Is this with a VPS, by chance? I know someone else with that issue with VPS - the order gets sent once they log into the VPS. Sounds similar to your experience.

One solution might be to make sure you run TS 9.5 as an administrator. You can right click on the desktop icon and select "run As Administrator"

See if that helps. Also, if it does not, keep a log with details (screenshots).

I can collect your info, and info from others, I'll then approach TS upper mgmt to get it resolved. Upgrading to TS 10 MIGHT solve it too (I don't know).

I have never experienced this issue, by the way.

This is not a vps but I will try your method of started TradeStation in administrator mode

Just my 25 cents.... we've never had a problem through our VPS (Azure VM), running TS 10. The only problem we've had on the VPS is that if we connect using a PC with High DPI (e.g. Surface Book), that will sometimes kill TS (not errors.... flat out kill it like it wasn't even running).

Not to hijack @jburke75 's journal, but is TS Support still actively supporting 9.5?

I just watched Andrea Unger video of how to trade energies

sum up his video with this:


CL responds well to trend following and counter trend strategies.
RB and HO are good for intraday breakout and trend following systems
NG is good for mean reverting counter trend strategy

stop losses are roughly around 1000 - 1500

Thanks. This confirms my recent study of these four, specifically. RB and HO seem to work well with the same strategies. Is this video available to the general public? I would like to watch.

https://ungeracademy.com/blog/trade-the-energy-market

I think he has several free videos there. Good stuff and glad most come with a transcript because it’s hard to make out every word.

I will be in Cleveland in April as well (don’t know which week yet) and I hope to see you there! You are ending your algo journal journey and I am just starting mine. I take my keys from you in many ways. I even named my journal after yours with a robot theme. What a great example you have laid out for us beginners. So much to learn from each other. I hope you keep it alive even if it’s a once a month check in.

I have run walkforward tests with 3 different approaches:

1. Manual walkforward
2. StratOpt WFP walkforward tool (my preferred option)
3. Tradestation WFO tool

None of them agree with each other. They all make different assumptions, and do calculations slightly differently, so I would not expect them to be exactly the same.

I think the key is to use the same method in live trading as you did during development. Don't use Stratopt in backtest, but then manually do it live - for example.

I spoke with the developer of strat opt WFP and he primarily uses it to create intraday trading strats. He has told me that an in sample period of around 10 trades is a good place to start.

Currently developing different ways to initiate a buy on either a certain date of the month or possibly some trading day of the month. the difference being that one strategy may use a specific date of the month. Say I pick the 5th of every month sometime the 5th will fall on a weekend and thus the next trading day may get filled. This is one idea that has been proposed to me recently but I am not sure how to code that in tradestation yet.

I have however developed a strategy to buy on the 5th trading day of the month. Still I am struggling to wrap the idea of the code in my head.

I just realized at the end of his book Art has all the code to create these strategies and right after I wrote the code for the first strategy I decided to check the back of the book and it was right there staring me in the face. My way of coding it was pretty much exactly how he wrote it. That part was encouraging.

Someone recently burst my bubble and told me that the strategies in the book don't work anymore. Still I think good concept can be learned from back testing so many combinations of different ideas.