Ventures of an ex indie game developer

Wadu Hek Profit

After some coding to generalize the extremely slow backtesting of my new idea it looked pretty pointless yesterday. I went to bed thinking I was done. Pretty content with the trading bot I've got right now, but no jumpin' jacks.

This morning I took a last look, just to make sure. I found a bug in the code: I had mistakenly inversed the profit! When I corrected that it shows a wadu hek profit; i.e. it's actually hard to loose money if this method can be executed well!

Right now I'm manually optimizing my only three parameters (!), but every backtesting run takes around five minutes, so one hour later I haven't gotten very far.

One minimal thing I need to do now is to just check that my orders go through (i.e. there's a low below my bid and a high above my ask some time after). Given the other parameters I'm using, I suspect that this shouldn't be a too big thing, and I simply skip taking slippage partial fills into account.

I've spent a year trading, without studying trading theory at all. All I've done is experimentation. If this, my last experiment, is successful the way it seems right now, I've managed to find a fantastic low risk/high reward strategy, which is pretty much unheard of in trading.

This wadu hek profit still seems to good to be true. Hm. I've got more digging to do.

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