stock list: over 4000 symbols from Yahoo finance,
during testing, delisted symbols are not considered.
Volume: 30 day average vol >500000 during the trading
Price: stock price>6 during trading
long only system, holding period from 2 to 7 trading
days.
I tested from 2000 to 2011, only part of data in 2000
is used.
Results:
total number of trades: 8806
successful trades: 8144 0.924824
unsuccessful trades: 662 0.075176
trades stat by year:
total number of trades in 2000 : 129
successful trades in 2000 : 123 0.953488
unsuccessful trades in 2000 : 6 0.0465116
total number of trades in 2001 : 775
successful trades in 2001 : 714 0.92129
unsuccessful trades in 2001 : 61 0.0787097
total number of trades in 2002 : 502
successful trades in 2002 : 466 0.928287
unsuccessful trades in 2002 : 36 0.0717131
total number of trades in 2003 : 696
successful trades in 2003 : 659 0.946839
unsuccessful trades in 2003 : 37 0.0531609
total number of trades in 2004 : 497
successful trades in 2004 : 441 0.887324
unsuccessful trades in 2004 : 56 0.112676
total number of trades in 2005 : 449
successful trades in 2005 : 408 0.908686
unsuccessful trades in 2005 : 41 0.091314
total number of trades in 2006 : 582
successful trades in 2006 : 520 0.893471
unsuccessful trades in 2006 : 62 0.106529
total number of trades in 2007 : 760
successful trades in 2007 : 688 0.905263
unsuccessful trades in 2007 : 72 0.0947368
total number of trades in 2008 : 1011
successful trades in 2008 : 938 0.927794
unsuccessful trades in 2008 : 73 0.0722057
total number of trades in 2009 : 2196
successful trades in 2009 : 2065 0.940346
unsuccessful trades in 2009 : 131 0.0596539
total number of trades in 2010 : 919
successful trades in 2010 : 857 0.932535
unsuccessful trades in 2010 : 62 0.0674646
total number of trades in 2011 : 290
successful trades in 2011 : 265 0.913793
unsuccessful trades in 2011 : 25 0.0862069