I wonder if it would be a bad idea to simply have some sort of profit target for the system... such as if overal the system has reached say $700...
todays results: Es -$58 NQ +$315.60 ER2 +$711.20 YM +$50.92 Today was the best day for the system thus far. One thing I noticed is...
AC3, that is a valid question. In my earlier days of developing automated systems I did have a few systems that suffered from that problem. Since...
Bot is up 1,032 today... perhaps everyday when it gets up high I should just turn it off.. LOL
jimmy, Just like always my bot system is up nearly $700 right now.... but by time it actually takes profits on these trades it will only lock...
Out of curiosity I decided to backtest the method with the entry criteria reversed, just as expected it had a net loss of 158,000 over the testing...
reversing the method will not reverse the numbers.... the problem lies in the exit criteria. the vast majority of trades go positive generally...
HORRIBLE day for the system...System got burnt bad after the fed minutes..... nq: -$204 er2: -$1348 es: -$133.60 ym: $130.18
Today I ran the slightly improved system on the NQ, ES, YM, and ER2 NQ: +$95 per contract YM: -$232 per contract ER2: -$234 per contract ES:...
I have been backtesting a method on the er2 and noticed that it has had REALLY good results from september 04 till now... but before september 04...
I'm looking for charting software that #1 works with interactive broker's datafeed. And #2 allows for customizable plugins. For example if I have...
Today the system was ran on ES, NQ, and YM. I just recently turned the system off: Here are the P/L after commisions. ES +74 NQ -423 YM...
Does anyone know if interactive brokers has any rules pertaining to running demo account and real money account simultaneously from 2 seperate...
method made $60 today. Tomorrow I am thinking of possibly running the method on ym, nq, and es and see how it does... only issue is this bogs...
Had a couple problems with the order entry code this morning.... so missed some trades... the system loss $250 today.... One thing I did notice is...
Yes I believe your right.... which means the system will probalbly experience some of its bigger draw downs again in the comming years... however...
System is live on a paper IB account this morning. Baring any technical glitches should get a few trades out of it today.... Since the method...
Assuming I get the code written on time tonight, I plan to starting tommrow to run this method on IB's live paper trading account. Since to me...
I noticed while looking at results that due to the volatility around the open that there were lots of losses around this time. So I made it so it...
I ran the tests on nq and found it would have made 35k from the first q of 2000 till 4th q 2005.. with a max one day loss of $700.... I tried...
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