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The idea of the robot is quite simple:
- try to get few ticks after the end of the regular session
- no overnight position
- very very basic MM, stop gain == stop loss (8 to 12 ticks)
- 2 contracts, on ES/NQ/TF/YM
- same strat for these 4 futures contracts, but some parameters value differs.
The backtests were quite good, maybe too good to be true, let's see what happens in the real life.
hello sam and good luck with this new strat. i was wondering if you have tried optimizing on van tharp system quality number [sqn] which i posted some time ago and if so if you would share with me the value. i have been trying to find someone with a good strat and compare the sqn values so i can try to see what a good value might be. most of my strats are between 3 and 5 for sqn value.
how long you backtested this for?
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
so does strat trigger 2 contracts in each of four instruments simultaneously based on a single trigger or is the strat running separate on each instrument and may or may not trade each instrument?
nice first day good job.
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
No, I didn't played with Van Tharp SQN, just basic backtest/optimization.
2 trades on the same contract but one trigger: I use two brokers, so I can see compare them. There is one strat by instrument by broker, so 8 "same" strat running.
Sorry Vast, it's secret, for various reasons.
But don't worry, I still convinced that something is wrong in the strat, the backtests results are too good, so if the strat may fail soon. About 75% profitable trades, avg win>avg loss, 1 (small) loosing week these last 3 months, works fine on different contracts, 3 max consecutive losers vs 12 consecutive winners , etc.
I've build a huge quantity of strategies, and never found something like that before, but this time, I'm unable to find what's wrong.
If a miracle happens, and the robot still profitable after few weeks, I'll find a way to share it.
day 2: -85$ before commission, and something strange, a trade take by one broker, but not by the other one (IB), nothing in the logs
day 3: +57.5$ before com
I'm posting my yesterday's results with 2 screenshots, because I think I'll have to drop and recreate my NT database. I still have the famous "Loading data..." for longs minutes, have restarted NT few times, reboot the VirtualBox, same result, and nothing in the log files .
Day 4: +5$ before commission. But there is a bug somewhere, the robot went long on YM and NQ, but were supposed to go short, I need to add some "Print(...." in the strat...
The logical result should have been +245$ before com.
thx for this i love strategies so love to see and learn from others and i especially like you posting the equity graph. now if you will do me the favor of optimizing it with the sqn and giving me the results of the optimization including length of period # of trades per day and the sqn itself i would really like that.
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain