bulf6285. Love this. Motivating for me as well. I'll poke around this weekend and see what I can see in terms of potentially contributing. Thanks!

nice to see one of you guys attempt it!

some obvious issues: 1. entries should be stop orders set 1 tick below or above the candle, these are triggering on the open of a candle. The stop loss is also trigging on the open of candlesticks vs at a set stop point. Stops should be above the current or last candle for shorts, and below for longs

but you have to realize that while the MACD KISS/Stoch 5 strategy is quite a simple strategy, when trying to put it to actual code to be automated it up it gets a lot more complicated than you think. There's a lot of variables that you need to try and define that you don't think about when you subjectively trade it

For example: do you trigger off the high or low of any candlestick or do you try to limit those candles to dojis, candles with small bodies only, and if you do, you now have to define your settings for what a doji is, such as how big of a % of candle range do you allow the body to be, things like that. Or do you try to limit candles that are too large  etc

The Stochastic getting overbought or oversold - do you limit it to >=80% for overbought, or do you have the condition start to be counted if the Stochastic is say 65% or higher, the same for when it's oversold, do you force it to be below 20%, or higher?

Also do you try and define filters for the MACD and Stochastic. For example: if the MACD lines crossed 5 bars ago or 10 bars ago, 20 bars ago, do you set some kind of limit threshold. Also, many times MACD lines just barely cross and then reverse, so do you require that the MACD lines have not touched or do you give it some wiggle room, and if so how much

the 5 length Stochastic - do you add a filter where it had recycled from oversold to overbought for the short within X number of bars? Same for longs? Basically trying to add a condition so that if the Stochastic is just osculating in a middle range maybe those signals don't work as well as if the stochastic had moved from overbought to oversold or oversold to overbought

also the profit targets and stops: What to use for a profit target? a 1:1 risk/reward target? a 2:1, a 3:1? Or Stochastic to get from overbought to oversold or from oversold to overbought?  And what if that doesn't occur, what's your other exit? What's your stop also, and how does it adjust

again -I want to show you guys that even very simple strategies get much more complex when you actually code them because everything has to be defined, and exact. Things that you don't even think about or consider when subjectively trading the setup, will prove to have dramatic results in a coded strategy

point being - it's very complicated when actually trying to code something like this