Conor Mcnamara / Profilo

Unpopular opinion: Trading is the easiest thing in the world with a good indicator and understanding of price action. Trading will obviously be difficult with no statistical edge, a lot of repainting, and a lot of wild guessing

testing my "statistical zigzag" on bitcoin, it's essentially a breakout indicator based on standard deviation volatility

Codice pubblicato Statistical Zigzag

Codice pubblicato Simple Bar Timer

"Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not."

- Leo Tolstoy

The manual trading simulator is completed, I have nothing more to do on it. It is good I asked in the forum if it was possible to make buttons work in the EA tester...because sometimes there is a solution found by someone, and it saves you from thinking that it might not be possible.

Keep this is mind when it comes to automated trading:

- An EA that was designed for a particular market style (trending/volatile/ranging) is unlikely to work properly in other market styles with the default setting.

- If a market is choppy, a setting has to be created to account for that, and that takes understanding of technical market dynamics.

The other world of automated trading is quantum/adaptive where it is not trading like a trader anymore and is using complex adaptive algorithms.

It's not fully known if this is more profitable or risky, or whether keeping it simple is more profitable. Simple systems can offer transparency. Complex systems come with validation challenges and opacity.

Personally I see markets as something that alternates primarily because of news and data releases. Both algorithms and manual traders react to that.
If a position is opened by a simple EA, the user must have due diligence and decide if the trade should sit there, or if it should be closed soon based on current news, and not the news that was published at the trade open time.

The answer is 2, it's still going down.

Because THAT is known as a liquidity trap which traps a lot of novice traders.

Trading quiz.

Where do you think the price is going?

1. Support is found, it's going up again
2. Still going down

My next project is to create a system that allows you to buy and sell manually in the actual EA strategy tester. I don't even know if this works yet. But I think that if we could test our strategy AT SPEED it would be good.

Codice pubblicato Indicator loader for strategy testing

Codice pubblicato Zigzag Custom Timeframe

Codice pubblicato OHLC Candles with extreme tick price tracking

Codice pubblicato OHLC Candles with Ask and Bid

This is a historical moment for me. The cleanest trade I have ever made !

Codice pubblicato Trading Session Mapping

Codice pubblicato Volatility Step Channel

this was another entry on the VWAP price

the way I see it, whether you buy or sell at this price, there's some profit there eitherway

I am on a demo account performing these tests where I put indicators into live testing

this entry was the VWAP price at the time I placed the buy limit, it seems like a good indicator to me, and it's downloadable on the codebase