New Multi Year Highs

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Remember that stocks are never too high for you to begin buying or too low to begin selling. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Jesse Livermore)

The Prudent Trader publishes a screen everyday of stocks making multi-year highs. I thought it would be interesting to back test this idea of buying new multi-year highs, this test which occurred a little over two years ago will hopefully be updated sometime in the fall. The conditions of the test:

• SP500 is above its 100 day moving average.
• Stocks 7 day moving average of  volume exceeds 500K.
• We'll allow some room so the stop will be the trailing 3 month low.
• If not stopped out, sell in 30 trading days.
• $100K account maximum position size is 5% of equity - allowing up to 20 positions at any given time.
• Buy and Sell price is always the opening on the following day.
• Run against all stocks in the Worden Database (~7,300), from 1/1/2000 thru April 2012.

Results:

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