How to Build a Strategy on the Algorithmic Trading Software (ATS) - YouTube

Hello everybody this video is to show you how to create a new strategy using

the drop-down menus on Tradinsights ATS powered by Tekton so the screen you will

see when you first log in will look like something like this, depending on how

long you've had the system for. This is one that we've had for a couple of days

or so so we've got one or two strategies already running on it

if you're starting from scratch this will say zero and you'll have nothing

here so the first thing we do is we click create new strategy EurUsd is the

default, if we change the currency pair here in order to write a strategy we use

the add algorithm feature here so we click Add algorithm and it opens up this

particular dialog box so I'm just going to spend a couple of minutes going

through how you would build a strategy and I'm gonna use a moving average cross

so for example when the 50 moving average crosses above the 200 I want to

buy and when the 50 moving average crosses below the 200 I want to sell so

we already have when so the first thing we need to do is we need to write when

the moving averages across so we have the indicators here we have a number

here the reason we have a number here is because sometimes you might want the

stochastic to cross below the 80 or to cross up above the 20 or price to move

10 pips you can use that function there the compare function is simply to say

less than more than crosses above crosses below etc arithmetic is plus or

minus so you can say when price is minus the moving average a buyer or a price is

plus the moving average by a number of pips and this is where you can go and

once you've written a condition you can go and this "and" that so you've got three

conditions dictating as to whether you trade or not or you can put here "or" so you

might have a moving average cross "or" when the 20 crosses the 50 or

something like that so you can actually add "or" "and" or "and" or "or" to your

conditions and then the action is simply to be Buy, Sell, Close Buy or Close Sell. Let me

just write the conditions the first thing we'll do is make this it's a 50

crossing the 200 so we go here and we select the indicators that we want so

we're going to use moving average you can simply drop the menu down till you

find it or you can type MOV and it will come up for you, type in the period you

wish so this is 50 it's an EMA you can choose EMA SMA or WMA a weighted MA and

click apply so now let's put that in there now we click the compare remember

the less than more then more than 8 equal to less than or equal to equals

this is crosses below the same thing again moving average 200

and the action so we've got that when the moving average 50 crosses below the

moving average 200 we know that's what we call a dead cross we want to sell so

the action would be to sell and that's completed the algorithm. Add algorithm

again for the buy so when FX indicators that moving average this time it is 50

,apply, crosses above this time moving average 200

we are just simply using the drop-down menus to decide what you want so you've

got the sell and you've got the buy you can view them if you're a bit unsure

about them no problem and later when available we can copy those the clipboard and bring them

into other strategies. Here is where we trade so I said let's say we put in 20

and 80 so run it s a 4 to 1 choose the currency pair you wish so this one will

use euro dollar we'll keep it euro dollar and we'll trade it on a 15-minute

chart now we can save it so we call it EMA cross and you can put here strategy

description so this is a 15 across this 200 bidirectional safe so when you go

there strategy description on the beginning screen you'll have that

already done so we've now got the condition written here we've got the

risk management here the drawdown is where you can put a number of pips have

drawdown so you can put that 500 there so if the system does go below 500 pips it

will draw it will stop but for a back test we don't need that and now we can

set and run the test and back tests. So back testing is very simple we either

choose all data or we choose specific dates ok so we click all data and run

the test and that's now running the tests

So while that's running the test what that's doing is is going back through

all of the data we have on the EurUsd currency pair charts on a

15-minute period every time the 50 moving average crosses the 200 from

either above to below I here or below to above what the outcome would have been

have it taken a trade with 20 pip stop 80 pip target I expect it to be a

slightly this slightly geared to more losing trades but remember every winning

trades are four to one reward to the risk so we can have as low as 30%

success rate and still be profitable because we've got a four to one reward

to risk. So what it's doing is it's just running the test it takes about a minute

or so and then once you're happy you can start to let the thing run live by

clicking start trading and that's how simple ATS is it really is a simple

system using the drop-down menus on how to build algorithms if you build an

algorithm that doesn't quite compute it won't let you do it because it will

actually give you a zero result on back tests so it's not something you can

break okay so we've got here 640 pips of profit okay so not huge not a loss okay

there's the equity curve so over a period this year this year is very good

this year was very good indeed okay so the most recent data which is here

through the beginning of January is that its been a very very successful

strategy here so as you can see it was a bit flat for a year or two but at least

it gives you the ability to see what happened over a period of time

so that's video shows you how to create the strategy if you want to create

another one for example at Bollinger Bands

it's very simple create new strategy and to help the rhythm and you can use any

of these drop-down menus for example if you choose the Bollinger Bands it

relates put the parameters of the Bollinger Bands in if you put them back

then it will allow you to change the settings of the MACD moving

average we've seen if it's just a simple price strategy that's fine

this is go back once if you make a mistake you can go back they should look

up one more scene for you thank you the test bar so when the test bar so high

test bar and the body is in the bottom third you can do that you can use help

the channels community channels commodity channel index is, ADX is a

good one it allows you to choose the value type over use in the ADX or the

directional indicator positive or directional indicator negative so that's

how to build a strategy I hope it's been informative for those of you that asked

me to do a video on how to build a strategy it's a case of just playing

with this system and finding stuff that works for you if you want to automate

your existing strategies that you you're using you can if you're finding it

difficult contact us as i'll be more than happy to help you build those

Thanks for watching and Bye for now