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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: mungofitch 🐝🐝🐝 GOLD
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Subject: Re: My new Program
Date: 01/23/26 8:18 AM
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It uses a 9-Day Weighted Moving Average (WMA). The thresholds for turning to bearish or back to bullish are not a fixed zero per my own backtests of what is optimal. I suggest anyone using it to do the same sort of testing to arrive at what they consider optimal.

I'd add to that, if you're going to use a cutoff other than zero, I recommend expressing the NH-NL difference as the percent of issues before comparing to your constant - the number of stocks changes a lot over time, so an absolute ticker count is probably not what you want if you want a long backtest to behave the same way now.

Jim
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