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People generally don't really aspire to "getting it". Don't really care all that much - just live to eat, drink, shop, fuck around and generally raise entropy for all. With not much signs of introspection that's the case, there's little amount of restraint and thought throughout the process...

Let me get you to answer these questions yourself: If you do something else live than you did in your backtest, are you really trading your backtested system?

Rather than blatantly stating wether this "system" will work or not, you deserve kudos for presenting your thoughts with a graph and as a concrete topic that may be discussed. This usage of MACD isn't proprietary or secret and many use weekly timeframe for filtering markets and long-term...

A tick is the smallest amount-difference as defined by the exchange that an asset may be traded. How much a tick is may differ according to which exchange and which price-range (also as defined by the exchange) the traded instrument is going to be traded in with the order being issued. It may...

Believe it or not, but ET is kind of friendly compared to some other forums I frequented when starting this journey. Sure there are the regular trolling and eyerolling, but there is some access to people with long experience and you can search older posts for some nuggets as well. Forums are...

When I set out *thinking* about trading, or really just to "learn the markets", so many years ago an analogy about taking a crap and expecting not to miss any toilets, without knowing where the toilets are, is good enough for what was going on at the time. I knew I could code anything, so just...

I mostly replied to this question: How do you go about combining these statistics into a single value? One value to rule them all, that'll depend on what one want to get out of the trading: Ie. how capitalized you are, risk tolerance, can you live with larger drawdowns if it means even larger...

This is very easy to code if you create a new custom indicator for yourself. Something like (on top of my head): Value.Set(High[0] * (1.0 + (0.01))) // Draw 1% above bar's high Then configure it to only calculate on bar close.

That'll depend on your data and what you want to do with them. If you always have the same data, you might want to multiply the values. If you need, you may want to normalize them first and/or make sure they're the same sign. The more you do with the values, the more information you lose though...

What exactly do you want to get out of your trading? Many ways of combining values and often naive approaches may work well, but it helps to sort out what kind of results you really want first, before designing a fitness function.

Lack of self-management

Not everyone has your experience and manufacturers seem to dumb down specs, so easy to get it wrong. With lots of RAM you can actually get a speed increase by turning off swap and do more like running several VMs at the same time. Ofc not like cpu but it's silly when computers are sold with too...

Search query Ie., take a look at the memorystock-link where you can search for product and get RAM type. Never cared enough about these details to memorize what is what, but important to get decent RAM. 64 GB is enough for me :D I have actually managed to max that out programming in...

Although you may utilize their concepts, trading is not like typical science or engineering, at least not like 80% do science and engineering in practice, that is, copy someone else and claim ownership of truth. In trading there's no absolute truths to lean on, at best it's smoke and mirrors and...

The competition and race to the bottoms are humanity's highest existential crisis in recorded historical times. It takes less than ever before to wipe us out completely, and the currently living are responsible for genocides year after year. To recommend more of the same, is just insanity and...

This is normal execution experience. A stopp loss trigger isn't yet an order on the exchange in the order book, and often it resides with your broker who then automatically issues an order when the trigger conditions are met, so takes some time to even reach the exchange. However, whenever you...

For most, the learning curve is not really like a curve at all, more like an invisible brick wall, unless being fooled. So even though you are all over the place, this is only natural, unless you got a mentor that makes some sense to you, which is incredibly rare. Sure some nuggets here and...

Choose two points on the MACD-line and draw a line between them. The angle of this line will tell you wether it is angling up or down. However, this method is prone to bias in how you select which points. So it can be both angling up and down, depending which two or more points you choose! If...

Many ways to go about it. Do you trade large and scale-out short-term, or trade small and scale-in long-term? Do you trend-trade, or exit on targets? Large entries require high liquidity, so only suitable for such instruments. Trend-trades rarely can beat the 50% winratio, if ever possible...

On the whole, there is absolutely no real wealth in money, currency. Nada. Zilch. Void. It can be increased and destroyed by the push of a button or signature on paper, without ever directly touching any real wealths. Yet, that is the way we keep score, and we're losing.