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TRIX Reversal Trading Report

Friday November 2, 2007

TRIX Reversal Chart

I recently received a comment from a European trader, asking how the TRIX reversal trading system was performing, so I am providing some results from the past week to give an example of the system's performance.

The following results are from the EUR futures market, trading 1 contract, with a target of 20 ticks per trade (and per day), and a stop loss of 10 ticks. Even though the EUR futures market is open 24 hours per day, trading started at the European open (8:00 AM Central European Time), and stopped when either the daily profit target had been reached, or at the European close (5:00 PM Central European Time). The chart that was used was a 5 minute chart, with the TRIX set to 9 bars (the default for the TRIX reversal trading system).

  • Monday : The first trade was a long trade, and made a profit of 2 ticks. The second trade was a short trade, and made its target of 20 ticks. The daily target had been reached so there were no further trades.
  • Tuesday : The first trade was a long trade, and made its target of 20 ticks. The daily target had been reached so there were no further trades.
  • Wednesday : The first trade was a long trade, and made its target of 20 ticks. The daily target had been reached so there were no further trades.
  • Thursday : The first trade was a long trade, and made a loss of 10 ticks. The second trade was a short trade, and made its target of 20 ticks. The third trade was a long trade, and made a loss of 10 ticks. The fourth trade was a short trade, and made its target of 20 ticks. The daily target had been reached so there were no further trades.
  • Friday : The first trade was a short trade, and made a loss of 10 ticks. The second trade was a long trade, and made a loss of 8 ticks. The third trade was a short trade, and made a loss of 10 ticks. The fourth trade was a long trade, and made a loss of 10 ticks. The fifth trade was a short trade, and made its target of 20 ticks. The sixth trade was a long trade, and was a breakeven trade. The seventh trade was a short trade, and made a profit of 7 ticks (the trade was exited at 5:00 PM).

The first four days of the week were very good, but the last day of the week (today) was not so good. Nevertheless, over the week the TRIX reversal trading system performed well. The total profit for the week was 69 ticks, which gives a weekly profit of $862.50 (69 ticks x $12.50) per contract.

Further information about the TRIX reversal trading system, including complete instructions for making TRIX reversal trades, and charts of a real trade made using the trading system, can be found in the TRIX reversal trading system tutorial.

Comments

November 8, 2007 at 6:05 pm
(1) Steve says:

Hi Adam, I enjoy reading your newsletter. I am relatively new to futures trading and always looking for a fresh idea. About the TRIX system, how do you pick your stop loss and profit objectives as you move among various markets? Is their a way to identify a market in which you would NOT use this system? I randomly looked this system over on the S&P mini, 3 and 5 minute charts and it didn’t seem to work but I worry that perhaps my stops or profit objectives are too small.

Thanks – Steve

November 9, 2007 at 3:03 pm
(2) Day Trading Guide says:

In answer to your question :

The TRIX reversal trading system works best with decisive markets (markets which have smooth moves and make quick changes of direction), such as the DAX futures market.

The ES (S&P 500) futures market is not a decisive market, because even though it has large enough moves, they are not smooth, and its changes of direction are not quick (there is usually some sideways chop during the change of direction).

After receiving your comment, I did take a look at the ES futures market, and it appears as though it might be compatible with the TRIX reversal trading system on longer timeframes, or on other types of timeframe (such as tick, volume, or range charts).

In general with the TRIX reversal trading system, and even more so with markets that are not decisive, the target should be at least double, if not three or four times, the stop loss (such as a 40 tick target, and a 10 tick stop loss), and there should also be a daily profit target so that the number of trades can be kept to a minimum (this is often a good idea with any trading system).

I hope that this helps, and thank you for your comment.

March 9, 2008 at 9:56 am
(3) Christoff says:

Hi, Adam. Is the TRIX indicator you mentioned the standard indicator available in most charting packages? I use TradeStation and are not sure if the standard TRIX indicator in TradeStation is the same?
On the DAX futures what timeframe do you use and what target and stop loss do you use per each trade?
Regards, Christoff

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