There have been a few emails, asking me how the Bot is going, so thought a quick blog post would be good, in reply.

March, until this week, has been very tricky with the odd NY AM PA and … well you know …  Things turned around this week with a 7% win on Wednesday and 20% yesterday. Not all the testers did so well on Wednesday, due to the differences with broker price feeds, but yesterday was pretty much the same across all the testers (I haven’t been told otherwise, at time of writing).

Here’s yesterday’s trade, reproduced using the Back Tester : ​

A couple of us have Bot attempting the FTMO Challenge - I need about 2% profit to pass.  We've been running with that since October, without failing the max DD etc., but have yet to pass in terms of profit. The Bot has had weekly changes, since we started, is running on a much-reduced %risk per trade, and we switched to using my Trade Copier, a few months back, as we saw better results when copying trades from Pepperstone to FTMO: FTMO spreads can be crazy plus the confluence levels are often very different.   Despite that, I've now passed three FTMO demo challenges. by Bot trading directly on their feed, here's the latest after just four trades, (to be fair, that was very lucky} The terrible consistency score is low due to small number of trades - I'm seeing 92% on the actual challenge.

A big shout out to Peter S, in our trading group - he passed the challenge yesterday, with Bot taking that fantastic trade, and he's only been running with 0.25% risk.
​Well done Peter !!!!

As always, I remain pessimistically optimistic.   December was great, January was ok, February was a DD month for some or a tiny profit for others - very tricky.  If this month closes in profit, I'll be less pessimistic, so fingers crossed 🤞 We are also still seeing different results across the different brokers that we're testing on.  It's very frustrating for me but will look at that in more detail, when time permits.

On a different note and just a reminder: you can follow me on BlueSky since I deleted my Twitter account - I'm posting daily reviews for DAX/DOW/NASD, if you're interested: @snormtrader.bsky.social  Would be nice if I had more than four followers :)

Hope the above answers your questions, to those who have emailed ...

I think Elon Musk has totally lost the plot.  He's screwed around with Twitter and gave it a stupid name.  He's pissed off most of his Tesla customers with his far-right views, His unfathomable interference with European politics and destruction of US government bodies, through DOGE, is just gobsmacking.  Don't even get me started on his recommendation that the USA should leave NATO. or his man-love relationship with the orange idiot or or or ....   What a plonker!!!  

I had much respect and admiration for Musk when I owned my own Tesla Model S, but there's no way I would buy another Tesla.  Similarly, I can't continue to support him as owner of what was once a good social media platform called Twitter. These days it seems to be full of tyrannical despot bots (not the type of bot that I've been working on for a year or so) or idiots that support extremist right-wing politics and world destruction.  

My little gesture of a finger to Musk is to move from Twitter/X onto Bluesky.  I've never posted much nor had a big following but it's a good way for me to share updates or other news, for my small loyal customer base. 

If you'd like to join me on Bluesky, I'm: @snormtrader.bsky.social

If all goes well and I remember to do it, I'll be posting some of the DAX/DOW/NASD pre-market reviews that I do for our trading group. And ... that's another thing ... Skype will be no more come May, much to my dismay, so we'll no longer be the Skype Trading Group but rather the Elements on Matrix Trading Group - doesn't quite have the same ring about it, 

If you're wondering where that image of Musk came from - I  can't take credit for it - you can read about it here: https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/donald-trump-elon-musk-germany-float-nazi-putin-492104-20250304
I hope they don't mind me using the pic.

ATM and eWH have been updated so they no longer use DLL files and and the licence database has been moved to what we hope will be a more reliable server.

Both can be downloaded from their respective installation pages.