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If you are well enough capitalized, you can under-perform every year and as long as you have more than you ended the year with, be in a good place. (Because a few percent of a large amount of capital is still far above living needs.) Consequently, a good trader in a wider sense has a lot of...

On a side note, anyone ever saw a relevant Medium.com trading article? If so, feel free to link. I recently became a subscriber for reading casual astrophysics and AI articles but I might as well read any relevant trade related stuff, if there is any. The only articles I saw this before...

450m blogs - how many of those are active and what is the readership per blog?

I was about to pop in with a similar idea. Track MFE at a certain time from entry per strategy and consider an additional (fixed) exit rule to protect profit if FE is unusually good.

Behavior at start of NQ session has been non-ideal (mean reversion dominating trend) so won't trade today. I don't have any conviction on where this session is ending either other than a coin toss. Edit: if I see it breaking through high of session I might reconsider.

Euro session seems to be heating up lately so I should probably switch from attempting staying up for Asian start to getting up my own time instead.

Well, this algo is mostly about scoring a few big ones so I am cutting a lot of my profit potential by taking it early. I should basically have thought harder about the news driving the move - when it's being interpreted as a potential game changer like today I should be holding exit button a...

Marginal move but not of the very productive sort. -30 on first algo activation and +20 after second one. Newly added position sizing calculations seem off for HKD so I need to backtest algo on some recent HK33HKD data and fix it.

Trying to stay awake for HK market open and China data in half an hour, Chinese industrial output might be fun.

Slightly more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlazaroff/2016/07/26/democrats-vs-republicans-who-is-better-for-the-stock-market/#701fab0c239d But yeah, agreed. Who knows, maybe republicans are elected BECAUSE stock market is about to underperform? :D

Classic case of "let your winners run". Max profit would have been somewhere around ~4000 in total on this algo today. I get scraps because I'm nervous.

Woohoo +500 after going AFK for 2 min leaving auto trigger on. Edit: But lol, exited this one way early. Would have been +2000 if I had waited a bit more. Tariff news apparently.

NQ has been mostly indecisive today. Managed to catch a small part of up move after open, +130. Not expecting any drivers beyond BTFD, but the question is if that's enough anymore.

Three algo activations today: -450 (started on false up spike after open, incurred stops in a few seconds...) +350 +0 (shut down manually after leading nowhere) Either way alright day since there wasn't a lot of suitable market movement during US session. Will try to trade HK tonight if I can...

Added automatic trend direction detection and improved risk calculations in intraday algo. While there was an in-sample improvement the expectation is the main utility will come from overriding my dumb cognitive biases. Now just waiting for some market opens/volatility.

Well, I wish I could say that, but I sucked. At least, I should solve a couple of repeatable issues I have before proceeding.

Not trading tomorrow and will fix my most urgent technical debt in weekend, so no Friday either unless something obvious comes up.

Let's see: -600 today and yesterday in total on pure intraday trades. Stopping to post realtime updates as those interfere too much with monitoring. Found out what I need to prioritize fixing, top is automatic trend direction selection in algo because I am worse than a monkey at picking it...

So, up 400 on monitored positions. Then down, 650 on unmonitored positions due to sleep attempts (out of all now). -250ish for day. Atm I will have to concede that messing up sleep in order to lose money is a pretty poor trade indeed.

Nah, once again entering pos at Asian session with intent of holding unmonitored to US proves a terrible idea (for me). Wakened by stop sounds, -450