Pathfinder Trading System

Reiner · Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:00:38 +0000

Hi guys, this topic is for all discussions related to the Pathfinder trading system strategies. The system based on four components that work perfectly together. signalline – instrument trend line based on two smoothed averages (Wilder and Time Series) breakout levels – previous daily, weekly and monthly high/lows in combination with fast and slow averages as filters because not every breakout is profitable saisonal behavior – position size will be boost with a multiplier for each month depending on the historical seasonal behavior smart money and position management – grid orders, maximal position size monitoring, superordinate stop loss/take profit, trailing stop and maximum holding periods are used mechanisms The Pathfinder breakout logic works well for many instruments with 24 hour quotes such as DAX, DOW, FTSE, Hang Seng, NIKKEI in 4 hours timeframe. All versions are optimized for an 10k Euro account. Pathfinder strategies offer a statistical advantage but are of course not a holy grail and there is no guarantee to make money with it. The systems are optimized for historical data and historical gains are not a guarantee to be successful in the future. I strictly recommend to adjust the position sizes to your personal account size and try first in demo mode. The results in life trading will differ from the backtest results. I also recommend to start in life trading with a small account size. Anyone can use the programs for free and at their own risk. Pathfinder is my private and fully transparent algorithmic trading project exclusively implemented for ProRealTime 10.3. The status is experimental and I don’t trade all the systems presented here. I would also like to thank all members who have helped to improve the system with their contributions. Please find below the last released Pathfinder trading system versions for suitable instruments. Dropbox Link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xyymvk6gscxbfbe/AABaOs9_ZExILA18HxKW9kdqa Best, Reiner 04.02.2018 Updated dropbox with new algos V7-FEB-2018 with automatic scaling for ASX, DAX, DOW, FTSE, GOLD, HS, NIKKEI, SAF and STXE (#post-61450) 08.01.2017 Checkout the results from 2017 (#post-56978) || introducing new PF algo category DAX-1H-V8 (#post-57005) || new algos in dropbox DAX-V7-2018 (#post-57521), DOW-V7-2018 (#post-57524) and HS-V7-2018 (#post-57528) 02.08.2017 Updated dropbox with new algos FTSE-V7 and Nikkei-V7 (#post-42223), ASX-V7 (#post-42249) and STXE-V7 (#post-42332) 31.07.2017 Updated dropbox with new algos DAX-V7-2, DOW-V7-2 and HS-V7-2 (#post-41811) 18.07.2017 Release V7 containing error fixes, improvements and new features for DAX-V7 (#post-40798) and DOW-V7 (#post-40880)

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01/08/2018 at 6:54 PM #57798

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Updated frontpage and dropbox.

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01/08/2018 at 7:11 PM #57799

Brage

Hello Reiner!

Nice to see you active here on the forum. Understand from the new versions that you still put a lot of time and hard work on Pathfinder which is much apreciated. On older versions you helped us who trade smaller accounts to downsize Pathfinder to lower risk. What parameters do you recommend for us to adjust on DAX V8 1H version?

Many thanks!

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01/08/2018 at 7:16 PM #57800

wp01

@Gianluca Albina,

As far as i know it doesn’t remember the loss. But on the picture you attached you show two different indices. Left the Dax 1€ and right the Dax 5€. You can not compare those.

I can confirm that on the Dax this morning the V7 version added 3 positions at 09.00 hours. The reason why it didn’t add the positions on the 5€ version

can be several. Is it live? Not enough money, not enough contracts in ProOrder. Not enough margin. ( 3positions x € 5 = around € 1K margin).

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01/08/2018 at 7:31 PM #57803

dajvop

@Gianluca Albino and @wp01

In backtest there is no difference between 1€ and 5€, but as you say Patrick, other factors may decide.

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01/08/2018 at 9:25 PM #57812

Gianluca

the 5€ is on the demo the 1€ is on real, in the demo account i have 30k found and no limitation by contract. dunnow

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01/09/2018 at 10:22 AM #57860

Vonasi

Not too shabby so far for V8 in this new year’s DAX rally. You may well be onto something Reiner. Unfortunately my beer and pizza money is still virtual.

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01/09/2018 at 10:35 AM #57864

wp01

I’m running DAX 1H V8 live and the positions are not closed yet.

According to the backtest they were closed at 08.00 hours.

Also the buying of the positions didn’t follow the BT yesterday. Mine bought every hour 1 position until 9 positions and the backtest

says 4 times 2 postions at 09.00, 10.00, 11.00 and 12.00 O’clock.

I have not changed anything in the positionsize of the code.

Anyone else with this issue?

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01/09/2018 at 11:01 AM #57875

dajvop

@wp01 same for me.

Eh, those 9 positions closed right now 🙂

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01/09/2018 at 11:07 AM #57876

wp01

Thanks David. I stopped them manually.

After that i reactivated the Dax 1H V8 again and just at 11 O’clock it bought again 1 position…..

Mmmm….could be of course, but if it keeps buying every hour the rest of the day it doesn’t seems right.

According to the BT it bought at 10.00 hours 2 positions. Looks the same as yesterday.

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01/09/2018 at 11:15 AM #57878

Vonasi

Oh dear…. it seems we have another case of backtest not matching reality. Is reality more profitable though – if so that could be a PRT first!

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01/09/2018 at 11:22 AM #58559

wp01

I stopped them manually so my results are not matching with yours. But it is not a big difference.

The results of dajvop should better match because he let it run longer till it closed at eleven.

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01/09/2018 at 11:26 AM #58561

Vonasi

The fact that the strategy behaviour is so different from demo to live is a little concerning. More cumulating trades usually means more drawdown at some point as the equal and opposite reaction to more profit at others.

Reiner is running it live so it will be interesting to see what his has been doing compared to demo.

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01/09/2018 at 11:36 AM #58562

wp01

It looks like there is an issue with the trendmultiplier. It is not working properly or not at all.

If you change that to 1 in the code it is shut off and the trades look more or less what has happened in live trading.

But with the multiplier to 1 it is still in postion.

As attached:

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01/09/2018 at 11:38 AM #58564

dajvop

Yes, that looks like my live run.

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01/09/2018 at 11:47 AM #58565

wp01

Indead, and it is not in position as i said earlier, because of the 1H delay you see the closure at twelve.

Now we know the cause, who knows the solution 🙂

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