I have had similar experiences with automated systems becoming ineffective. I started designing and trading systems to overcome discipline...
Norm, Do you have your exit orders in the market after entry? Are the stops residing on your broker's or the exchange's servers? If yes,...
Do not believe TS limit order fills as they appear in backtesting. TS grants a fill (in testing) after a single tick at the limit price. Even at...
I trade ER2 daily and have found a combination of trailing stops work well for different markets. I always start out with the same type of...
I have continued to run my stop orders client side after having tried out the server side option. I place discretionary trades in conjunction...
In TS version 8.1 or 8.1 SP1 (latest release) you can choose between having client side stops that get sent when hit or server side stops.
Go to originalturtles.org The full turtle system is disclosed there free of charge by one of the original turtles, Curtis Faith.
Just a thought, here is a quote from the Stock Traders Almanac: "As the holiday season begins, the marketâs bias turns bullish most years...
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+1449 should have been much more. I had a problem with my strategies today: The three that kicked in today were supposed to buy 3 contracts a...
Any traders on this board living in Aruba? I'll be down next week chilling out with my wife... If you would like to meet up, PM or you can...
+1,381 Someday I'll post P/L like Echo and Lescor.
WOW! You guys are my heros!
I love trading. It's part of how I get to fully experience a wide range of feelings. I start each day anticipating a profit and fearing a...
+3,909 Got a nice run today.
+1037 Still waiting for a good trend day. I had high expectations for today...
As per a PM request, yesterday's P/L. It's ugly.
+2094 Recouping part of yesterdays loss. Another rough day emotionally though... My size has increased as has the frequency. Yesterday I...
-5483 Big bad day for me. It's almost 100% due to excessive size. Every once in a while i forget why, what and how. Ouch.
-801 A weak day for me and for the systems... Lots of distractions, erroneous trades and a little overtrading (size). I'm lucky I didn't do...
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