Putting Barchart To Work For You
(like to make this a series)
Trading Exponential Moving Averages
(this would be one trading program in the series)
Sections in this report
1) Postion valuations on the settlement
2) Simplified trend qualification procedure
3) 2000-2021 performance by Individual market and links to track trades
4) Setting up with Barchart to monitor intra-day performance for any EMA allocation.
5) Top allocations that trade using Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs)
6) Creating your own EMA portfolio
It would be great if I could drop in a live feed enabling us to load trades as they occurred and readers to monitor performance updated every 15 minutes. if this isn’t possible I’d like to purchase a feed monthly enabling me to drop the portfolio into a WordPress site, please get back to me on cost.
Position valuations on the settlement 29 September 2021
1) Simplified Trend Qualification Procedure
Open the 2 month barchart 3rd column
When price action is above the EMA9 red and the EMA9 is above EMA18 blue trade long.
When price action is below the EMA9 red and the EMA9 is below EMA18 blue trade short.
When it’s close we use the green EMA 4.5, EMA9 and the opinion (4th column) for confirmation
2) 2000-2021 performance by market and links to generate trades
| January 2000 – August 2021 performance by EMA market traded Using this spreadsheet you can create a 2000-2021 allocation for any combination of the markets below |
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| Spreadsheets, daily trades, data, charts |
Candle Stick Chart |
Bar Chart |
15 M Chart |
O |
Margin Requirement |
Net Per Contract | Maximum Drawdown | Last 12 Months |
| Stock Indices | ||||||||
| ES SP 500 Mini | ES | ES | ES |
O |
$12,650 | $301,580 | ($12,882) | $42,952 |
| ET SP 500 Micro | ET | ET | ET | O |
$1,265 | $22,612 | ($2,594) | $4,014 |
| NQ Nasdaq 100 | NQ | NQ | NQ |
O |
$18,700 | $399,001 | ($20,668) | $47,021 |
| NQ Nasdaq 100 Micro | NM | NM | NQ | O |
$1,870 | $32,613 | ($3,104) | $4,259 |
| Metals | ||||||||
| GC Gold 100 Ounces | GC | GC | GC |
O |
$9,900 | $377,067 | ($20,857) | $1,291 |
| QO Gold 50 Ounces | QO | QO | QO | O |
$4,950 | $184,185 | ($11,213) | $372 |
| GR Gold 10 Ounces | GR | GR | GR | O |
$990 | $29,880 | ($2,461) | ($362) |
| SI Silver 5000 Ounces | SI | SI | SI |
O |
$5,000 | $529,894 | ($48,503) | $6,069 |
| QI Silver 2500 Ounces | QI | QI | QI | O |
$2,500 | $260,891 | ($24,291) | $2,859 |
| SO Silver 1000 Ounces | SO | SO | SO | O |
$1,000 | $99,489 | ($9,837) | $933 |
| Currencies | ||||||||
| A6 100,000 AUD | A6 | A6 | A6 |
O |
$1,760 | $188,534 | ($14,039) | $6,152 |
| MG-10,000 AUD | MG | MG | MG |
O |
$200 | $11,904 | ($1,966) | $370 |
| D6 100,000 CAD | D6 | D6 | D6 |
O |
$1,210 | $105,822 | ($11,077) | $4,893 |
| S6 125,000 CHF | S6 | S6 | S6 | O |
$3,630 | $188,879 | ($13,332) | $467 |
| WN 12,500 CHF | WN | WN | WN | O |
$363 | $10,183 | ($1,967) | ($550) |
| E6 125,000 EUR | E6 | E6 | E6 | O |
$2,420 | $290,355 | ($19,570) | $693 |
| E7 62,500 EUR | E7 | E7 | E7 | O |
$1,210 | $140,615 | ($9,940) | $112 |
| MF 12,500 EUR | MF | MF | MF | O |
$242 | $21,352 | ($2,323) | ($351) |
| B6 62,500 GBP | B6 | B6 | B6 | O |
$2,365 | $142,404 | ($16,663) | $6,177 |
| J6 12,500,000 JPY | J6 | J6 | J6 | O |
$2,255 | $254,380 | ($8,750) | $2,451 |
| J7 6,250,000 JPY | J7 | J7 | J7 | O |
$1,127 | $122,471 | ($4,383) | $991 |
| WM-1,250,000 JPY | WM | WM | WM | O |
$363 | $16,944 | ($1,405) | ($176) |
| DX 100,000 D-Index | DX | DX | DX | O |
$2,090 | $200,605 | ($5,760) | $3,083 |
| BT 5 Bitcoin | BT | BT | BT | O |
$76,375 | $506,302 | ($28,404) | $340,724 |
| Energy | ||||||||
| CL Crude 1000 Barrel | CL |
CL |
CL | O | $5,675 |
$536,412 | ($18,783) | $24,179 |
| QM Crude 500 Barrel | QM |
QM |
QM | O | $2,850 |
$264,267 | ($9,528) | $11,914 |
| CY Crude 100 Barrel | CY |
CY |
CY | O | $575 |
$46,551 | ($2,124) | $2,102 |
| Create An Allocation | Track Your Allocation Forward | Allocation Studies | ||||||
| About ATAs | Defining ATA Account Risk | Risk Disclosure | ||||||
3) Setting up with Barchart to track trades for you allocation intra-day.
Open this page then click on sign up
Click on get free (it never expires)
Enter your name, email, pick a password, create a free account, (no additional information is required).
 login to your Barchart account, under my account click on portfolio
Click on new portfolio
Name the portfolio
Click on create
Add markets traded to your EMA portfolio
Enter the contract code
Enter date, price, quantity of contracts traded, then apply
Once you’ve built out your allocation prices and performance are updated every 15 minutes.
1)_Today’s total profit or loss
2) Total open trade equity
3) Total profit or loss
4) Current contract price
5) Today’s P&L per market
6) Total P&L per market
To offset any positions click on edit
Enter the offset price, then apply
What you’ll see
1)_Shows net profit or loss
2) Shows the position has been liquidated
3) The offset position’s profit or loss is added to closed P&L.
To organize the portfolio click on edit
Clicking on the arrow or dragging the trade moves the position
When finished hit save
Portfolio performance is updated every 15 minutes.
5) Top allocations that trade using Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs)
| EMA Performance January 2000 through August 2021 Trading one unit, net of all spreads and commissions, no compounding and withdrawing all profits annually Allocation pages provide full disclosure of trading methodology, all trades & data enabling performance verification |
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| Trading one unit, net of all costs, no compounding and withdrawing all profits annually | |||||||
| Allocation Spreadsheet |
Minimum (USD) | Net Profit 2000-2021 | Drawdown | Best Year | Worst Year | Annual Average | Last 12 Months |
| 32586942 | $500,000 | $10,103,970 | ($111,161) | $1,005,272 | $209,300 | $453,273 | $909,835 |
| 9314318 | $250,000 | $5,093,302 | ($50,599) | $612,171 | $84,880 | $227,168 | $558,797 |
| All Markets | $250,000 |
$3,918,685 |
($77,725) |
$484,528 |
$73,547 |
$173,680 |
$481,520 |
| 944278 | $200,000 | $4,042,349 | ($45,222) | $488,310 | $67,629 | $183,388 | $215,022 |
| 9981614 | $150,000 | $3,925,072 | ($58,298) | $259,387 | $84,360 | $178,563 | $172,350 |
| 7747141 | $150,000 | $3,343,705 | ($41,211) | $350,272 | $67,256 | $152,023 | $155,546 |
| 5891142 | $150,000 | $2,573,366 | ($39,910) | $332,345 | $54,702 | $112,606 | $437,046 |
| 6733212 | $100,000 | $2,467,594 | ($31,451) | $263,330 | $49,976 | $112,152 | $112,518 |
| 7348775 | $100,000 | $2,736,582 | ($40,662) | $285,664 | $44,254 | $124,519 | $122,384 |
| 1241523 | $75,000 | $1,654,314 | ($34,376) | $180,644 | $34,902 | $75,725 | $58,654 |
| 8747196 | $75,000 | $1,555,795 | ($23,239) | $206,364 | $28,215 | $70,923 | $65,176 |
| 1030710 | $60,000 | $1,613,969 | ($22,047) | $130,233 | $19,872 | $73,413 | $75,004 |
| 9626236 | $50,000 | $1,212,946 | ($24,566) | $165,436 | $28,613 | $55,103 | $63,838 |
| 25720010 | $50,000 | $937,779 | ($12,444) | $140,452 | $11,013 | $42,096 | $80,758 |
| 7798523 | $30,000 | $850,545 | ($12,567) | $108,231 | $15,914 | $38,940 | $28,783 |
| 5699710 | $25,000 | $556,996 | ($8,080) | $67,078 | $11,123 | $25,109 | $45,259 |
| Micro-D | $25,000 | $544,441 | ($9,572) | $68,293 | $12,468 | $24,629 | $37,087 |
| 8877101 | $25,000 | $478,592 | ($8,522) | $66,917 | $10,213 | $21,634 | $32,423 |
| 4119881 | $25,000 | $431,667 | ($6,454) | $55,639 | $10,072 | $19,479 | $33,076 |
6) Using this spreadsheet you can create any allocation of the EMA markets below. Enter your start balance in cell H19, number of contacts traded for each market in cells I19 – I44, 2000-2021 annual performance shows in cells D19-D43, monthly performance column F, maximum drawdown H-21.
Allocation studies
Top 50,000 Combinations of mini and full size contacts
Top 100,000 combintions of mini and micro contacts
