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I'm going with Ice, Whiskey, Weed and Coffee, Soap and Shampoo.

Right! You would think the guy could at least come up with NEW stupid idea. This was a dumb 30 years ago. At least try to hide it in some derivative indicator like MACD.

To me this was an example of being experienced in the market. Go back and look at the 5 days before the event. Notice the volume and the price stagnation. Also note where it was sitting on a cliff. So I went short, but did 2x ETF NQ and ES because it was nearing Oct. Then did 2x...

Glad to add value!:fistbump: BTW: sloppy is not necessarily bad. I have one running now that I describe as a "squirrel nest". Leaves and branches everywhere, no grand architecture besides being wedged between three branches. But every wind hole, every rain hole is double -triple blocked so...

And this is in a normal market not a disorderly one. One needs to assume everything can go wrong. Even the "corrections" can go wrong. With these assumptions the code is very complex. It will be more than the algo code, way more. Examine transaction roll back methods. Draw up a...

You need a "try catch". SOP for production code. Try something and then catch it, if it fails. Also use asserts as the baby step to the above. Seems like the Algo is OK but the order handling is buggy. Personally, I "eliminate" these types of issues by doing the simplest, least error prone...

5 days or 1 day, or 3 days or 7 days. It is arbitrary. Until that is understood, the questions will continue. Stop looking for "solutions" and "optimizations" in arbitrary frameworks.

Perhaps a trading partner would be better. Someone with the same style, temperament and willingness to do the work. A good trader is someone who is trading actively, while constantly improving, and is past the emotional distractions phase.

One that show you how it generates Entry signals, and Exits signals. And shows it in Trending and Chop markets, both in high and low volatility. And then in various time frames. Also when they are "wacky" because price action is unusual due to news or events. That would be reasonably...

This is a misleading premise. Many people think they have a "system" but what they have are a bunch of ill-defined rules, that are not actually rules at all, but more like guidelines. (is that a quote from some comedy movie?) "Clearly defined ruleset" are scriptable-able. If they are not...

There is a difference between confidence and competence. Competence means all possible price action, reactions to those actions and trade outcomes are understood and a plan is in place for them. Confidence comes AFTER competence. If one thinks they have (or should have) confidence BEFORE...

Slightly different routing. But in normal markets with a high volume instrument, and not huge order, there should be no discernable difference. On the other hand, in a disorderly market, I would stay clear and go with a 100 share increments to avoid the odd lot matching engine. You will have...

Rather than fight it, embrace it. Ever try swimming up a river? If you want to cross a river, use the currents. You are fighting the tape, and the tape will hand you a large "tax" bill. Does not matter if the tape is smooth trending, choppy with fits, or anything in-between. You don't have...

This begs the question, "why did you not have a loss in your trading plan?" It is inevitable, but if you did not plan for it, then obviously you did not have a real plan. Probably a plan about making money, full stop. If you do not know what to do, you need to stop trading and figure out how...

This is a rather silly question by the OP who knows better. It simply depends on up how long the trend is expected to last. Once you have some expected measure of the trend's length, then it is a matter of trade-tail management. Without an expectation of length of trend there is no "right"...

Actually the question is sequitor. If you are trading to make money then you will be using sizing. If you are trading to be right, just once, with fixed size, then it is more about being right. I.e. you can make more money with sizing relative to equivalent "being right", all other things...

The problem is, it will almost always stop, studder, retrace at a local resistance level. So much that it is a high probability play. So I take the overshoot only for part, if at all. Otherwise, if the plan was a larger target, then use the retrace overshoot, as a second entry. So 2...

Depends on the instrument, volume, and overall type of move. SL can also be Stop Gain. It works best when the gain probability is less than the loss probability, independent of the actual trade PL. Personally the single "hit a price" exit method is not preferred for me. Rather the SL point...

I did not know you could trade the continuous symbol, such as @ES. ;) Care to share how that works for the quote to order mapping? Is that how TS works these days?

Amazon Basics. Better than Ergotron for single and doubles. Less money too. Had 3 Ergotron and traded them in for Amazon basics brand because the Ergotron spring (at max tension) were too weak to hold the weight of some 2K monitors. But monitors are lighter now than 10 years ago. Still...