Index futures automation

Discussion in 'Journals' started by hilmy83, Jul 3, 2022.

Can a fully automated trading strategy work in the long run?

  1. YES!

    56 vote(s)
    66.7%
  2. Hell naw.

    15 vote(s)
    17.9%
  3. I don't know, I got my own trading to worry about.

    13 vote(s)
    15.5%
  1. NoahA

    NoahA

    It is interesting that as the market was dropping, your algo managed to outperform the market, so this was very positive. But now that there was a huge rally the past 2 days, it didn't seem to benefit from this, which clearly sucks for you. I love the above analysis which is both accurate and comical, and thank you for sharing your real world results!
     
    #231     Mar 4, 2023
  2. hilmy83

    hilmy83

    Let's see how it looks in 2-3 months. Too few data points to draw any conclusion
     
    #232     Mar 4, 2023
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  3. Overnight

    Overnight

    It is a journal thread, so I think I have some leeway. But yes sir, that one was harsh. :)
     
    #233     Mar 4, 2023
  4. hilmy83

    hilmy83

    #234     Mar 6, 2023
  5. NoahA

    NoahA

    How many trades is this so far? Its almost kind of strange that the PnL isn't moving anywhere.
     
    #235     Mar 6, 2023
  6. hilmy83

    hilmy83

    I'm averging in about 2-3 trades/day i think. I use a pretty strict b/e function so this algo will show at least 50% breaeven days. The other 50% is small incremental profit.

    Like I said earlier, this algo will net aroudn 3-4% a month, and +40% per year (at least from teh backtests). If I can get that year to year, I'm good with it.

    I don't have to sit and wait for trades all night, waiting for alerts and all of that like I used to.

    Just pay my monthly vps and focus on work and family.
     
    #236     Mar 6, 2023
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    hilmy83

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  10. NoahA

    NoahA

    There is life! Out of curiosity, would you show us a chart with the trades plotted? I'm curious what the algo is doing.
     
    #240     Mar 9, 2023