Monday Rub Down

Today was a bitch of a day again – not surprising as there is still no participation in the market and the MMs basically are doing their best to slam the tape any way they damn please in a round robin circle jerk:

The PZI got whipsawed left and right today but I’m pretty sure nobody is looking at that one anyway since the signal line has been reduced to the heartbeat of a hibernating field mouse. The Lite did its best to make sense out of all this insanity and we did get some zero mark crosses which were spot on. The close was ugly however and I hope that you guys simply stayed out towards the end.

evil.rat/ES ended break/even today – entered at 854.5 and exited at 854.5 – boy, it could have gotten a lot uglier there. evil.rat/NQ refused to play – I guess it’s the smarter one of those nefarious twins 🙂

Introducing resident.evil

I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce a brand new member of the Evil Speculator family. I actually have been secretly laboring on this monstrosity in my lair of doom for several months now and finally managed to optimize and refine it over the weekend. Say hello to resident.evil:

This is the conservative version.

resident.evil conservative:

Sharpe Ratio: 1.37
Total # of Trades: 128
Max DrawDown: -2.42%
Percent profitable: 66.41%
Cumulated Profit: 118.24%

And this is its mischievous twin – resident.evil extreme 🙂

resident.evil extreme:

Sharpe Ratio: 1.00
Total # of Trades: 132
Max DrawDown: -6.01%
Percent profitable: 62.88%
Cumulated Profit: 151.69%

I’m not sure yet which one I will release into the wild – maybe you guys can chime in and let me know which one you prefer? I do like the minimal drawdown of the conservative version but extreme made 15% more with 2.5 x the drawdown (6% vs. 2.4%). Tough choice – and my goal is to offer an appropriate alternative to the evil.rat bros. I’ll put up a poll to get a sense of what you guys think.

Freebee Alert!

What I’m planning to do later this week is to hook the evil.rat messaging system into resident.evil and then offer it for free to all evil.rat subscribers for about a month. I’ll be paying SMS fees through my nose but thought it was just fair – as I always hated it when damn Jobs introduced a new iPod the very day after I bought one (it never fails). This will give me a large group of beta testers and hopefully will keep all existing subscribers happy. Once the trial month is over I plan to make it pay-to-play and the monthly fee will be similar to the evil.rat twins. Maybe I’ll even offer package deals but don’t want to make the signup page too confusing.

So you guys get to freeload a little bit – isn’t that nice? Yes, I love to lure in my hapless victims with free offers and then hit them hard once they are hooked. Hey, what works for my local Hollywood celebrity drug pusher is good enough for me 😉

BTW, I’m going to update the evil.rat performance charts later this afternoon once I’m back from the gym.

UPDATE 5:31pm EDT: evil.rat performance charts have been updated. evil.rat/NQ took it on the chin in the past two weeks – evil.rat/ES took less of a hit. Not surprising as the tape has been ridiculous but that’s not meant as a cop out. Just my luck to introduce this thing during a drawdown period. But that’s how it goes – that curve was getting fairly steep on both sides just prior to that – and I guess we had a bit of return to the median.

This might also demonstrate the advantage of trading several bots at the same time and that evil.rat is unrelated to resident.evil. Trading both concurrently would offer the benefit of averaging out between the two. I saw some very critical comments just now and I’m a bit confused by that. I’m trying to help you guys out and provide better services – even offered to release this thing for free to all existing subscribers for a few weeks. A lot of work has gone into this one, so before you jump to conclusions turn on your brain and look a the graphs please.

If you guys rather have me not release it let me know – I frankly don’t care either way as I’m trading it already.