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I’m having trouble getting past 4 assets lol. Not as easy as I thought it would be. Can only run 5 Reactors at a time or 3 FSB Generators till my CPU hits max load.
@Bob – you beast lol. I’m trying to get up to that 30 EA range on the live account. But not as easy as I thought it would be. Finally putting EA’s on the live that I created almost two months ago, then removing some that aren’t cooperating. I’ll admit, have been very inconsistent with my generator the last month or so.
Hey Petko,
Thank you sir!
@Bob- I have yet to trade any of the Crypto’s. I’m terrified of the spreads and lack of real correlations I can measure. At least with Forex i can look at the economic calendars (when i decide to, which hasn’t happened in months) and know economic conditions are changing like FOMC tomorrow.
@Haliffa – Agreed, Petko is a huge asset!
I personally like the 20% OOS, it simulates the most recent market conditions (I mainly trade H1) so for me 20% is about a year and a half worth of data. Then i verify the OOS with the most current 6 months of data that I’ve kept with Data Horizon. It’s all about personal preference 🙂
Currently trading with 8 EA’s live. Account is moving very consistent. Of course i woke up with a few L’s this morning but have a few trades moving into profit. I trade with 1:200 leverage, not that i need it but to Andi’s point i want to have way more EA’s on the account than what i have currently.
Good morning Desita,
I’m big at looking around to make sure that overall the broker has positive reviews on websites i’m familiar with here in the states. I always check around before opening live accounts. Not only for the money i could lose to scam brokers, but also our personal information that could lead to identity theft. I’m super cautious, and have only ever opened accounts with 4 brokers in total. Two US and Two none for the leverage and assets.
Hi Petko,
Yes sir, I have yet to withdraw. I’ve seen a few other traders here in the states using this broker and withdrawing with no issues. So i’m pretty confident. Once I’ve doubled the account and can really increase my size I’ll start making withdrawals.
Hola Andi,
Yes sir, they accept US customers. They’ll have to set up an account with UPayCard in order to fund the account. FXChoice doesn’t accept their US customers to Wire Transfer or use Debit/Credit cards to deposit $$.
Hola Andi,
I’ve been trading using a smaller live account to really get a grasp on how to track the demo EA’s (and practice doing this consistently every day) then make sure the live account continues to grow. What I ended up doing twice is putting my full demo size on my live account dragging myself into a 50% drawdown the first time. And the second time I had come home from a long day of driving (I’m a territory sales rep) and placed an EA live without adjusting the position size. Erasing all my previous gains of about 32% bringing be back down to break even. This was about a month ago so I’ve just recently recovered it due to having more EA’s on the live account now than I did at that time.
Silly mistakes, but cost a lot of time and aggravation. So had to remind myself to slowdown again.
Good evening Petko,
That would be amazing! I love EA Studio but yes to manually transfer the strategies over is a little tedious.
I’m still struggling to properly optimize strategies in FSB… I’ve managed to generate a few decent strategies but when the indicators get complicated like macd histogram and bears power, how to optimize but not over opt is a little frustrating.
In thinking about it, my account would be up around 60% since the beginning of 2019 if not for my last error. Was about to hit the 30% mark before coming home from a 12 hour day and putting a strategy full blast on the account. It’s still a profitable strat, but now it’s at about 3% account risk instead of the “Full Nelly” that took out my previous profits. I’m enjoying algo trading much more than i did as a discretionary trader. I still stalk the markets on the daily like i’m used to, but enjoying my trades getting triggered while chasing people around for my day job lol
Hi Laila,
I began as a manual trader as well, but as Popov once said in a post on the main forum for FSB “This is a different way to trade”. When I first started using the software I rushed into throwing EA’s live without really testing them on demo first. Now i know what to look for in order to do that, but when i started i blew an account just as fast as i funded it. OOS is something I pay Very close attention to, and I keep a little bit of data in my back pocket to truly verify the OOS in EA Studio. I’m currently working on learning FSB so you’ll see me asking a lot of questions in the FSB thread as well. To make that profit I’ve also had to endure two major drawdowns with my errors (i started a thread on this). I rushed strategies onto the live account at full demo size and a single loss on two occasions (the last one was a legit accident due to me being half asleep) put me in a 50% dd the first time, and the second was about 3 weeks ago and it took out all my previous gains and then some. Luckily last week was a REALLY good trading week and i made it all back with some EA’s i had put live on GJ and EU.
@Andi – Yea I mean It’s a good thing that our brokers are so highly regulated here in the states with all the shenanigans that have happened with brokers in the past. But that as everything is a double edged sward. Cant have more than 1-50 leverage, no hedging, FIFO… on the flip side accounts up to $250k are safe. I’ve only really used and trusted two brokers outside the states, FXChoice is my current due to how many instruments they have available, and Tradersway was another that I’ve used with no real issues. The fee’s to load my FXChoice account made me mad at first, but i like the range of markets they offer. So had to “build a bridge and get over it” as we say here in the states LOL