HJay 

Nice!.. glad you had a great day today Sam.

In fact, it was a good day for the bot, not for me (my discretionary trading results were not very good today).
It's very easy to say that after the facts, but today was the perfect day for this bot, and I knew it, few minutes before the first trade. I was quite close to play with much more contracts, as I was sure at 99.9% it will be a positive day, and a big one.
But stick to the rules, and don't change the rules every 5 minutes .
And another "perfect day" will happens again.

Nice work Sam and smart decision.

Mike

Day 25: -220$

Some issues with one of my brokers, so not robot for the IB account, and an human error during bot initialization (2 EMD cars, an 0 ES).
I should add a new rule: no robots on wednesday, when the week was rough.


Week 1: +977.5$
Week 2: +130$
Week 3: +1180$
Week 4: +97.5 $
Week 5: -486.5 $
From the beginning: +1759.5$ before com

Day 26: -260$
Day 27: -460$
Day 28: -177.5$

Week 1: +977.5$
Week 2: +130$
Week 3: +1180$
Week 4: +97.5 $
Week 5: -486.5 $
Week 6: -897.5$
From the beginning: +862$ before com

Day 30: -2.5$

Game over


Week 1: +977.5$
Week 2: +130$
Week 3: +1180$
Week 4: +97.5 $
Week 5: -489 $
Week 6: -890$
From the beginning: +859.5$ before com

sam028 

Day 30: -2.5$ Game over Week 1: +977.5$ Week 2: +130$ Week 3: +1180$ Week 4: +97.5 $ Week 5: -489 $ Week 6: -890$ From the beginning: +859.5$ before com

Does that smiley mean what I think it means? Why call it game over at this point?

Gary 

Does that smiley mean what I think it means? Why call it game over at this point?

The results (P&L, w/l ratio, expectency, ...) are not what they were supposed to be.
I think the market conditions (volatility) are very different as they were during the backtest period, or maybe that was the moon phases, or the sea temperature, or something else.

Anyway, this is not a big suprise, no miracle (see post #6) , and it was interesting to see in live what the main problems with NT automated strategies.

Love the new avatar

Mike

I hope to see you keep trying the robots Sam .

sam028 

As I'm developping strategies and indicators on my main workstation, use it for backtesting and for discretionary trading, I don't want a "production" strategy to be disrupt by beta indicators/strategies, or any other sort of potential issues. That's why I use a VirtualBox, with a very light XP installation (no antivirus, no extra-packages/services, ...), only with "production" strategies/indicators. An other interesting aspect, the VirtualBox production host DD takes only few gb, so easy to backup, easy to put on another physical host if the first one have an hardware problem.

Hi Sam,

You are referring to a virtual machine, correct? Considering that you are using NT7, are you still running XP or have you installed Win7 ? What version of VirtualBox?

Your input, as usual, is greatly appreciated
Jon