Traders' Roundtable

After accidentally stumbling over this interesting thread here I was reminded of my own random entry/exit-experiments. After all, I'm pretty sure sluggo made a mistake in his tests.

As he found out (correctly) the trading-rule-set has to overcome a certain annual growth rate just to cover ...

I'm not "forcing myself" to create intraday-systems. My business partners expect me to create intraday-systems, so I'll create some. It's as simple as that.

Your right, not to trade is also an option. Not to try something is always an option, if the task appears to be difficult. I'll keep that in ...

Thanks sluggo. I've gone through the user guide. From what I found there I rather think that what's called intraday-testing here is not what I'm thinking of.
So far I've been working with Metatrader mostly. MT supports intraday-testing in a way, that all backtests are done on emulated tick data. In ...

So far I haven't tried out TB yet because at the moment all of my systems are intraday-systems. Now I've seen on the TB-website that TB Pro and Builder can be used to test intraday-systems.
Are there any restrictions or does TB support intraday-backtests just the way it does support backtests on ...

...makes a killing in some.
Depends on what "some" means for you.
2?
20?

The question could also be: how close am I allowed/able/willing to get to curve fitting while designing a system? This is where emotions (like greed) may come into play. Try to leave away the emotions. Don't ask yourself ...

I just tried to reanimate this thread.

I'm currently working on an intra-day trendfollowing system. The basis of the entry is a chart pattern which per se rises the profit factor above 1. At the moment I'm trying to find a suitable exit strategy.

I was also considering to enhance this system with a counter trend-component. Are there ...