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Automation Engineer
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SCK-CEN
My strengths:
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* Background as automation engineer
* Trading experience
* Written a lot of EA's, indi's, scripts
* English or dutch communication
My motives:
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* Making a little money
* Helping other traders
* Getting some other insights/ideas
My values:
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* Quality above quantity
* Code is well structured
* Code is commented
* A big library with proven functions
My story:
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I’m graduated in 2004 as master automation engineer.
I started to work as PLC programmer for different kinds of industries (pharma, food, automotive, oil & gas, …).
Because of the ever-increasing need to transfer data between the production floor and the enterprise system, more soft skills became essential (VB, VBA, VBscript, Cscript, C++, SQL, HTML, Excel, Access, …).
Around 2009 I did found “Forex trading” on the internet by chance.
I was immediately fascinated by the concept and started to learn more about it.
After a couple of months I begun to trade manually on my first demo account.
But it was hard to be consistent and even more difficult to put my emotions a side.
Therefore I wanted to automate my trading strategy and after some research I did found MetaTrader 4.
The program language (MQL4) was almost the same as C++, so I could start with a solid background.
The possibilities were unlimited now, I could backtest my strategy only with a couple of mouse clicks and test this EA with different parameters.
But, as many of you also experienced, my EA was not profitable at all.
After that I jumped from one strategy to another, and not a single one (that I tried) would make me rich.
I’ve written more than hundreds of different expert advisors, indicators and scripts.
Only after four years I was realizing that my expectations were just too big.
I was always looking for the jackpot (more than 100% a year) instead of a realistic return.
I did start from scratch with a lot of statistical analysis on the historical data with mixed results.
2 small edges were be found that could overcome the trading cost.
An EA with this edges and proper money management was tested on a demo account for months.
The results were slightly better than the expectation, so I decided to go live on a (small) real account.
At the moment of writing my EA is almost 1 year in action and made +20% (expectation: +25%/year).
For most of you, this is probably not a good result, but I feel myself comfortable with this trading style.
In the beginning of 2017 I’ve decided to program on freelance basis.
My educational background, trading experience and a lot of written EA’s, indi’s, scripts allows me to program your needs.
Together we can make it.
Let my code work for you!
Best regards,
Tom Van Loy
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* Background as automation engineer
* Trading experience
* Written a lot of EA's, indi's, scripts
* English or dutch communication
My motives:
--------------
* Making a little money
* Helping other traders
* Getting some other insights/ideas
My values:
-------------
* Quality above quantity
* Code is well structured
* Code is commented
* A big library with proven functions
My story:
-----------
I’m graduated in 2004 as master automation engineer.
I started to work as PLC programmer for different kinds of industries (pharma, food, automotive, oil & gas, …).
Because of the ever-increasing need to transfer data between the production floor and the enterprise system, more soft skills became essential (VB, VBA, VBscript, Cscript, C++, SQL, HTML, Excel, Access, …).
Around 2009 I did found “Forex trading” on the internet by chance.
I was immediately fascinated by the concept and started to learn more about it.
After a couple of months I begun to trade manually on my first demo account.
But it was hard to be consistent and even more difficult to put my emotions a side.
Therefore I wanted to automate my trading strategy and after some research I did found MetaTrader 4.
The program language (MQL4) was almost the same as C++, so I could start with a solid background.
The possibilities were unlimited now, I could backtest my strategy only with a couple of mouse clicks and test this EA with different parameters.
But, as many of you also experienced, my EA was not profitable at all.
After that I jumped from one strategy to another, and not a single one (that I tried) would make me rich.
I’ve written more than hundreds of different expert advisors, indicators and scripts.
Only after four years I was realizing that my expectations were just too big.
I was always looking for the jackpot (more than 100% a year) instead of a realistic return.
I did start from scratch with a lot of statistical analysis on the historical data with mixed results.
2 small edges were be found that could overcome the trading cost.
An EA with this edges and proper money management was tested on a demo account for months.
The results were slightly better than the expectation, so I decided to go live on a (small) real account.
At the moment of writing my EA is almost 1 year in action and made +20% (expectation: +25%/year).
For most of you, this is probably not a good result, but I feel myself comfortable with this trading style.
In the beginning of 2017 I’ve decided to program on freelance basis.
My educational background, trading experience and a lot of written EA’s, indi’s, scripts allows me to program your needs.
Together we can make it.
Let my code work for you!
Best regards,
Tom Van Loy
Tom Van Loy
Published code High/Low indicator for a predefined period
This indicator can show you the weekly/daily/hourly/... progress on a lower timeframe. High, low, middle and/or open-lines can be configured individually.
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