Breakout Strategy for the Dax and Dow Open – Trader Tom

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  • #181359

    Yes, phoentzs is right, you should use a Trailing Stop code snippet,you can search this forum or the Snippet Library.

     

     

    #181365

    Hi, murre87 I thought I would write you a tweaked BOT, modified around stop and entry to improve with a little 5 min direction to help!

    Anyone feel free to use or improve, I am going to post this to the library

    My results are a little bit diffrent. The spread in that program is wrong. Spread is 1.2 (for german user). But also with 1p spread, the results are diffrent.

    #181380
    smp

    Thanks for the feedback, guys.  I reviewed and adjusted the code to include a 1.2 spread (Thanks, VinzentVega for the reminder), so don’t add more spread when testing!

    I have reduced the losses, improved the risk management.

    Again tested on V10.3 using 100,000 units

    Test pic of tick by tick on and off

     

    #181386

    1m bar backtest, stake = 1 (for easier comparison to other algos)

    TBT, no additional spread

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    #181393

    € 1 per trade profit on average?

    #181396
    smp

    I don’t see that as relevant at all.  Risk and therefore should be based on the bank size and not on pip size.  My bench for testing is £10k bank size and my base risk is 1% of the bank.

    The 1% is a constant.

    Pip size is not

    #181397

    It also looks good in 2m

    #181399

    I don’t see that as relevant at all. Risk and therefore should be based on the bank size and not on pip size. My bench for testing is £10k bank size and my base risk is 1% of the bank. The 1% is a constant.

    Yes, but for backtesting and for the comparability its allays better to use 1 pip/point.  I can immediately see how many points the setup is generating, and don´t have to convert. Its more usefull for all viewers

    #181401

    I meant something else. You invest 10 € and with a 50% hit rate you get 11 € … so one euro profit per trade. that’s not much when you consider that this is a back test and the slippage is on top of that.

    #181403
    smp

    That’s not what the back says.  Plus your hypothesis is flawed, sorry.  It’s all-around risk management and ROI.

    The correct backtesting identifies over a 69% hit rate with a return of over 1:1.7

    If I gave someone £1 and they gave me back £2.7 I would take that all day (don’t forget the £1 you risk you don’t spend

    The strategy is from someone else, it did not work and so I wrote a programme to deliver one that would work and based on the loose requirement – let’s not forget this.

    Personally, my BOTs deliver… worst case 20% *12 trades per year (88% win rate) to high frequently BOTs delivering 45% per year.  Mixing these bots (over 12 active BOTs these do very nicely)

    This early bird bot potentially trades  144 per year (roughly) with a potential outturn of 80%+  On a £10k account that’s £8k or  £55 per trade!  No matter what you are doing

    Can you trade manually, and consistently with these ratios, most cannot!

     

    #181404
    smp

    VinzentVega 2 minutes does look good 👍🏻

    I never looked at that time frame

    #181407
    smp

    2 mins, interesting.  Can you post your code as MTF does not support 2 mins

    It would be interesting to see what you have done?

    #181409

    2 mins, interesting. Can you post your code as MTF does not support 2 mins

    It would be interesting to see what you have done?

    Pls find attached the file.

    #181413
    smp

    Thanks for the file.  The strategy actually loses money!

    Also, it’s a completely different strategy!  The strategy is a break put of 8:00, not 9 am!  We are discussing the 8:00 breakout using the 7am to 8am timeframe, and not the 8am to 9am as you have!  I thought something was wrong.! Thanks for sharing anyway.

    I wrote a 9am breakout also like yours and has 100% trading record at 5 trades per 3-month cycle, happy to stick with this

    Thanks for sharing though

    #181414

    For those that are not afraid of slippage, take a look at Hang Seng at the open

    Did some breakouts testing on that beast, but gave it up

    Too brutal for me

     

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