Mattias wrote:

During this year I have continued the process with demo and live. And I only have 3-4 strategies that have survived and is running live. My intention has always been to do this myself, never buying anything from others.

Thank you for your honesty. It is really nice to read.

Mattias wrote:

But when I am looking I can’t find anything that is at least as good as I have come up with, I am a total beginner, and these guys are professionals!

In the end you can see that I said exactly the same, however, with quite some holding back because we really don’t know. Fact seems to be :
You know about trading. You also learned to deal with AutoTrading. You know what to look at (in your program) from the perspective of trading itself. N.b.: I can say this because I know how much this weighs in for myself.

It is you who knows how difficult it is and it is you who can not imagine that others (from a commercial perspective) will outpace you. At least that is how I look at it. And mind you please, I am working on it for three years now. And I am still not running something live.
Professionals ? no. The professionals you envision need merely to be (very) creative coders (programmers) than traders. Of course they need to be traders too (as told) but when they can’t program with a creative mind, it will end up nowhere.

Anecdotical : This summer holidays my son wanted to learn the autotrading stuff too (he can trade just the same). This week, well into his holidays, he seems to have his first “ever winning” strategy, with me as a teacher and him as the creative mind (it seems senseless to let him make the same as I do). This is near 100% about turning your creativity into something which is “programmable”. It also is a lot about how the most gains emerge. Is it shorter trades and how to achieve that ? Is it boring longer trades with deeper SL’s always being afraid the Loss will occur ? Is it waiting for the higher profit which may not be reached and instead turns into a loss ? … below you see my deliberate LESS earning “always winning” strategy which these days is still boring because of low (holidays) volatility. But for me it is about the fun (ha ! another order entered !). This one normally does 250 trades per month which is 10+ per day and there is something to look at.

What you could do, is utilizing the fact that you have a winning strategy. How ? … same as I do it;
Once you have the winning strategy, it is the most easy to influence the profit (it is easier to compare results after applied changes). In your case with the DAX (or similar) you could focus on better trailing profit. However, I assume you first know the behavior of this instrument. You will know what happens each day. You also know when that happens mostly. So for example, my latest improvement is “taking care” that my Strategy is NOT in the market (no position) at those times you can predict what the instrument will do. It will do “something” severe, but in which direction you don’t know in advance. But, that is what your program takes care of (enter in the correct direction). Thus, prerequisite is that your program is good at that, generally. Next take care that (say) a couple of hours in advance of the happening it won’t trade, so that it *thus* will trade at that happening.
The result ? 100% winning trades in that time period, whatever I do. Net I win on the other trades not occurring because they may lose once in a while.

Improvements seem infinite (up to your creativity), but you first need a winning strategy. And you seem to have that.

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Another approach :

With the experience of your own manual trades, you should be able to have the same ratios and all with AutoTrading, compared with what you do manually. Now, I don’t attempt any DAX AutoTrading Strategies, but if I look at the number of losses I apparently (!) accept *and* knowing my total profit on this instrument, I thus could try to make the same with an Auto Strategy. Thus for my manual trades (the screenshot is from the past year) :

• When do I bail out when at loss ? (apparently quite often)
• When do I bail out when having profit ? (the question would merely be WHY)
• When do I actually add more position ? (for me this is key to making a nice profit)
• Do I also remove position for safety ? (sell a few but not all – could be Friday night)
• Etc.

I think I already know that answering these questions is the most difficult because for me this is merely “market” related. If Merkel locks down Germany, that undoubtedly will do something. If the (Dutch) AEX rises and rises and Germany does not come along (experience from the past few weeks), what actually is the matter ? and what about my “strategy” that the AEX always follows the DAX ? something changed … why ?
So this is all “news” related and this is impossible to put in a program. If PRT only would listen finally and allow us to look at other instruments from within the Strategy we run … How (more) dynamical that would be …

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