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martingales "work" until they crash your account (typically during a big trend). EVERY martingale wil eventually crash and think about it : you're gonna have a drawdown of the highest lot opened, but with a profit of the smallest lot opened so for example is you start at lot 0.01 and the...

those prices tho :sneaky:

well no offense but i'm using primarily MetaTrader 5 it has real historical spread backtests (spread is recorded by each broker and retrieved when making a backtest so you can test your strat on a specific broker) it has slippage simulation and all free data. I think it's pretty close to being...

thank you. it seems to be really good. but i'm afraid of the costs. With MT5 everything is free (data and all) it's not the same for IB, right ? you need quite some amount of money, just to start ?

ok I didn't know swaps were only for CFDs. thanks for that info :) which platform do you recommend from a european user ? with algorithmic features if possible thanks again Jeff

I'm trying to understand how investing and trading work. I created a simple buy and hold robot that trades 9 major Indices (STOXX50,F40,JP225,AUS200,UK100,DE40,US30,US500,USTEC) I'm trying to replicate all the "10-20% a year" that lots of traders show trading indices, but the problem is swaps...

yeah lag is a part of moving averages, impossible to remove it causally

man i'm done with moving averages, i'll try it thanks but I got not a lot of expectations i've tried every possible combination and none work MAs would work if price action would be very smooth to begin with, but PA isn't obviously. Even with the delay of the process, it would work. But price...

that's exactly what i'm saying. If it fails in OOS, you discard the strategy ? but that's exactly how the GO works It doesn't give more information about the strategy

Most users of Optimization techniques, whether it is in a Neural Network or simple Parameter optimizations, use "out-of-sample" verification to assess if an optimization will keep working in the future. there is only one problem with that approach : if the strategy is then not profitable on...

because i've tried every Moving Average combination possible and even adaptive ones, and none are working i'm not talking about using MAs in your strategy with other tools, but using pure MAs for entries and exits (if ma0 > ma1 && ma1 < ma2) then buy this kind of strategy. it doesn't work and a...

I would start by looking at simple codes, like a simple RSI or Moving Average and try to understand how it was programmed, based on the Math formulas of each indicator

The advantage of MT5 (apart from being free) is that you can download the exact tick data AND the spreads that were historically outputed by that broker (using "Tick based on history" data option). So you can test an EA with accuracy and see if it worked with that broker specifically in the past...