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Thank you. I disclose what I deem appropriate to disclose. My system was trading up to 7 MNQ contracts per order (currently 5). You can read this thread: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/i-wrote-a-bot-and-gave-it-25k-to-trade.340739

I've only been autotrading MNQ since November 2019 and slippage has always been negligible.

Closed everything out into the opening yesterday, +3339 (+6.66%).

I've read that thread top to bottom last year. It was partly the reason that motivated me to complete my unfinished autotrading project.

Next goal: Sustainable Animal Backtesting.

Good question. Yes, I have considered that. However, I've read some unfavourable comments about such services, mainly regarding the fact that many of their users are gamblers. You have no control on positions that get opened, size etc. and ultimately there is the possibility that returns could...

Monthly update. August best month, 2-digit return. The new high that IB shows could be a little over the top - I have no idea how they calculate it: My own calculations are as follows: There was an error in the last report, in that I had mistakenly assigned some trades to July which would...

Had to widen the P&L fields in the bot as positions are 4-digit at this moment. CPU heat sink bracket finally arrived from eBay Chinese supplier. Trading computer back in vertical position.

The required precision of your backtest is given by how much your live trading reflects it. "Good enough" is probably what you should be looking for. You need to consider the whole cycle of: strategy development/backtest/paper trading/live trading and see how much your end results mirror your...

So you were forced to do so, unless you changed broker. However, would you say you are better off trading as an LLC than as an individual trader? Taxes, etc.

Just found this thread. Were you able to solve the problem?

Amygdala (fear of loss) and - possibly - lack of a strategy. The first is corrected by willingness to repeatedly go through the experience of moderately high pain (losses).

"Result of trading on DEMO account".

1. It depends. Do you plan to use ready-made trading automation software, or to develop your own? In the first case you only have to translate your strategy/algos to code and that's quite straightforward. OTH, developing your own autotrading software it's not an easy feat. You have to deal with...

Ok, but even then you still have to re-type your login credentials, don't you?

My system uses a C++ version of the IB API which is many years old, yet it works perfectly. I remember the times when IB would spit out TWS versions non stop, every day, but today (crossing fingers) things are much better. Also, for serious autotrading IB Gateway is a preferable choice, not...

I've started 100% algo trading in November, you can read my thread: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/i-wrote-a-bot-and-gave-it-25k-to-trade.340739/page-19 Quite satisfied for now.

Monthly update - Recovered half the last big loss.

And you happily jumped right into it too.

In my opinion, the best option is to trust the system, let it alone as much as possible and only intervene when something really strange happens. The risk of taking action because of emotions has to be reduced as much as possible. In other words, better to spend more time developing...