Today's trades. May have to adjust the Nasdaq range size criteria cause I missed an opportunity there this morning.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Good morning all! EA came through with two shorts today on the S&P500 and Dow Jones. Nasdaq didn't get triggered for some reason. Maybe I gotta reset the EA. EDIT: Nasdaq short didnt trigger cause I'm using a range size filter. So the size of the ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Today's trades. I'm testing a version of the EA that measures the range size and closes the position at a certain indicated time of the day. So for example today's trades on the Nasdaq futures show a position stopped out, then another position ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Hi everyone! Planning on getting back to this project this week. I had been working on another project that you can see here: url Going to be doing a lot of back testing on break out strategy. The goal is to reduce losses and drawdown, avoiding ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Hi guys, here's an update on the dashboard I had previously commented I was working on. Still fixing bugs but at least I got it to trade.

Trading system using relative strength

Hi everyone, I'm working on a dashboard based of currency strength. I started using it last night and this morning.

CCFp weekly signals (set and forget basket trading)

Today's trades! Losses on all 3 U.S. indexes. Volatility and uncertainty in the markets continues. This is a good time to stay on the sidelines and rework the strategy.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Hey everyone, here are today's trades. Nothing on Dow Jones but there was an opportunity there.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Rough week. A lot of volatility and markets are just dropping all together. For times like this is why I'm trying to improve this strategy. I've already seen that the strategy can perform when markets are in an uptrend but I gotta make it perform in ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Yeah I know that's strange. But I think it's because there are too few trades. The sharpe ratio (if I'm not mistaken) needs a quite high number of trades for it to give an accurate result.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Yeah exactly, that's kinda why I dont 100% like the Python backtesting. Cause it's based off of a CSV file that show's open-high-close-low instead of each tick. So yeah you're right within that 5 minutes A LOT can happen. BUT the strategy that I ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

This is a back test of the following: #USSPX500: 5 minute candles, from November 2022 to March 11th 2026 (yesterday). Why from november? 'Cause it's the most reliable data I can get in MT5. Conditions: Break Out Range: 16:30 - 16:44 (15min OR) IF > ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Same here. And that's not to invalidate W0lfram's work or anything. I just kinda lost it track of it. So this is the post that W0lfram is referring to: url My train of thought was, well what if we can go back and see what's the most common thing ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Today's trades! Faked out on S&P500 and Nasdaq. I saw the market turning and turned my positions as well. Managed to make a little over break even. All done today. Nothing on the Dow Jones

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Ok, so from Python I've moved momentarily to MT5 and just testing out a few things. The graph below is just for humor 'cause...what the hell?! hahaha

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Morning all! No trades today, with the volatility in the markets recently I'll just sit on cash (wont trade) and work on making this trading system much better. A new update, I was able to get a version of the EA with session sizes. The session ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Today's trades. Two losses, Two wins. Small loss for the day. No trades on the Dow Jones, EA didn't trigger. There's something I gotta get fixed on that. In the mean time I'll continue with the Python and statistics work.

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

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Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Yes! That's exactly the one!

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)

Hey guys to answer and reply to y'all's questions and comments about the Python stuff I've been posting. Remember I am no coder or programmer, I'm doing all this using Claude. @amvt: "Assuming it was vanilla Monte-Carlo and you were not utilizing ...

Why Smart Traders Watch the First Hour (Initial Balance Guide)