To add a few humble thoughts… I used to experiment a lot with all kinds of indicators. Often with SMAs… often in time units such as 1 minute… I often tried to incorporate my preferences, such as exiting the trade daily, or something similar into my systems. Yes… it works for a while, until the market structure changes a bit… then you notice how over-optimized these systems were. Today I mainly only use range breakout systems… often without any indicators at all. I either orient myself on daily marks such as Dhigh/dlow or highest[x](high). I also no longer set take profits, but rather work with trailing and/or time exits within a day. This way a good trade runs as far as possible and is not cut off by a take profit. As a second category of systems, I use mean reverses of all kinds in high time units such as H4. In my opinion, the most important thing is the choice of market. For me personally, DAX, for example, is quite difficult to trade. I only use SP500 and NASDAQ.

Go with the big money… ideally SP500 only long. That way you’re on the safe side. No matter whether scalp, swing or mean reverse.

phoentzs wrote:

Go with the big money… ideally SP500 only long. That way you’re on the safe side. No matter whether scalp, swing or mean reverse.

I like your tips Phoentzs. Will have a look into it. But before that. Do you have a favorite trailingstopploss-code?

SweTrade, no Cred to me for that trailing stoploss. Got it here: https://www.prorealcode.com/prorealtime-trading-strategies/vectorial-dax-m5/ Intressting Ideas. Do u use MTF? Do u use 1 priceaction and then filters on higher timeframes or what have u found that works best? Any favorite timeframe and indice?

Monochrome wrote:

Noise A major issue we face is market noise. How do we code what humans can easily see? We can visually distinguish trending from ranging markets dynamically, but coding this is difficult because it’s always fixed. I started experimenting with entries on very close timeframes, like 1 minute and 55 seconds, to confirm signals. If it works on 1 minute, it should work on 55 seconds. I find it helps to filter out some bad or sporadic signals.

How do you combine 1 minute and 55sec in same strategy? Its not multiples of eachother and doesnt work as MTF

SweTrade wrote:

SnorreDK wrote:

Do u use MTF? Do u use 1 priceaction and then filters on higher timeframes or what have u found that works best? Any favorite timeframe and indice?

Sometimes I use MTF, but mainly for a simple longtrend, like above daily SMA200. I havent had much success with implementing a strategy workflow with MTF in it unfortunlately. Do you have any tips on how to use MTF in your favor? Nasdaq seem to be the easiest to create strategies for me. Simple long trend-following. Also I have some for DAX and SP500. 1-5 minute timeframe. What are you trading mainly and what are your best strategy tips?

When I create an algorithm, I always start with CumulateOrders = False to prevent the accumulation of multiple orders. To ensure the algorithm’s robustness, I also test it with CumulateOrders = True. If the algorithm still produces a smooth equity curve and avoids significant losses during backtesting, I know I’m on the right track with a sustainable strategy.

ahoj! difficult topic… while everybody starting with trading wants them, to give “tips” assumes that one who is giving them is doing something/everything “right”. but it’s kind of trap, even those who might be earning money trading/doing things right, might be never, and I mean really never, sure that it will continue. so it can be considered kind of pure arrogance giving away “tips” to others about how to arrange automatic trading, or trading in general. Still I decided to write something about it, hopefully in a bit un-conventional way, with possibly un-usual content, still refererring to Monochrome’s headlines “entries/noise/exits/backtesting”. Entries when you design a setup, and here in particular the entry price point, think about “why the HELL market (which are thousands of market participants with huge money in the pockets in sum) should PAY ME for taking this particular risk/trade at THIS pricepoint??!!”. while trading, we are taking (huge!) risks, and we are expecting market to pay us for our effort. is market rawarding risk-taking? yes. is market rewarding taking EVERY risk? absolutely no. endless losing accounts are witnesses. there is nobody, really nobody in the market who is SO KIND just waiting for the opportunity to give me his/her money. exactly opposite is the case – everybody is just eager to take my money, every day, every second. so if I am as trader expecting a reward, I have to take risks for which others will be willing to pay and possibly will be willing to pay a lot. do I expect that “market” (again – market are thousands of participants with millions and billions in the pockets in sum…) to PAY ME  because I am taking a position at a pricepoint where moving avarage with period x crosses a moving avarage with period y?  or because that particular pricepoint represents some fibonacci-level? or because some “oscilator” ticks up at exactly that moment? does the market really pay me/ANYBODY for that? so what kind of entries do I need to take in order to get payed for the enormous riks I am taking? this have be pricepoints where OTHERS are kind of forced to get out, because they are LOSING and possibly losing a lot, losing so much that they cannot afford to lose even more. Exits what’s valid for entries, as indicated above, is valid for exits more or less. at least for profit taking. one needs to take profits at the moments when “everybody else” is kind of forced to take the opposite position. not when moving avarage with period x crosses moving avarage with period y or when parabolic sar  or other magic profit “trailing” system tells to do so. market does not “know” about it and does not pay that much for such absurd concepts. Noise @Monochrome you are pointing it out as major issue, and by that you mean diffiuculty of distinguishing if market is in some trending / not-trending conditions. you tell humans can see/distinguish trends easily while coding of all that is kind difficult. my “tip” is – to completely ignore trending conditions. humans just believe that they can see them. yep, they kind of can “see” them when it’s too late for any action – they see them with the hindsight only, and even what they see is question of power of their own imagination/interpretation. MoneyManagement (MM) Monochrome kind of includes it in the “Exit” topic. I separate it. by MM I mean basically position sizing. one has to avoid over-trading / too much risk-taking even if one’s basic strategy has positive expectancy. one has to be able psychologically and financially to affort certain level of risk taking/losses, and first of all, one has to make kind of sure that non of risk taking/losses leads one to bancruptcy. Etries&Exits&MM Non of them is more important than the others. One has to see / approach them simultaniously. Does not matter how perfect is one or two of them, if you mess up the third one, you are screwed. Backtesting / Optimization Be afraid of it, be very afraid. I mean the “optimization”. my “tip” here is not to use optimization tools for maximizing/minimizing some performance parameters of system, but mostly for testing out robustness of system, its sensitivity for changes of parameters/variables. this kind of testing out should tell one first of all IF a parameter is worth to be used at all or is it crap and has to be rather skipped. a variable is quite sure crap, if relative small changes of it’s value affect system performance big way. All what’s done “correct” with Entries&Exits&MM can be easily destroyed by “optimization” of some crazy parameters which should be not part of system at all. have fun trading! justisan