I have been trading for some time the Alpha Trading Method (and been posting trades to both the thread ATM Trading Method Vendor Free ( and my personal trading journal (.
Credit for the initial posting of the ATM method goes to JDNeeman and I learned a lot while reading and watching the postings from masood and with additional help of some people like bobwest and crossover and people i forget to give credit.
Wednesday 30 july I attended a great webinar Test for Succes with Kevin Davey (
I have decided to create a stragey that will generate signals for some of the ATM method trades.
While some of the trading rules are based on 'visuals' and some market prep, my first version will focus on some of the higher potential setups, for which through experience, I have learned are high % chance profitable trades. Next versions will then focus on adding more complicated setups.
The goal of this exercise is :
Create a testing boiler plate, that allows to run the strategy on market replay data, due to limitations on renko bars with back testing
Come up with some statistics on the % of trades that work well or not.
Compare the gain of removing human interpretation/psychology towards strict rules based trading
The first function/features i will develop is the possibility to recognize the lightning up or down, in combination with the clouds and the stepMA. Hope to have a working prototype in the next couple days and be able to share some testing using replay on CL and GC.