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I normally download datasets to test my techniques before trying them on the demo platform. Sometimes the markets are not giving you the action that you need to test your entries. My approach is datasets locally -> demo account -> live account I like this data feed: https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/marketwatch/historical/ They have the major markets that we normally play on. Quite useful to test things out.

@HMB Just in case it could improve anything, this is a message that I get from IG on my dashboard. I personally think that shorter time frames are bound to failure. I can' prove it, I am just talking from my own experience. It is difficult to let your trades run over a few days because of the DFB fee but in the long run it pays out.

An entire brave new world in front of your eyes.

I started this morning a c++ repo. Let's see how far I get. I couldn't find any code samples for c++ in order to connect to the IG API so if you guys want to step in and review the code I would love to hear your comments. I haven't developed in c++ as much as I have in c#, so take it easy on me https://github.com/oneangrytrader/brokerapiclients

For those who religiously trust indicators here is "The signal fire" Instructions: Play as loud as you can

It cannot be easier to parse JSON into classes in C#. Just create a .cs file and use the option "Paste Json as classes in Visual Studio", then a simple line with Newtonsoft will have your object ready. var yourClass = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(json) A day to parse a JSON object?, you just have to use the right tools. It takes 5 minutes and you end with a full object with proper nested types in a hierarchy. Not to mention that everything is strong-typed as well as included in the intellisense helper. And you are going to tell me that you prefer hard-coding strings as keys to get them from a dictionary? Come on...

I have a Raspberry Pi 4b and I play with Python constantly. Recently I got this Robot Arm toy and connected it to the Pi: https://owirobot.com/robotic-arm-edge/ I know Python has become a popular language but that is just because of the power of the open source community. There are so many libraries out there that makes the development a very easy task. But that doesn't make it a reliable language for trading. I don't think it should be used because of its dynamic typing. It is quite slow as well so I don't know how it would work for HFT with streaming services. One of our problems is that we get bored with what we have and we keep learning new languages. So python is popular now. Then it will be Rust or Go, or any of the 1000 open source languages out there. But trading firms will still deploy their main applications with strong typed languages looking for a reliable execution. C++ and C# are hard to beat at that.

yeah, I can see the change. I haven't seen the epics changing that much, it must be a specific change for that market. Bear in mind that there are two epics: IX.D.SAF.IFMMX.IP : South Africa 40 Cash (R2) IX.D.SAF.DAILY.IP: South Africa 40 Index I would use the second one if I had to.

Oh my words, I just realised that your post got in the middle of my heat with the forum troll. I didn't realise that it was someone else because your icon is green as well, so I didn't pay attention to the name. I do apologise. The troll gave me so much already that I feel entitled to call him all sort of things, so you just got in the middle I should pay more attention before I send anything. The challenge was always to defend myself so I was never intending to force people to share their accounts. Thank you for sending that screenshot, I hope you are doing that well with your next trades.

@dmedin Here you have a person that could help you to get out of that hole where you think you are. THT has many years of experience in financial services as well as very detailed posts of how to trade, how to handle risk, how to test and how to look at charts. What is your response? A mouth full of insults. Really?

show the full year boy, don't select a nice time when you were lucky.

I am not sure why you are including Caseynotes in this conversation, this is between you and me. I am just replying to you proving that I can build a plan and make it to work, you insult me instead of listening. Now you can't reply with a video, just empty words. I am helping anyone that ask for help, you will see that many times in many posts. I am not bragging about my achievements, just sent the video to prove that I can make it to work. Why do I want to help people? Because I come from a working class background and everything I have is out my personal time and work, so helping others is what we do. I believe that will come back to me eventually. Call it karma, religious believes or whatever you think it is. But if you are going say that I am full of sh*t I will reply and make you look like the big mouthy c*nt. Simple as that.

Interesting, I can see in the log when they are opened, do you have a log of when they are closed and the profit they've made?

Nonsense can be proved , attached is a video of my trading analytics for this year. Yeah, the one with the massive drop in February. Would you share yours? Then we can insult each other as much as we want. account.mp4

No one needs to look at charts to trade, not to mention useless indicators. I am not "sorted" but I don't loose that often anymore, so there it is, an achievement for me. Since this thread is about planing and testing it should focus on building a plan and finding a way to test it. I can test it, if it doesn't include any chart or any fancy indicator I am in. Even I could bring some risk management that I know it works. So what is the plan? Do we discuss one or we keep looking at useless charts?

That's quite sad. I think you are talking about an addiction there.

Remember, before sending your trade out there take your time.

I am no expert on penny stocks but wanted to look for an answer just to see how is the field there. Below is the chart for First Majestic Silver Corporation (US), according to investopedia, it is supposed to be a penny stock. https://www.investopedia.com/updates/top-penny-stocks/ The chart seems to have a decent amount of bounces that would allow you to execute a day trading technique. Minimum amount per point: 0.24£ Minimum margin required: 55.92£ (Margin factor of 20%) You can get a trade with a small amount. It seems to be ranging about 100 points so a potential daily profit with the minimum stake would probably max about 25£ On the other side if we look at a Forex pair like GBP/USD Chart ranges are quite similar. Minimum amount per point: 0.5£ Minimum margin required: 213.12£ (Margin factor of 3.3%) Looking that a Forex pair ranges about 150 points by average per day I would say that if you have the amount to trade on Forex, it looks cheaper and can get better returns. Margin factor is lower and there is way more liquidity available for bigger sizes. There are many penny stocks so I guess it would be a matter of finding one that yields better returns. The one that I chose as an example doesn't seem to beat Forex. I would expect margin factors for any penny stock to be on the range of 20% like First Majestic Silver Corporation. Do you have any company in mind that we could look at?

Hi, just replying with a couple of screenshots to say that I get the same error on the Demo environment: When I use the live environment I get an error that my account is invalid to retrieve that data. South Africa 40 is not working at the moment.

There are many Python developers in the forum, just check the ones that can't get the API to work. I am posting from Chrome on desktop, by the way.

Hats off to Linux, specially the Debian family. Ubuntu is my favourite by far. I have to sell myself to companies so I can't always use what I want. I am not a MS fanboy, quite the opposite.

Don't tell me now that you are an apple biter. That would explain many things...

I don't want to show off by pointing people to cmdlets. But yeah, since "Run As" is a command you can wrap it with a PowerShell script. In case anyone is interested: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/start-process?view=powershell-7

This post claims to have a solution for it. https://www.mt4copier.com/improve-mt4-trade-copier-speed/ I haven't tried it myself but it seems that you can assign different cores to different terminals.

There is another option that is a common trick that we use in IT. The command "Run As". Assuming that you are using Windows, an icon is essentially a command link, so you can run it as another user. If you create multiple users under the accounts section in settings then you can select them to run any program. The way to do it is by holding SHIFT and Mouse Right click at the same time on the icon. Then provide the credentials and you will have a separate session that will allow you to run MT4 in separate accounts. It should work with any program, not only with MT4