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Perhaps you can start "Fully Automated Forex Trading" journal and share your experience.

The graph's starting point is 2020 as indicated by X axis. I don't remember what my longs did in Sept 2021 except that it was a slightly profitable month. Will take a look when doing my end of month routine in couple of days.

Someone will probably realize by Monday?

It is kinda fun to read Padu's threads without seeing his messages

~5%. My hedge is running multiple systems of different nature. 5 on that account. 2 of them are short. They have compensated more than enough to cover that particular loss. Those systems are not designed to be just the hedge, they are profitable on their own, plus serve as a hedge. All my short...

The type of stock was intentional. The point of the post was - you can do everything right and still have outsized loss. They should be expected and will happen if trading long enough. For multiple reasons, and this one is not a bad one. When I look at this particular loss - nothing to learn...

Who knows, maybe you know me better than I do by now ;) ~40 trades per week, generated by ~5-7 strategies. In a way. I don't code any "pattern" per se, but all calculations are done off the price.

Thanks, it doesn't' bother me much. I post stuff like that here so people don't think my systems only take winning trades or risks taken are so great that "5% move in underlying would wipe my account" (quoting from some WSB post). 70% down is what stocks do and its already reflected in my...

Late last week I noticed lots of stocks having big down moves while market was near new high. So started having a closer look at longs every other day in anticipation of volatility spike. Got caught in this today in 2 accounts, what a nasty 1 day 70% down move.. Wiped all profits that system...

Dan Zanger used sounds in 90ies. His were based on size of trades. Let's say more than 1000 shares on a last bid or ask would make different sound. I tried that in 2013 with custom software I wrote just for that purpose, experimented a bit but ultimately didn't find that particularly useful. If...

Yes. I haven't done a single override of my systems in about a year or so. No. An important note: losing trades != stupid trades. No, you shall not accept stupid trades. But you can look at them as cost of education, which eventually you need to stop paying. Keep yourself accountable and...

The guy died poor by putting a bullet thru his head, considering himself a failure according to his suicide note.

I've done that on a way too. Though I don't get involved into situations when it's a result of their own choice or complacency, to avoid sponsoring / promoting bad decisions. Eg. a relative buying a brand new car because they like how it smells and always wanted it and then struggling to make...

Thank you. A friend of mine said what a waste of life would it be without crashing a new McLaren into a telephone pole once. I've been too busy working all my life so I don't have too many dreams of my own, perhaps I'll live his :D Anyone good better ideas?

Shares in the tech company I co-founded, not publicly traded.

Took some profits of my most profitable trade so far. +429,000% in ~5 years. Still not sure how I feel about that and if anything will change. I'm quite confident it will 10x from now, but it was a long journey and there are great advantages in locking in some gains. Really great year for my...

Those are some good quality questions. People ask about ~same stuff every now and then but guys who have figured this out are either not here or not gonna respond. Rob (@globalarbtrader) posted about his experiments for futures in his blog. I haven't seen anything worthy for equities. Judging...

Hopefully solution exists for that particular situation. Because of this class of problems (lack of IB features to dynamically size orders and update them) I wrote my own software to do that. So solution might not exist at IB level. On the other hand, if that's something that's supposed to...

Fellow systematic trader in Canada here, using IB. Every year or so I do followup research on this and answer remains the same - no alternatives in Canada for what you're looking for. Alpaca been doing beta trial but I'm not sure they support DIRECT routing. More of a 0 commissions with API...

The way it's described implies its an easy task to get those. Those users with stolen accounts are idiots to begin with.