Quote from Daring:
Is your sample big enough ?
All the crossover systems I studied on small timeframes, failed miserably.
a pure crossover fails miserably due to:
1) no filters in congestion zones
2) no filters for non trending days
3) limit orders and syncing with broker
-there is no communication between signal system and broker to check if orders were filled, system thinks order has been filled and issues exit or reverse signal.
You basically end up using market orders to get around this.
4) if your trading microstructure or scalping ticks, then you will be buying at the current offer and selling at the current bid.
-so your signal entry and exit prices will be off from broker filled prices.
You get around this by building in a extra profit margin to account for slippage.
Your TP's have to be within the noise of tick micro price structure.
...TS allows to go back at most 120 days of tick data.