Quote from bighog:
Tytcoonman, all kidding aside.
I lately started using OCO stuff like he said to you. It is a crutch we never had long ago, it helps. But we all know toys do not make the man. learning how to trade comes from mistakes, losers all give you information, winners just confirm what you learned from the losers.
Thus, money is not the driver. What was that chess player that wanted more money to play and then later went off the deep end and was dead at 64.??
i don't really consider my calculations a crutch -- they are on days when I start losing and my confidence in my calculations go away and I end up making even more mistakes...its a horrible spiral.
we had MATLAB last semester and I just started playing around with averages when I was on my sim acct. and I shit you not, I had a 500% profit in 3 weeks based on the algorithm -- i kept the same variable trading conditions as when I would go live and tried to incorporate everything, but did not account for the psych. burden of losing days.
I really feel like I have a winning algo but need to take me out of the equation. I think ill goto IB API and make an auto-trader.