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by hjelmstade
Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:35 pm
Forum: Mechanical Systems
Topic: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system
Replies: 116
Views: 423741

Re: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system

@Earik - Yes, the paragraph in your MTS book where you describe your experience with Murphy's Law always makes me feel better about these situations :)


@pleiterr - Great, thank you :) I've added it to my to do list.
by hjelmstade
Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:53 am
Forum: Mechanical Systems
Topic: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system
Replies: 116
Views: 423741

Re: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system

Thanks orionsbelt. Appreciate any feedback or ideas :) Unfortunately, it looks like Murphy's Law has struck again. These were the trades it took the first three days I took the system live. buttonwood_1-11-17_through_1-13-17_trade_results.PNG Hopefully we don't see as many zig zag days next week as ...
by hjelmstade
Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:53 pm
Forum: Mechanical Systems
Topic: Bollinger Bands Trading System
Replies: 2
Views: 16779

Re: Bollinger Bands Trading System

Hi orionsbelt, Thats great, thanks for sharing. I haven't used bollinger bands like that before and can think of a lot of applications outside of just this system :D I'm adding this to my to do list and will see what I can come up with. It might be a little while depending on how busy my day job is ...
by hjelmstade
Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:30 am
Forum: Mechanical Systems
Topic: Momentum Divergence Trading System
Replies: 3
Views: 15285

Re: Momentum Divergence Trading System

Hi rlygangesh, You can use the momentum detection part on smaller time frames but I have not had much success turning it into a profitable automated trading system. This is mostly due to not having a sufficient exit strategy. On the my implementation of the Buttonwood system I just shared on the But...
by hjelmstade
Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:04 am
Forum: Mechanical Systems
Topic: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system
Replies: 116
Views: 423741

Re: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system

Alright, here are a couple more charts. First, just for kicks, here is the backtesting summary with dynamic position sizing and a contract cap of 100. This is on the same chart as the previous screenshots from 10/1/12 to 1/10/17. Starting account size is $25k and it trades one contract per $10k of a...
by hjelmstade
Wed Jan 11, 2017 8:06 am
Forum: Mechanical Systems
Topic: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system
Replies: 116
Views: 423741

Re: Systems Workshop: "Buttonwood" E-mini daytrading system

Hi all, I've been working on a modified version of the Buttonwood system for a couple months now and finally have something I am happy with. You can find the backtesting code for my version here: http://www.wave59.com/library/scriptdetail.asp?id=181 You will see I did a little refactoring on some of...
by hjelmstade
Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:43 pm
Forum: QScript
Topic: Using regex in functions?
Replies: 2
Views: 4060

Re: Using regex in functions?

Ok, I'll keep playing with it. Not a big deal if I have to just pass the result to a function if there is a bug. I have to say, I was really impressed when I discovered qscript had regular expressions so its too bad they are not more widely used :/ For anyone else reading this, regex is incredibly p...
by hjelmstade
Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:35 pm
Forum: QScript
Topic: Passing arrays into functions?
Replies: 2
Views: 3833

Re: Passing arrays into functions?

Got it, thanks Earik. My issue was trying to use clear() in the function after I had passed. I'll just avoid passing arrays and will instantiate where I need them.

Thanks!
by hjelmstade
Sun Dec 25, 2016 2:28 am
Forum: Mechanical Systems
Topic: Adaptive MVS
Replies: 0
Views: 12873

Adaptive MVS

Hi all, I wanted to share one last thing today in case someone is able to use this as a basis for building a better system. In my post regarding the MVS with Adaptive Batch Exit and Adaptive CTS (http://groups.wave59.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=149), I shared the final version of my ES Daily system. In ...
by hjelmstade
Sun Dec 25, 2016 12:50 am
Forum: Mechanical Systems
Topic: Momentum Divergence Trading System
Replies: 3
Views: 15285

Momentum Divergence Trading System

Hi all, This is another trading system I built that uses my custom implementation of momentum divergence detection. I'm not using this to trade live but instead am using this as a sub-system in the Livermore MVS I shared earlier. I'm sharing it in this format so you can see the benefit of including ...