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Guys, and Karen, please please please do not apologize for your input. I love this stuff and find it extremely helpful. Please continue to chime in.
I do think that partial automation is more precisely what I am looking for. I enter my trades in three parts, and I would like to automate all of the entries, and as long as everything is going well, just go ahead and exit at a certain time. Of course, as we all know, things rarely go that well, and at those times I would be doing manual intervention anyway. So I don’t need to incorporate all of the logic for making adjustments. Basically just the entries, which are pretty straightforward. I am a believer that the exits are way more important than the entries. And those I would handle myself, except for an extraordinarily smooth day.
Trade was up a lot early, and then fizzled out. I was up over 4K and finished up 713. Disappointing. I hate profit targets with every fiber of my being. I call them profit limiters. But I do need to get back to lightening up when various levels of profit are hit. I've kind of gotten away from that lately, playing for home runs too much perhaps. It was a good month, and better discipline than August, but still not excellent performance on my part. The results were better than the trading was, and that's not what I want long-term.
Day Trade: Trade was under water about 1000 when the Mfg. report came out at 10:00. That helped my trade and it started working. Nothing fantastic but steady gains. About 10 minutes ago I got an invitation to play golf. I only get to play on rare occasions, so I said yes and just closed all of my trades and exited. +1410. Probably leaving some on the table, but I don't care. The way the day started, I am happy with that profit.
Non Day Trade: Sold a ES2700P for October 18 expiration for 700 near the close. Probably not much gained or lost once the settle price comes in, but I like the odds over the next 2 1/2 weeks.
Day Trade: Trade was slightly negative until about 11:00 am and then just took off like crazy. I only did 2 units today and when I got up 2500, I cut it down to one. I left some on the table, but it was still a great day. Finish up about 3400. Was +4400 on my shorts and only about -1000 on the longs. Nice!
I agree. Automation is a lot of work. It can take several months to a year to get an automated system written and then have it tested with at least 6 months of market replay data to fix the bugs and then finally tune it in the real live markets in sim mode to make sure it does what you want it to do.
I have been working on an automated system for myself and it has taken me close to 9 months. However, I am happy where it is right now.
I can perhaps help you if you are looking for automation. I am using NinjaTrader 7 platform and use C# as the programming language. However, I find it very limiting to develop and test within NT7 framework. Hence, I wrote my own services outside that are triggered based on new bars forming, etc. Send me a pm if you need help. At least I can get you started. :-)
I just want open a new account at amp futures i send a 1k usd for test but this money have never been credited to my account and their bank certify they received the money .... i contact several time their support but no help ... do that hapened to other ? what i can do ? i send the money following their instruction for bank wire ... then the money never arrive to my trading AMP account and they dont help . What i can do thank you