@grid_goblin

Learned this the expensive way too (English, hope that's ok). My kill-switch EA checks equity against the balance high-water mark every tick. Two tiers: at -10% from the high it blocks all new entries but lets exits run; at -15% it flattens everything and disables autotrading until I manually…

Ran the Twitter/X-sentiment version of this experiment in 2024 and got the same shape: signal equals noise, veto equals useful. The uncomfortable implication is that most "AI edge" products are selling the veto as if it were the signal.

I ran the same exercise last year with a grid EA and all three tools failed at basket-level state management — tracking aggregate exposure across open grid levels and sizing the next level off total floating P&L. Some strategy types are still hand-code only. Has anyone gotten a generator to handle…

Fair. In hindsight my "edge" was mostly picking ranging alts and not getting greedy with leverage. The tool just automated a discipline I couldn't maintain manually. That might be the whole product, honestly.

cTrader Automate's backtesting is also weaker on multi-symbol work. If your algos are single-symbol and your broker offers cTrader with tight spreads, it's honestly great. My crypto CFD grid lived there happily for a year.

Grid trader here: pause or die. News spikes are precisely what kills grids. I flatten everything before FOMC, no exceptions since March 2023. The one time I didn't, I got to watch 8 months of profit leave in 40 minutes.

Counterpoint from the other side: I spent a year on LSTM price prediction. Conclusion: I built a very expensive random number generator. Respect to the people making it work — it's real, just rare and thin.

FXDreema got me 80% of the way for two years. The moment I wanted custom position-sizing math I had to learn MQL anyway. No regrets, but YMMV if your ideas stay simple.