Zorro version 2.15 was released yesterday. New features: communication between Zorro instances, more order types, more flexible bar generation, and many more. The full list can be found here: url

New free Zorro version for automated trading

A lot has happened and the Zorro platform has grown a lot since I last posted here. The current Zorro version is 2.12. It is meanwhile quite different to the early versions and got a focus on machine learning and trading with neural network ...

New free Zorro version for automated trading

This is a very old thread with a very early Zorro version, and I don't know if it is still up to date. Sure you can use any number of time frames. For an example, look here: url

Automated Trading & Backtesting Course - Part 2: System Development

A short series on the blog, about systematically developing trading systems: Build Better Strategies - Part 1 Build Better Strategies - Part 2: Model-Based Systems Build Better Strategies - Part 3: The Development Process Enjoy!

The Financial Hacker

Here's the MMI code by Renexxx: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| iMMI.mq4 | //| renexxxx | //| http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/ | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ ...

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You’ve developed a new trading system. All tests produced impressive results. So you started it live. And are down by $2000 after 2 months. What now? Carry on in cold blood, or pull the brakes in panic? There are several reasons that can cause a ...

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Is scalping complete nonsense? Or can it really work under some circumstances? I've tested quantitatively the pros and cons of trading on very short time frames, and got a surprising result. It's posted on my blog: url Enjoy! jcl

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The Market Meanness Index was now tested with 900 trend trading strategies. It improved most of them and increased the profit factor of the best from about 2.5 to 3.5. The article and all source code for building trend following systems with the MMI ...

The Financial Hacker

I've posted a new article on the blog about the Market Meanness Index. This is an algorithm that can improve in some cases even double the profit expectancy of trend following systems. The Market Meanness Index tells whether the market is currently ...

The Financial Hacker

New article on the Financial Hacker: White's Reality Check. This standard test of statistical significance was applied to 900 simple trend trading strategies for determining once and for all if a simple way of trend trading really works. You can ...

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No, we do not have any trading strategies on myfxbook. If you're looking for a get-rich-quick robot: you can find tons of them on many websites, and certainly many with "proofs" that you will get 150% per year. Zorro is not a robot, but a software ...

New free Zorro version for automated trading

New version: Zorro 1.24! Virtual Hedging Mode now minimizes the number of open trades by closing trades partially if required. exitLong/Short can now close trades partially. TrailSpeed raises the stop faster before breakeven, this way preventing ...

New free Zorro version for automated trading

The problem is: They should of course have a trade explorer, but that is not enough. It should also run a sufficient time. And they should explain the theory behind their system and show a comparison of their explorer with their simulation. You can ...

Vendors who don't show a trade explorer are not credible

Well the first step would be consistently making $100 out of $50. Lacking that ability, the $ 1 mil will stay elusive. Each trader forum has at least 15 threads where someone announced to make $ 1 million. So far all those threads ended with about $ ...

$50 to 1 million.

Why do people always want a million? What's wrong with $100?

$50 to 1 million.

I think that this thread is not a failure, it is rather quite interesting as it shows a common phenomenon - being fooled by randomness. The interesting thing is that the Pamm guy really believed he could double the account every day. Otherwise he ...

Project $1.0m (One Million Dollars)