Recent content by pstrusi

Unfortunately, Technicals don't add more value than tossing a coin. For many years, I thought having a little better chance could be possible by using several, but eventually, it'll crush you.

I recommend Ninjatrader because it allows for easy starting and can be very complex as needed, it uses C# as the programming language, which is quite fast and useful.

Being a Ninjatrader user for a long time above other platforms, the processing power and speed of Zorro really amazed me, probably cause it's written in C, a powerful language. After evaluating its commercial conditions to use it and exploring its forum for some time, with positive and negative...

If I were you, the first thing would be to contact technical support or seek the help file to investigate. Then you should learn what language, routines...etc. Perhaps no very helpful but it's a first step.

Automating your Algo directly with a broker's Api is not an easy task unless you're a seasoned programmer. I'd rather suggest going with certain trading platforms, such as Ninjatrader among others. Ninjatrader will allow you to automate all what you want. If you're not a programmer there's a...

NT is very powerful software. I'm an old user of it. There're 2 versions, the former 7 and the new one 8.

Yes, I'm a fellow algo trader trying his best, not an easy activity. So far, with high or low volatility what seems to be more robust are good trend following strategies, but no all of course.

- Change your Algo logic to work with tick data. - Review the Order settings.

I don't know what kind of strategy is your system based on, but a Sharpe ratio of 0.14 indicates that your system is profitable in markets with high volatility taking big risks. I imagine is some kind of trend following. It's a good start but if you want to have a sustainable system in the long...

1. It could depend on market speed and volatility. If you're or will be in furious fast and volatile market and your intention is to ride the momentum, perhaps market orders will have more chance to get filled and don't miss a good trade. Despite the slipagge the momentum could compensate any...

As you must know there are a lot of historical data providers, such as Kinetick, IQ..etc; in my case, I'm trying to build a reliable E-mini S&P500 futures database; since my broker is interactivebrokers, is needed to get a historical data which data's behavior resembles with IB's one. The main...

No, it's more statistical ( conditional probabilities ), totally independent of market conditions.

It sounds you're very disciplined and objective, that's good, this is a hard business that doesn't allow disordered or emotional trades to go too much in the future. Keeping your trading flexible in amounts in order to low your risk is good. As human you'll have days of clear mind for trading...

You got me just curious about this: - When you say that you take your decisions with chartism and technical setups, is this through an algorithm ( automated trading program ) or manually ? - How do you know that always you are gonna get low risk? I'm glad your trading is that just great

It began its live trial with real money just with EURUSD, barely two month ago. Since it's a short time, I'd prefer to monitor the behavior with just one instrument, but it's totally transportable . Let's say around 17, with adjustment of +/- 4 Regards