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Dual Moving Averages version 0.2

This is an improvement over the DMA algo presented previously.

The major change is that it now buys equal valued shares, instead of equal number of shares of the different securities (using the code from Andrew Parker).

As you can see, performance is much better overall although like the previous version it didn't do that well for the first 4 years. Still not sure why. Any suggestions?

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Is there a way to combine the dual-moving averaging algo with the stat-arbo algo? Ie, for any given pair you have trending regimes and co-integrating (mean reversion) regimes

@J.J. Kaljuvee: That's a cool idea, I think many people here would be interested to see how this plays out so it'd be great if you wanted to give that a go. You could trade the spread and momentum at the same time or inform whether to trade the spread based on the momentum.

I would start by cloning Fawce's algorithm since its more complex and it is easier to add the DMA functionality there. I would also start with 2 securities and not a larger portfolio as I did here. Figuring out if these two algorithms should just act largely independent or interact in some way is probably the biggest question and you will have to experiment with that to find what works best.

Let me know if there are any problems or unanswered questions!