Hi guys,
so, I tested this strategy for about 3 months, automated. I've tried it on 1 hour and 1 day charts mostly. I've learned that it's generally more effective to have a higher stoploss than limit, by at least a factor 3.
Overall all accounts that I left fully automated ran into losses at some point. However, I've used an hourly one semi-manually where I get an email when the strategy opens a position. I then disable the strategy and manually finish the trade with set limits of 35 pips profit, 120 pips loss. I sometimes open secondary positions if the trade goes into -50 pips and move the stoploss down.
I started with a 50$ account, and it's at 209$ now, and has never used more than 50% margin.
Also, I've tested it without any settings for stop/loss or margin, and I've noticed it will just keep opening positions continuously. When the general trend is in a certain direction, this will mean it will open more positions in that direction, and never close them because it won't open positions in the opposite direction. In other words if you monitor it well, you can get huge profits, but the risk is also pretty severe.
Konstantin, have you looked at the Ichimoku as a possible basis for your strategy, instead of MACD? I've been using that together with your strategy and it is getting me more profitable results.
Possibly, is there some way you could make your strategy so that it can validate against 2 charts? For example:
IF trend on daily chart is down AND trend of hourly chart is down: OPEN SHORT
That way you could trade hourly charts, but never go against the daily trends.
Hope my feedback is usable