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Coming from backtesting/optimising Futures for few years using Ninja tarder and Multicharts which I do the same instrument every day, every week all year, so backtesting is quite simple here from my experience in the case of stocks, i struggle to backtest, as symbols are NOT the same everytime...

sorry, were you asking me or the other person who responded

here is whole summary of 30 symbols, run in Ninja's strategy optimiser 2 choices 1) choice 1 - 45min chart Total # of Trades : 345 (commission paid $694) % profitable 45.53 % 158 winning trades over 189 avg trade $31.17, total PnL $10,814 2) choice 2 - 12min chart Total # of Trades :1238...

1st 6 months $3351 2nd 6 months -$4250 3rd 6months $1452 I havent checked each month. I am usually interested in yearly PnL for any strategy, as I get an average of 12months

I just checked, I have about 695 trades with 30 symbols and tested for 18months but the fact is, avg net profit in a given 6months is so diff from -PnL to +PnL as I gave in Original post. so is this a bad strategy to go LIVE and work on tweaking? to get +PnL

I feel better now:) just answered above, I do use same strategy, with the same parameters, on multiple assets except I use 15min, 30min, 60min charts

I do use same strategy, with the same parameters, on multiple assets except 1 parameter, which is data series of the chart I might do 15min on few symbols, 30min on others and 60 on others. I have 3 data series so far

good point. I never took period to test based on # of trades, always did 1yr to max 3 yrs but problem to get 666 trades is, I may not have so much historical datafeed example, I test a symbol called ACHN with 30min or 60 min chart approximate, it takes a trade or two /month so i get only 24 x 5...

ok, but if I don't pre select stocks, how would I even run backtest on what instruments? so 18months less, what period would you backtest, like 3 yrs or 5yrs? i doubt i have intraday data for that long

I did some backtesting of my strategy of few stocks for 18 months and also tried each 6months. backtesting was done in Ninja trader and Multicharts at for $1000/ stock trade my strategy is ATR based strategy 1st 6 months $3351 2nd 6 months -$4250 3rd 6months $1452 and I am testing this in...

yes, without seeing my trades with stops/targets in TWS, it is a pain when you run IB gatway, so I use TWS using the 2nd acct

how can you keep TWS up all the time ? unless you manually reset the lockout time twice a day (this drives me nuts :) or using IB controller. I use IB gateway now and life much easy with it

very true about IB gateway. have been running and is really stable and I can still use TWS in my 2nd PC. i couldn't think before that I can run TWS in another PC :)

your suggestion is similar to Buy1Sell2 and just responded there. i already hurt my social life, work, hobbies but didn't affect my marital life, as I was just careful with 1 person in my life, my spouse and explained to her and she supported me to learn this trading. thats the one reason i am...

I already went thru this and had to change my job, that's why I raised this thread. thks for your input :)

to re enter in same direction, your method need to have a great way to stop "move-pause-move" , mean continuing trend after a pause

well, firstly thks for your input and i have spotted some good Instruments in the last 6months and doing good in swing, but I am new to swing, as I have tried DT again and again in 5 yrs and didnt like it. but dont know for now, how to spot this, "Develop a dip-buying strategy" so I would read...

I am testing now Portfolio backtest in Tradestation Portfolio Meastro MultiCharts Portfolio Trader what other good platforms let you do this? I prefer the one that can do backtest, optimize and if possible automated trading for Portfolio as well. Tradestation Portfolio Meastro - great for...

this a very good point. I realized this 2 yrs after I started so last year, I sized down to a very small size/symbol that gave me excellent learning for about 9-12months but only cons was I was paying more commission due to small size/symbol. no other easy way around