Index futures automation

Can a fully automated trading strategy work in the long run?

  • YES!

    Votes: 56 67.5%
  • Hell naw.

    Votes: 14 16.9%
  • I don't know, I got my own trading to worry about.

    Votes: 13 15.7%

  • Total voters
    83

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I finally decide to take a dive into learning programming. Even though I had programming classes back in school, it wasn't anything where I can go on my own and code from scratch.

I narrowed down to two languages that I will learn:

Python and C#.

I chose these languages because of Python being very popular amongst beginners and C# being used in QT.

I need to go back to the basics with an initial free course just to get the old brain to warm up a bit to the coding logic:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/learn-to-program

Then after that, will take 1-2 courses in Python then move to C#. C# would be where I will focus on since I want to be able to have full ownership and understanding of my own algo.

Will share progress along the way.
 
How much manual intervention does your system need - can it be left to run for several weeks completely on its own ?
 
'Technically i can let it ride forever, but I still do the weekly vps restart and check for updates. Also check QT for updates.'

Excellent. How did the system perform last week, given the volatility we saw ?
I can't tell since you stopped the daily updates, well apart from observing that the equity curve went up.
 
'Technically i can let it ride forever, but I still do the weekly vps restart and check for updates. Also check QT for updates.'

Excellent. How did the system perform last week, given the volatility we saw ?
I can't tell since you stopped the daily updates, well apart from observing that the equity curve went up.

Yea I posted about this so I dont have to go into vps every time.

If you want to know how I do day to day, jsut look at the three numbers off my broker statement and do basic math. This is based on my account. The chart I posted is just comparison using 10k (based on net results of real acccount) vs benchmarks.

Essentially it's the same cumulative % gain for both (real and model account).

Yesterday
gross: 0.289%
Net:0.268%
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I finally decide to take a dive into learning programming. Even though I had programming classes back in school, it wasn't anything where I can go on my own and code from scratch.

I narrowed down to two languages that I will learn:

Python and C#.

> because of Python being very popular amongst beginners

IMHO, that is exactly why it should be avoided :)

Focus on the real programming languages, and ignore the hype :)

C# is fine and, for your development and profitability goals, you do not really need to focus somewhere else, at the moment :)

Keep it up! :)
 
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