ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 27:01 (48-53): Walk-Forward Testing by Jack L. Weinberg Here's how you can use walk-forward testing as a tool to compare trading systems and gain insight into comparing the future performance of systems. Recent advances in trading system software and powerful hardware capabilities have provided a valuable tool in evaluating the future viability of trading systems -- walk-forward testing. This technique allows the trading system developer to quickly assess if the system will survive (or even prosper) in the future. It does this by segmenting the past into in-sample and ...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...V.13:06: (238-242): The Range Indicator by Jack L. Weinberg Here's a new indicator based on the change in a day's trading range as evidence of the start of a new trend in a market. Markets tend to trade in relatively tight price ranges most of the time; therefore, low daily ranges indicate trading ranges. Prices move to reach toward new levels for a new trading range when a fundamental change has occurred in the supply/demand balance for that commodity. A dramatic change in the daily range relative to the interday ranges indicates that a change in the fundamentals may be present and may be...