The Turbo Turtle: Improving on the Turtle Trading System

Original (Portable) Rules

Entry rules
1. Get in on a 20-bar breakout.
2. Before reversing the trend using the 20-bar breakout, there must
be a losing trade in the opposite direction.
3. Always enter on a 55 bar breakout.
4. (Subjective) If the market is sideways, use a 55 bar breakout.
5. Once there is a profit in one direction, you can continue to trade
in that direction, but to trade in the opposite direction, there
must first be a loss.

Stop rules
1. On the day of entry, use a 1/2 (Average True Range) ATR stop.
If the trade gets stopped out during the intraday trading, then
get back in if the intraday market gives a new signal (makes
new lows or highs).
2. Use a 10-day trailing stop.
3. The day after the entry, use a 2 ATR protective stop. Sometimes
the 10 day trailing stop is too far away. The 10-day trailing stop
assures you will not be risking more than 2-ATR on a trade (except
when there is a gap open against your trade).
4. When the trade is at a 2.5 ATR profit, move the protective stop
to breakeven.
5. Once the 10-day trailing stop or the 2.5 ATR rule moves the
stop to breakeven, start using a wider trailing stop of 20 bars.
6. Once you are ahead by 10 ATR, use a 3 bar pivot as a trailing
stop and the 20 bar breakout as a trailing stop.

Additional Techniques
1. Enter additional positions at a 55-day breakout, provided the
protective stop on the first positions have been moved to
breakeven.
2. After a big profit of 10 ATR or more, do not trade in the
opposite direction for 45 bars using the 20 bar breakout method.
Use the 55 bar breakout instead.
3. Wait for a sideways market to start trading and get in on a 55
bar breakout.

Money Management Rules
1. Do not risk more than 1% of your account per trade.
2. Do not expose your account to more than a 2 ATR risk at any
time.
3. Use fractional entry technique.
4. If in one trade, wait for that trade to be moved to breakeven
before adding any new trades.
5. Trade the strongest commodity within a complex, such as
grains and currencies.
6. Trade when the volatility shrinks. When the volatility shrinks
by 50%, it allows more contracts to be used for the same dollar
risk.

Now why did I tell you all this? Certainly not for it's historical content. These rules are as alive and potent as any 'secrets' in today's trading.

What I have done is developed a money management course. It is a 200-page book and a CD-ROM. We combine the turtle rules via computer software and use different buy sell rules. The original buy sell rules are for futures only and use the above noted 20-day entry rule. Shorting also may be hindered in the stock market since the stock market is not symmetrical like the futures market. We also have great scanning ideas and even some software source on our CD.

My Money management course has been updated recently. To make it even more informative for investors I also include the Pretty Good Oscillator VB.NET source code in my CD.

PGO (Pretty Good Oscillator by Mark Johnson)

You perhaps know of the PGO commodity trading system. It has performed extremely well in simulated trading and made $80k into $200 million using a basket of commodities and not utilizing pyramiding.

Disclaimer:

This is not a solicitation to trade commodities or stocks. Our business is research and consulting for mechanical trading systems development. These results are impressive but simulated trading results are not an assurance that performance will be repeated in the future and you will make money. Trading futures and stocks is a risky undertaking and we recommend you don't risk money you cannot afford.

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