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optioncoach, Read page 59 of this thread..... There I outlined how the strategy trades... and gave reasonsings why some days such as those will slip by the system.. it trending all day one way does not mean the system will make money... certain events have to happen..... I already knew...

optioncoach, If I limit the upside, then the bot will not have the big days to save it.. since it has been live with real money it has only had one of those big days.. but in the past several months it has had a lot of those days...... I think its counter productive to limit its upside. At...

optioncoach, If I turn it off at +400 then I would miss the days where it makes +1400, its those days that keep this thing profitable... Trader273, That $450 is total for the day, however I only trade 1 contract at a time.... Well the day has just liquidated because its 2;40...

Day not over yet, bot has entered a long position a few minutes ago....... Hopefully this doesn't kill the days profits ;) Currently up an aditional+$42 from this trade

jimmy, Btw, I like your running tally of the trades your keeping.... its a lot better than the spreadsheet I have been keeping on it thus far ;)

I didn't have to do anything, the bot just took itself out for a total profit of +$450 on the day..... i'm sure it will make at least 1 or 2 more trades before end of day.... so that number is subject to change

the bot is currently still short,and is up +$535 at the moment.... My instincts are telling me to just cover and be happy that I had a good up day.... but this could be one of those days wehre it makes +1000 to offset those loosing days.... so its hard to intefere.. just glad to see it in the...

dcraig, Yea I believe its an issue with LAST_SIZE.... also I think there is a thread somewhere around here talking about the cumulative volume is only updated twice a minute or something like that... if thats the case it could cause some issues as well..... Volume bars look great on...

I have tested this strategy on: 1. Constant time bars 2. momentum/range bars 3. volume bars 4. tick bars Constant time bars seemed to prevail everytime... at least for this particular strategy.... Those other types of charts look great while looking at them.... but the results did...

First month in the books and I am down a total of -$751.... Concerning the first day, that is DEFINETLY not a rare event... past month it seems like it has been.. but it is generally not rare at all... With that said I am considering but havent made up my mind yet about pulling the plug...

tradator, Thanks for the advice.... I like the idea of using channels on my PL chart to decide when to activate... For all those wondering the system made +$10 Very uneventful it seems....

makcim, After including yesterdays -$344 day, it puts my loss around -$760 or so total after 1 month........ well not quite 1 month will know 1 month after today's results are in..... its possible I could have a big up day and finish the month in the green.. so who knows.. but currently stand...

jimmy, Believe it or not but deciding before the fact if the day is choppy or not is not that easy... plus a lot of the big trends normally comes out of a period where it was chopping prior to it... am I suppose to tell the bot to not take trades if its choppy? Looking back at a day in...

Today should prove to be interesting.... For some reason the vnc server on my trading machine appears to be dead.... but the computer seems to still have connectivity... this means it should still be trading all day, but while I sit at work I am unable to use vnc to connect to and see what is...

slapshot, You are correct. However, there has only been a few times I have tinkered with the strategy throughout the day. But you are correct, I do need to stop trying to use discretion.... afterall what is the point of making an autotmated system if I still try to get invovled...... I...

Lost -$344 today... I am getting tempted to pull the system and run it on sim mode until it shows again that its becomming profitable..... or at leat until the first of january when I think the market will start to move well again....

walter, I have always wondered about how things would work trading based on how the strategy had traded recently...... Interesting concept... It may be worth noting however that the strategy I now trade is a variation of this strategy....... It was adopted to fit the ER2 better...... the...

I mentioned earlier in the day that I would show a screen shot of my bot's origional ES trading strategy.... so here it is, from first q of 2000 to now.. This is not the exact strategy I use but very close...... I adapted the one I use to better fit the way the ER2 trades..... One thing...

Walter, Good point. I was simply basing my view on what I had experienced previously.... perhaps using a large amount of your data would be a good route to go. However, keeping some that you did not use during active development can serve as a way of verifying to yourself if nothing else...

Incase anyone was wondering I just checked it out: since the bot has been live it hast lost a total of -$417 or somewhere there about... Had 7 up days, and 11 down days..... Two days to go before it reaches a month since i started on nov 14...... 1 or 2 good days and it could end up being...