Recent content by RStrauss

Looking forward to your sharing!

I've been day trading HSI futures for 14 months now and breaking even. This has been the hardest thing by far in my life. I have never done anything as hard as this, putting in so much effort day in day out. The market just seems to have endless micro regimes. When you thought you have...

Question is - what is simple? Say I have an MA crossover strategy with 3 filters (i.e. when the market is in any of the three conditions I would not buy/sell on a crossover), is that considered simple?

i am a sort of beginner trader just starting out last July (currently in my 13th month of trading, registered a small profit +20k on a 100k account during my first year). I also exclusively just trade one asset, the HSI futures. Tried to touch NQ and ES but ended up in vain. My approach now...

recently stumbled upon this podcast interview and I feel it will answer a lot of your questions.

Let my algo run without interfering it! Keep my position size small enough so that I don't get hung up on losing trades to a point I start to interfere or manual trade

Holy Grail !!! I think you've done it. Salute to you sir.

Thanks for sharing! Great insight.

Great work! do you purely use technical analysis or a combination of technical and fundamental? Can share some tips with us? Major challenges and how you overcome them. Tks.

got it! tks.

what's the percentage of match (sim vs real) in your trading setup?

yes I find IB paper sim trade quite similar to when done in reality. yup sim trade using historical data assumes position gets filled at the desired price without slippage. i enter position at the open of a candle and I use a fixed TP. the way I account for slippage in real trade is any...

I am referring to trades that are simulated real-time and those same trades re-run as historical data. I use interactive broker paper trade and I find them acceptable got it! tks for the pointers

Fellow traders, I have been trying to get an automated trading strategy to work. One of the many challenges I face is that simulated trades may often times differ from trades that are actually executed, in two main aspects: 1. Simulated trade appears but no actual trade was executed, vice...