doesn't look like we have to worry about the TP point right now lol=(

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

yeah it is rather hot today here in melbourne too

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

one thing i noticed in the past few hours is that gbpjpy, which usually fluctuates crazily with 2 long tails on most bars in the 1h TF was moving with a sense of purpose for a change. Coincidence, or significant observation?

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

that last move down was what wiped my stoploss=(

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

yeah that's what i thought 1 stoploss and 2 hours ago lol

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

hmmm the RSI has been off the chart for the last 4 hours for 15min, 1h and 4h TF seems like BOJ is sitting this one out..

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

ok thanks maybe it was just too quick to react. The upl shot past the mark, and then came down again. Normally I would have closed it manually when it was close by, but I was distracted and it caught me by surprise.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

i have a question when u use the labels on the proper bot to set up a trade manually, does it still exit automatically at the basket take profit? Or do I have to close the basket myself? I ask because today was the first time I didn't close it ...

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

not sure if this has been suggested before but I manually trade this outside the "normal trading hours" much like the 24 hour bot. but I take the extra filter of making sure the 4hr chart signal aligns as well.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

not entirely certain of this, but filtering by only news regarding jpy might help too

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

as far as i know, they just require an extra 2 lines of code everytime u place an order, so it can't be somethign to do with coding...

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

Hi I've been lurking awhile. Curiousity finally got the better of me. What's your beef with ecns? lol.

scooby-doo BOJ JPY pairs trading robot

the clock on the top right looks nice mind sharing that indicator?

7am-9am Big Dog USD Breakout Strategy

the 0900 bar starts forming at 0900 and ends at 0900+T where T is your time frame. so if u're using 15 min time frame, it ends at 0915.

7am-9am Big Dog USD Breakout Strategy

ea not trading — i'm using the firebird ea from the first post and it's been on for the last week without opening a single trade Am I doing something wrong?

Semi automatic EA (Driven Version)

hey guys. I've been backtesting this strategy all the way back to 2004, and I gotta say, there's something you need to know if you're risking real money on this strategy. First off, there are two variants. 1) 10 pip take profit, 20 pip stoploss. 2) ...

7am-9am Big Dog USD Breakout Strategy

See, that's part of the problem. It's here that most people new to the idea of backtesting run into problems. You see a problem with the results, and you start RATIONALISING it. Let's treat that as a 5 year drawdown! 5 years out of 7, but it could ...

First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!

i think what he was pointing out there was the fact that he's at least been trading for 3 years. Btw, when you're doing backtesting, trading skills count for 0, and programming skills, everything. So what exactly was the point? That Joel's a better ...

First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!

so in conclusion, backtesting is useless and we should all be trading by the seat of our pants?

First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!

i'm going to sum what I've said in this thread using point form so you can understand my words better 1) I have asked Joel if he used his own data. Never heard back 2) I have asked Joel if he was aware that if he was just using tradestation's data, ...

First-Strike & One-Night-Stand users, show yourself and your mods, if you dare!!!