If what someone wrote on Twitter is true ("Tesla loses money, SpaceX loses money and Elon lives on Government subsidies"), it would have little to...
Thank you for your comment, Valery. I guess feelings of victory are relative hahaha. For example, right now I can't feel like I'm living a many...
+++ Monthly update +++ I paused the bot, as the general index trend is sideways. Therefore, no change relative to the previous month. In the...
+++ Monthly Update +++ February could have been a very good month, ended up being disappointing. The system was up almost 5k, then got whipsawed...
Likely scenario: 1. You lose 10%. 2. You turn the strategy off, "for safety". 3. The strategy recovers 10%, but you can't profit from it because...
Thank you for your appreciation. Initially, I used Montecarlo analysis (see beginning of this thread), later I started to rely solely on...
See this thread/journal and decide for yourself (small capital, but it works): I wrote a bot and gave it 25k to trade
Also, focusing on avoiding volatility is probably what is keeping me from coming up with a profitable short strategy. All my current strategies...
(Successful) automated trading is not easy, but possible. And yes, it can be a lot of fun to watch your bot operating. As for the discretion part,...
Hi @HobbyTrading, thank you for your remark. The actual results keep being almost identical as expected from the backtest. There have been quite a...
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This is such an open ended question. It depends on many factors, for example can you code, or would you prefer to buy a pre-packaged solution, how...
Well, as I said I'll be really happy to know that I'm wrong. I wrote to IB customer service asking a direct question: is €20k the maximum...
I have still not gone into depth on this point, since only I trade futures short-term.
I'd be glad if I did. What you're talking about refers precisely to IBUK. IBIE is another story. IB customer service confirmed this.
The scariest thing in the transition from IBUK to IBIE is the reduced capital protection provided by the Irish Compensation Plan: just 20k€. So...
Got it, thank you for your explanation.
It's been some time since I had my base currency in EUR, so I may be wrong. Or things may have changed in the meantime, but I remember that if you...
So you converted the base currency of some of your accounts to CAD? Wouldn't it be roughly the same as buying and holding some CAD in a USD account?
+++ Monthly update +++ Current unrealized P&L: $1805. I am concerned about the ongoing devaluation of USD versus EUR, as I live in Europe, but I...
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