Recent content by Hoggums

I do not believe in a magic man who lives in the sky.

If you feel confident you could play around with IG labs API - they have an example Excel plugin you can download. I don't know what the functionality is like but you could use that as the basis for downloading ticks. https://labs.ig.com/sample-apps Alternatively you could just download tick...

Assuming there is some truth in this then it just goes to show the importance of stops. You have to mentally be able to take losses in order to succeed. The way to do that is to trade small - then an individual loss doesn't matter and it doesn't get personal. Trade small and often and don't...

Time-wise It depends on how efficient you make your EA - don't run your whole algorithm on each tick if you don't have to - I'm, sure you can speed it up if you think about what it needs to do. If you are using indicators then you probably only need to look at them when the Time[0] value has...

https://tickstory.com/ I run all my backtests with 10 years of tickdata. (5 years for indices - there are gaps in the data pre Jun 2013)

Am I the only one who is wondering why having a bath stopped you from trading? And have you not had one since?

Maybe you should pay for the EA instead of stealing it?

When you close a long you do so at the Bid. Not the ask price (otherwise that would be a recipe for printing money). The bid price never reached your limit so it wasn't closed.

I use NordVPN - it's relatively cheap and I've always had a fast connection. I've never used it for trading though - you will end up with multiple IP addresses getting logged with your broker and that may raise alarm bells with them - because they might get suspicious of someone accessing...

I'm am 100% automated. I have a few EAs running + my own app using IG REST Api to trade options.

A sure fire way to blow your account. Look at that unrealised drawdown > 50% around trade 25. Could have been much worse than that too because Strategy tester only records unrealised results at the point of a trade closing. Look at the trade sizes rising exponentially to try to get out of...

Your system should write to a log file every so often - even if it's not doing anything. Create another program which monitors the log files of your system and kills/restarts them if the files haven't been updated for a while. this should prevent the system not trading because of a...

Get yourself classed as a professional client. Rules don't apply then. Talk to your broker to see what the qualification criteria are.

Been with IG for over a decade. Never experienced this myself.

Do you guys realise Dogecoin was created as a joke crypto currency? It's only through the crypto hysteria at the time that it took off. Unlike all other major cyrptos there's also no limit on the number of coins that can be mined so their value will be constantly eroded.