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Wow!- Andre Vorster, I wish I could be this organised.

I just lazily dump them all in one folder, indicator, strategies and all and then let Windows10 File History back it up automatically to an external drive. When I want to find something I can never recall what I called it anyway so the neatness of my location is fairly irrelevant! It got even more confusing when I had to export every thing from my Demo and Real platforms and ended up with many duplicates. It was faster to save a duplicate than to compare and delete.

 

One day I will tidy it all up but right now other things always seem to need doing first. Most of the stuff saved is stuff that I tried but it failed and I am unlikely to revisit and also indicators that I tried but do not use (most of my strategies are price action based and not indicator based). Maybe I just need three folders with sub-folders for indicators and strategies. One folder would be ‘Tried it and don’t use it’, and another folder for ‘Still undecided or testing it’ and another for ‘Tried it and still use it’