those prices tho :sneaky:
well no offense but i'm using primarily MetaTrader 5 it has real historical spread backtests (spread is recorded by each broker and retrieved when...
thank you. it seems to be really good. but i'm afraid of the costs. With MT5 everything is free (data and all) it's not the same for IB, right ?...
ok I didn't know swaps were only for CFDs. thanks for that info :) which platform do you recommend from a european user ? with algorithmic...
I'm trying to understand how investing and trading work. I created a simple buy and hold robot that trades 9 major Indices...
yeah lag is a part of moving averages, impossible to remove it causally
man i'm done with moving averages, i'll try it thanks but I got not a lot of expectations i've tried every possible combination and none work MAs...
that's exactly what i'm saying. If it fails in OOS, you discard the strategy ? but that's exactly how the GO works It doesn't give more...
Most users of Optimization techniques, whether it is in a Neural Network or simple Parameter optimizations, use "out-of-sample" verification to...
because i've tried every Moving Average combination possible and even adaptive ones, and none are working i'm not talking about using MAs in your...
I would start by looking at simple codes, like a simple RSI or Moving Average and try to understand how it was programmed, based on the Math...
The advantage of MT5 (apart from being free) is that you can download the exact tick data AND the spreads that were historically outputed by that...
I think that exiting a trade using a Trailing-Stop would be like using a moving average to exit your trades, because the Ts moves the SL as the...
use guaranteed SL
well trading IS predicting prices
then trade forex, not stocks also "buy and hold" is not really a strategy. It's a trade off if you don't know how to trade, because stocks are...
yep .if slippage is an issue in your strategy then there is a problem somewhere
imagine a world where there are 10'000 different nail clippers, and everybody tries to clip their nails with them but none work. Only a few...
also what they can do is simply copy the trades. at that point there is nothing you can do
very hard to reverse engineer a strat. first you gotta find the right indicator(s) (unless it is from the most popular ones, but i doubt it) and...
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