Daily Trading Edge #23
Instrument/asset
S&P 500 (SPY)
Trading rules
The trading rules of the edge read like this (please also backtest yourself – you might find a way to improve it):
- SPY is down at least 0.2%; and
- IWM is up at least 0.2%.
Results
Trading performance (SPY) if we exit after N-days since 2000:

The return over the next days is much better than any random day, but the performance doesn’t improve after a few days.
The equity curve for holding one day (24 hours) looks like this:

