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• 08/10/2017 at 7:53 PM #42959
  Despair

  Did your proorder come online again? All my live strategies stopped and open positions were closed a few hours ago. Now I can login to PRT again and have charting and so on but proorder is still down.

   

  …now it came online again!

  

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  08/10/2017 at 8:04 PM #42960
  dajvop

  @wp01, I have been running several different sector algos in demo during the summer with good results and now I am live with some. At the moment Health, Live Cattle and Tech are running.

  Yes, the drawdown is horrible, so one needs quite a lot of capital.

  

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  08/10/2017 at 8:55 PM #42967
  ozz87

  My stop for corn lost me about 200 € more than the stop…maybe because it went down so fast.

  

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  08/10/2017 at 9:24 PM #42970
  wp01

  David,

  Do you for those three sectors an monthly optimization or do you use the yearly as they were posted?

  Thanks.

  

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  08/10/2017 at 9:34 PM #42971
  wp01

  Yes Oskar, commodities can be a bumpy ride. Down about 4% in hour like it is nothing.

  I can assure you that almost all commodities have these kind of days up and down. Nice if you are in the right direction. Not so nice if you

  are in the opposite direction.

  My stop/losses are at 343,3 and 343,7. I’m still in the race, so what happened with yours?

  At 18.00 hours there was a gap down. If your stop was in that gap than the position will be executed somewhere in the first available price plus the

  slippage. I guess this wasn’t a guaranteed stop loss.

  

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  08/10/2017 at 9:56 PM #42973
  ozz87

  wp01: Since I had 2 positions with my low capital I changed the stop loss. No, not guaranteed. Oh well, I’m learning the hard way how this works 😉 with positions less risky I won’t change the stops ofc.

  

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  08/11/2017 at 4:58 AM #42985
  dajvop

  @Patrick, I use yearly as with Pathfinder 4h.

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  08/12/2017 at 6:54 AM #43047
  wp01

  Oil US Crude Aug2.

  Oil Brent Crude aug2 with accumualtion.

   

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  08/12/2017 at 7:03 AM #43052
  ozz87

  Another newbie question: What happens with the positions for example PA -sept 17 if it continues after august? Will they close?

  

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  08/12/2017 at 7:13 AM #43053
  wp01

  When the september future expires on august 30th it will be rolledover by IG according to attached information.

  You have to check the rollover option in your account. The picture is in Dutch, but you’ll probably understand where to find it.

   

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  08/12/2017 at 7:51 AM #43060
  ozz87

  wp01: Thanks will check my settings. I’ve been to Amsterdam recently but didn’t pick up the language 😉

  

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  08/12/2017 at 12:28 PM #43073
  wp01

  Corn Aug2 short.

  remark: the september future expires at august 30th. No new future available yet.

   

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  08/12/2017 at 12:32 PM #43076
  ozz87

  wp01: Was thinking about using PA like I wrote…better to wait for the new future, or let it roll over? Or when does the new appear?

  

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  08/12/2017 at 12:54 PM #43078
  wp01

  Oskar,

  Your PA shows good results. The new future will in most cases added one or two days before expiring the old future.

  When you are in position at moment of expiration, the position will be rolled over to the next period. Unfortunately the code is not working anymore and will be

  stopped in ProOrder. The new position is only rolledover in IG and not in PRT. A new future will also give different BT/DD and results in PRT.

  You have a few options:

  When there is no position triggered at august 30th. i suggest you cancel it in ProOrder.

  When you are in position at August 30th. and you are in a profit you can take your profit and run. When the position shows a loss, you can roll it over and try to make

  something out of it. You have to close it manualy either way, because it is not supported by a code anymore. When you roll over, you have to check the stoploss and takeprofit

  in the IG software because prices are not the same with a new future.

   

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  08/12/2017 at 1:18 PM #43082
  ozz87

  wp01: Ok thanks. Really appreciate your advice:) Will run a few systems with max 2 contracts for aug2 (starting on 1 on each), only ones with backtest dd of max 500ish EU. Last month very few positions has been taken, but I won’t risk running more anyway since they could all do it suddenly 😉

  

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