Not getting filled is something i am unable to calculate so i have to add in some margin in my results for this reason. There is no trading prior to news evens, if there is an open position most of the time i will close it (depending on the event coming up). Trading also is eliminated until 5 minutes after the initial release. I did trade ZB manually before, i did some larger trades quite some time ago, not in ZB but liquidity isn't a problem. In my experience bonds do move different from ES and NQ, the $ movement might be close, but the way it gets there probably will be very different.
1:1 with 60 % win is good system but if it dips below 55 then u will be flat to loss. I suggest u should take random tetsing in different sample data to establish the 60% win or find the range ...and average ... average win percent should be above 58 for it to be a sustainable system in the long run Don't know abt bond futures but in futures in general for longer survivability money management wise u can trade 2 for 50k then add 1 for each 25k ...just extra protection ....
Update since i have now data from the first full year. I have also been testing this system to more instruments and so far the first results i have from ES, NQ and GC looks like i might be on to something there as well.
Since the results on gold are also looking very good i signed up for a 50k evaluation account with OneUp, starting today! I do not have that many data yet for gold but since the risk here is only 150$ i decided to give it a go.
Unfortunately not a good start. I made some mistakes today (me, not the system, yet another reason to make sure the system gets 100% automated soon). Total profit/loss today is 0$ (25$ profit but also 25$ commission), lucky to get out without a loss. I had some trades, closed some trades manually because i thought they weren't allowed to be executed yet etc etc. Some stupid mistakes, if everything went like it should have and if i didn't make some stupid mistakes the profit would have been 436.25$. (4 trades on GC for 280$, 1 trade on ZB 151.25$). Anyway, tomorrow is another day.