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200 to 300 years to develop a working method? Perhaps if you are testing with a slide rule :)

You aren't likely going to get much further with this problem without correctly analyzing your system logic. Probably best to hire a programmer to help you out if you are unable troubleshoot the code yourself. Further back and forth in this thread will not help you.

Just so I understand correctly, when price is "moving fast" there is a lag in your indicator calculation which results in your signals being generated late. Sound correct? If so then optimizing your indicator logic might help.

What about keeping your day job while trading the daily timeframe. With your good paying day job combined with trading gains you could potentially build up substantial capital in a few years time.

This should be relatively easy to diagnose. Try the following: 1. Instead of placing actual trades, log (to console or file) time stamps for the data being read (attached to the ticker data), for when a signal occurs and when a trade is supposed to be placed. What you want to see here is if...

What amazes me is how people are so hysterical over a few fake Facebook posts made by some Russians. Just think about the democratic governments our own CIA has helped to overthrow since WW2. There has been some brutal stuff going on by both the USA and Russia in recent history. And yet the...

@vincentnyc How is the 3x Bear ETF trade working out? :)

I am not looking for advice. Just curious at what point you are going to be crying uncle when the market rallies back to the highs.

OP: Where are you short at and how much leverage are you using?

How about some sort of business that caters to elderly who wish to stay in their homes instead of going to a nursing home. Demand for that should steadily increase as the population ages.

Your time would have been much better spent the last decade learning how to program instead of "tracking the Dow nearly every day".

I dig some old school gangsta rap.

Looking at the chart, is it possible there is a lag between real time borrowing vs tax collection? Seems like you could not have an accurate reading until the quarter had completed and all borrowing/tax revenue was tallied up.

Yes...it is definitely possible. Buy 25,000 lottery tickets. Let us know how it works out.

You can get free Eod data with ninjatrader. No need for a ninjatrader license either.

I thought the plot was kind of hard to follow.

Very good points! The path you took seems much more plausible than the guy/gal who moves to an extreme low cost of living country to build up their stake. Seems like most want to be pro traders on this board think in terms of saving some money, start trading, quit day job, support oneself...

Assuming trading was my only source on income, anything less than a $1 million dollar account would be insufficient. Kids, mortgage, cars, family vacations...these things aren't cheap. Another thing that greatly factors into the equation the amount of "risk free" money I can make a full time...

This is a good topic. How I intend to approach the problem is this. 1. Write software to automate as much as possible the process of finding profitable stand alone strategies. 2. Next, write software which can combine those strategies into a grouping of strategies based on risk preferences...

I know a guy in my area who bought bitcoin around $200. Says he bought more than 25 but less than 100 bitcoins. He told me this when bitcoin was around $7,000. Assuming he owns 50, he is sitting on around 500k. Plus he has been in business selling mining rigs. Not too shabby :)