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CFD. Nope got stopped at 11018 (bid price spiked down to 11014 supposedly). NAV 19051... Classical case of tight stoploss reducing profit, but in this case it was acceptable. Yeah, seems the prices are requoted as EUR. (Which makes sense given it's a EUR-account, although it's a bit problematic...

Closed US equity positions almost immediately after midnight CET, want to reduce exposure ahead of China data (which I cannot be online to trade :(, at girlfriend's mini apartment). Gapped down after weekend so not worth the interest and more importantly risk in this case. Leaving silver open...

Agreed, and this is visible even in backtests that limit orders tend to get filled at shit times. Nobody has an interest filling you unless they think price will go in the right direction for them in their time period of choice.

Assumed OP is a bot writing the posts because of the semantics gap.

Well, you can easily rack up hours this way, which at any decent salary which will be more than you save by building yourself. About 33-50% of my friends' and my own homebuilds while growing up tended to fail in some way or another (=more cost and time). Buying a finished computer of a type with...

Account NAV 19284, Realized account profit: 591 EUR Having 3x equity long exposure. Taking a bit of a risk having extra positions given Trump's propensity to tweet retarded stuff during weekends, but w/e. Silver positions about to get gapped through SL on Monday unless he does, though (but fine...

Amendments to strategy in original post: Max trade risk changed and adding R/R target: Intraday: 200 EUR, 3 RR target Few days (swing): 400 EUR, 2 RR target Multi-weeks "hold on" trades: 800 EUR, 1 RR target The intent with the above is that for fairly intraday positions I need to limit risk...

Now for an attempt of analyzing what has gone wrong. Stats of year so far: R/R: 1.01 Win rate: 55.1% Disposition 10.4 Realized profit: 950 EUR (pretty much all due to one trade yesterday so actually bad) 69 trade closed (this limits statistical usefulness, 1000 obviously would be more reliable...

Buy NAS100USD x 3 @ 6760 stop 6711, planning to leave over weekend expecting gap up

Close NAS100USD @ 6800 Profit started burning in my pocket, along with seeing 1 min graph starting to flatten out. NAV 19328, had unexpected luck due to Chinese trade news.

Buy XAGUSD x 415 @ 15.4108 stop 15.23 Doubling silver position as planned on prior stop. It's now or never w.r.t. mid term trend.

Buy NAS100USD x 16 @ 6732 stop 6718 ~200 EUR risk. Market sentiment seems strong at the moment so plan is to let this one run for rest of day.

Sell EUR/SEK x -18000 @ 10.2571 Just hedging account vs continued strengthening in local currency. SEK already at typical historic lows and it seems next 2008 styled Swan was delayed. New government today which includes non-left parties, so there may actually be hope for economy (though Left...

Buy Russell 2000 x 15 @ 1455.29 stop 1382 Also market beta. 1x leverage on each trade. Risk about 800 EUR on each trade, these are just for tagging along like an idiot until market shows that is a bad idea. Trade analysis and resumption of intraday trading delayed until later this week...

Buy China A50 x 2 @ 10924 stop 10477 Re-entering market beta, Chinese going heavy on stimulus which may work for a while.

Analysis didn't happen this weekend, going to get started by Wednesday I hope. Closed NATGAS position at 3.52, can't be assed to guess how high up it will go and upside is limited to at most double of the 17.3% profit caught I estimate. Could have easily doubled account if I had taken 100x more...

Depends if we're talking the objective function or the input parameters of the algo. +1 These are great and that still have some small alpha (whether enough to satisfy your trading objectives is entirely another matter). For the objective to optimize, Sharpe ratio tends to do well, although...

USD/JPY got stopped. NAV 17345. Not going to trade today, at this point I need to step back and analyze my behavior so far and come up with corrections for next week - I don't intend to go on a losing streak that ruins this account, if so I might as well switch to my normal trading for it. Will...

Sell USD/JPY x -100 000 @ 107.76 stop 108.26, weak enough Edit: Could have gotten way better entry price by being patient or entering earlier in day as it turns out, responding to price alert while sleepy artifact. Still think market isn't too fond of a new low since flash crash recovery.

Buy XAGUSD x 415 @ 15.7687 stop 15.23 Will either mean revert here in which case I will double position somewhere at 15.4-15.5 (now taking half of max risk) or continue up by breaking current ceiling. Don't wan't to be short stocks today but don't want to entirely miss out either (while AFK) in...