The 2009 version of this has some sample stop code. Fwiw, I haven't found a good array way of doing it, as opposed to looping through the whole period. The biggest drawback being that you cannot use parallel computing.
Any thoughts on the best way to make this a long/short/flat system, ie you can be 1=long, 0=flat, -1=short? So far you're either long or short, ie always in the market. Any thoughts on what the best way is to run the L/S conditions through the tradesignal file using bit operations?
Interesting approach, still working through this. Bring on the curve fitting!
The tradeSignal.m definitely has a mistake. Couldn't quite get Ivan's solution to work. I fixed it as follows: change to idx = indLoc(:); and add
if (ind2use(iInd)==0) sigC=sigB;
elseif (ind2use(iInd+1)==0) sigC=sigA;
I also renamed some vars and got rid of that eval business, seems to work faster. Full code below, if there are more mistakes feel free to comment.
Re the Sharpe annualization - OMG guys! When you use that Sharpe maximization, you should also realize that you're not really maximizing the Sharpe ratio unless you are working with indexed prices. The PnL function gives prices differences (not returns), Sharpe ratio works with returns!
function sigOut = tradeSignal(pop,ind)
%% BitString Length
cntBString = size(pop,2);
%% Calculate Indicators
% Length = 4*NoIndicators - 2
cntInd = (cntBString+2)/4;
% indicator locations
indLoc = 1:3:cntBString-cntInd;
indLocEnd = max(indLoc);
%% Generate Signal
sigOut = zeros(size(ind,1),size(pop,1));
for iPop = 1:size(pop,1)
ind2use = logical(pop(iPop,cntBString-cntInd+1:end));
idx = indLoc(:);
for iInd = 1:length(idx)-1
% indicator 1
if (iInd == 1) %evaluate first indicator
sigA=[ind(:,iInd)==pop(iPop,idx(iInd))];
else %for all other indicators, combine with the results generated so far
sigA = sigC;
end
