I think, you're taking some of the critisism the wrong way. Nobody's saying, that you should stop trading or that you - necessarily - have a bad bot on your hands. What everybody is screaming at you is that you're looking at optimizing the bot the wrong way around.markybhoy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 9:37 amLet me explain a bit further as the post was to find out if there was a way to basically switch off guardian at a certain profiit level and now its turned in to my system is useless, my bots not working and i should give up.
With the stats i use there will be a peak point in each day, begining middle or end that i will have profit of over 20% sometimes 30%. If i let my bot run at worst i will have a minimul loss or break even. What i want to do is stop guardian arround the peak profit as any trader would. Saying its not working is a bit like saying no system works as there will always be loss and therefore u could argue loss recovery is always used.
Derek your talking like u have the golden egg of trading and have never lossed. Surely u have good days and bad and would like to minimise the bad. Or maybe we should all give up at the first loss we encounter.
Cheers everyone for the input anyway. I will try tweaking the system and see what can be done
I cannot see ANY possible reason why the breaking point for your strategy's profitabilty would be related to you daily profit in percentages. You're correct in that you should stop the bot once in stops being profitable. However, what everyone is saying in unison but in different ways, is that you need to figure out WHY it stops being a winning strategy at a certain point. That's the optimal approach imho. You could conceivably then weed out some bad races/spots early in the day, and still keep the bot going with the (few?) good spots late in the day.