Is it true that, day after day, 90% of the entries in Losers and Gainers are systems that trade Futures and Forex or is there a bias in the way, or time of day that this value is calculated? I am beginning to think that the reason is the latter, but would be interesting to see what other users think.
The list is recalculated every ten minutes or so – so it is not a time-of-day issue.
The reality is that these lists give prominence to extremely over-leveraged systems. If you over-leverage your system, then you are nearly sure to appear on one of the two lists – either the top percentage gainer or top percentage loser. And it’s a lot easier to over-leverage futures and forex instruments, and that’s why, inevitably, the systems highlighted are futures or forex systems (with a few long-vega option systems as well).
Now, before you get too worked up about this, keep in mind that my Next Big Project here at C2 is to increase the visibility of conservative, sensible trading systems – and to decrease the visibility of high-risk “gambling” systems. So these lists (and the way they are calculated) are likely to change radically over the next few weeks.
Matthew
Now, before you get too worked up about this, keep in mind that my Next Big Project here at C2 is to increase the visibility of conservative, sensible trading systems
It is my opinion that C2 should strive to increase the visibility of not “Conservative”, or “Prudent” or “Aggressive” or “Speculative” systems, but “Realistic” systems whatever the leverage is.
ps: MK, sorry to to seem to contradict you most of the time, but I feel an obligation to do so, for I have benefitted from C2 so much. Maybe we have a hard time understanding each other, but in cases where we do understand, let reality be the judge.
