Wow, after staring at a screen for 4 hours I have created my first loop from scratch. I started with attempting to use *-1 on a predefined variable for “# of up days in a row” because my brain wanted to count backwards, and I ended with a nice concise for statement and some minimalist if else statements. While I am slightly happy about this, I coded it without the loop first in about 1 minute and then spent the next 240 of them wondering if it was even necessary to complete the loop.
Hah!
Quarantine life, am I right?

Edit 10 April:
Turns out that I could have done it all with a simple SUM function. Well, live and learn! Thanks Craig.

First trading day today with my first system. Yesterday I was… apprehensive and irritable.
Thankfully, Nick offered to walk me through execution on zero day.

At one point last night, before I went live, I had to tell Nick to get off of my teamviewer because it felt like dad was watching over my shoulder. Dang, I was a nervous wreck!

It was a down day. I bought Wayfair (W) which had a big big loss. Oh well – on to the next one!

Glen Peake wrote:

Well done Seth!!! I wondered why the DOW put on 900 points

For what it’s worth….. My first system (MOC) went live in OCTOBER 2018…. :ohmy: You’ll know what I mean when you look through your backtest reports and charts!!!

Ah yes, I have noticed that big blue underwater riptide there, an echo from earlier in the year it looks like! Seems as if it almost has the letters “trump” written in it… Oh, what’s that little echo I hear? Sounds like:
“Trade wars are good and easy to win”.

Whatever. That’s why Rocinante [yes, I named the system] doesn’t care about the news. Good thing one of the two of us isn’t upset by current events.

I just have to keep pressing the button.

Cheers to you guys. Thanks Scott and Michael and Glen.

Hey Trent – I don’t have any experience with AI. That’s getting into some real programming there, and I am far, far away. The closest I’ve done is almost rented my GPU mining rig out for AI research, and that didn’t pay too well after all so I never pulled the trigger.

I think that AI-esque analysis could lead to a slippery slope of data snooping. Nick may have better information about what firms are doing it. I’m sure it is profitable for some, but I imagine that you would need lots of resources to create the analysis program, and the ones that have it working won’t tell you how to do it. Hah.

32 out of 40 fills before 10am – it’s an easy way to get the next 1000 out of the way, that’s for sure.

I was also in the money on the close – but I’ve had a few of those in a row. I’ll give some back soon. I don’t typically “watch”, but I do peak. Quarantine life, you know.