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Overnight, i like to keep it simple, if you can't see it, don't believe it. To me, all that algo HFT, is all marketing. Focus on your business bottom line, making money in trading. There could be successful discretionary trader next door to you for all you know.

digitalnomad, Everything you said makes perfect simple sense. Explain what you mean by "Both sides of expectancy need to be measured accurately." Thanks

doggyfx, None of us knows the opportunity the markets have to offers or patterns unless we have back test the ideas. I am not profitable trader, but for me I just program my trading ideas on NinjaTrader8, click back test and hope to see positive expectation. I haven't got lucky and seen it...

Hello, Very good question. I believe both are needed to find a trading strategy or edge. I believe a trader needs to have an idea how he/she wants to trade and use historical price data to practice that edge for simplicity and profitability. It sounds tedious but I believe putting a few...

Adibi83, I agree with you. I would never sell my system as well. I am spending toooo much time on developing my first ATS to sell it.

DavidLove, What platform are you using? I am with NinjaTrading which uses #C.

Adibi83, If you believe in your system and making money with your system, double the position size. Earn more money, increase position size again. How much are you selling this system for? Thanks

Hello, I like to start by saying GREAT WORK. GREAT EFFORT GREAT HUSTLE GREAT AMBITION. I am learning to develop/backtest/livetest my own ATS in NinjaTrader and its alot of work and detail to find a trading strategies that is worth putting live money to. The bottom line is you are...

Hello, Yes, you should be able to program for certain robot to take trades at a certain time.

Hello, I am currently learning NT platform, ATS development environment, back testing capabilities/accuracy/repeat ability/debugging, and programming. It is a high learning curve indeed and its like a job confirming the coding and actually back testing is correct. All in all, its a fun job...

Hello nooby_mcnoob, There is only one way to see if something works or not, back testing. I now back test any idea I think of it. Noone knows what work until they test it or trade it for years or many trades. I would test a monkey jumping 2 times in a roll means go long and no jumping go short...

Hello, I do not know how to back test future options. Hopefully, someone else can recommend some options for you.

Mdtbyk, You can manually back test a strategy with Excel or pencil and paper. Just back test for about 500 to 1000 trades and record win and loss.

Thanks for response, Yes, I used OHLC data as well as i do not scalp and like algo with RR of 2 or more with +17 stop loss. And targets above +40 ticks for intra-day trading. Plus using the OHLC is for free and keep the costs down not having to pay for expensive tick data. 1. Are you selling...

Hello, Good stats and thanks for sharing with me Few questions please 1.Did you backtest with your own purchase tick data or you use the platform historical OHCL price data? I use ninjatrader and only OHCL I'd available for back testing. Thanks

Good looking stats. Money is money

Hello, I will paper trade til my hands fall off before I risk real money with no statically proven evidence based trading system i can trade. I back test and paper trade everything. Why lose real money if you don't have a proven trading system? Forget all this discipline stuff, find a...

Hello recession2016, Yes, it is good crack. You have some comments on my post I made. You don't like Vanguard Retirement Target Fund Index? Its really good advice to contribute in an index found monthly for the older years. It is simple solution.

Hello, It's very simple. You should not care if the market goes up or down. Cause you don't know anyway if market go up or down. 1. If you a trader trading for monthly income, buy and sell the market daily. 2. If you an investor preparing for retirement, continue to buy Vanguard Retirement...

My opinion of indicators Automation Trading systems , need indicators for price direction. Manually or discretionary traders, don't really need indicators. They already see price moving and just act. Indicators help for price direction if struggling to design a trading system manual or...