PAMM version 2007 : will soon restart with 3 main changesGood holidays and happy new year
Here are some news of our activities.
The positions still opened before stopping the strategy (November 23th ) were all closed with profit, as wants our strategy.
Afterward, we continued a discretionary trading (still martingale based), by waiting for the IBFX PLAMM update (see post higher). The profit generated since November 1st is about 4.05 %.
In parallel, we led some reflections on the adopted strategy, which are going to lead to three major modifications of our PAMM management.
1)
Portfolio modificationAt present, the strategy runs on 19 graphs, in both directions (long and short). That makes 38 strategies and sometimes gives for the PAMM (grouping of accounts) hundreds of orders in the market. And each one of these main orders gives as many sub-orders as there are sub-accounts.
The IBFX PLAMM software, which distributes those orders between sub-accounts, cannot support such a huge number, and starting from a certain quantity, to have an erratic behaviour.
Even if the new PLAMM version (scheduled during January 2007 according to IBFX, but it is not certain) corrects the problem, we prefer to decrease the number of currencies on which we launch the strategy.
We also take the opportunity:
a) to choose a portfolio
* with least correlated currencies, so as to decrease the simultaneous risks of trends
* traded in the direction where their swap (daily interest) is positive, as much as possible
b) and to modify some internal parameters of the strategies
The number of launched strategies will be 14 instead of 38 and the monthly profit should be around 5-10%, based on a 6500 usd non compounded capital (6% on the last part of the curve)
You will find the backtests there:
http://www.nanoforex.fr/documents/Eq14.htm 2)
Modification of the minimum amount to open- a mini PAMM : 6.5 kUSD (approximately 5000 euros)
- a standardi PAMM : 65 kUSD
3)
Complementary strategy Most of the time the margin demanded by the strategy is very low compared to the capital (about 1 to 3%).
However this important capital is vital, but only when the strategy is engaged in a powerful trend. That rarely happens.
That corresponds on the backtest equity curve (over 51 months), with the down peaks of important size (more than 2000 USD for example, for a capital of 6500 USD).
There is 15-20 of them, that is to say one every approximately three months.
The rest of the time, the large capital is not used.
We thus decided to set up on the PAMM, during the "calm periods" of the main strategy, a more conventional trading in parallel, which keeps its positions little time (one day at maximum) and which can be thus stopped quickly when the main strategy demands its margin.
This added trading will be run with low leverage, on an automatic mode (with the help of one of our backtested strategies) or discretionary (trading on news), and should bring us some more profit.
The performances of the main and additional strategies will be posted in separate zones here :
http://www.nanoforex.fr/documents/MiniPamm.mht We will not launch the new PAMM before having the new version of the PLAMM, also the interested people have time (few weeks) to open their account. During this time, we will continue our discretionary trading on the PAMM.
Regards
sdfx
Here are the new limit amounts to open a mini or a standard PAMM account :
1)
mini PAMM Minimum needed by the strategy to open a mini account :
6500 USD Maximum allowed by IBFX to open a mini account :
37 kUSD (special exception)
Note : if the investment is beetween
37k-65k, you are allowed to split it into
two mini accounts. (contact us to ask for the procedure : info@nanoforex.fr)
2) the
standard PAMM Minimum needed by the strategy to open a standard account :
65 kUSD)