| AUG 1992
Trading Back Into A Range by John Sweeney
Trading Back Into A Range by John Sweeney Last month in Settlement, I wrote briefly about some simple ideas for defining nontrending periods. Although exotic approaches are possible, simple things are easier to teach to computer packages. The program I've been using here for testing, Behold!, has a great worksheet capability and many sophisticated functions, so virtually anything can be defined mathematically. The problem with this software occurs when defining trading rules beyond entry and exit. Reversals and add-on trades are tougher if not impossible to program. When trading a range, you want to reverse if price breaks out from the range and starts trending. But given Behold!'s limitation, I won't be able to show you that here. Instead, I'll just focus on evaluating a simple trading range model. Since I can't show you an example of a trading range breakout with this system, the results I am going to present here are pretty pared down. I generally find that working a narrow range of prices is not terribly profitable by itself but it does prevent losses from trying to trade a range with a trend-following system. Since preventing losses is the first rule of investing, learning to identify and work a range is vital. Also, as outlined in Settlement last month, proper range trading should set you up for a good entry into a trade should a trend begin to develop.
by John Sweeney
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