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Lescor, You mentioned earlier in this thread that you currently trade about 6 different strategies. Do you mean it's 3 long and 3 short or 6 strategies tat go long or short. Thanks

Lescor, Do you trade ETFs? How many stocks do you trade on ave day or on a day like today?

lescor did you trade CPO and/or V today? It worked for me on the short and long side, I'm curious how it was for RTM traders.

Can Ninja can and execute 10-20 trades at the same time via IB?

Is it possible to automate my strategies without knowing C# or other programming language? Which software can I use for it?

there is a fine line between improving results and curve fitting them imo. How do I know if I'm curve fitting?

I seem to have a problem with constant backtesting and improving my results. It never ends as there are 1000s of ways to adjust buying and seling critirea. When do you guys stop testing and start trading system in real time? Thanks

I never used API for IB. Need help placing this order: buy at market when 10 and 20 ma cross on 5 min chart set stop at previous bar low and set target at 10 and 20 ma cross. How can I write this order in Excel for IB? Does API updates prices in real time? Thank you in advance

My system generated about 3000 trades over last 6 months with good results. In real time I won't be able to trade this often and will be forced pick and choose. Is it fair to say that I will be trading with similar ratios as my system shows or because I'll be trading less my results could be...

Lescor, You've been trading for a while now. Looking back, do you trade the same strategies you traded 5-7 years ago ( at least one or two) or is your trading now days completely different than it was 5-7 years ago?

Thank you, Can I send order like this to IB through API or do I need manually eneter is if I want to exit at 20 SMA? I don't use API right now and enter orders manually but it gets tough when things are busy.

I’m trying to close long positions on IB when high of the bar is higher 20 SMA (simple moving average). Is there a way to do through API or trough IB platform?

Lescor, At this level of trading is your trading plan all very strict and have specific rules that you follow during the day (something like buy when MA cross sell 3 bars later, example of course) or is your plan at this point mostly consist of grey areas and you make your decisions as you...

austinp, please post link again when yo have time or pm me if you can.

Do you track it manually or using some kind of automatic method? I find it time consuming to keep track of 100+ trades per day and differnet systems in Excel. Also what kind of expectancy number is bare minimum for you? Thank you

Lescor, Everybody talks about positive expectancy. I totally agree. However I do have a question, how do we really know what is the expectancy of the current system? Markets change and volatility is different. How do you decide that expectancy is no good anymore and system need to be changed...

Any system has drawdown, what's the difference between potential drawdown for my system and for somebody who trades with 50 win/loss and has a lot of losing trades in a raw.

this is manual system, about 200

I'm looking at RIMM and about 6 months data

If you make 50+ trades a day then who cares if you have a bad day and lose 5K, next day you might have the opposite. All I'm saying that certain things happen more often then not in the market but do require wider stop. Everybody is going after 2:1-3:1 risk to reward ratios, why not try...