Sep 30, 2019
Swing Trading Algorithm: How We Built & Made It Profitable! ft. Alejandro Pérez
In episode 214 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, I sit down with Alejandro to talk about the story and process we went through developing our algo portfolio and more specifically the BB R Trading Algo.
In This Episode, You'll Learn...
Topic intro 00:22
- Why Etienne needed an algo 01:10
- How we got to work together 04:51
- Story of the Trading Assistant development 08:09
- Difficulties and issues we found along the way 10:04
- SPONSOR: Soft4FX (manual backtesting software for MT4) 17:05
- How we determined that something worked or not in the algo18:15
- How to make sure your algo is trading as it should 20:26
- The importance in testing and letting go when developing a strategy 25:00
- Learn from the masters and then make it yours 26:54
- How Alejandro learned to code for himself 28:28
- Mixing Human discretion with Algo trading (this is what top prop firms are doing) 35:13
- Example results from the BB Reversal algo portfolio 42:27
- The value of compounding in a portfolio 46:07
- And much more!
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Resources Mentioned
- FXPro Quant App (free algo builder)
- TickDataSuite (high-quality data for algo backtest on MT4)
- MT4 ReportManager
- SPONSOR: Soft4FX (manual backtesting software for MT4)
Charts and Images discussed
Telegram Alert Example 8:40
BB R Algo Portfolio Backtest Results 42:27
BB R Algo Portfolio Compounding Backtest 46:07
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