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BOOK YOUR FREE STRATEGY SESSION NOW >>RBOB Gasoline futures reside in the energy sector and share a good degree of correlation with Crude Oil prices. RBOB has a high Big Point Value and significant excursions that make it a decidedly heavy market that can be difficult to trade.
In today's video, we show you two strategies from our portfolio that are performing very well on this future.
Both follow trends and leverage the typical intraday recurring behavior of this market.
By watching this video, you'll learn:
The rules of the first strategy, which enters at the breakout of the Donchian Channel
The rules of the second strategy, which enters at the breakout of the high/low of the previous session
The real performances of these strategies (in sample and out of sample)
Enjoy! 😎
Hey everyone! One of the coaches of Unger Academy here and welcome back to our usual chat about the strategies in our portfolio that have performed the best over the last period.
So now this week we're going to be talking to you about an energy future, the RBOB Gasoline.
This future is highly correlated to the price of another energy market, which is Crude Oil. And as I've already mentioned, it belongs to the energy sector, together with Crude Oil, Heating Oil and Natural Gas futures.
So today I'm going to be showing you two strategies that exploit two very well-known behaviors of this market: the trend-following tendency and a sort of a bias that characterizes the price trends of this market.
In fact, I'm going to show you how, in the second part of the day... or rather in the second part of the session… You know, it's more correct to say "session" than "day" in this case... So, in the second part of the session, the RBOB tends to rise while in the first part of the session it tends to fall.
But let's go and take a look at the first strategy. This is an intraday strategy, so positions are opened and closed within a few hours.
The long positions are opened between 10:45 and 15:15 Exchange Time, that is to say New York time in this case.
And the system will buy at the breakout of a channel, the Donchian Channel calculated at 180 periods. Let me show it to you... Now it's loading... Ok, here it is.
And vice versa for the short side, with the only difference that the time window analyzed for the short side will start at 3:30 am and then end at 10:45 am, which corresponds to the start time of the time window in which we can place the long or short orders.
As I was telling you, we will open the short trades in the first part of the session and the long trades in the second part. And this will happen only in the case of a breakout either of the upper channel or of the lower channel.
This strategy was developed in 2017, more precisely in June 2017, so around this point here. And it is a strategy that certainly makes a lot of entries.
In addition, RBOB is a very heavy market. Just think that a single point of this future, so the Big Point Value, is worth as much as $42,000. So this gives you an idea of the extent of the moves of this underlying.
So even an intraday strategy such as this proved to be able to make remarkable profits and reach good average trade values, despite the very high amount of trades that it makes.
These are the net results. In fact, we've already considered commission costs and slippage. And the reason why we did it is that RBOB is not a very liquid market and consequently, to better evaluate the strategy's performance, we decided to also include the costs.
Let's me show you the Performance Summary, just to give you an idea of the costs that we paid. You see, in about 12 years, we made a Net profit of $192,000 but paid $79,000 of slippage-related costs. This means that the gross profit of the strategy would have been around 260,000-270,000, or something like that.
So this is the equity line produced by the system. We've seen that even in out of sample, this strategy has given good results. It was certainly a fluctuating performance and sure, this is a pretty heavy strategy. However, RBOB is a pretty heavy market itself, so it's not that easy to "tame" it, let's say.
Despite this, the annual performance has been excellent, especially in the current year, which as of now is the best year in terms of out-of-sample profits.
Now let's move on to the second strategy that I wanted to show you today. It also works on the RBOB Gasoline and exploits more or less the same behaviors exploited by the previous system.
In fact, it also leverages the fact that RBOB tends to rise in the second part of the session and fall in the first part.
However, the trigger is different from the previous strategy. In this case, we're working on a 60-minute chart, and we open the short trades if in the 9pm bar... Because you see it here, it starts at 9pm and ends at 10pm... So if within this bar the market breaks through the low of the previous bar, which is this level here... this is where the strategy entered.
And of course, vice versa for the long side, where we'll wait for the bar that opens at 11 exchange time and then closes at 12. If we break through the high of the previous bar, then we will enter with a stop order.
This strategy's performance has also been pretty stable in time. However, take a look at how ugly the first out-of-sample year was.
So by seeing such results, we could have said, "Hey, let's stop trading this strategy. Probably it doesn't work anymore!". But we didn't discard it and with some patience, we've waited for it to resume working.
We can see a nice progress also by looking at the equity line. We developed this strategy back in 2018. And as you can see, in 2019, it went through a very strong drawdown. However, over the years it managed to slowly recover.
Also in this case, we considered already the commission costs and slippage, so these are absolutely net results.
Okay, so if there is someone among you who's interested in the world of systematic trading, I suggest that you go and click on the link in the description of this video. From there, you'll be able to watch a free presentation by Andrea Unger, the only 4-time world champion of real-money trading. You'll also be able to get our best-selling book by only paying the shipping costs, or even book a free call with a member of our team.
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And with that, we will see next time! Bye-bye!
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BOOK YOUR FREE STRATEGY SESSION NOW >>Andrea Unger here and I help retail traders to improve their trading, scientifically. I went from being a cog in the machine in a multinational company to the only 4-Time World Trading Champion in a little more than 10 years.
I've been a professional trader since 2001 and in 2008 I became World Champion using just 4 automated trading systems.
In 2015 I founded Unger Academy, where I teach my method of developing effecting trading strategies: a scientific, replicable and universal method, based on numbers and statistics, not hunches, which led me and my students to become Champions again and again.
Now I'm here to help you learn how to develop your own strategies, autonomously. This channel will help you improve your trading, know the markets better, and apply the scientific method to financial markets.
Becoming a trader is harder than you think, but if you have passion, will, and sufficient capital, you'll learn how to code and develop effective strategies, manage risk, and diversify a portfolio of trading systems to greatly improve your chances of becoming successful.
