GForce2

November 10th, 2009

What is Gforce2?

GForce1 (Gina) has become one of the hottest trading systems for the Emini S&Ps available. Because of this, many traders have flocked to this system. Some trading as many as 50 lots for $149. While one of our brokers seems to be maintaining good fills at about 72+% of the system reported level, the others have all performed poorly in the last couple months (50% and less for all other brokers). There has been a decrease in performance as the number of contracts being traded on Gina has risen. As a result, the traders at the majority of brokers are not making as much as we would prefer.

The solution? Gforce2 (G2)

The Gforce trading system(s) is what we call scalable. It can be traded at different prices and times by varying an input parameter. Virtually hundreds of these (parameter) sets are (fairly equally) profitable and tradable with this system. Some of these system variations can trade at their very own prices and times, and others will have different trades some of the times as others at various levels of correlation. If put under statistical analysis, pretty much all of them are not statistically different from one another. Therefore, there is not one that is “better” than another necessarily. Some might have bigger or smaller average trades, bigger or smaller draw-down, bigger or smaller profit. It is impossible to tell which will be better or worse in the future. This is true because any one of them is not statistically differnent than any of the others.

There are other design components that impact performance that are not related simply to system parameters. Because the variants of the system can trade at different prices and times, as one of the system variants such as Gina, starts being impacted by too many contracts being traded on it, it will cost more to trade it in terms of what is called slippage in the market. Slippage occurs when the market does not have enough opposing orders at a price to fill your order at the current price. Versions of Gforce trading systems such as G2, that are generating trades at other levels that the Gforce (Gina) system will have large amounts of free liquidity.

The G2 system is designed to have a slightly larger average trade than the original Gina system. It also should trade a bit less. You can view the year-to-date TradeStation report by clicking the link below (Past Performance is not necessarily indicative of future results). Many people have asked to view this insisting that it is a different system, however, I have designed a large number of systems and I use very strict statistical testing measures that most systems could never pass. When I run these measures it tells me the statistical significance that one set of parameters might be different from another set. So, though one system may be ‘different’ than another in some variation in the parameters, is is not different enough to discern a meaningful difference mathematically.

Another thing I’d like to mention on this topic is how we charge on the new G2 system. In order to protect our customers, we have gone to a per unit method of billing. This means if a client trades one lots, he is not damaged by clients who pay the same amount and trade 50 lots. Therefore, G2 is designed to protect the interests of the clients trading it and does not allow rich clients to steal ticks from smaller clients- All fills are averaged and everone gets the same price.

Another improvement is that all subscriber accounts follow the activity my own personal trading account, which is posted in real-time for subscribers at WorldCupAdvisor.com. For more information, call WorldCupAdvisor.com at 1-773-714-8200 or 1-877-456-7111.

Thanks for taking the time to learn how we can serve you better.

G2 performance

  1. May Lin
    November 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 | #1

    I love G2 system. Have been trading it since 10/7/09 at RobbinsTradingCo. Get 18.61% net return for month of Oct.

    I am not able to open the “G2 performance” link using my version of Excel program. Could you offer a G2.xls program for old version of Excel program. I am running Microsoft office Excel 2003 SP3 version.

    Thanks

  2. November 3rd, 2009 at 12:57 | #2

    We will look into a fix on the Excel file and possibly go .pdf… Thanks :-)

  3. Pete
    November 3rd, 2009 at 13:22 | #3

    Quick fix for XLS - mailed it to myself in Gmail and viewed it as html.

  4. Mark
    November 4th, 2009 at 18:56 | #4

    Any plans to make G2 available to manual traders? Or move all the autotraders to G2 to protect the manual traders on G1?

  5. November 4th, 2009 at 19:12 | #5

    G2 only tracks our account. Therefore, it is only available at one broker. Also, the whole idea is to control the liquidity and protect the client.

  6. May Lin
    December 19th, 2009 at 05:55 | #6

    Thanks Pete, yes, Gmail can open this file in Html page.

  1. November 1st, 2009 at 21:33 | #1