arsene007

    arsene007

    NinjaTrader Brokerage
     
  6. fan27

    fan27

    How do you monitor your system while at work?
     
  7. RedDuke

    RedDuke

    I use ninja myself, but after such a draw down don’t use the max margin???? Unless you day trade.
     
  8. arsene007

    arsene007

    It is a day trading strategy. 1 to 3 orders per day.
     
  9. arsene007

    arsene007

    I used remote desktop of google chrome or some other remote connection software to check that the strategy is doing what it is supposed to. So far all good.
     
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  10. fan27

    fan27

    #10     Aug 4, 2019
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