Share different strategies
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I´m interested in share my strategies in order to made them better with things like reduce drawdawn, use of martingale -paroli /other options ....other ideas .... ect I believe this forum is a perfect starting point with experimented programmers/traders.
If we could share our own background maybe will be more profitable for all us.If only "I have this problem please solve it" my feeling is that we are wasting 70% of this forum power.
Any idea to run ???
Thank you all in advance.
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Nice suggestion...
How do you evaluate a winning strategy?
A recent method I discovered, is to check your win/loss percentage [not profit/loss amounts] for a given number of trades (I choose 20), now, if its above 50%, you have an edge, so there is no need to 'improve' the strategy. If the strategy still incurs a loss (in money) then your money management needs to be changed to tip the balance (without changing the strategy).
So rather than improve a winning system, an EA developer can simply calculate the systems edge on a per 20 trades( or any preferred number) basis, and once the results fall below 50% the EA stops and sends the owner an alert. Then you can consider improving or reconfiguring your EA.
My two cents

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The only way to evaluate the strategy till now was to run a background since the oldest date that the broker database lets. Or since 1/1/2015.
As an example this print screen, I would like to reduce D.D. but I consider it is the price to pay for a constant result stability.What is the software used to upload printscreens ???? Attached file .ex4 and result of it since 1/1/2015, with the example.
Is it possible to get you feedback for it ???
Tks.
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DRAWDOWN eurostock.ex4
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From what I see, you have a very good EA, the draw-down is reasonable. There's simply no need to tamper with it.
Personally I do not rely on back-tests, it isn't a true reflection of an EA's potential (my opinion).
If I were you, I would forward test it for a given time or number of trades and then check the results again.Again I will say, if it's not broken (it looks very good) - don't try to 'fix' it. Over optimizing might end-up spoiling a good EA.
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Thank you very much, I´ll do as you suggest too.
To run the EA I forget to attach a custom indicator needed , now it is attached.
I hope you can reproduce now the same theoretical back test results as me, starting on 1/1/2015 from eurostock index.
Emilio
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FxMaOscillator_v1.03.ex4