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I have had similar experiences with automated systems becoming ineffective. I started designing and trading systems to overcome discipline problems in my discretionary trading. 3 years later I decided to turn off the systems as I handily outperform them... I found that I was trading to...

Norm, Do you have your exit orders in the market after entry? Are the stops residing on your broker's or the exchange's servers? If yes, you at least know your risk. Otherwise, who knows? I left my systems unatended on several occasions but in retrospect I would'nt again. Stuff...

Do not believe TS limit order fills as they appear in backtesting. TS grants a fill (in testing) after a single tick at the limit price. Even at times when the market trades at your price for a while, you might not get filled. This effects subsequent trades etc. Try it for a day and you will...

I trade ER2 daily and have found a combination of trailing stops work well for different markets. I always start out with the same type of stop. How it plays out varies depending on the day. On days that trend strongly from the get go, I trail with 3 x (20 period ATR ) using 5 min bars...

I have continued to run my stop orders client side after having tried out the server side option. I place discretionary trades in conjunction with the automated system's trades and found that having the live system orders in the trade manager and on the charts got in the way. I also make...

In TS version 8.1 or 8.1 SP1 (latest release) you can choose between having client side stops that get sent when hit or server side stops.

Go to originalturtles.org The full turtle system is disclosed there free of charge by one of the original turtles, Curtis Faith.

Just a thought, here is a quote from the Stock Traders Almanac: "As the holiday season begins, the market’s bias turns bullish most years in November which leads the best three-month span of the year. Ranked #2 on the S&P 500 and #3 on the Dow Jones Industrials since 1950—and third...

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+1449 should have been much more. I had a problem with my strategies today: The three that kicked in today were supposed to buy 3 contracts a piece but only picked up 1, 1 and 3. In other words I was undersized by 4 contracts on a good day. I fixed the problem but I wish it had...

Any traders on this board living in Aruba? I'll be down next week chilling out with my wife... If you would like to meet up, PM or you can find me at the huts with the kitesurfers after the 24th. Alex

+1,381 Someday I'll post P/L like Echo and Lescor.

WOW! You guys are my heros!

I love trading. It's part of how I get to fully experience a wide range of feelings. I start each day anticipating a profit and fearing a loss. It doesn't surprise me when I have a loss and when it happens I don't mind, if I traded properly. (The definition of which is too long to post...

+3,909 Got a nice run today.

+1037 Still waiting for a good trend day. I had high expectations for today...

As per a PM request, yesterday's P/L. It's ugly.

+2094 Recouping part of yesterdays loss. Another rough day emotionally though... My size has increased as has the frequency. Yesterday I traded 150 contracts which is huge for me, today it was 102, still huge. Maybe it's time to get small or get used to the larger swings. I felt too bad...

-5483 Big bad day for me. It's almost 100% due to excessive size. Every once in a while i forget why, what and how. Ouch.

-801 A weak day for me and for the systems... Lots of distractions, erroneous trades and a little overtrading (size). I'm lucky I didn't do worse! All in all a petty lackluster week for me.