Turtle trading

Well I've just finished reading the turtle trading book that was written by one of the turtle, Curtis Faith, and I have to say it was excellent.

From doing a lot of reading and looking at Curtis's forum etc...it appears that the initial system they were using was a typical breakout using an ATR type system rather than a typical trend following program as such. Its clear from doing a little back testing over the past 5 years that this specific turtle system would have had a fairly tough run.

Luckily, in Curtis's book he also documents the result of some of his backtesting of over turtle minded systems and its one of these systems that I propose to test.

So i'm going to run a little experiment here and see what sort of results I get from being a purely systems trader using a Bollinger Band Based entry and exit.

At this stage,i wont give you the exact recipe (buy curtis's book) although its pretty simple and basic, But I will be posting my trades as I make them. So hopefully it will be basically live.

I'm using marketiva to trade and I will be starting with around 112usd. Not very much but enough for a test. My risk on any give trade wiill be 1% of funds with a max risk of 2N. I will also likely be trading medium term trades during New York Session.

My ultimate goal is to experience gains of around 8% per month.

So thats it...follow along with me as I either burn my tiny mini account or actually start turning a discipline into a profitable trading system.