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Forum: Trading Journals

October 9th, 2019, 05:55 PM

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Posted By bobwest

Agreed. It's also a bit unusual in that it's not...

Agreed. It's also a bit unusual in that it's not straight-out buy/sell futures, which is what we see the most of. New stuff is interesting and fun, and we can learn something too.

For me, the best...

Forum: Trading Journals

October 9th, 2019, 12:52 PM

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Posted By bobwest

Welcome to Elite-journal-land. :becky: 1)...

Welcome to Elite-journal-land. :becky:

1) Your journal can be moved if you want to. Let me or one of the other mods know and we'll do it. Is there an advantage to you? That's up to you, really....

Forum: Trading Journals

September 28th, 2019, 01:07 PM

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Posted By bobwest

FYI, this would be a very elaborate method of...

FYI, this would be a very elaborate method of automating trading. It might be necessary for some trading strategies, especially that involved high frequency trading, but if you just need to automate...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 28th, 2019, 09:03 AM

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Posted By bobwest

Although I'll admit I have no experience with...

Although I'll admit I have no experience with automation and therefore don't know what I'm talking about (not the first or the only time :becky: ), this makes a lot of sense to me, too.

If a...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 26th, 2019, 03:38 PM

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Posted By bobwest

I don't do automated trading, but I write my own...

I don't do automated trading, but I write my own indicators, and my job for a bunch of years was as a programmer. My experience with the coding I have done on SC is that you would be well-advised to...

Forum: Trading Journals

September 26th, 2019, 02:21 PM

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Posted By bobwest

To add to this, although not from any experience...

To add to this, although not from any experience in automated trading, just manual, it is solid and fast (way faster than NT, probably because it is written is C++ and compiles down to native code,...

Forum: Trading Journals

August 31st, 2019, 11:59 AM

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Posted By bobwest

Extremely well said. It's easy to feel sorry...

Extremely well said.

It's easy to feel sorry for oneself, but this is the bottom line: we're lucky to have the job we have.

Also, it's what we want. Otherwise, there is always the 9-to-5...

Forum: Trading Journals

August 15th, 2019, 06:51 PM

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Posted By bobwest

Well, it might or might not be, of course. It's...

Well, it might or might not be, of course. It's something that is not going to be clear without trying it, and that's kind of too late, isn't it? :becky:

Looking at the stats, between 70 and 80%...

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