Thursday, February 11, 2010

Average True Range and its effect to various simple systems – PART II


If you revisit my post from 21. January 2010. you may find how five different trend-following swing systems (3 different time-frames) performed during lower market volatility periods, which were defined by 5-day & 10-day ATR.


As we did get some volatility recently (5-day ATR was for total of two days above the mean value – on February 5th and February 8th, 2010) and as several systems I follow have started to perform again closer to their historical averages, I’ve decided to post updated version of the table that was shared in original post.


Trade with trend.

2 comments:

Mekan said...

ATR above the "mean" - please explain.

Alsi Trader said...

Hello Mekan.

At the Close on February 5th and February 8th, 2010 5-day ATR had value greater than mean (average) for 5-day ATR values which I record on daily basis with data from year 2000.

Hope this helps.