big dog day trader

Posted by on Nov 28, 2011 in Big Dog | 5 comments

As a trader when you got it, you got it, when you don’t you’re out of the busi­ness. So if think your a big wheel, get a leg up, run with the Big Dog.

 

In the 1990’s the basics of Big Dog trader was white labelled to a guy who wanted to break into the future’s trad­ing busi­ness. Under the typ­i­cal white label is a con­fi­den­tial­ity agree­ment where both par­ties agree not to dis­close the rela­tion­ship. In return he got the sys­tems and I in turn revived roy­al­ties. From every­thing I can see he is no longer in the busi­ness. But no mat­ter, no names will be men­tioned here, just the fact that he was head pro­gram­mer for a lead­ing online home mort­gage lender, he felt he could con­vert his pro­gram­ming tal­ents into trad­ing tal­ent.  So he went out and pur­chased all the top name sys­tems under a white labelled, renamed them as if they were his – and they were by agree­ment – and he failed!

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The moral of the story is that good pro­gram­mers do not nec­es­sar­ily make good sys­tem developers.

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You have to be a mar­ket ana­lyst and trader to know the lan­guage of the mar­kets before it goes into pro­gram­ming code. You also need to be able to keep the sys­tems up to day based on real “trad­ing experience.”This is our career at Cre­ative Break­through, Inc.

In any event, Big Dog was one of those late 1990 sys­tems; it was run as a break­out style trader. How­ever, I pulled out the code recently and made a sim­ple change to it, to the same set of bands just a dif­fer­ence way of using them. Today Big Dog it is a good change of trend trader with robust char­ac­ter­is­tics.  I have pro­vided a link here to my online video library. It con­tains two pre­sen­ta­tions. One that  shows the basic sys­tem devel­op­ment in a 10 min pre­sen­ta­tion; plus a 20 minute video on how we took it up a notch with a fil­ter to make it ready to trade real time. The strat­egy only has two sets of inputs to opti­mize and is robust across 10 markets.

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5 Responses to “big dog day trader”

  1. Ed Ghandour says:
    December 23, 2011 at 3:31 am

    I am a new TradeSta­tion user, though, traded Meta­S­tocks Prof for years (P.T.). Now I am look­ing for a ROBUST trad­ing sys­tem for stocks/EETf’s that I can auto­mate. Will Big Dog do it? Which other syste(s) do you rec­om­mend. Again, I don’t wish to rein­vent and code, I wish to learn, load a sys­tem and trade prof­itably.
    Can you rec­om­mend??
    Ed

  2. Ed Ghandour says:
    December 23, 2011 at 3:32 am

    By the way, I pre­fer Day­Trad­ing now

    I am a new TradeSta­tion user, though, traded Meta­S­tocks Prof for years (P.T.). Now I am look­ing for a ROBUST trad­ing sys­tem for stocks/EETf’s that I can auto­mate. Will Big Dog do it? Which other syste(s) do you rec­om­mend. Again, I don’t wish to rein­vent and code, I wish to learn, load a sys­tem and trade prof­itably.
    Can you rec­om­mend??
    Ed

  3. Jack Cahn says:
    January 23, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    Hey Ed, it was good talk­ing to you while I was in your beau­ti­ful State of Cal­i­for­nia. I called back and missed you, I’ll try again, but for the blog, we have Big Dog work­ing on the SPY, SPO, QQQ among other ETF’s as well as pop­u­lar iShares. Get me a list and I’ll “copy, clip and paste win­dow results to you for them.

  4. Jeff Parker says:
    December 5, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    For the day­trader it doesn’t get any sim­pler or more robust than Big Dog.
    The core code of Big Dog hasn’t changed in any ver­sion of Big Dog, and likely never will. New ver­sions have expanded BD to include more mar­kets, honed in on bet­ter time
    win­dows to trade, and included some minor fil­ters in some mar­kets to reduce draw­down.
    Big Dog shows the same robust returns across ETF’s as well as futures.

  5. Jack Cahn says:
    December 6, 2012 at 4:46 am

    Thanks for that. Big Dog is likely the sim­plest trad­ing idea I have dis­cov­ered. Given it’s nature of being a change of trend type strat­egy that only trades three times a month, I feel it will fly under the radar for years. I mean that the major­ity it seems chase the trend fol­low­ing or the trend con­tin­u­a­tion sys­tems, the open range break­outs types. Plus to avoid vul­gar­iza­tion of the sys­tem, my pol­icy is not to put these sys­tems in the hands of bro­kers. Rather it is dis­trib­uted to per­sonal traders that use it for their account only.

    Regard­ing the num­ber of ver­sions devel­oped in a short period of time, it was not in response to a “droop­ing “equity curve after we dis­cov­ered and devel­oped the pat­tern. In fact the older ver­sions on the com­mod­ity mar­kets are break­ing out to new profit highs over the last 3 to 4 months, the stock indices are about to and the newest ver­sion 6 — enhanced by my team of TMT developers/traders for the TMT mem­bers — is trad­ing hot for the last three months with new equity highs each month.

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