Recent content by Oliver84

Thanks for the tips. I did find the error in my formula. I was using the Bid function and did not know that if that's used in backtesting it uses the "current" bid because there is no bid history data. That's how my formula was seeing into the future and giving me great results. I've since...

In the simulation it doesn' t specify whether it's limit or market. You can adjust that in live trading when you run it live.

ok, I figured I'd get flamed on about the penny stock thing. So I was expecting that. I did, however, backtest the NAZ100 from May until now and got unexpected results. I was expecting to get some loss but it actually did pretty good. I got 0% loss and 100% wins, again and all I did was adjust...

If I test any stock that is above my price range of .001-.1 the strategy will not work as good. I tested LIZ from May 2007-present and it didn't buy anything until Dec 2008 and after that it had 2 profits, one for 40% and one for 30% and then a loss of 3%. PMI didn't buy in till July 2008...

haha, yea I was afraid of that... I have, however, looked at the charts and it seems to be good. Not sure what you're talking about there or what I'm suppose to find but it seems like it's buying and selling at the correct times. As far as volume of these stocks, they are usually between...

Forgive my ignorance, but how can your strategy use future data? I'm using mainly stochastic and MACD in my entry strategy with most of them looking a few bars back. Also, I've heard a lot about strategies and keeping up with the market movement. Using these indicators that are usually just...

I'm fairly new to trading. I've been messing around with strategies with TD Ameritrade's software and was wondering how accurate these backtesting results are. I know backtesting can never be right on because in back testing the closes interval is 1 minute but in real time it checks the...