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Old 08-05-2007, 11:53 AM
eastbay eastbay is offline
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Default Re: Commodity Strategy (long)

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If someone were to take a $100,000 account, and trade 5 different random markets, risking ‘only’ $20,000 each, that person would have made $6,571 in each market on average per year, for an annual return of nearly (6571x5/100,000), or 33%.


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What's the leverage on your $100k resulting in 33% return?
What's the max drawdown peak to valley?
Has this strategy been performing better or worse over time?

Your notion of "risking $X" seems to assume that the commodity will not move further than the current yearly hi to lo. Does that hold true?

With a Monte Carlo technique on daily returns from backtesting, what is the risk of ruin on $100k with your sizing scheme?

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