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Alright, I'll bite: https://www.quantconnect.com/ or https://www.quantopian.com/ for example offer easy to use hosted solutions. Even Trading View has backtesting for its Pine Script strategies these days I think. There are many, many others.

Regardless of claims, I give everyone the benefit of the doubt until proven guilty. :) He could just be over-confident, as he appears to be. From the looks of the stats, I'm pretty sure he needs intraday data. I used to download 5-minute data from Google Finance for free with an unpublished...

With all due respect, given your responses (some evasive) I'm still unsure as to whether you're under the illusion of a flawed theoretical system, or trying something shady, or actually ready for and seeking investors. Let me correct that: you're not ready for investors, I know that much. ;) I...

I reported him this time around. He doesn't participate at all after starting the clickbait threads; maybe his account was hijacked recently.

As true as that obviously is, that's irrelevant to this discussion: because of TST's very tight drawdown and scaling rules, it's functionally equivalent to maybe 10% the account size they claim when all is accounted for. For example, the $150K combine's live trading starts with a 3-lot maximum...

But that's actually a positive: you're merely highlighting that Topstep Trader is best suited for people who are still learning about the markets and self-discipline. For that purpose, it is much cheaper than going solo, blowing through accounts to learn the basics. Beyond selling dreams to...

Clickbait title, what's the news? Topstep Trader has been around for years. Quite legitimate, but it's not very competitive price-wise. And what you actually are allowed to scale up to on a "$150K" combine is more in line with a $10K retail account. The main purpose for it is to help people...

Fact remains that there are pockets of irrationality in markets, and there's a chance that your simulation data was off in some way (doesn't matter which). Until you give your system some paper trading experience with actual market data, it won't be taken seriously. A month should suffice to...

For me, those rather personal comments about your state of mind are half the reason for following this thread. It shows you're human and how you're learning to deal with it. As for the loss, I know you see my question coming from a mile away... Did you break any specific rules from your plan...

You're asking in the wrong thread.

Yup. However from my post from January 2015 on this issue: [...] unlike Dukascopy which is making a graceful (and presumably expensive) gesture here to preserve retail trader confidence, market makers like Oanda, FxPro and FXCM have forgiven negative balances because their user agreements say...

10% of the daily volume! Even for a scalper, he didn't make much profit at all from his strategy then... Mostly enriched his brokers. Exactly. More importantly, it appears that like a lot of lottery winners, he didn't manage his wealth judiciously when he had it, and now he's starting from...

Careful part selection. :) I have a NoFan (a.k.a. "NoFen") case (lots of honeycomb mesh, PSU located at the bottom) and the huge NoFan passive copper heat pipe flower I linked to in my previous post, a fanless SeaSonic 400W PSU, I'm fine with Intel's on-board graphics so that takes care of the...

He's back at Traders' Laboratory only now; his last post there was yesterday in fact. It seems he got tired of arguing with marketsurfer and a few revolving trolls in every single thread that dared mention "price action" or "technical analysis". (I'll admit, that trolling also got me to take a...

Ahh, good old Unicomp Ultra Classic! That bulletproof buckling spring keyboard is what reconciled me with modern computing. That's how programming should feel like! :) I tried a Topre but the cheaper and sturdier Unicomp won me over hands down. A bit surprised to see you went stock with the...

Forget @Ghost_of_Blotto and do your own thing. We're curious to see how your month develops.

Yeah I wish I was participating. Sadly I've been out since May of last year so I'm just diving back into replays right now. No shortcuts...

I don't know, but please update this thread when you do find out. :)

Quick question though: what's the point of defining a maximum daily loss if you're not aware of your P&L before you enter a trade? I agree there, however one of your rules depends on it, so there's a conflict to resolve... o_O (I was going to ask jimmie where he finally dumped his large loss...

And that's per exchange, too! You could spend $340 per month in CME data fees alone at TST, whereas in my stand-alone, non-professional setup the equivalent is $15.75. For a small combine with a strategy spread over all 4 markets, that'd be a very expensive difference.