Hello All I am newbie to TA. Trying to experiment with Crossover based buy/sell signal to achieve a decent trading strategy at least for back-testing results that at least end-up in black ;-) Not looking for real trading results yet ;-)
Assumption: Say Swing Trading ICICI 100 Shares Maintain a position 100 Shares Long or Short, Carry positions overnight or more if required by the strategy, Cash in hand 3 times the initial purchase, stop-loss at say 20% loss ??, Draw-down should not be more than 50% of the Cash in hand?? Reverse position on Crossover i.e. if long 100 shares, at reversal exit the long position & short 100 shares, use trailing stop to secure profits, if available in the Indian scenario ???. Back-Testing from 1/4/2007 on Daily Chart, so those with EOD Data can participate. Changes to the above may be suggested by the Gurus. Now, my question is: What Signals & Oscillators to use and the trading strategy? I tried with simple SMA, EMA, Stochastics but all end up in significant losses. Want to build a crossover strategy that will at least teach me what sort of things to consider. Suggest all Gurus to get into Teacher Mode and pick up the stick and all newbies to work on the same exercise and post to the thread. Also suggest more exercises of this kind, posted both by Gurus and Newbies. With best regards. Sanjay.
