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Those charts are not trend following. Mean revision maybe, but certainly not trend following. In order to follow the trend, it must exist and be identified before the signal can be generated.

As a coder your username made me smile. Did you manually trade your system before deployment? That's the stage I'm currently at. I've found that by trading the system manually I find improvements a well as confirming that the system functions as expected.

I personally have a rule that if I can't do it in real time then I'm not willing to trade the system. I find that by trading systems manually first it allows me to test and modify them before incurring large losses or to find small improvements to increase the success/profitability. An example...

I'm still trading my system(s) manually to make sure they perform correctly, but I find the largest problems I have run into are in regards to slippage. A good example is if you have a system that closes on the close of the last bar of the day .... getting this fill price in realtime almost...

A dividend paying blue chip trades completely different from a tech stock and although there are some techniques that may work on both, there are just as many valid ways to trade them individually. Possible but I have tried to avoid it. Being a trend following system it works best with...

I'm using Amibroker. So far I've been able to do most of what I want, although it can be challenging. If needed I can write a plugin in a c derivative. There is already a built in system for sending emails so I'll most likely do the test messaging through email like your verizon example It's not...

I'm hoping others can point out things I may have missed with the system I have been designing/testing. It's a very basic trend following system applied to a 5 minute chart. I developed it based on what fit into my day, my personal trading style and with drawdowns that are tolerable. It is...

Is this how you would have chosen your entry?

I'll start with a brief introduction. I have been trading for almost a year now. I have tried various styles and instruments and have found that intraday trading US securities suites my personality best. I have a background in software engineering and currently use Amibroker to test my ideas...

I use amibroker. The AFL language takes a bit to get used to, but it's very fast which for me was a big bonus.