Is it possible to be a lazy , set and forget trader?

If you believe the markets are random and unpredictable then why are you trading in the first place?

My stock strategy has been running simulated for close to 3 years now and live for 18 months (small size) and i have been achieving a 70% success rate with an average risk:reward of around 1:1,6.

As far as i am concerned it is working just fine.

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These results are a combination of the SIM and live results since the beginning of testing the strategy.

How do you know that the system is not overfitted?
 
Scenario, new trading day begin , spend 1-2 hour on 1 or 2 chart for analysis and then place pending order , set 1:1 RR TP and SL and completely forget about it, Check the result next day.

Market order and monitoring is not allowed because we are trying to be lazy, set and forget trader.

Strategies
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- Swing High/Low breakout
- Other major support/resistance breakout
- Buy/Sell limit in trending situation
- Swing high/swing low reversal (using buy/sell limit)
- Other support/resistance reversal

Any other ideas?

Sure man, it is quite easy to do what you ask. Be a buy and hold. But that is not trading, that is investing.

Call it what you will.

 
How do you know that the system is not overfitted?

I never know for sure untill i have extended period of live results.

However i think it is not since i did not readjust multiple times based on backtests. I developed this system which is momentum based from what i have learned during day trading and only made 1 minor change in the beginning. It has been running successfully for almost 3 years now and random backtests (picking random months and random years), also showed similar results.
 
Scenario, new trading day begin , spend 1-2 hour on 1 or 2 chart for analysis and then place pending order , set 1:1 RR TP and SL and completely forget about it, Check the result next day.

Market order and monitoring is not allowed because we are trying to be lazy, set and forget trader.

Strategies
=======
- Swing High/Low breakout
- Other major support/resistance breakout
- Buy/Sell limit in trending situation
- Swing high/swing low reversal (using buy/sell limit)
- Other support/resistance reversal

Any other ideas?

You do realize you can test this without needing to ask a forum if it will work. :D

Also, what to you mean by "not allowed" ? Its as if you're saying you're going to be banned, arrested or fined.

It's impossible to forget because you know you made the trade and you know you placed a stop. You'll always have that trade in back of your mind. In fact, anytime you turn on your computer or look on your mobile device...you'll pull up a quote or chart to check to see how that trade is doing.

Once again, impossible to forget. Also, someone else made a comment that its called "investing"...it is not because you're using 1 - 2 hour charts, you're using stop/loss and you have not described any investment reasons for entering the trade.

Investors get monthly, quarterly, yearly reports about dividends, earnings reports, shareholder meetings and such.

Regardless, even your broker will send you emails with your broker statements...price quotes and such. Simply, you will not be able to forget about the Open trade position no matter if you're day trading, swing trading or position trading.

wrbtrader
 
Scenario, new trading day begin , spend 1-2 hour on 1 or 2 chart for analysis and then place pending order , set 1:1 RR TP and SL and completely forget about it, Check the result next day.

Market order and monitoring is not allowed because we are trying to be lazy, set and forget trader.

Strategies
=======
- Swing High/Low breakout
- Other major support/resistance breakout
- Buy/Sell limit in trending situation
- Swing high/swing low reversal (using buy/sell limit)
- Other support/resistance reversal

Any other ideas?
Buy and hold if you want set and forget.
 
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