Steve, I stand in awe of your prolific work and thank you for what you and your faithful followers have taught me about coding over at the FF. Now we have this nice new forum for which I thank you. I know I am going to like this place. Signed up a few weeks ago and it has been just great
At last a forum with a purpose plus decorum to boot. What a novel idea! None of that silly stuff we see in other places. I have been a FF and Forex-TSD member since 2005, but never posted anything there and probably never will. When I was in school I was taught that it was best to absorb information until one has a decent grasp of the content before asking questions that might disrupt the flow of the information. Wonder when the schools quit teaching this?
Old Proverb 1: If you think there is any chance that others might think you are stupid, then why open open your mouth and remove all doubt?
Old Proverb 2: There is no such thing as a stupid question, but they are the easiest ones to answer:
for someone who has the time and patience, but that certainly is not me. I agree with Steve on this 100%. We don't need page after page of off-topic drivel like we see elsewhere.
Forex has fascinated me for over 50 years making me one of the oldest codgers on this board. I was living in Japan when Nixon took down the Gold Standard. In those days the Yen was pegged at 360:1. The next month it rose to about 260:1. Now look at it. Well below 100:1 at times. Forex demands a great deal of respect that noobs fail to understand.
Today my Forex interest is in automated trading. After self inflicted DD wounds via manual retail trading it became easy to see that a decent automated system would be the way to go. One that makes steady daily gains with minimal DD. Unfortunately, this maybe too close to the Holy Grail as it has eluded me for the last 7++ years since I sat down to learn how to code. I still have a long way to go in that department, but it is fun to learn new tricks.
One interesting Bot I made a few years ago ran on Renko bars and would double the account every 2-1/2 to 5 hours on backtest, depending on the Renko settings. Obviously, this would be the one to run with if it could handle the live market. It can't. That is when I learned how the Empty4 backtester really works. Backtests are very, very optimistic. They are nowhere close to the live market. But more on this at a later time.
Guess I have rambled on too long so will go slather on some of Steve's Anti-Tick Cream that I found also works as a non-toxic suntan lotion. A nice thing in this hot Mexican sun!
I also want to wish everyone here a belated Happy New Year and Good Luck in our mutual quest for viable Bots.
George
Monterrey, Mexico
