the tables I made in the Google Spreadsheets are not fully updated for this year, I have to manually add data, takes time. I can add some tables here now but realize they were last updated maybe a few months ago.  Also, some of the stats look lower this year than they actually are - what I mean is: The way Tradestation computes annual gains: let's say you have a system trade that went long on Nov 1st of last year, and that trade was held until Jan 20th. Well, what Tradestation does for the new year is uses prices from the opening of January 1st - even though the trade entry occurred on Nov 1st - so this Nov 1st to Jan 20th trade could be a massive winner, but by taking the Jan 1st prices for computing the gains for the new year, that trade might show as a loss for the year.  Again it makes sense what they are doing to compute annual, but it also can cause some confusion such as: why is SPY 78 min only up 8.5% for the year when SPY is up 10.6%?  Well the 78 min had a trade from late Oct that held over through the new year, but for the new year Jan 1st prices may have made that % showing for 2024 lower, even though the trade was entered in Oct.  By the way SPY high performance 195 min shows up 11.21%, SPY 130 min shows up 9.8%, SPY 78 min show sup 8.5% for the year. 

how I personally trade them? I have somewhat of an edge because I have them fully automated, not just the futures KISS (MES, MNQ, MYM, MCL, MGC) but these ETF's and individual stocks. Tradestation takes the trades for me, sets the stops, moves the stops, exits. I do have to babysit the stocks and ETFs automation because while the high performance KISS systems are lower time frames over the daily (30 min, 60 mn, 78 min, 130 min) which many of those trades occur during intra day where they will execute - if one of the system trades happen to be on the closing bar at 4:00 the trade will not execute because the bar is closed (and it won't enter in after hrs) so when that happens I have to manually enter - not a big deal.  

The other issue I've had with TS is that at times randomly some of these charts stop updating!  If you refresh the chart it works again but I've had 60 min, 78 min etc charts just stop updating.  So the other thing we had to build in was an alert SMS system to us Admin that tells us when one or more of these charts stop updating, alerts us to go in there and refresh them.  That's a good example as well of why all this has taken so long, all these nuances and bugs and trying to figure out workarounds etc 

long term goal: the long term goal eventually would be to do the long process of eventually converting these systems to Python thus bypassing Tradestation. Obviously we then have to get a data feed/source and pay for that. I would still use TS for some historical data and backtesting etc

I too would like to understand these concepts better.