| betyerbottomdollar 169 posts
 msg #54757
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 | 9/12/2007 9:52:53 PM 
 I am a huge fan of trading the Investors Business Daily 100 and have spent more hours than I have fingers and toes researching multitudes of strategies for this wonderful list of top stocks. I have nine great filters (with the crummiest returning 81% winners with 86% ROI in the last year), but this one is the best I have come up with so far.
 
 For one year ending 12 Sept, 2007:
 
 Trade Statistics
 There were 14 total stocks entered. Of those, 12 or 85.71% were complete and 2 or 14.29% were open.
 Of the 12 completed trades, 11 trades or 91.67%resulted in a net gain.
 Your average net change for completed trades was: 8.96%.
 The average draw down of your approach was: -4.15%.
 The average max profit of your approach was: 14.17%
 The Reward/Risk ratio for this approach is: 11.76
 Annualized Return on Investment (ROI): 415.11%, the ROI of ^SPX was: 13.03%.
 
 I know, only 14 stocks...but that is a guaranteed winner once a month! In fact, the one losing stock rocketed up after only just passing my stop loss.
 
 Narrow 45-day Channel (All)
 and close crossed below EMA(20)
 
 (sorry, don't know how to make it clickable)
 
 and of course, "apply to watchlist(IBD100september7)"
 
 I had both stops set at 10% for that one. Pretty simple, really...buys good stocks pulling back on a strong uptrend.
 
 Those two lines of code represent lots of staring at my computer...days lots, weeks even. I hope someone can use it!
 
 
 
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| corsino 259 posts
 msg #54760
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 | 9/12/2007 11:09:33 PM 
 FWIW :
 
 
 
 
 
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| johnpaulca 12,036 posts
 msg #54767
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 | 9/13/2007 9:12:33 AM 
 
 
 
 
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| danv83 44 posts
 msg #54775
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 | 9/13/2007 8:09:33 PM 
 betyer, try this one out on your ibd list.
 i tested it on the ibd200 and it seems to make for a lot more opportunities.
 
 
 
 
 
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| betyerbottomdollar 169 posts
 msg #54811
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 | 9/15/2007 9:58:23 AM 
 Hey that's a good one! What exit strategy do you use?
 
 Here is another one you can try...just simple Directional Movement filter.
 
 
 
 
 
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| guru_trader 485 posts
 msg #54834
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 | 9/16/2007 3:58:27 AM 
 Having some fun with it ...
 
 
 
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| betyerbottomdollar 169 posts
 msg #54835
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 | 9/16/2007 11:03:14 AM 
 Um...What did that do?
 I played around with it and got 57% win with ROI of 76% using IBD100, but I am not sure what it is filtering for or how it exits.
 
 Now, ol Casey here hain't the sharpest spoon in the shed and my third-grade education (the national equivalent to a Texas high school diploma) seems to limit my perfunctory edificational abilities. Can you tell me how that filter works, oh great guru-trader?
 
 Try this one, boysngirls:
 
 
 
 
 Exit:
 
 Close crossed above Upper Bollinger Band(20,2)
 
 I usually do it for a year since lots of the IBD100 were dancing around dime levels two years ago. Keeps it more relevant.
 
 
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| SFMc01 358 posts
 msg #54870
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 | 9/17/2007 5:28:37 PM 
 Interesting that when this filter is presently applied to all stocks, and not a watchlist, and when offset 40 or 50 days, ... the majority of the stocks are now losses.   Just for fun....Could it be a predictor of future problems?
 
 
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| lvaduva 5 posts
 msg #55349
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 | 9/28/2007 7:16:53 PM 
 One quick question...I am new to this forum, and I was wondering how the  apply to watchlist(IBD100september7)"  works.....any advice as to how I can implement?
 
 
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| betyerbottomdollar 169 posts
 msg #55359
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 | 9/29/2007 2:49:46 AM 
 Ah yes...
 
 I download the Investors Business Daily top 100 stocks every Friday.  I then copy and paste all the stocks to a watchlist here on stockfetcher so I can run my filters on them. september7 was the name I gave to that week's watchlist.
 
 investors.com
 
 hope that helps
 
 
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