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A problem to solve

I’ve been trading in a discretionary manner, looking at and evaluating each market individually. I have a number of tools that allow me to view a market in various ways and then decide if and how to trade it. This is a problem for a purely mechanical system because the mechanical system wants take the ‘one size fits all’ approach but in reality, markets are different and therefore do respond a bit differently. Maybe two different equity markets would respond in a similar manner but I found a problem between the first two markets that I selected due to the fact that one is equities and the other commodities. They have different personalities. I need to adjust how I’m trading these markets to find a compromised approach that will be good enough for both.

I know what you system traders are thinking right now, ‘and he thought it would be easy’. Well I wasn’t thinking that, maybe a little, I thought I could slap this this together in the background while I was doing other things. OK may I was thing that.