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Anyone using a TradeStation auto trade strategy
Updated March 11, 2021
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Anyone using a TradeStation auto trade strategy
July 5th, 2016, 12:24 PM
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Plasticman6
I have been trading for over 20 years. I just started trading futures last Sept. and lost. I am too emotional trading manually. In Jan. I started working in the simulator on Auto Trading. Like you said great success in BT, but died in real-time. I has great success with
range bars, but same results live. Non of my systems work without % Trailing.
Do I just give up? Any suggestions? Back to options? Thanks for the comment it is the first real help I have received. TS techs are great at the platform, but I did not find one who seemed to know Auto Trading.
Plasticman6
Developing a trading system correctly is a lot different than what the retail platforms teach (the whole platform setup encourages you to pull up a chart, add some strategies, optimize it to death, and then trade the best case). That never works.
Check the Elite webinar section - there are a ton of good webinars on system building...
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
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May 4th, 2020, 03:00 AM
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https://edvesting.com/ has the autosystemtrader for tradestation and i think for other platforms
May 31st, 2020, 10:38 PM
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Plasticman6
I have been trading for over 20 years. I just started trading futures last Sept. and lost. I am too emotional trading manually. In Jan. I started working in the simulator on Auto Trading. Like you said great success in BT, but died in real-time. I has great success with
range bars, but same results live. Non of my systems work without % Trailing.
Do I just give up? Any suggestions? Back to options? Thanks for the comment it is the first real help I have received. TS techs are great at the platform, but I did not find one who seemed to know Auto Trading.
Plasticman6
Just a thought, Perhaps, instead of using built-in TS, create your own exit signals that constantly update as the chart progresses. Then, as part of the strategy, you have the exit signal as your LX and SX. Seems you would be in control of the "trailing exit" signal.
March 9th, 2021, 09:33 PM
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Keystone
I have written my own strategies that I have running on TradeStation that trade automatically.
I have looked at several from the App store. Most of them I would not trade with my money.
I did try one called Star ES. It had a pretty good performance report not spectacular but good. I traded it live last summer and according to the author I managed to trade it during the worst draw down. I stopped trading it and was able to track it for a few more weeks and it did not get any better.
If you are able to look at the performance report from Larry, I would ensure you have appropriate
slippage , commissions and set the flag to trade through the price to get a fill. If it sill looks good, I would like to see it sim trade for a few weeks. When I last looked at his system he only allows for a few days to trial or not trail at all. I personally did want to trade something I could not see working in a sim account first and prior to paying any fees. Also, if I remember correctly his stop loss for each trade was rather large.
If you move forward, please post back, I would be very interested in your experiencing.
keystone, which is the "flag to trade through the price"?
March 11th, 2021, 08:01 AM
Dallas Texas
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Trading: Emini ES, Emini YM
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Under Properties For All for the Strategy. Select the BackTesting tab.
select Fill Entire Order when trade price exceeds the limit price
Last Updated on March 11, 2021