Another strong day for the S&P:

This month is demonstrating some of the characteristics of these different strategies. Despite having the highest return over the last 12 months the corn strategy is very volatile, which makes it difficult to trade for most people. The beans strategy is much less volatile, but doesn’t trade often (no trades yet in April!). Wheat is in the middle – it has explosive potential but can be subject to quite long drawdowns. Over the past two years, the S&P Surfer has been by far the least volatile and produced steady results… of course, as all traders know, the past is no guarantee of the future!

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A nice trending day on the S&P:

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Wheat did well again. You can see why trading this corn strategy can be demoralizing – waiting for those occasional big wins is tough when it is your own money on the line.

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Wheat has been making a few good starts, but not quite following through…

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The best performing strategy today was the S&P Surfer:

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I’ve changed the blog format to focus on the Lite strategies. A nice start to April for the consistent S&P surfer…

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Both corn and the S&P Surfer finished the month with a strong showing:

Reviewing the results for March, each of the three Lite strategies (Wheat, Beans and S&P Surfer) did quite well, with the Surfer again heading the pack. The most successful strategy was Corn with 15.43% and I shall add this as a Lite strategy option on our web site. Note, though, that the corn result was achieved with 8 wins and 14 losses, while the Surfer’s 12.50% return came from 10 wins and 3 losses. This is typical of these strategies and is certainly something for the trader to think about. If you need to see regular positive feedback, the Surfer is the best choice, even if the ultimate return is a little less.

As for the Euro and Australian SPI strategies, they achieved the goal of low volatility, but neither achieved a good return. I will experiment further with these strategies in April.

We are making progress with the simulator, although it is a complex task. Hopefully it will be ready for commercial release by the end of June this year.

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No good results today…

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Corn does it again! It has had another nice trending day…

While corn and the S&P Surfer are both sitting on about 12% this month, there can be no doubt that the Surfer has been easier to trade. Corn returns are very volatile!

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Another strong performance by corn today.

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An excellent day overall. Nice to see wheat have a good win…

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The new Euro strategy settings scored a nice win today. We’ll just have to see how consistent the strategy is…

Meanwhile, the consistent S&P surfer inches ahead again. Despite the fact that it does not register the big wins of the other Lite strategies, it often outperforms them (with lower drawdowns).

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Corn managed one of its rare wins today. It is one of those strategies which wins infrequently, but in compensation the wins are larger.

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I’m still adjusting the parameters in the Euro/SPI contracts using the features in the new version…

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I’ve decided to trade the SPI like the Euro, with a more aggressive approach. We’ll see how it goes!

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It’s good to see wheat making some progress again…

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A good session for the wheat and bean strategies.

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Not a lot of movement today, except a good result again for the revised Euro settings which favour this kind of choppy action:

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The new Euro settings were the best performers today, but too early to say how they will go overall.

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A quiet day with our best result coming in the Australian SPI.

I’ve decided to try something completely different in the Euro, so it will be interesting to see how that pans out. It may take me a day or two to get the settings adjusted…

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The only good performer today was beans.

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We rolled into the June S&P contract today, and the Surfer had an early win:

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