I am still here everyday, and I have been working on automating my grain strategy ( which apparently works on bonds also ).
Earlier this week, I was really pissed off at myself. I was on the phone and was distracted when I took the trade. A trade that I clearly should not have taken. It wasn’t even an entry signal.
Crap.
I had always planned on getting someone to do a Ninja trader auto strat to backtest my trading methodology. This just pushed that forward.
Having your strategy back test-able does a couple of things that are really good for your trading.
The first is that is forces you to write clear rules. You cannot be vague with a computer. This really forces clarity and if you look at your trading rules with an eye to having it made into and auto trading strategy, it WILL improve clarity and focus.
Second, you can see how your auto strat trades alongside you. In effect showing you what is wrong with your trading or if there is a bug in the code of your autostrat.
Anyway, in the black today with one trade.
+1.75 ZS Points ( same as emini )
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