Automated Trading & ONLY Auto Trading

Hello everyone!

I propose that this thread is dedicated ONLY to automated trading and, accordingly, there can be no debate here about comparisons, differences, advantages and disadvantages between discretionary and automatic ...

For automated trading, I mean the development of a strategy, in a coded language, executed by software that automatically generates the signals sent to a broker account.
I am not talking about automated trading that is to perform hand signals communicated by a signal provider or by a machine.
I don't speak about automated trading that would be to choose a strategy among a catalog from a broker or a supplier.
And I do not want to talk about using blackbox which is already extensively covered on the web.

I wish this thread is a meeting place between the automated trading players.
I want to trade for tips and tricks around the automated trading.
I would like each post provides relevant information on the automated trading and automated trading only...

I do not expect posts explaining why the automatic trading is to prohibit, but rather posts that explain what you use as tools and processes, the motivations of your choice, what problems you encountered and what solutions you have mostly found ...
In short, it seems interesting to learn and share about the backtest, optimization, real time tests, problems of non-executed orders, samples of test, methodologies and processes, and monitoring of operation, and maintenance of the system ... This eliminates all digressions about the advantage of discretionary trading ...

Finally, it seems more useful to read concrete elements, is likely to advance the knowledge of everyone, rather than philosophical essays on the subject ...

Are you interested in this topic?

Much appreciated. :-) Most people here lack experience with automation. Auto-trading is very different from manual trading, and you start to realize it not before you tried to run a strategy over 30 days including weekends. Auto-trading means not to baby-sit a system 4h or more a day. Instead you are absent and only notified of events by some kind of messaging service. Such development requires advanced knowledge in programming, networks, server administration and general system redundancy.

Most people here don't know how to login into a VPS and when you seriously start with automation you quickly realize that in reality a rented VPS will not do it anyway.

What is your experience with automated trading?

Looking forward to comments of people who are experienced in auto trading.
Thank you for the thread.

In fact, I think that most traders who really want to understand the market refuse automated trading, because I think it is very relaxing and trading eventually turns into some passive and totally uncontrolled process, which can be much more risky than the classical trading. It seems to me that it is very important to control every action you take, to think ahead, so that you can clearly understand in any situation what you are going to do and how to fix something that went wrong. If you are constantly dependent on something or someone, it will be difficult for you to make your own decisions, and your area of responsibility will be very limited, although for someone it can be useful, everything is relative.