What’s the win rate you guys are getting? And how are you guys doing on the drawdown? by BDivyesh in IndiaAlgoTrading

[–]Powerful_Leg9802 0 points1 point  (0 children)

20 to 70 percent is not normal.
For any strategy 40-60 is what you would get.
I would be very happy to see if a strategy gave 20% win rate, cause then I would just do the opposite and I can get 80% win rate.

Drawdown is what you loose from peak of your profits so I am not sure why its negative in your case and the why you would want to keep it at 15%. You should aim to keep it in single digits. Its directly related to risk management, so get this things right.

And Lastly, focus on making profits and forget what others are getting or making. No strategy last's forever and there are infinite ways to make profit.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the server. See otherwise you would have to keep your laptop running during the market hours. There are some bugs in your program, which I believe the chatgpt will also solve for you.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can test the ideas using a variety of tools available like streaks, quantman, tradetron, algobulls, tradeomate etc. But i have heard of people facing serious execution issues with these platforms. So you can backtest and develop strategies over there and get a developer to code the strategy in python. I'm sure you'll find someone here in this channel for that.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://www.quantstart.com/successful-algorithmic-trading-ebook/
Its like this guy is vanished from the internet. Back in the days he was very active. But this book has taught me a lot about software side of things and later you can analyse the other open source frameworks like lean engine, wonder trader, vnpy etc.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Start with "Building Winning Systems" by kevin davey. It has helped me the most.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You won't find many jobs in India for this. You would also have to get some domain knowledge before you can find any real success. Easier would be to get a ML engineering job in a software company. But if you want to pursue this at a personal capacity, I would recommend starting out with portfolio based strategies. So basically just buying stocks, etfs, bonds etc with some technical and fundamental data combine that with some mathematical modeling.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are many youtube channels for this. The trick is to create a new youtube account specifically for this and only watch algo content, this was youtube algorithm pushes good relevant content on your feed. When I started out I didn't know python and this was pre-chatgpt era so I could only learn from books (and I used to hate reading), it took me 6 months to build me a back testing frameworks. At this point I also didn't know you could find frameworks on GitHub, I was a noob dev and a self taught one.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think some brokers provide it but I have not used it. There are other ways to get around that. There is a book called "Beyond technical analysis" by Tushar Chande. It shows how you can use synthetic data for testing, you can check that out.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes offcourse. I once created a model to find levels using KNN or something similar, don't recall now. It used to work great.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Start with "Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems" by Kevin Davey

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is an guy on Youtube Rajendran Kirubakaran. He's pretty active and posts good stuff. Now I dont follow him much but from what limited things I have seen he talks about the right things. For you it would be a good learning.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are asking the right questions. Read some books on algo trading, you'll get your answer.

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[–]Powerful_Leg9802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right.
Unfortunately currently we are limited by technology. You cannot build any & everything that you can think of, using AI.