Good tip there in re-ordering watch list due to recent...

Good tip there in re-ordering watch list due to recent performance.

Personally I ignore data before 2004.

Macro patterns are hard to test because of small sample size (in numbers not time). Any form of tampering with months/seasonals is an optimisation and needs to be viewed as such. A very nice touch to have but I always start with the pattern success rate off the full available set per instrument as the raw figure to use as a Control.

So as it stands if I can't or haven't tested it myself I just do what we all do here and take recent examples off recent 2-3 yr charts. It just becomes one more box ticked to confirm a bias before executing a trade.