Live Trading Heiken Ashi +TDI Strategy Test

After starting to use Heiken Ashi for the last few weeks I decided to venture from the calendar into the wilderness of the forums.
Fortuntely I came across https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...ng-made-simple which clarified a few things, and gave me some tips and inspiration to try out some new strategies and also some variations on existing ones.

And so he're I'll be testing with a real account some new strats and tracking the results good or bad.
Hopefully good.

FTR this is an exisiting acct i use for experimental purposes with gold trades unrelated (so far) to HA strategies and will soon be discontinued.
And in case you're wondering the acct balance is 7k.

Currently open EJ short, US500 short ans as200 long.



All comments related to trading, sepcially HA and TDI welcome.

I have a few trades across different account. Another reason for this thread is to bring them all in this account so i can track them.

Trades are mainly on 12H charts, sometimes daily and sometimes 4-8H.
The method is:
- Not trade often
- Trade many pairs
- Exits may be different signal than entry
- No predictions TA or targets, go with the tide.

Some trades open but not on this account, show trading method.

Closed EJ for 38 pips profit according to trade explorer.
But what actually happened was a partial take profit and TE merged the 2 together after the last one closed.



Also closed an AU trade for a small loss. I looked at the chart and thought "WTF was that for", and so instant close.
And wait for next trade.

Current postions:
still short AU200 and US500
Short EURJPY
Short USDJPY

All on 12H charts, may swith to 8H and 4H if markets get crazy, but I don't think any changes till tomorrow morning my time.

Happy trades

Closed EJ and UJ for a small profit. Momentum is gone and swaps being charged.
Closed US500 no more momentum.
Closed half of AU200

Short EU and long NU

Week 2.
Closed some trades, some gains some losses, eneding up with a small loss so nothing to rave on about.
Still calibrating the system and in less than ideal market conditions hopefully it improves.

And so this week starts with
Long AU200, US500, US30, AU, EU, NU and GU.

Short UJ, EJ, AJ, UC

party on

Took partial proifits on UJ 93pips and GU 40pips. Now just Let the trades run their course.

About 0.5% gain.

Big reversal on the JPY pairs. Pretty much taking back today's gains.
So far other trades not so bad.

Adjust start of data at 17 Aug. Some stats look worse but they not my focus.

HA TMI strategy slightliy positive as I still calibrate and adjust risks settings.

My plan is also narrow down pairs traded to 3 or 4.

USDCAD ha had a good run and looks like slowing down in momentum


EJ also looks like slowing in momentum

Nice thing about 12H charts is that all that fuss is just a blip on the screen and does'nt change any trades.


Though it's nice watching the board light up and go crazy for a few mins.

After almost 2 months of trading results are improving as entries/exits and filters are calibrated for traded pairs.
There a few other systems running in this sandbox so I have to exclude gold, GJ and GU even though a few trades were taken using HA/TDI.

Profits & losses for traded pairs:

AUD/USD$304
AUS/200 $245
Us300 $116
USD/JPY$80
NZD/JPY$68
USD/CHF$63
Us500$63
NZD/USD$56
EUR/CHF$51
EUR/NZD$38
EUR/USD$22
GBP/AUD$20
AUD/CHF$19
EUR/AUD$11
EUR/JPY0$8
Uk100 $1
EUR/CAD -$6
GBP/CAD-$8
EUR/GBP-$13
De40-$14
CAD/CHF -$24
CHF/JPY-$45
AUD/JPY-$46
NZD/CHF-$67
USD/CAD -$72
GBP/NZD -$90
CAD/JPY -$96
GBP/JPY -$111

Tot= $573 profit which is 8.1% profit on the initial 7k balance. Not bad so I'll keep this going.
Hard to tell exact drawdown but I'll guess around 2-3% which is good.
The other systems will soon be phased out which will make results clearer.

Some improvements as the entries and exits get a little more fine tuned to some more volatility.
Some good trades and a few bad ones. And some partial profits taken as well.







Also on the same account a gold trading AI that thinks hedging avoids losses. I have no idea where it got that from.
It makes a 50% profit with a 50% drawdown and thinks more hedge trades will close the gap.

Pips everywhere today, the trend is my friend. Well at least sometimes.

I'm having a good run as the trend continues.
If the RBA raises tomorrow there should be a few more gains.
The hard part is locking in as much profits as possible without getting shaken out by a run on the stops.

AUDCHF 14 consecutive blu bars.


NZDCHF 21 blu bars


USDCAD got some momentum


Nasdaq 11 blu bars 829 pips


1228 pip on the DOW

Most interesting, most impressive - I guess I have never before seen anybody trade H12 with TMS. Any chance that you will explain explicitly your approach?

Thanks

Impressive result. Looking forward for more sharing.

I assume "TMS" is short for the "trading made simple" thread.
I'm a trend follower. Been doing it for many years and used to be active on oanda forums many years ago using candles ans MAs.
After using HA for a bit I came here to have a look at what others were doing and the "trading made simple" thread fast tracked my getting used to HA charts and I replaced RSI with TDI.

I keep things very very simple. i start broad and slowly narrow the system.
So in the simplest form I'm looking for a trend.
I want to buy when the HA turns blue and hopefully stay long for as long as it stays blue.
And when blue turns red I sell and hope for a million red bars. Though happy to take whatever comes along.

Next step is look for filters and time frames that could improve entries. The less the better.
I like using RSI. TDI is more graphic.

Then find the best markets to trade with your filters.
Last step is money management, trade size and risk.

That's it. Simple but not always easy. Give it a go.

Last few days have been a good a run, and what happens next with trend following is small profits and losses until the next trend comes along.

I found an old blog entry that shows what my style of trading usually looks like.

Swing Trading eur/usd
Friday, June 20th, 2008
This is a mehcanical system, there will be plenty losing trades, at least ~50-60%.
trades so far:
June 11, Sold @ 1.5762 Buy @ 1.5523 profit = 239 pips
June 12 2008 Sold @ 1.5536 profit = 13 pips P/L = +252 pips
June 12 2008 Buy @ 1.5465 profit = 71 pips P/L = +323 pips
June 13, 2008 Sold @ 1.5418 trade loss = -46 pips P/L = +277 pips
June 13, 2008 Buy @ 1.5348 trade profit = +70 pips P/L = 394
June 17, 2008 Sold @ 1.5499 trade profit = +151 pips P/L = +545 pips
June 18, 2008 Buy @ 1.5517 trade loss = -18 pips P/L = +527
June 18, 2008 Sold @ 1.5485 trade loss = -32 pips P/L = +495
June 18, 2008 Buy @ 1.5538 trade loss = -53 pips P/L = +442
June 18, 2008 Sold @ 1.5495 trade loss = -43 pips P/L = +399
June 19, 2008 Buy @ 1.5532 trade loss = -37 pips P/L = +362
June 19, 2008 Sold @ 1.5515 trade loss = -17 pips P/L = +345
June 19, 2008 Buy @ 1.5507 trade profit = +8 pips P/L = +353
June 19, 2008 Sold @ 1.5482 trade loss = -25 pips P/L = +328
June 20, 2008 Buy @ 1.5519 trade loss = -37 pips P/L = +291

DE40 is now up for 17 consecutive 12h bars.
TDI is currently crossed, could the big run be over?
Just a retracement?
We'll find out soon.

USDJPY dropped 200pips today! Fortunately I was short.
Lots of volatility so I keep my stops closer. The opposite what most recommend.

A coupe new trades
AudChf


And AudUsd


and the numbers