> I think, it is perfectly right to differentiate between up- and 
> downward trends. 
> By and large downward seems in general much faster. 
> This would speak for a difference in parameters. 
> I always wanted to look at what happens if you do separately optimize 
> a upward-only 
> and a downward-only strategy and compose it later (going flat if both 
> are opposing) 
> and compare this with two-sided optimization. 
>
>
I separated my log-short strategies into long-only and short-only, and 
reoptimized. Got a big boost on all performance metrics. Don't know why this 
idea never occurred to me in the past several years that I spent on strategy 
design.  

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