The problem I think I'm seeing is the slower the MA's, the more the market type has to be correct, wrong time = losses, market types change. Automation, too much like my day job programming at all, want to trade to get away from, did try it ages ago, sadly epic fail. Woman, just say goodbye as soon as the money goes, had 1 use me for 4 1/2 years and £7000, as soon as I said fed up of this, not giving you anymore, I was dumped and got rid off, within 2 weeks she had another sucker feeding her, till I messaged him LOL Why I have a £100 credit limit on new girlies, if there not putting out by then, they get told bank is closed to they do, had 2 in the last 12 months go after that, not repeating that mistake again.
Kinda, it's a hobby which I would 1 day soon like to become a second income and primary income shortly after that and enable me to stop writing code the rest of my life, 30years is enough!! eccckss 30 years!! It's an interesting challenge, although profitable a few times ( normally get bored and stop trading ), nothing that works long term ( 12months on the 1 ) And being poor, means even if cracked and going relatively great, it would still be 6months+++ before I could go to full time. ( depending on how well cracked ofcourse. EJ just kicked ass, entering with the rules many many pips, DAX dead sadly
Although trading full time, rest of my life also sounds kinda boring, it'll be a get in, get rich retire from that aswell or infrequently to boost the account. I'm easily distracted, spent most of my day working on my road and mountain bike, ride tonight got cancelled aswell dratttsss Hopefully, sit at work, limit order ready, BID or ASK on the right side of the trend, slide it into play, see if I get a fill, then hold for X pts depending on market strength, repeat, something I can almost do in my sleep.
All the reason to automate then go onto next market. Yea, many moons ago I just would think about getting rich then kick back, but by the time you get decent at trading, why quit and let others make it, cut down the time, add size, if you can't have an hour to trade in a day.....you having too much fun. I will never retire, have tried and not happy doing that, I have fun when I work as I never saw whatever I was doing as work, otherwise I would quit and do something else, and I have quit some jobs people would die to get, but I think life more of doing what you love and everything falls into place.
Don't really care about money, but I could have more fun with lots of it, but then I won't be having fun already it's a tricky tricky balance. I retired aged 28 and have only worked part time since, I lived off trading stock then options for about a year, then SEC rule stopped the fun Never seen an automated system which works, I guess I could go part way, rather than move the limit order and keep it in spec till filled or cancelled, I could write a EA that I start when I want to join a move and stop when I'm not interested. Computers can't think, ofcourse at times, thinking doesn't exactly apply to trading well either so 50/50.
Right testing, as might be using this at client tomorrow all being well. I've added a 13sma white dots kinda helps with the direction a bit of a fall back maybe. Obviously the plan is to stay out of really bad chop, but should be sharp enough to get me out okay most of the time if the market turns choppy on me, basically GRAIL or bust!! Great till 12gmt - 1gmt too choppy there, good rest of the day Very promising, trust method, slide in the Limit and see what happens, small repeated profits look like the way to go, but if I get onto a big move, good chance of riding out some 30+ pt moves. Works on historic days to
I have fourteen of them running, my first system for Long Term Commodities was written in Basic in 1993, had to upgrade to make it do options for hedges. Have long term stocks, have a guy I am mentoring-he doing programming on new short term stock system, I had manually did quick 1,000 signals doing less than 10% losses, so that just fits parameters of systems I trade, my personality doesn't do well unless something in system pleases me much more than losses. My long term commodity system, futures side wins 6-14% of it's trades through years since late 1992, but when I started using hedges, overall trades changed much, so I started to use them in stocks as well, but much harder to code. Isn't easiest systems in like Ninja as that will lock up if you have tougher code, there are work arounds, but that takes more resources than some programs can handle. Hardest part for many to get coding or system to work is coding when not to take trades, lookback time, ticks between highs and highs and then adding volume, shhhh. took staff three years coding my main scalping system, one guy each day. I have commodity spreads auto and options systems. So it come down to what you see or how you trade, figure a way to program. It does help when you have someone else do it and you check charts for things that have to be changed, but joint efforts work well than going at it alone. For me it is exciting to be working with someone who can code well, and he enjoys seeing systems that seldom have losses, No system is perfect, every one of them have drawdowns, but so long as smooth equity curve is all that matters. All signals they say are 50/50, but where you tilt the pinball is money management, when to stop taking trend trades or reduce time of being in them. Management of the trade and eventually people need to watch the Dom, you can eventually learn to get 1-2 ticks better or avoid a sure losing trade altogether. Depending on your platform, how about programming the money management part which will take the longest, then all you do is find the trades. I had my built this way first, super cool of features I had included. Start with stock trading system, they usually the easiest, much less symbol change. All mine run in Phython. Congrats on retirement, you certainly beat me as I am not retired, HAAAAAA Yea, women are expensive, first question you ask, are they interested in kids, if yes, I never go out with them again. It cheaper to raise cattle and you can name them too. And eating them am sure be tasty.
I might be a damn good old timer programmer, who can code in anything if there is money involved, but I haven't got the time to work on systems that complicated taking years to perfect especially with no guaranteed outcome. Phython, mates kid was doing that, it's like going back in time 30years, nasty line editor exact spacing / tabbing required nastyness. Retire early, mates all think I'm nuts, saving for there retirements, odds are won't get to 70, or won't be fit enough to enjoy any kind of retirement, so live for the moment. Lad at client, retired, within 2 weeks found out had cancer dead 4 weeks later. Wise on the children, ex's and there children cost me a lot got a fair few step children and a 19year old that popped up last August ( She's FECKING Nuts, ran away 3 - 4 months ago, stupid stupid girl just like her mom ), 26year old wanted kids, but too nuts would of involved touching she doesn't like that LOL See if this method is useable Live, 2 hours per day, increase lot size, hammer it, job done, accounts slipped, had to spend some to, down to $2000 area, still started at $200, spent $4000 profits on bikes LOL About +$3000 over 10 years all in I think, hence hobby mentality be crazy to think any other way over $300 per year, spend more than that on cake a week LOL
I been on diet from hell, and I made it up, I figured it took me couple of years to put on the weight and twice as long to take off. Some weeks I lose too much and have to slow down losing and eat more of low cal veggies, but have to watch type of veggies as I am on blood thinners. Twice in three years got almost too thin and ran for vitamin K shot to thicken up. Am trying to not lose more than two pounds a week. I been almost eating the exact same foods each week, only thing I do is mix up order, 900 calories a day, you get to be after awhile you forget to eat and have to have alarms to force myself to eat, otherwise body goes into starvation mode and you lose muscle instead of fat. Once in while have slice of pizza and very cool next day lose weight as the body needed what was in that sllce, I take plenty of vitamins. And weekly doctor visit and weigh in. If I can lose weight, anyone can, it is like trading, you reach a time where you just start to do right, it is the harder way to trade, boring as hell, and you pretty much knew why you been losing. OMG, other womens' kids, way I look at it, I might lose furniture/clothes from moving out, but they have those kids rest of their lives, adult children are by far the worst. They have kids and want to drop them off and vanish for six months, I didn't sign up for that, I leave. No more moving in nor want them to move in with me. Get them at least 1000 miles away and fly them in for long weekends and then they leave. They get to go and do fun things for them and me, then my life gets back to what I am use to when they leave. When they start talking about moving here, bye bye. I am very honest upfront, but almost all women think they can change men.