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Future Simulator (https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/236660) - innovative automatic trading system.

Trades are triggered by patterns specially designed to detect a safe moment to enter the market.
Each trade is actively monitored and closed by an advanced system containing different levels of performance.

Trading pairs: EURUSD, AUDUSD, GBPUSD, USDCAD, USDJPY, USDCHF, EURAUD, EURCAD, EURCHF, EURGBP, EURJPY, EURNZD and NZDUSD.

Start-up thread: How much money I could make from investors? (https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=644578)

Future Simulator - May 2017

Profit: 203 Eur, 6.33%
Trades: 683
Exposure:
EURCAD has the biggest dd but is not so problematic as the volume is small for a long distance.
USDCAD and EURUSD have the volume a little bit higher but on USDCAD 0.04 Lots and on EURUSD 0.03 Lots are opened in less then 100 pips.
This is a healthy dd with no amount blocked by a hedge. The system adapted it's trades and this could be easily seen on the trades summary, no long trades for EURCAR, USDCAD, EURUSD and no short trades for AUDUSD in order to avoid blocking trades/amounts by a hedge. Each pair has the same treatment when necessary, for short or long periods of time.
It is possible that this long distance trades will not be profitable too soon. I am looking to apply an efficient method to stop the problematic trades.

From 1st of June 2017 high accuracy trades will have a dynamic volume, bigger than 0.01 lots.
I could break this statistics at the granularity of the pattern/trades but I don't see it necessary at this moment.

Subscribe to Future Simulator (https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/236660) signal and enjoy stable profits with only 30 usd/month.

When I looked this morning at Future Simulator I asked immediately to myself: it's already weekend? couldn't be that ... but no trades were made. Later in the day the system made 4 successful trades, 2x NZDUSD, GBPUSD and USDCAD.
The day is not done yet!

The month of June started in a low gear, on the 1st week: 0.3% growth = 10 eur, 4 trades still open.
From 4 out of 29 trades that were closed were with a bigger volume, 0.02. This trades were supposed to be high accurate. I can see the statistics on 3 of them and them show 100% entry and exit accuracy!

Future Simulator (https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/236660) trades between 1st and 8th of June:
Growth: 54 eur, 1.4% (the account is almost 4k now).
Closed: 139
Ongoing: 3x NZDUSD and 1x EURCAD

The dynamic trade volume operation on the high accuracy trades is still ongoing. So far is giving a very nice return. I could trade only the high accuracy trades but I am not doing it as the other trades are helping me to develop the system in a profitable way. I have already some solutions for the problematic trades and will be included in the near future.

I added a few comments on the Growth / Trades graph.

Today:
- the dd drop under 10%, then went up to almost 14% and now is dropping again under 10%. I can't say that I am enthusiastic about it as some of the locked trades are having a nice return from the swap!
- active day, more than 25 eur growth increase.

The dd dropped to 8.5%! Nice but there is no reason to party as it is very interesting to watch what will happen at this level. The system should be adjusted to adapt.

What exactly do I mean?

We have a loosing trade from level x till level y = x+200(?)
A new trade rive at level y in the same direction -> is loosing till level z = y+100 (?)
We have a DD of 400 units.
Then the trend reverse, trade from level z is closed.

How the system should trade? Are there any problematic zones? What if it goes to level x+100 and here is a loosing trade and the rate is back to last max dd ... the dd will be higher ... It might be there rate will never reach the 1st loosing trade one. There are many things to take into account in order to have a great system with stable profit!

Today the system passed 1k growth on the balance, with an equity profit/floating dd at 600/400.

It's been 8 months since Future Simulator started and profitability keeps on going. Every deal is a profitable deal.
This week I was planning a big update on the system but I will have to delay it a little bit due to a nice life event.

About two months ago Future Simulator started to trade on 7 new pairs and things went wrong right from the start. This gave me new ideas to implement filters and make the system adapt and I can say that it really worked.

What do I see when I look at the current problematic trades?
Good return from the swap ... haha, not only this!
The majority of the problematic trades are on the new trading pairs!
Why???
Future Simulator is a very complex system! A lot of talk and I will cut it short. To add new trading pairs it required a lot of time to spend to make patterns configurations, etc etc. For the first pairs I did it manually but for the new pairs, to speed up things I created code to generate code and this patterns configurations.

There is always a safe path to walk on and in right and left a big depth. The further you go from the safe path the closer the depth is. The safe path is not so big, therefore some risks should be taken! I didn't see it when I generate the code for the new pairs and some patterns configurations had more risks inside (but I also added some clever things inside too). I figured it out long time ago but I didn't react as the benefits were bigger than the risks.

With the new update that I am planning, Future Simulator will know more about the safe and danger path and will trade with dynamic volume accordingly. It already started to trade with dynamic volume and it is doing a good job, but this is just the beginning!

Don't get scared, but if it the case please read again the first line!

When will you start to trade with me?

Future Simulator (https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/236660) - June 2017

Profit: 267 Eur, 6.92%
Trades: 558

The exposure has reduced to fewer pairs:
EURCAD - the dd reduced to 50% compare to last month, being now 2.72%.
EURUSD - has the biggest dd of 4% in a volume of 0.06 Lots.
The remaining open pairs have less than 2%: EURGBP - 1.78%, NZDUSD - 1.75%, USDCAD - 1.65% and USDCHF - 0.42%.

In June I started to use dynamic volume on trades with high accuracy. Despite the fact that the system made with 125 less trades compare to previous month the volume was with 2.35 Lots more and due to this fact the system made more profit.

As I already said in a previous post, a big update on the system will happen soon.

I made today the big update on the Future Simulator (https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/236660) system.
The trades will have the volume from 0.01 to 0.10.

Today about 50% of the possible trades were not opened due to some filters that keeps the drawdown healthy. Considering the fact that the trades are having a bigger accuracy, I will have to do some improvements here as the waste of trades is quite high.

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All the trades opened this month were also closed, making 48 eur profit where 32 eur were made after I made the system update. Also, this month started quiet on events.


(A user from forexfactory asked me a means to trial test my system, this is the only way I could do it in a copy signal solution. Should the user see this message, I will send my full reply in 24h ... apparently I can send only one message in 24h on ff, ...)

A little bit messy at this moment. None of the trades that are still open are high accuracy ones.

As from 15th of July the minimum price on signals will be 30 usd/month I will start to increase the subscription price with 1 usd every day, making the transition smoother!

Should you want to trade with me or test the system at a low cost, don't miss this price chance!
The new price is now 21 usd / month.

Don't forget: unexpected can always happen!

I increased today the capital, no reason to delay the event. I might double it soon. It's true that the % stats will be affected (better dd but lower growth) but I can live with that. In the end, I spend money and not percents.

Last week the system had about 87 'signal waves' (that triggered 129 trades with a volume of 3.55 lot, about 40% more volume than previous week). The trades from 2 signal waves were not closed. The volume was bigger than usual and the max dd on those trades was around 250 eur (don't take this info 100% accurate).
It is the same pattern responsible for these not closed trades. It will get punished, maybe by let it trade with minimum amount for a while.

This morning I made a small update to tell the system about my victims and I included EURGBP in the list too. Today, EURJPY and EURGBP had trades and them are still open because I wanted to be like that.

I lowered the USDCAD dd with about 10%, a profit that is currently locked. On USDCHF I lowered the dd with about 30%, same thing as USDCAD.

The main scope is to remove the floating dd, it will not happen over the night.
I am also busy with adding new patterns to the system. Even if I automated a lot the process it is still a time consuming operation.

I used the locked profit from USDCAD and USDCHF to mark a close in profit of the trades from USDCHF - sort of a profitable basket closing. It's true that I closed trades with no connection between them but I wanted to have a profitable close and a pair exposure removed.

Due to the fact that EURBGP was ranging yesterday several times and I didn't closed the profitable trades because I hoped to remove the exposure here too, today I closed the EURGBP trades that were profitable. Good decision looking at what just happened on this pair. I entered again where the closed trades were open, not a good action...

The EURNZD entry was not closed and became a floating dd. The floating dd could have been lowered or even the trades could have been profitable but so far I haven't made something in this direction.

Almost all my profit is now a floating dd. I can't say I am happy about this event but I see it in a positive way as it will make me do more in this direction.

Latest changes:

AUDUSD, EURCHF, GBPUSD, USDCHF and USDJPY (because no open trades)
- added a very very light version of a system that will deal with the loosing trades.
- less profit will be taken from the new trades.

EURJPY, EURGBP, USDCAD, EURNZD, EURUSD and EURAUD (because open trades)
- the trades will be closed in a different way.

NZDUSD and USDCAD
- nothing special

I will do different manual operations too.

This is just a start-up, many changes should follow and the trading pairs will have different treatment.
Should you trade with me, it's at your choice.

Today my dd and the volume exposure was reduced by almost 40% (but is still high). It was not really because of what I did, it was mostly due to the trend reversal of some pairs. I prepared different scenarios to limit the dd in case things go worse but the activation of them was limited. The inconvenient on limiting the exposure is that it can slow the way out from the problematical trades. I see different ways of scaling the trades, practice should follow.

A trade on USDCHF is now under my way out system, but pair is moving slow.
The number of trades has been reduced in the last weeks, specially this week, maybe due to the holiday period. I can assure you that Future Simulator in not on holiday. More than that, a full bunch of patterns and changes to initiate new trades are under preparation.

Today I marked a 40 eur profit. It could have been more but going out from the trades was the main priority. I am not looking to trade manually in this account, most of my manual actions are following some ideas that will be automated.
The profit that Future Simulator is taking from the trades is well defined. I will look for trades that will follow the trend in the near future as it could be much more profitable.

My current way out system is not too efficient but I didn't expect much from it. Basically the main scope was to have one attempt to exit in the same direction or lower the exposure if no success so that the dd don't get too high and also allowing a later exit in the same direction. After a few cases I see different ways to scale the trades and also mark profit at certain levels as it might not exit from the first attempt. I did a little practice and a lot of 'trade in mind'. What is now is nothing compare to where I would like to arrive with this way out system.

A summary of today:
- 75 eur profit.
- same dd as yesterday.
- less volume exposed (including the new trades that are not yet closed).
- I did some damage too in the sense that I reversed the exposure from one side to the other one, but less volume or blocked some trades making slower a profitable way out.
- I was very close to give up about 25 eur and close a trade of 0.04 lot on EURGBP but finally I will decided to keep it because it wouldn't have released all the pair. I still have a 2 x 0.01 lot since two months on the other direction that costs 83 eur.

All the worse goes to worse. The dd got high again, I have the feeling that I create more damage than great things, but OK, it's work in progress, I'll figure it out.

The way out system can be very complicated, associating a lot of properties to a trade OR it can very simple. That's right, it can be very simple! Since long time my conclusion on the trades that Future Simulator makes is that when is wrong in a trade is badly wrong. Since the beginning it closed more than 3500 trades and the percentage of the still open ones is very low.
Therefore, identifying those bad trades and leveraging in the other direction might be a better solution. In fact, this solution would have been successful in the majority of the existing cases. I will do something in this direction.

On USDCAD I think I will let it fall freely if it will be the case, maybe double than I currently have and then go with some bigger volume trades to cover the current loss. I hope to let the system act upon the detection of high accuracy trades and not do something myself. Few more trades might arrive, no restrictions on this pair. Currently I have on USDCAD about 170 eur on 0.05 lot.

What a day!
I updated today Future Simulator system, added new set of changes to initiate trades. I am planning to do updates more often as it takes time to prepare a major release, and also, there is no point in waiting.

Today was the USDJPY day with 28 closed trades, two still open, all coming from the new update. I see nothing special on this pair today, but I'm not the expert.

There are some wrong trades on other pairs ... but OK, it's a full package and work in progress to sort them out.