Well, a little of all this. Not easy to describe exactly because, you know, it's... discretional.
Positions get stopped out all the time, but in this particular case the hit was bigger than usual. Expected from backtest, not an anomaly....
All positions stopped out, net loss -3384$ (-7.43%).
Already tested that out, it wouldn't work. A drawdown like yesterday's would be too small to intervene. It's a (short-term) trend following...
After some modifications I reactivated the previous shorter-term algo. Now it can open up to 2 positions simultaneously. So the system is running...
And sometimes they go broke for believing that. But the remaining ones will still have based their decisions on the past. Overrating the past is...
Everything you think you know, you know because of the past. Unless you are an extremely intuitive person or a clairvoyant, of course.
Well, stock indexes are upward biased. Any sound trading strategy, I suppose, must have different parameter sets for long and short, if that's...
In fact, any stock index is mostly an average of liquid and valuable stocks. To me, stock indexes are easier to trade than single stocks....
Yes, the bot did a good job in catching yesterday's top. And it did an even better job by getting out of the losing trade early. As I previously...
This particular algo just long buys/sells the MNQ future.
One losing trade, -229.
All four positions closed out (+5.59%). [ATTACH]
Yes, when certain conditions repeat themselves, the algo adds new positions, up to five max.
Hardware situation: the support of the CPU heat sink broke, so I have to keep the trading bot computer box horizontal to prevent the heat sink...
The Nasdaq keeps rising, the bot keeps trading. This is the situation as of yesterday's close. Let's see what happens on Monday. [ATTACH]
Both positions sold @ 10564.00, +991$ and +324$ respectively.
New position added @ 10401.50. Something tells me this may not end well.
That's my objective, but still too early. I haven't got enough capital.
Monthly results so far, 7 complete months plus half november 2019. June very good, up more than 11%. If I was using e-minis, dollars would have...
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