AVERAGING DOWN Averaging down is an investment strategy that involves buying additional contracts of an asset when the price drops. This way, the investor increases the size of their position at discounted prices. The averaging down strategy is highly debated among traders and investors because it can either lead to huge losses or great returns. Nevertheless,...
This strategy has been published for a Pyramiding tutorial on the Backtest Rookies website. For a full overview of the code and an introduction to Pyramiding check out our site. Summary The code example will create a simple script that allows us to average down whenever our portfolio is down x%. The idea will be to bring our average cost down so that we can...