Matt, I somehow got the impression we used a hard stop-loss on the Breakout system and therefore got stopped out intraday. Can you clarify if there is any SPY system that we should set an intraday stop-loss for, or are ALL the SPY systems end of day exits? Trying to follow the rules correctly....thanks.

    I said below, the system

    Posted by matt on 24th of Sep 2019 at 01:20 pm

    I said below, the system uses a hard stop after it has a certain positive trade going on.  

    again guys really the trade close out email is the fine confirmation. 

    yes I did mention a stop in the newsletters, I didn't clarify that was end of day, sorry about that,will be clearer next time.

    I'm also not sure why that inital stop isn't intra day instead of end of day. I think it should probably be intra day and is something I'll look to have changed and will let you know when /if I do

    Thanks Matt.  I think it

    Posted by mheydar on 24th of Sep 2019 at 02:31 pm

    Thanks Matt.  I think it would be nice to have an interday  stop from day one of any trade.  I am not sure if that would be possible

    You lose 2x profit by

    Posted by oatdust on 24th of Sep 2019 at 03:07 pm

    You lose 2x profit by using intraday stop. Seems to indicate most of these drops are news driven. Probably best to keep at end of day. Everyone always tell me that novices trade the first hour of day, pros trade last hour of day.

    yep and again my guess

    Posted by matt on 24th of Sep 2019 at 02:32 pm

    yep and again my guess is that it would have to be wider to keep the same PF or higher i.e. give and take basically

    When you look at your

    Posted by retirefire on 24th of Sep 2019 at 02:44 pm

    When you look at your chart of trades, albeit a short sample ... from May restart, It's hard to fine tune being up 15k.

    FYI I had my programmer

    Posted by matt on 24th of Sep 2019 at 02:21 pm

    FYI I had my programmer code a version where that stop is intra day instead of close of day on the breakout. the Profit factor drops from 25 as it is now to 12 with it on. I can discuss in more detail another time. Here's an image the intra day version is on the left, you can see it stopped out, the current one we use is on the right

    FYI I had my programmer

    Posted by matt on 24th of Sep 2019 at 02:21 pm

    FYI I had my programmer code a version where that stop is intra day instead of close of day on the breakout. the Profit factor drops from 25 as it is now to 12 with it on. I can discuss in more detail another time. Here's an image the intra day version is on the left, you can see it stopped out, the current one we use is on the right

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