Quote from harrytrader:
btw you are misunderstanding what I am doing: I'm not doing research, it is a few years already that the research has been done. Then it has been traded discretionarily then the backoffice has been automated and now I want to automate my own brain if I can express it like that. It's the most complex phase as the circonvolution of my brain is sometimes difficult to grasp as you know ... even by my one self. Also I have to cope with a guy called a programmer and that slows much the process more than I would like.
Also I come from industry and software engineering and when I do something I want to garantee the results that is for me or for clients and the only way to do that is to have a process that is completely streamlined to the finest details. What I will automate is not only entering and exiting position but the risk management part notably trailing stop but more efficient than the usual trailing stop used in candlestick or sar which have too many false signals. For that I have to automate the path of the stock market inside the day and not only at entry or exit. To get an idea a process is like this (I took it from Borland site) in fact what is important is the iterations (those who know RUP - Rational Unified Process - will understand).
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I think that some of the best ideas are not programmable, especially trendlines , if not drawn top to top style.
Hedge fund ( reputable ) are getting offers of new systems and methods daily and all they want to see is a trading record. They do not care if automation has been thoroughly tested or even completed.
You like to be involved in process, which is fine but without putting your method or part of it to work it will be just one of many unfinished studies. You have to let your child go to the real world .
. Also I have to cope with a guy called a programmer and that slows much the process more than I would like.
. As far as I can see you are serious trader so there will be no problem that I invite you to a live demo. In fact we've just testing some module for that, the first one is the new real time message alerter :