uempel wrote:Tutti, I'm using the standard settings. Monthly Coppock has only given two bearish and two bullish signals these last 20 years. All four of them were very rewarding.
I know, there are other ways to apply the indicator. I considered myself very smart and developed an own monthly model. After a few very good signals it gave a sell signal in January 2014 So I'm back to basics
Tutti wrote:
uempel wrote:Tutti, I've played around with Coppock in weekly and even daily charts showing US and European indices - and in my view it's useless. As the original designers correctly found out: the only time frame which seems to show a flawless performance is the monthly chart.
It's hard to argue with you on this. In fact I agree.
I keep it in a file of charts for longer term looks - if you notice its on a monthly. Even then it's far from flawless. in the few signals it has produced (using my setting for it) there have been 2 false ones. The latest triggering just a bit ago. It's the reason I paired it with a weekly cross to see if there was something else I could take from it. There are too few actual signals to confidently state that it provides any type of statistical edge.
I wont trade to it, but mentioned it only because the forum was chatting about it.
-Tutti
Take a look at the setting I've used (14:11:10). I believe they are out of the stock charts series on how to use Coppock (I could also have been playing around, I don't recall). You can see we just had a poor signal (meaning the index failed to decline >=10%). Additionally in all of these years such a small quantity of signals, by my count 5, makes it very hard (for me) to say that there is an absolute edge. I guess it's more about how you trade it in terms of time and what one wants take out of the trade.
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exceeds 100% mm, so this bear may still have legs.
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Thanks for your comments last night
My stats show that the U.S. is still a 77% consumption/consumer society
But yes, we do consume goods AND SERVICES
Please tell me what ticker symbol you would use to measure the SERVICES part of it
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