Another aspect to consider, even when you get in the 10% profitable, is the amount of capital required to make a living. If you think making...
Results for the week ending May 23rd: (live accounts, 1 contract each) - Basic TM: 1 win ; no loss ; net +195 - Alternate TM : 1 win ; no loss ;...
FWIW, in 1987 Larry Williams won the WorldCup Championship of Futures Trading with a whopping +11,376% This is an average +19.5% per week,...
It all depends on you trading plan, and ability to execute it perfectly. Now, from your opening post, shooting for 1:1 w/ a 10-ticks stop in CL...
If you are using CalculateBarOnClose = true, then time a 1-year backtest and see that its duration is insignificant vs the 1-year duration. If...
Results for the week ending May 16th: (live accounts, 1 contract each) - Basic TM: 1 win ; no loss ; net +225 - Alternate TM : 1 win ; no loss ;...
I have a trade idea for you. I am pretty sure it will reach your goal, although possibly not instantaneously: Short 1 CL futures, and stay...
Just get "BetterThanDefault" compiled, then backtest your strategy using that filltype instead of "Default", with 1-tick slippage - You'll see...
This system averages $2.5 per contract per trade in backtest ... in my experience, it has 100% chances of having a negative expectancy when traded...
Results for the week ending May 9th: (live accounts, 1 contract each) - Basic TM: 2 wins ; no loss ; net +740 (+515 / +225) - Alternate TM : 2...
I'll answer that as a genuine question. The purpose of offering/selling trading systems is twofold, just as is the purpose of a CTA or a Hedge...
I have updated the backtest results for all 3 systems up to May, 2nd 2014. For CLAlwaysIn, this is using v53, which introduces 2 new patterns...
CL151 had a solid month (April 2014) - the results below are for trading 1 contract. Basic TM - "official" results (backtest, 1 tick systematic...
The basic strategy would be to forget about trading yourself, and focus on finding good money managers or off-the-shelf trading systems to trade...
Results for the week ending April 25th: (live accounts, 1 contract each) - Basic TM: 4 wins ; no loss ; net +780 - Alternate TM : 3 wins ; 1...
You really like living dangerously, don't you? :) Leave NinjaTrader DB alone, use your own files or your own DB if you think you need a DB....
The high-level idea: In OnTermination(), my strategies take note (in a file) of their current position & open-orders, then cancel all...
As long as the current strategy instance is running, there is no reason for an IOrder to "disappear" (you wrote my order object is null after...
How many actual reversals per day, vs how many actual pullbacks before another leg of the existing trend? If you want to trade reversals, you'd...
Results are in USD, for 1 contract
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