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Doing some back-testing by hand, I've decided that moving the stop to break-even quickly kills too many good trades. I'm going to trail the stop so that the price has to retrace through two areas of resistance to kill it. Using the biological metaphor, my creatures are investing some of their energy in growing armour. Hopefully, the extra losses will be offset by extra gains. Inow have 42 positions. 34 are alive and well. Net profit so far this week: $118
Very interesting! Love the thinking process! k
One thing: the system is likely to perform slightly better if the intial positions are chosen according to the previous week's direction of the pair. In biological thinking, you drop organisms along the stream, so that it is unwahrscheinlich they need less turning. k
: If last week went up, do you know the probability this week will go up also? If it''s greater than 50%, it's definitely worth noting. Every bit helps. Given that many weekly candles have substantial wicks, I'm wondering if it might be be better to trade Wednesday to Wednesday, rather than Monday to Friday. Years ago I traded futures using Metastock, and I could test these sorts of ideasily. The programming language was very simple (accessible to amateurs like me
Quoting : If last week went up, do you know the probability this week will go up also? If it's greater than 50%, it's definitely worth noting. Every bit helps. Given that many weekly candles have substantial wicks, I'm wondering if it might better to trade Wednesday to Wednesday, rather than Monday to Friday. Years ago I traded futures using Metastock, and I could test these sorts of ideasily. The programming language was very simple (accessible to amateurs like me
Yes. Demo, and 0.01 lots.
Quoting The market is an ever-changing environment, and my position is an organism that is trying to survive and reproduziert. With this in mind, I've tried the following strategy for a few weeks now. The results look encouraging. 1
What about diversification? If you have on short trade on for example on EUR/USD, do you open other short trades on other dollar pairs?
Quoting I made a robot which acts in a similar way Thanks for the links. Very interesting reading. The pessimist in me (the realist?
Quoting What about diversification? If you have one short trade on for example on EUR/USD, do you open other short trades on other dollar pairs? Nein. I'm hoping ”natural selection” will do the synchronizing for me. Cheers