well........

having been a trader for thirty years, what are your impressions?

What do you see as good aspects of each and not so good aspects of each?

What do you see as the next step.

How will you analyze them.

What benchmarks will you apply?

Considering your number of years as a trader you should be well versed as to what is required.

Perhaps you have to strategize a bit before you start...

Ask yourself what you are trying to create

What entries

What exits

How many opening logics

How many closing logics

Which indicators will get you the entries

Which indicators will get you the exits.

What performance do you require

Which ratios will you use for analysis

There is not much benefit to you or anyone else posting a couple pics without some well thought out idea as to what the purpose is.

You may not be aware...... because you have not studied the threads in the forum, that the most astute developers have rigid guidelines that they use for their strategies.

Perhaps you will develop your own guidelines so that you can post those with your strategies and ask then how to achieve your purpose.

There is not much sense working without a plan and a goal..... trading is a serious business, you will need to be much better organized.

i think it shows that any bad strategy will give a profit for a day. i have added a few opening and closing logic conditions and that seems to make it better

i do have considerable knowledge and experience in market but i have no experience in translating that(!) into fsb language so that fsb can understand what i want. i am reading everything in wiki but that is only the beginning.

i wanted some insights from experienced fsb pros which was so kindly provided by you. thank you

Thanks Dave, you seem to know the amount of beating I've given to my indicators and the amount of beatings (failures) I've made over the years.  Each time I "failed", I rest a bit and think where I've gone wrong.  Because I'm very sure that my trading theory works (that's why I never give up)...but just couldn't get the right "settings" and combinations...until finally.  No one would know how much discouragement I've to overcome in order to get the results I've now.

I always tell my kids...observe how people fail and you can tell whether they are winners or losers.  It is how we cope with failures that determine whether we are ready for success.

Losers complain about the Problems but Winners look for Solutions.

The reason why FSB keeps improving over the years because Popov is a winner (and perfectionist) at heart.  He dig in and work out the nuts and bolts and he never gives up (no matter how many complaints or discouragement he got)

Hi Pradeep,

I wish I'm at your state of life...taking things slowly. 

Where I'm, we are always hard press for time.  But I think it's a matter of state of mind to overcome life stresses.

My goodness, you walked so much...maybe you can start thinking about your trading strategies as you walk and ponder...or some other better things in life.

Take your own path and route in your FSB experimentation.  We are all geared up differently.  Footon and Dave are very technical and mathematical...I'm not so naturally I relied less on the "machine" and work on my own path...developing hundreds of EA and test it out in demo, instead of using the Monte Carlo, multi markets etc to tell me straight away...maybe I'm in denial, need to face these facts myself in demo trading or maybe I'm a hopeful, who despite the poor statistic, still believe in my trading strategy.  Either way, I'm happy with my learning journey (through the ups and downs)....so enjoy yours too.

Hi Pradeep,

I've different perspective on the use of optimizer and monte, etc. and hence, I don't use these features at all in my EA development.  In the past, I neither use Generator (because I already have my own trading theory and hence, don't need FSB to help me find one).  However, my recent experiment has changed my perspective and who knows...one day I would change the way I think about Optimizer and Monte Carlo, Multi market etc.  Never say never.

As for now, this is my current perspective....sometimes I feel that "one size fits them all", doesn't apply to EA development.  So in the pursuit to fit all markets, we might ended up fitting none or did it at the expense of compromising the EA's profitability/entry/exit accuracy, etc. (That's just my layman's view, so no eggs throwing please, ha, ha, ha).

However, I do think that a sound trading strategy does apply to all markets but need to tweak the settings here and there for each different market to accommodate with different price elasticity and volatility.  Thus, I would very much appreciated if I could have my "mini optimizer" that I mentioned else where in the forum, because if I have that tool, I believe all I need to do, is to take my EA and then "optimized" it for different markets (yet applying the same rules, conditions but tweak and changing only the base, signal and smoothing period, so that it would be "customized" to the each currencies unique trend and volatility.  In this manner, the "mini optimizer" would help make my EA robust and thus fits multimarkets.  This is my personal perspective and approach, if I've given a choice.

Sometime back, Popov mentioned that he thought of having an optimizer working all the time while the EA is trading...wow, that will be my dream come true.  I would then wish to have this "mini optimizer" running all the time and hence, it would self adjust for each and different market and yet my trading theory remain the same with all the same open/closing conditions.

i am new and so just recording my experiences. i am like Alice in wonderland. you have been there and done that.

also Popov has gone on record saying that the forum is the place for support and since i got the software 2 days back i need support.you are under no obligation to reply to my posts but Popov has clearly said that the forum is the place to post for support.

be kind to idiots or ignore.i have been instructed to post in the forum for help/support. please understand

you have understood me perfectly:i walk to get the tension out.and i start for a walk at usually at 11.30am local time and right now temperatures, at that time, are above 33 degrees centigrade.

i am always positive in my life, never negative, and my only intention is to live life to the fullest