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Thank you O for the response. I use Thinkorswim for day to day charting and discretionary trading. I have never automated a back testing a stratext before. It's all been manual forward testing day to day, which is good experience, but tedious time consuming process. Currently using...

Thank you for the response and thoughts. You are correct, it will be too complicated to historical daily calculate and then code the volume profile and value areas during backtesting. Right now I manually and discretionary trade confluence volume and value areas from a service I use who...

Actually after reading and thinking more, I need confluence zones volume profile, not just day to day Volume profile. These are Volume Profile conflunces areas over different timeframes that create strong resistance and support levels. I will keep it simple and leave the volume profile and...

Turveyd, Good point and advice. Definitely something to test. I am sure we both have been in trades at loss and more then 5 minutes has passed and stop loss order hit. Of course after up +1 many times. I will add this exit strategy on the momentum exit strategy to test. Especially after P/L...

I agree with you. Exit at predetermined target price based on profit made is not smart and I have calculated that this creates small profit based on my backtesting which has been limited. This is why we have to code a trailing SL and see what works in back-testing. A manual 25 tick trailing...

Thanks Turveyd, I am curious to why the 13sma, I use ema. For profit exit, you can keep it simple and program and back test the following below. Your experience at trailing a winner should gave you an idea of distance to trail a winner. Especially is trading a market that swings. 1. All out...

Hello all, Hopefully I can get some help or advice here. Currently I sim/paper discretionary trade support and resistance made up of Volume Profile, Value Areas, Pivots, High of Day, Low of Day, Open and Close on the ES, and CL based on a strategy I just wrote up over the past 6 months. I am...

Your welcome. I would say go for it. As long as you can trade your personal account and continue your trading career, all is good. Double Income!!:thumbsup:

Thanks Turveyd, After discretionary trading for about 2 years, exiting is the most challenging. Watching the chart long enough, you get sense or just chart watching experience that "its time to exit this trade". So I understand what you are saying. The solution is to except this and program...

Hello, Will the new job allow you to trade your small account and pay you to be a technical chartist/analyst? If not, how will you trade and work? Unlesss you sneak and do it. Do you have passion for technical chartist/analyst?

you not he only one that trade those TL and retracements.

birzos, Not sure I understand what you mean here. Can you please explain the purpose of Azure?

Turveyd, Thanks for comments. What do you mean you don't see autotrading working. Is this because you use trailing and like to pick your profit targets based on levels or price action? I do something similar.

Yes, ticks of movement. I been trading with my CTS T4 mobile app while at work. lol, i sometimes wish co-workers just stop talking to me between 8am and 11am each day so i can focus on work and trading. The trading while working is alot of work, that's why I am pursuing autotrading. I don't...

Thanks for responding birzos and your recommendations. Just a few comments to your post below. Respond as needed Can please elaborate on this comment? What do you mean retail tools? This my first time discussing/thinking about automated trading. Can please elaborate on this comment? What do...

Thank you Handle123, I will review these options you sent me as speedytradingservices lets me login with my phone app to view trades. Thanks

Handle123 good post, Is there any backtesting system to calculate MAE and time in trade, or is this all done manual per trade during backtesting? Thanks

Hello everyone, This may be a blessing in disguised and forcing me to learn to program, back-test, and automated my trading. This is my pathforward now. I been discretionary trading a strategy daily while at work (full time job, in office) using CTS T4 desktop software for about 2 months. I...

Thanks kent for response, Yes, my BIGGEST problem I have now is all trades are taken while I am at work in my office via my mobile phone (Thinkorswim and CTS T4 mobile app). I am discretionary trading now. Both platforms can not be installed on my work computer as the IT Manager recently put...

Thanks for response Turveyd, After looking into this, it will not work because I will not have enough historical data to calculate the EMA once I open my spreadsheet and start pulling in data. I am looking into NinjaTrader Strategy Builder to test some strategies.