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@Skate just a quick question and maybe this should not be directed to you but to the readers of your thread who are looking for education by following your trades.
Question - What are you learning when Skate publishes a list of Exploration Signals ?
1. Are you reverse engineering trades on a chart to see conditions for entry / exit?
2. Are you learning how to place a trade with your broker?
3. Are you not learning anything at all and just blindly following a good system trader?
4. Other?
I don't really like posting anything that can be deemed negative or condescending but I do truly wonder what people are learning here as I will be honest that I look at option 1 and only option 1 to see how my system(s) can be improved.
@Skate I believe that I have said this before but I will say it again - I do really appreciate your work and giving back to the members of ASF, as I have learnt a lot and while you keep posting I will continue to learn so thanks again.
Cheers
Trav
starting to see glimses of how others jump on price action early in the trend as the number of shared trades piles up.
@Skate just a quick question and maybe this should not be directed to you but to the readers of your thread who are looking for education by following your trades.
Question - What are you learning when Skate publishes a list of Exploration Signals ?
1. Are you reverse engineering trades on a chart to see conditions for entry / exit?
2. Are you learning how to place a trade with your broker?
3. Are you not learning anything at all and just blindly following a good system trader?
4. Other?
I don't really like posting anything that can be deemed negative or condescending but I do truly wonder what people are learning here as I will be honest that I look at option 1 and only option 1 to see how my system(s) can be improved.
@Skate I believe that I have said this before but I will say it again - I do really appreciate your work and giving back to the members of ASF, as I have learnt a lot and while you keep posting I will continue to learn so thanks again.
Cheers
Trav
Yum, a new strategy to watch. Sounds fascinating. Where's my popcorn?
Presumably you're still have other layers of trailing stops and filters in addition the RSI "engine" Skate?
Interesting about you stopping Daily trading. Was wondering last year if you'd eventually transition into shorter timeframes, or how it might be affecting your trading/life/family balance having so many strategies on the go at once.
It has been very educational watching yourself and Peter2 trading both daily and weekly and giving insights from time to time on what you both see as the pros and cons for the extra work. Daily isn't a realistic or fun proposition for me holding down a day job and keeping up with a family, but its somehow reassuring that weekly timeframe trading isn't missing out on any great proportion of possible returns.
Hi Skate & others, Following on Trav's question regarding Skate's follow along strategies and opportunities for learning. I am new to trading during 2020 and while I haven't posted much as yet, I have been reading throughout the year and have found Skate and many of the other contributors to be most helpful. I haven't followed the strategies as not all the stocks in a strategy fit my own ethical comfortabilities regarding some of the companies. However, I still have been trying to study and understand the rationale regardless of wether I would personally purchase the stock. I think as a new trader/investor, watching how long the trades are allowed to stand has been invaluable, my own early trades were sometimes the right buy, but then I sometimes panicked at the slightest drop, fearing a crash. Consequently, I missed out on some healthy profits due to fear. This has been a privilege to watch many of you trade and explain what your rationale has been. I continue to learn and find my own comfort level. So thankyou. Craig
ApplyStop( stopTypeTrailing , stopModePercent , ts , exitatstop = 2 ); // Apply Stop = [ts] Trailing Stop [exitatstop = 2] means check High-Low prices but exit NEXT BAR on regular trade price.
Question - does that look at the previous highest candle and calculate 20% from there if the index is above x moving average and 10 if its below x moving average. If that is what it does, i am unclear on how exactly it does it from a coding perspective. please enlighten us
i believe thats how radge had it in his WTT just not clear if thats exactly how its coded..
Thank you
//=================================================================================
//6. Add a two-stage trailing stop
//=================================================================================
longTrailPerc = IIF(RegimeFilter, 0.40, 0.10);
stopValue = H * (1.0 - longTrailPerc);
bBuySignal = 0;
trailARRAY = Null;
trailstop = 0;
for( i = 1; i < BarCount; i++ )
{
//Raise stops first, before checking for
if( trailstop > 0 )
{
trailstop = Max( stopValue[i], trailstop );
trailARRAY[ i ] = trailstop;
}
if( trailstop == 0 AND (Buy[ i ] OR bBuySignal) )
{
if(bBuySignal) {
trailstop = stopValue[i];
bBuySignal = 0; //turn off the signal
}
else
bBuySignal = 1;
}
else Buy[ i ] = 0; // remove excess buy signals
if((trailstop > 0) AND Close[ i ] < trailstop )
{
Sell[ i ] = 1; //This is the sale!
trailstop = 0;
if (i+1 < BarCount)
SellPrice[i] = Open[i+1]; //Use tomorrow's open
else
SellPrice[i] = Close[i]; //Use today's close.
}
}
The code was sometimes missing a sell signal. So I moved the code that raises the stops to the beginning of the loop instead of the end.
Code://================================================================================= //6. Add a two-stage trailing stop //================================================================================= longTrailPerc = IIF(RegimeFilter, 0.40, 0.10); stopValue = H * (1.0 - longTrailPerc); bBuySignal = 0; trailARRAY = Null; trailstop = 0; for( i = 1; i < BarCount; i++ ) { //Raise stops first, before checking for if( trailstop > 0 ) { trailstop = Max( stopValue[i], trailstop ); trailARRAY[ i ] = trailstop; } if( trailstop == 0 AND (Buy[ i ] OR bBuySignal) ) { if(bBuySignal) { trailstop = stopValue[i]; bBuySignal = 0; //turn off the signal } else bBuySignal = 1; } else Buy[ i ] = 0; // remove excess buy signals if((trailstop > 0) AND Close[ i ] < trailstop ) { Sell[ i ] = 1; //This is the sale! trailstop = 0; if (i+1 < BarCount) SellPrice[i] = Open[i+1]; //Use tomorrow's open else SellPrice[i] = Close[i]; //Use today's close. } }
I don't think my chart is very pretty, but here it is. Using "+" sign for stop loss levels and red "+" for signal bar.
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Thank-you, sir. I was afraid I might have been using up too much band-width in your thread.@dpong, sharing is caring & your posts reflect your willingness to help. Helping others is the heart & soul of the "Dump it here" thread, well done.
Skate.
Thank-you, sir. I was afraid I might have been using up too much band-width in your thread.
I look forward to following your Flying Pelican Strategy outline. Too bad it's a daily system. Like you, I think once you've done weekly you never want to go back.
I'm very happy to be here.
//=================================================================================
//3. Add all our other filters
//=================================================================================
TimeFrameSet(inDaily); //Switch to Daily time-frame
AvgVolumeInDaily = MA(V, 7); //Get 7 day average Volume
AvgTurnoverInDaily = MA(C, 7) * AvgVolumeInDaily; //Get 7 day average of Close * Volume
TimeFrameRestore(); //Switch back to weekly time-frame.
AvgVolume = TimeFrameExpand(AvgVolumeInDaily, inDaily);
AvgTurnover = TimeFrameExpand(AvgTurnoverInDaily, inDaily);
//Make sure AvgTurnover > $500,000 and AvgVolume > 500,000 shares
LiqFactor = (AvgTurnover > 500000) AND (AvgVolume > 500000);
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