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Strategy #23: The Keltner Breakout System (opens the original)
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This post breaks down a strategy built around the Keltner Channel: a volatility band that decides when to get in and in the base version, when to get out. I will test a basic version of this strategy and then make a few small improvements to share a more tradable version of it.This is the next system in what’s becoming a small series. A few weeks ago I published 8 entry signals and <a href="https://algomatictrading.substack.com/p/11-essential-exits-for-trend-following?r=56lq5k&utm_campaig
8 Simple Entry Signals for Trend-Following Strategies (opens the original)
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In the last post, I posted 11 different ways to exit a trend-following strategy.But before you can manage an exit, you need something to enter the trade in the first place.A good trend-following entry doesn’t need to be complex. In fact, the opposite is often true.Some of the most well-known trend-following systems are built around surprisingly simple ideas like a moving average cross, a new high or a momentum threshold.The challenge isn’t coming up with a complicated entry. It’s finding one tha
11 Essential Exits for Trend-Following Strategies (opens the original)
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Getting into a trend is only half the problem.Once you’re in you face a difficult question:When do you get out?Exit too early and you risk cutting off the handful of large winners that trend-following strategies depend on.Exit too late and a significant part of an open profit can disappear before the trend is finally confirmed as over. This could break the whole edge. There is no perfect solution.Some exits react quickly. Others deliberately give the market more room. Some respond to volatility,
Performance Update: How the Strategies Are Doing (opens the original)
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Most of my posts focus on individual strategies.This week, I want to zoom out.The database has grown into a collection of strategies trading different markets, timeframes and ideas. But a backtest is only the starting point.What matters after publication is what happens next.That is why I created the Algomatic Trading Performance Tracker.The tracker follows the strategies after they are published so that you can compare their performance with the original backtests from the
Strategy #22: SP500 Daily Breakout High10 (opens the original)
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What if a breakout and an oversold signal happened on the same day?Would you follow the strength?Or buy the weakness?Most breakout systems want confirmation. Most mean-reversion systems want weakness. This strategy looks for both at the same time.Strategy #22 combines a fresh breakout in the S&P 500 with an unusually weak close, then buys the weakness and exits once short-term momentum returns.If systematic trading strategies like this are your thing, you can subscribe for free to follow the dat
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