I have fourteen of them running, my first system for Long Term Commodities was written in Basic in 1993, had to upgrade to make it do options for hedges. Have long term stocks, have a guy I am mentoring-he doing programming on new short term stock system, I had manually did quick 1,000 signals doing less than 10% losses, so that just fits parameters of systems I trade, my personality doesn't do well unless something in system pleases me much more than losses. My long term commodity system, futures side wins 6-14% of it's trades through years since late 1992, but when I started using hedges, overall trades changed much, so I started to use them in stocks as well, but much harder to code. Isn't easiest systems in like Ninja as that will lock up if you have tougher code, there are work arounds, but that takes more resources than some programs can handle. Hardest part for many to get coding or system to work is coding when not to take trades, lookback time, ticks between highs and highs and then adding volume, shhhh. took staff three years coding my main scalping system, one guy each day. I have commodity spreads auto and options systems. So it come down to what you see or how you trade, figure a way to program. It does help when you have someone else do it and you check charts for things that have to be changed, but joint efforts work well than going at it alone. For me it is exciting to be working with someone who can code well, and he enjoys seeing systems that seldom have losses, No system is perfect, every one of them have drawdowns, but so long as smooth equity curve is all that matters.
All signals they say are 50/50, but where you tilt the pinball is money management, when to stop taking trend trades or reduce time of being in them. Management of the trade and eventually people need to watch the Dom, you can eventually learn to get 1-2 ticks better or avoid a sure losing trade altogether.
Depending on your platform, how about programming the money management part which will take the longest, then all you do is find the trades. I had my built this way first, super cool of features I had included.
Start with stock trading system, they usually the easiest, much less symbol change. All mine run in Phython.
Congrats on retirement, you certainly beat me as I am not retired, HAAAAAA Yea, women are expensive, first question you ask, are they interested in kids, if yes, I never go out with them again. It cheaper to raise cattle and you can name them too. And eating them am sure be tasty.
