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If you had to choose one of the below three trend following systems to trade, which one would you pick and why?

System A:
CAGR 24%
maxDD 31%
MAR 0.77
W/L 2.18
Win% 43%

System B:
CAGR 31%
maxDD 39%
MAR 0.79
W/L 2.30
Win% 47%

System C:
CAGR 28%
maxDD 24%
MAR 1.17
W/L 1.73
Win% 51%
 
Yikes, MaxDD>30% would be very hard for most mere mortals to survive and trade honestly. I'd be looking at number 3 for decent return and much lower DD.
 
System C looks the best to me too. Lowest drawdown, highest win rate, and only slightly less profit than System B. I'd take a slight drop in profit for a major drop in drawdown any day!

And if System B's drawdown was acceptable to you (although seems a bit high to me), System C could be leveraged up to produce a 45% CAGR with the same drawdown as System B.

What do the equity curves look like?
 
You have omitted one of the most important metrics in assessing system performance and reliability - trade frequency.
 
elbee said:
You have omitted one of the most important metrics in assessing system performance and reliability - trade frequency.
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The trade frequency for all three systems fall between 70 to 80 trades per year.
 

When back tested over 17 years, the equity curve goes from $100k in 1995 to $just above $10mil in 2012.
I will probably go with System C, which is based on a weekly time frame and System A & B are based on a daily timeframe.
 
p2tr said:
When back tested over 17 years, the equity curve goes from $100k in 1995 to $just above $10mil in 2012.
I will probably go with System C, which is based on a weekly time frame and System A & B are based on a daily timeframe.
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My experience is with Amibroker back testing. I would choose none of these systems because they don't show the whole picture.
1) The cost per trade.
2) The entry and exit prices you get on back test will not be the same as in real time.

Number two is the unknown factor because there has to be your volume of shares available to either buy or sell and adding your volume of shares will also change the open and close price therefore changing history. In other words altering your back test results dramatically.
 

Sounds like you saying you need more information Wys? How about if we had brokerage, slippage, the universe that it was tested on...basically the entire Amibroker back test report...which i assume was used to test this.
 
p2tr said:
When back tested over 17 years, the equity curve goes from $100k in 1995 to $just above $10mil in 2012.
I will probably go with System C, which is based on a weekly time frame and System A & B are based on a daily timeframe.
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So is System C drawdown based on the weekly close, when the drawdown of the other systems are based on the daily close? If so, that could be why the drawdown appears to be less on System C, when it may not be any less at all in reality.
 
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