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    Anyone heard of Savi Trading?

    Hi, I would appreciate if anyone could contact me (or the forum) about the experience that they have had trading with Savi. Reading the posts, I have been able to gather that they are ok, but perhaps they bull**** a little to get more traders on board. Of course one person does not account for...
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    Tradestation 8.7(b 3085) with owndata 2.7

    Hi, you need to include the symbol attributes in a file called 'attributes.ini'. There is more info on this in the help file - you will need to search for symbol attributes. The file will be something like this Symbol,Date Format,Time Format,Category,Exchange,Session 1 Start Time,Session 1 End...
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    Is 100 percent mechanical trading possible?

    I am impressed - I don't think your average trade2win member is anywhere near this stage. I am going to start by building a simple system and build up in complexity gradually. I wanted to know if you could recommend any backtesting software. I am quite handy with programming, so I am not...
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    Is 100 percent mechanical trading possible?

    Personally 5% is well above what I would risk (2% max). But if you have multiple systems running across multiple timeframes then the total amount I would risk at any one time would rise to 8%
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    Is 100 percent mechanical trading possible?

    I'm almost certain you can make more than 48% with an automated system if you are a bit more clever about the way you manage your risk
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