Hmm…only early days reading about this but on that basis 400-500 dollars for a custom API is probably a good investment

Will do

Weekly system remained within the limit I had set at the start of the course (maxDD of 25%) with the additional stress testing…combining variance in both the open and close prices in the same test increased range of returns for both CAR and maxDD as the system has exits that use both close and open prices and the system enters on open…so while increase in range of returns was to be expected it was reassuring that the maxDD did not blow out too much

Time will tell whether I am actually able to remain calm and trade in a 25% DD.

Time to start paper trading weekly system…positionscore has ranked possible stocks and will “buy” top 25 on open on Monday 21st

Ideally I would have a system with lower maxDD to work along the weekly one …suspect daily system would have potential for limiting DD…the weekly system buys strength so I think will concentrate more on a mean reversion system that buys weakness

Thanks Said..I think I will go through the rolling returns in more detail and scrutinize market conditions in periods of drawdowns to get a better feel for why they are happening. Its interesting that the end of 2015 and early 2016 were two very bad months for this strategy….if I had just started trading it back then I would have been suspicious that I had made some error in coding.

Been working on daily system to work alongside weekly system that am paper trading….have some results (thank you for help again Craig) ….I admit that it sails pretty close to the wind…results are based on commission for IB (0.005 per share)…rapidly becomes non-profitable with higher commissions…is a HFT daily system on Russell 1000 hist database….not tried inserting jpg before so my guess is will be issues…apologies in advance