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Over the past 8 years, I've found myself going back to automated trading all the time. I program a lot in my full time job so this is something that is pretty easy for me. This is what I struggle with and would like to know what others do. I've found that no matter what strategy I make...

I work full time. I have the ability to code strategies. I don't have any experience with actually trading automated strategies live nor do I have the experience with the proper testing to get to that point. I get back and forward testing and am now working with Tradestations tools which...

Wow. I'm not sure what I should think after reading these messages. Some people seem willing to help others out like myself (thank you to those that answered my questions) and others seem to only want to bash people if they don't live up to their standards for what a post/question should...

I've had a number of strategies that have worked for a while and then they stop working. Should you try to make it continue to work so that it keeps going or do you just scrap it and start over with something else? I would think that you would want to develop a system that has worked for at...

Since you're doing trend following mainly, do you have items that you need to optimize for that? Or is it just using price action and not any indicators to follow the trend? I also heard someone else say that your targets and stops need to be dynamic. Trying to get something that works...

Thanks for the reply, this is helpful. Can you tell me what sort of things you've had the best luck with? I hear such a mixed bag of opinions from people like what works and what doesn't. Can you give me an overall type of opinion on what sort of things you've had the best experience with...

Thanks for the reply Mike. Now if I understand what you've said is that there are plenty of strategies that don't need any indicators at all or maybe one. I guess that just leaves price action. I've written a fee strategies in the past that were only based on price action. For example, I...

Awesome, thanks for the tips. I'll take a look at those sites.

Very interesting. Good to know that you like Tradestation. It is going to take me some time to get used to the platform. One thing that I'm trying to learn is.. How do you go from idea to live trading? From the little time I've had with Tradestation, it seems like you need to backtest...

So are you saying that nobody can make simple indicators like a moving average into a profitable system? You have to have some unknown to the world custom indicator to make any money?

Funny you say that because I just moved over to Tradestation yesterday. I'm working on making some strategies work and getting used to the tools they have for back/forward testing. How do you like the walk forward optimizer? Do you have any "Make sure you..." type of tips for me on...

Thanks for the info. This was helpful. I sent you a private message as well.

So what would you recommend for a time frame then? I'm more of someone that would like to trade on a smaller timeframe. What about strategies? I can code some crazy stuff but I've heard that the more simple they are, the better. I just have to figure out how to make this work. Must...

Are there any other tips that you would give to someone like me? I work full time and I want to transition over to trading for a living. Since I have been in the software industry for 21 years, I have a lot of experience with hardware and software. What about tips on making strategies...

Yeah I don't have the skills or time to write my own software. I am a programmer but it's not been in the sense of writing software. Most of my skills are in writing test scripts and other things like that. All of the automated trade stuff is extremely simple for me. So sheesh, what the...

Has anyone used Tradestation's optimizer in addition to their walk forward optimizer before? Sounds like it is a whole lot better than having nothing.

Hi there.. I hope this is the right forum for this question. Lets say that my strategy runs on a 5m chart and it only trades during regular trading session hours. How do you properly back and forward test this? Optimize on 4 months and then forward test the 5th month? The move up to...

So how would one know if they needed to host a machine near their provider? For example, when I trade a futures contract at the end of a bar and I get x amount of ticks slippage, is that reason to want to have a hosted machine? Does it all boil down to crappy entries and exits which result in...

Avoiding strategies that don't need to be optimized.. Hrm, does that mean you don't use any indicators - ever? It is all based on price action alone? Either that or the indicators you're using are all using values that are static? Almost all of my strategies use some form of an indicator...

Thanks to those that answered my post. It sounds like if you have a poor connection or live far away in other countries you might want to use a co-location. Also if you're doing trades that last under one second (on average) you might want one. I am located in the US and have a decent...