Recent content by scottz1

There's a good article in Futures magazine this month on using Bayes analysis for setting stops.

NetTecture, I agree with you that building a good trading program is a life-long journey because there are endless ways to improve the performance, but certainly the journey includes milestones where the code and the strategy is well enough tested and ready to run live so we can profit even as...

Allistah, An EA is an Expert Advisor script in MT, a very popular platform. I looked at dozens of trading platforms, and found all of them weak or inflexible in certain areas. For example, some do fast backtesting, but don't trade real-time. Or some support scripting for real-time trading, but...

Intel, I applaud your system, but you lost me when you listed DD as 66% and then said it would be only 4% of initial capital. One tip I would give is to watch out for paper-trading results vs. live because the former won't show slippage. Slippage can be costly if the system trades with very high...

I'm in a v-team building a fully automated program for forex, stocks, and options. We're using .Net 4.5, WPF, SQL 2012. Wanted to see if anyone is doing something similar who might want to share notes. Reply scottz1 Hotmail.