I am trying to write a Streak Algo that does the following:
Is there a way to backtest this strategy in Streak and possibly even deploy it?
although you can do it in streak, the contracts as they expire , wont be available for backtesting in streak so as a result the maximum backtest that which you can do is for the previous 1 month.
Also , intraday straddle works best in weekly contracts as the decay is the most in them.
Waiting for streak’s comment,
this is a very risky strategy on banknifty…
Based on my backtest it has been profitable for more than 4 years data with each month as green except 2
just check yesterday’s chart…there’s a big loss…without stop loss this is highly risky especially on banknifty
Yupp, 30% stoploss was also considered in my backtest
Hi @Saukrit,
You can just follow along this article for creating this
Also @Sai_Krishnan , expired contracts have been enabled and you can backtest on Historical expires as well.
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Great. Thanks, @Krishnendu I just Backtested it for April 20- March 21 for BANK NIFTY Straddle using dynamic contracts and saw 62% profits post brokerage. Average capital required for 10 lot Straddle should be around 18-20 Lakhs and this gave an 11.5 lakh profit as per the algorithm using 30% stop-loss
For 10 lots BANKNIFTY I am assuming Rs 500 Brokerage per trade, which would translate to roughly 12k Brokerage throughout the year. Is that a safe number to assume on average?
And if this is done after pledging the existing Securities in Zerodha, the returns can be phenomenally high theoretically as per the last 1 year backtest.
good…now you can do a live test on neostox or other mock system to validate this backtest
@krishnendu I don’t understand one thing though. In case of short straddle the results should be valid only when I sell the dynamic option contract on the mentioned timeframe and buy when stoploss is hit or at expiry.
But surprisingly I was getting the same backtest results irrespective of whether I choose to buy or sell.
I didn’t understand this logic
There is a brokerage toggle. turning it on will show post brokerage p/l
For Dynamic contract, you need to set the position in Order Type of the Contract settings. If done correctly, the result of a Long and a short straddle will be different, not necessarily a loss of the Long straddle. Since the Long straddle is a long vega, one of the legs may earn a big profit on some days ultimately giving net profit.
Remember when you short, there is a limit on the profit, when you long upside is not capped. Exactly when the trade entered and exited can be verified using the transaction details of the backtest.
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Can you share the scshot of the settings you used? Its not profitable for me. Im wondering whether I put something wrong.
Can I create following strategy:
Could I use dynamic contracts in entry condition also? I see we can only apply it to underlying!
Streak does not support Adjustment to an existing position. This cannot be currently implemented.
Hi @barbarika currently you cannot add a dynamic contract in the SYMBOL function. You can only add them as a scrip.
Please elaborate on this.
Underlying I mean index, I want to do a strategy on ITM option want to scan ITM -200 option for a CCI value and if it satisfy that condition then I want to enter a trade on same ITM option script! Can I do that?
So if nifty is at 16000 then want to scan 15800 ce and 15900 ce charts. if their CCI > -100 then I want to buy those option scripts!
