ATS Results

Testing indicators can be a big waste of time, but its a necessary evil. The ATS kicked butt again today. I turned it off 30min before the close.

42 Trades: 28 wins, 14 losses. Net P/L= $391

I lowered the stop from 24pts to 18pts mid-day. I also messed up by not letting the ATS exit a trade with its original exit signal(I put in a different exit signal mid-day), instead of 100-140pts it only got 74pts.

ATS Results

Testing indicators can be a big waste of time, but its a necessary evil. The ATS kicked butt again today. I turned it off 30min before the close.

42 Trades: 28 wins, 14 losses. Net P/L= $391

I lowered the stop from 24pts to 18pts mid-day. I also messed up by not letting the ATS exit a trade with its original exit signal(I put in a different exit signal mid-day), instead of 100-140pts it only got 74pts.

ATS Results

The ATS had another positive day. Making it positive each day this week. I ran the ATS all day today and it took 44 trades. 26 wins, 17 losses, and 1 Breakeven. the avg. win was 90 and the avg loss was -100. I did move the stop a few times during the day on 3 or 4 trades, and I shouldn't have because the trades would have worked better without my intervention. Next week I will be testing out a different exit strategy because as you will see from the Maximum Favorable Excursion Stats, the ATS could've made a lot more pts per trade if the profit target/trailing stop was optimized. I do agree that there is no perfect parameters and that what works one day will not work the next but there is still a lot of work to do on these ATS signals. The buy signal around 12:30 should have gotten 200 to 250 pts easy but only got 11 pts because the trailing stop was too tight. I'm thinking of changing the exit signal parameters for different time periods of the day because the first hour and last hour will be better suited to exit trades based on my exit signals as opposed to my trailing stop method. I'm happy to hear that people are trying the ATS out on there own and having positive results. I look forward to sharing ideas on automated trading and the signals the ATS makes. Also, ustream has been having problems the last 2 days, so it is likely I will be staying with justin.tv until uStream gets its act together. I did broadcast on both channels today, but I'm planning on making justin.tv the primary live video feed as long as they keep there servers running with no problems.

ATS Results

The ATS had another positive day. Making it positive each day this week. I ran the ATS all day today and it took 44 trades. 26 wins, 17 losses, and 1 Breakeven. the avg. win was 90 and the avg loss was -100. I did move the stop a few times during the day on 3 or 4 trades, and I shouldn't have because the trades would have worked better without my intervention. Next week I will be testing out a different exit strategy because as you will see from the Maximum Favorable Excursion Stats, the ATS could've made a lot more pts per trade if the profit target/trailing stop was optimized. I do agree that there is no perfect parameters and that what works one day will not work the next but there is still a lot of work to do on these ATS signals. The buy signal around 12:30 should have gotten 200 to 250 pts easy but only got 11 pts because the trailing stop was too tight. I'm thinking of changing the exit signal parameters for different time periods of the day because the first hour and last hour will be better suited to exit trades based on my exit signals as opposed to my trailing stop method. I'm happy to hear that people are trying the ATS out on there own and having positive results. I look forward to sharing ideas on automated trading and the signals the ATS makes. Also, ustream has been having problems the last 2 days, so it is likely I will be staying with justin.tv until uStream gets its act together. I did broadcast on both channels today, but I'm planning on making justin.tv the primary live video feed as long as they keep there servers running with no problems.

ATS work in progress

The ATS is coming along nicely. My current problems are trying to find the best parameters on Bracket Trader for setting the trailing stop and profit protection offsets. Most of the trade signals were correct, but some of the good trades got stopped out around breakeven from the trailing stop getting hit. The question that I will have to continue to test for is how wide of a trailing stop will be most profitable at locking in winning trades without getting stopped out before the move has completed its move.

ATS work in progress

The ATS is coming along nicely. My current problems are trying to find the best parameters on Bracket Trader for setting the trailing stop and profit protection offsets. Most of the trade signals were correct, but some of the good trades got stopped out around breakeven from the trailing stop getting hit. The question that I will have to continue to test for is how wide of a trailing stop will be most profitable at locking in winning trades without getting stopped out before the move has completed its move.

Automated Trading System Trade Review

Today I ran one of my trading systems on ES. I was surprised to see it positive considering it had 25 losses and only 10 wins. I was glad to see the avg. profit three times bigger than the avg. loss. I set each trade to have a 1pt hard stop on each trade with an exit based off a signal or an 8pt limit target.
I'm still working on a few things but I've been making pretty good progress in determining the best stops for this system. Many of the trades were winners of 3pts of more, only to be stopped out because I set the "exit signal" to far. I also got stopped out on a few trades because I had a time stop set to breakeven after 3 minutes. I will likely get rid of the time stop. I've noticed the majority of the really good trades are winners immediately even with the ATS's crappy entries. Most good trades don't have more than 3 ticks of heat and are in the black within the first 15 seconds. Almost all of the bad trades are stopped out within 10-40 seconds. I will need to work on the entry method for the system and try buying on the bid and selling on the ask instead of using all market orders.

Below you can see the Trade log from bracket trader, the alert log from quotetracker, and some of the signals the ATS took off the ES chart.

Automated Trading System Trade Review

Today I ran one of my trading systems on ES. I was surprised to see it positive considering it had 25 losses and only 10 wins. I was glad to see the avg. profit three times bigger than the avg. loss. I set each trade to have a 1pt hard stop on each trade with an exit based off a signal or an 8pt limit target.
I'm still working on a few things but I've been making pretty good progress in determining the best stops for this system. Many of the trades were winners of 3pts of more, only to be stopped out because I set the "exit signal" to far. I also got stopped out on a few trades because I had a time stop set to breakeven after 3 minutes. I will likely get rid of the time stop. I've noticed the majority of the really good trades are winners immediately even with the ATS's crappy entries. Most good trades don't have more than 3 ticks of heat and are in the black within the first 15 seconds. Almost all of the bad trades are stopped out within 10-40 seconds. I will need to work on the entry method for the system and try buying on the bid and selling on the ask instead of using all market orders.

Below you can see the Trade log from bracket trader, the alert log from quotetracker, and some of the signals the ATS took off the ES chart.