Post #5537 by elann on the Mechanical Investing board

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The problem is that they have you out and sitting in cash for 30 months and 18 months at a time. Pretty hard to not get itchy fingers somewhere around the 9'th month.
Of course, that's better than untimed with -66% MaxDD and 10+ years to recover.

I've experimented with a few simple ways of trying to recognize being past the bottom while the SMA is still saying to sell -- and everything I tried failed. I guess this screen is just too volatile.

How about an arbitrary rule for getting back in. When you’re still out 12 months after your sell signal, you get back in no matter what.

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