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Bob, I hope I didn't come off as someone who knows nothing about trading - I may know a lot less than you or others about systems ok, but that doesn't mean I am new to trading, and I hope that nitro didn't mean what you thought he meant by "you're going to get killed" - if he did, I'd resent...

Thanks to Bob111 for the detailed comments, advice and the very precious link. I thank maxpi for telling us his personal experience with systems, and his advice about them. And, finally, I thank trend456 for wishing me good luck.

Yes, thanks for the advice. What you say is reasonable, and you may even be right that I am going the wrong way about building a system, but you are not showing me the way to do it, at least not clearly enough. You're telling me "watch out, what you are doing may be wrong, you may be...

I think I understood how to do it. It doesn't mean much but I got a 30% improvement on net profit. This is what I wrote: If CurrentBar > 1 AND RSIClassic(Close, RsiLengthOverSold) < RsiOverSold AND Fast Crosses Above Slow Then Buy This Bar... And so on for the rest of the signal...

Wow, thanks, I didn't think it could be so easy as to just write "if rsi(length)=x..." Thanks, that is what I needed.

I have been working on a very simple signal consisting of: - moving averages for entries and exits - time restrictions - trailing stops triggered beyond a profit target - stoplosses I have been testing it on several time frames. The shorter the better for both profit and drawdown, but...

Thank you very much for all the time you took to help me - it helped me, even though a solution was not needed. Just now, after I kept trying for hours, I realized that my original function, that is to say: If Openpositionprofit > Amount Then Begin If Fast Crosses Below Slow Then...

Yes, but what is "profittarget"? How do I define it in easylanguage? I am not asking how the principle works but how I can write the signal in easylanguage. The logical sequence is this - beyond a certain profit, allow exits signalled by moving averages crossovers. But unless we reach that...

Can someone help me with this problem? I can't find "Stops and Targets" in Tradestation 2000i. All I need is a trailing stop that gets triggered at a given profit. Then trades will be exited with a moving average crossover. I tried: "If Openpositionprofit > Amount Then Begin ..."...

Thank you, Splat, I worked on it, despite the formula which was not very friendly, and I made it happen. Profit has improved. Now I will look for a bunch of amas and try them all.

Yes, so far so good - when I have the signal, I know how to use that for the strategy. But the problem is how do I turn the function into a signal? I know I have to read the manual, but it's easier for me to write 5 posts on a forum, than to find the place where the manual explains it.

I looked carefully, but my problem is a very basic one - how do I turn a function into a signal? Excuse my ignorance.

Nitro, you and others replied to me about what amas are, but no one told me where I can find the amas, even the simplest ones. I am not asking for the ones you have to buy. Can you send an .ela to me or can you tell me where I find it? I found the function here, but how do I turn that into...

Thanks to everyone for your replies.

Can anyone send me the .ela file for tradestation with the signal for the adaptive moving average, or tell me where I can find it? Or even tell me a little bit about how adaptive moving averages differ among each other (in case there are different kinds of them)?

I have Dennis Meyers' software, but not Optilogix, which is another software that does it. My problem with Meyers' software is that it calls itself "walk forward", but it doesn't seem to deliver on its promise and the manual's promise, because the two periods - sample data (on which the...

How can I implement a signal/function in easy language to trigger a signal if price, after a big fall, bounces for a few hours a support, and then takes off in the opposite direction? The exact formula I am trying to find/write is this: if after a fall (>0.01 from the top), it keeps on...

Your advice about different time frames makes sense, and, also, it reminds me of the infinite possibilities of studies that could be made. And Tradestation makes most of them possible. I already started in this direction in fact, the study of the one parameter that may be the one to vary the...

Once we have created a system we consider good enough to trade, there is one more problem to solve - how long of an interval should we continuously optimize it on? If we find out that by optimizing it on different time intervals - the last month, year, decade - that certain parameters...

Kid, that's why I came here - to ask the rich people for advice. Thanks, Bruce. I am using a 5 minute chart, and tradestation, so I will look into it.