Day 26 of Live Algo Day Trading Journal
Day 26: It turned out to be a good trending day today. Right from the morning the market decided to fall and kept falling. Yesterday I had tweaked my algo to take entry on pullback. Unfortunately, the morning pullback was not strong enough to get me a signal, so missed the morning trade. However, algo caught the afternoon pullback and gave me a good profit of around half a percent.
Internet consistency is an issue which is pestering me since long (now I realise that its this thing which made all my algos go wrong when I used to subscribe to other algo developers/websites). Will have to do something to raise an alarm or a flag whenever there is a drop in internet.
This drop made me take two manual decisions - one to get out when I saw that all the exit levels were broken and yet I was not getting any signal (that's when I realised that the data is not coming) and second time when algo did take the entry (because of wrong data), and then I got anxious as there wasn't enough time left and thought that the market might reverse as everyone would start closing their positions.
Progress : stuck to algo and let it run its course
Setback : Took manual decisions and got panicky/anxious when there wasn't enough time left.
Internet consistency is an issue which is pestering me since long (now I realise that its this thing which made all my algos go wrong when I used to subscribe to other algo developers/websites). Will have to do something to raise an alarm or a flag whenever there is a drop in internet.
This drop made me take two manual decisions - one to get out when I saw that all the exit levels were broken and yet I was not getting any signal (that's when I realised that the data is not coming) and second time when algo did take the entry (because of wrong data), and then I got anxious as there wasn't enough time left and thought that the market might reverse as everyone would start closing their positions.
Progress : stuck to algo and let it run its course
Setback : Took manual decisions and got panicky/anxious when there wasn't enough time left.
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