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Everything worked perfectly yesterday. Last day of simulated-live trading today. Back to real $ on Monday. Today's program: NQ Buy breakout 2591-3 Buy pullback to 2591-3 after breakout Buy support in the 2570-2572 area

The TWS Gateway crashed a little before midnight when it tried to save my settings file. Other than that, everything worked perfectly. :D I restarted the program with the following trades: breakout of the premarket high, buy support at 2560, buy support at 2540.

Finally... got the bugs worked out of the new version. All of the bugs were from a small portion of code that wasn't under tests.. :eek: That's fixed now too. So I'll have two days on the live simulator and then back to real $ on Monday. Right now it's looking for three different trades...

The most important and best decision I made was to use Java for the trading platform. Trading is a real-time, asynchronous task. Java has the built-in machinery to handle this kind of thing. I make heavy use of Executor services and concurrent memory objects such as ConcurrentLinkedQueue...

Despite having passed all the unit tests and integration tests, the new program keeps finding support prematurely. So, I'm collecting NQ ticks right now to use for more realistic, automated tests-- basically an offline market simulation. I have my code base designed for such a feature so I...

Last week was all testing and coding. I got a bit carried away but this next update should take me pretty far: No more price polling-- prices notify trading programs when the market gets to places of interest can now trade breakouts multiple trade possibilities instead of just one idea per...

It's been an interesting week. There was a missed trade both Monday and this morning, where local low was exactly the price the algo was waiting for. However, since the algo polls the market only every so often, it missed the ticks and never entered. My first thought was, well, there's...

I'll be buying any support in the 2565-2570 area today. I'm about 1/3 finished implementing multiple entry possibilities.

I'm selling any resistance 2550-2560 today. No trades yesterday. Breakout code has passed all the tests; now on to implementing multiple possible entries. I'll be averaging several trades a day once I get that in.

No trades yesterday (almost...) Trying to buy support around 2547 today. I'm finishing up my test code for breakouts and then it's on to implementing multiple entry possibilities.

Hi Folks, last year I started studying options seriously after experimenting with a straddle trade in this ET Journal. If any of you are experimenting with straddle techniques I encourage you to post in that journal. Thanks Pete

I'm buying support around YL today.

No entries, and I'm very happy about that! Even though the price went down to where I wanted to buy, there was no support, so the algorithm didn't buy. Eliminating entries like this makes a huge difference in long-term profitability. My goal for this week is to get the...

No trades Friday; trying a similar program today (buying 2554.5 given price hits 2552.5 first, without hitting 2545)

One trade for a loss yesterday, still need to look at it. Looking to buy support at 2550 today.

I am running my trading programs on a remote Linux (Ubuntu) box from Linode. This took a little bit getting used to, especially with TWS Gateway needing a window. See this link for a light, remote X-window install. See this link to learn how to exit the terminal/logoff and keep your...

Buying 2604 after touching 2602.50 then 2604 today

The definition of support today was down to 2612.50 or below then up to 2613.00, canceling if we hit 2606.00. So we had two good entries and the third was just bad luck, with the time stop again saving us. Profits were limited by the time stop as well (all three exits were time stops today).

Trying to buy 2613.00 after support today.

No setup today, no trades. .