@mynds9 Lol, I had the sensation sometimes, that the market learns what the EA does, and the next day messes everything up so you don't win.
For almost a year now, I did only forward testing, and watching the market this way, was the best thing, as it helped tremendously with market understanding.
This is not something we can learn linearly... this is more like direct observation of physics, and nature.
In the same way like when you see that if the sun is shining, there is more heat... so you don't take your jacket. But then there comes a time, like winter, when that's not necessarily true. Market also has it's phases, it's own nature, physics. Like in life, with experience, you kind of come to know when to take a jacket or not. But this is only the first part. Because that helps with trading manually. There is also the psychological aspect, and you come too see... this is life, it's direct, not some job...
Trading "touches" deeply 🙂
Second part, with EA's, transposing something like that observation in rules and conditions, it is kind of like writing the laws of physics.
For me this is also fascinating 🙂
There is spread manipulation for sure, I have seen spreads going from 3 to 50 but for that put a spread filter block as a condition, although that doesn't save you from a stop loss wipe out after you entered a trade. Increasing stop loss size messes up the R:R , so it's not easy finding the balance.
