Posts made by TipsyWisdom

@r1ley

instead of copying the letters of your shared link, click it to open a new window. Then paste that whole web link

@bk7 lol...it only takes 1 custom block to made 100 errors with a single missing semicolon

@l-andorrà

thats purely personal preference. The undisputed great, Larry Williams is quoted as saying that he doesn't use any history over a year old.

More and more the market becomes algorithmically driven and it doesn't move in the same way that it used to is the ultimate basis for why you don't need to conquer the previous 10 years.

Just to further attest to that, I created an EA purely based on the statistical data over the last 5 years. I tried to run that as an EA....using hours of the day, days of the week, and months of the year to tell me when to long or short for that day and when to do it. It looks great in backtest. total garbage in forward test.

The objectives of the markets are the same, but it doesn't gyrate like it used to, the people who play the game aren't the same. Hell, JP Chase Morgan bank was barred from trading Forex for the last year or 3? One of the largest banks in the USA....probably the world....that bar was lifted a few days ago. They will significantly change the playing field adding a new dealer to the scene.

@tipsywisdom ^

updated link with those changes?

updated link?

@bk7 https://help.darwinex.com/how-to-create-a-darwin

@jordanmarvelley that sir is called a suicidal strategy.

but I think you would do something like, check last closed position, in that block you can specify how it was closed, as well as if it was long or short. Then just place the opposite trade order below that block

i hope he comes here to upvote your reply @seb-0 and says nothing else for months.

@jordanmarvelley

lol my man with the zoomed in cellphone pic.

SHFT+WIN+S = screenshot. You then click and drag your mouse over the area to copy. Then paste it here with CTRL+V

WIN = Windows key

@jordanmarvelley ah yea, definitely the problem.

click that link that pops up, it will open a new window with your current project

@jordanmarvelley 1 pip sounds nice, but until you watch how the market gyrates in real time you will see sometimes that it moves up 5 pips and down 5 pips in a single candle before continuing in the expected direction. Now combine that with slippage, spread...its even greater.

@pintto you've piqued my interest. It too is free, and that's good to at least look at and see what its about!

it would depend on the strategy.

1 final food for thought, if you are testing and building on all ticks, all ticks isn't reality. You will never get all ticks trading on a live platform.

@q8carpenter

I agree, but to a point. If its a strategy that is truly winning, it will at least have an up trend no matter where you run it is my experience. When data varies between brokers, its normally in the form of wicks being longer or shorter. A member of my group one day will have 40% quality running an EA, and then 2 days later, a different EA but the same pair and time frame will produce 99% data quality. Kinda just ones of those things you dont really know or think about until you test it across many platforms.

I'll go a step further with a suggestion and example:

Darwinex as a broker platform, at least just for testing and building purposes. https://www.darwinex.com/algorithmic-trading/tick-data

They are a platform that invites traders to come use their platform because they themselves are also algo people. They also have an incentive to give you quality data, because people can build bots, become a "darwin," and make money for ourselves by Darwinex investing in us.

As I said before, a broker that prides themselves on their data. These guys have down to the minute data for most pairs back to Sep 2017. When I read that I was like.."wait a minute," immediately I stopped trying to build bots further in history than Jan 1 2018 as its largely a waste of time. I wont go into the reasoning and theory of it all, but its advice that should be taken.

After I build bots in Darwinex, as long as its a winning strat I have no problems testing it on my broker AAFX, or any of the other brokers of people in my group. I think recently I saw the backtest results of one on IC Markets and while it didn't match mine specifically and slightly more DD, it was still a winning strat while his data was 60%? if I remember right.

In the end though, its all up to the user, personal preference. I dont mess with custom symbols and importing data. If that tickles your fancy, theres a free option called Tick Story.

also, use MT5 only.

@raiderspaz find a broker that prides themselves on their historical data keeping is my suggestion.

id suggest just purchasing the full year to make it worth the effort and conversion rate

@arivazhagan-p as far as your payment to him. Maybe crypto?