Bob: Thanks for the advice re: Christmas. Socially I'm strewn out so I'll probably still be trading. Will continue caution (small lots)
GMS: I've been doing a lot of manual live backtesting, just naked trading though, not EDSEL yet. The first thing I learnt is that I could never make any profit with stops this way. I suggest having a search for Trade_Simulator_Installer.zip and backtesting loads. You learn a lot this way. Everything is sped up so it's not at all the same as live but you get everything quicker.
Harry: Just to confirm, the dashboard is mostly the CSS info page in another format with the detailed entries added. Lucky it works for you. Try to find a way to contribute back if you can too. For example, I'm looking at highlighting padnoter's screenshot for my own notes and I might reshare it. There's usually something that can be done even if it's just documentation. Perhaps there are aspects of the system that you do understand that could be reworded to help dumbos like me to figure things out? Could you have a look your dashboard and circle some examples of buys, sells and also non signals and why they the signals are not valid? I'd suggest focussing on one type of trade at the moment to keep things simple. In fact, that would be a good idea for most people learning I think.
padnoter: Thanks for that clarity. The dashboard isn't updating itself... I've no idea why. It's been on the same numbers since yesterday. Something's not quite right, I've tried on 2 different Empty4 installs, linux and normal Windows. Probably difficult to diagnose... any ideas on things I can try swapping around? Works for Harry and you but not for me. Symbols on my broker are for example "USDGBP" (without quotes).
I think I get it. It's already been useful in helping me with my other system trades. I don't fully feel confident with it yet. It's coming. To simplify the understanding I'm taking it one step at a time so for me
I'm focussing only on buying into an uptrend. To then get the detail I need to find the shortterm dip down and then wait for both idiot lights to go green. Here's an example of me waiting for that:
Naked trading gut feeling tells me that this is going to come back down toward the MA lines and probably slightly through the short term MA lines. When it gets to the MA lines I then start to look for the idiot lights and check if they're still green. If they are then we might have a buy signal, if not then continue the search. Is that right?
padnoter: So this
was a small and weak buy signal?
I'll record my desktop when I have access to broadband again with examples, probably a lot easier to communicate things
