How can i bring this system to the next level

September 26th, 2017, 11:29 AM

4 trades today, 1 losing and 1 winning on ZB and 1 losing and 1 winning on GC.
So this ends my session with -20$ for the commissions.

September 26th, 2017, 11:58 AM

While i was typing this my last trade from today got executed, currently short on GC from 1303.8

Edit: from now on i will only update at the end of the week.
It was never my intention to start a daily journal here.

September 26th, 2017, 06:13 PM

I have also been working on another system, so far only tested on ZB.
Again 1:1 risk reward, 10 tick target/stop. However entry rules are completely different, this system is more of a reversal system.
Started on June 1st with forward testing, 20 trades, 60% winning, total profit of 1150$ (including commissions, based on 1 contract).
Unable to use this strategy with OneUp since it sometimes requires to hold trades overnight.

Also, 4 months and 20 trades isn't enough data to be as reliable as the other system.
However i am going to keep an eye on it for the next few weeks/months.

October 9th, 2017, 12:20 PM

Delayed update.

Gold didn't seem to perform as well as expected.
ZB on the other is still doing showing the same results as in the past.

Back to the drawing board for the other instruments and next week i have an appointment with a potential partner in my business adventure.

February 6th, 2018, 05:29 AM

The system is struggling a bit recent times.
January was the worst month since the start (september 2016), -7.28%.
However February is off to a very good start, almost recovered from the loss in just 3 days!

Performance since start: 82.11% return, 14.69% highest DD, 59.7% win rate.

In the mean time i have been working on a second system, also trading ZB (and will also work on ZN).
So far i have done manual backtests for the past 5 months on ZB.

It can work in 2 ways, so i will post results for both.

A. 46.2% win rate, avg win 900$, avg loss 385$. Total profits 5400$ (all trades 1 contract).
B. 59.3% win rate, 1:1 risk reward. Total profits 5000$ profit (all trades 1 contract).

The system only took 27 trades during these 5 months so it is too early to make any conclusions about the performance on the longer run.

How can i bring this system to the next level

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How can i bring this system to the next level