Automated trading - yes, algos!

Hi Jackozy hope you're keeping well. Have you tried IG's automated tools?

I haven't looked in detail but you can backtest setups to see how would have faired. Not sure if this is what you are looking for.

All the best

Amo

Nice to see you Jackozy! Hope you and family are well.

We have missed you at ChartsView

Sorry myself and Remo have been very busy lately but we will look into it and get back to you with any ideas.

The system sounds great.

Jackozy! How you keeping mate, it's been way too long!
Hope everything is going well for you and the family

Sounds interesting what you've been working on, unfortunately I haven't got any coding skills but if there's any other way I can help with your system just let me know.

Keep well and keep in contact

Jackozy,good to see you back, first time I've checked in here for a while and when saw your name at the top of recent posts thought I must have somehow got them in descending order!

Hope you're well, are you back in the UK now?

I tried to find some automated way of recording high/low/open/close points on 5 mun bars too feed to an alto but my coding skills were no where good enough. Not a direct solution to your problem but if youre doing it manually couldn't you compare the 5min to the 1min to get a better idea of the execution time...or maybe even use software to record a chart running real time so you could go back to the bar you were interested in?

Hi Chartsview, it's been a while

Just thought I'd pop on and say hello and see if anyone is interested in automating trading strategies?

Over the summer I've been manually backtesting a system to trade FX pairs on 5 min charts and it went quite well, especially in the area of risk/loss control which is must. The only problem is that I was backtesting it each day after work so I don't actually know when during the 5 min bar the trades would have executed - I have to make an assumption that the signal was given at the beginning or end of the bar. This will balance out to a degree but overall I think that the results are skewed and make the strategy look slightly more favourable than it really is.

So, I'm on a quest to find a way of automating then backtesting this strategy (and, by extension, any others).

City Index allow coded strategies but I can't code (it requires either C++, C# or maybe Python, I'll have to check) so I was wondering if there is an App which allows a kind of drag and drop indicator tool which writes the code for you. I've got a discussion going on an algorithm trading group in LinkedIn and have had some really helpful suggestions which I'll look into as soon as I get the chance.

Anyway, just thought I'd pop in and let you know. I'm happy to share the strategy with CV members and, of course, if I'm successful in automating it I'll speak with Remo and Ronnie to see we can do something about that too (assuming it's successful).

Hope you're all doing well and have made a few £s during these last 2 volatile years!

Kind regards,

J