Swing Trading Algorithm: How We Built & Made It Profitable! ft. Alejandro Pérez

In episode 214 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, I sit down with Alejandro to talk about the story and process we went through developing our algo portfolio and more specifically the BB R Trading Algo.

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In This Episode, You'll Learn... Topic intro 00:22

• Why Etienne needed an algo 01:10
• How we got to work together 04:51
• Story of the Trading Assistant development 08:09
• Difficulties and issues we found along the way 10:04
• SPONSOR: Soft4FX (manual backtesting software for MT4) 17:05
• How we determined that something worked or not in the algo18:15
• How to make sure your algo is trading as it should 20:26
• The importance in testing and letting go when developing a strategy 25:00
• Learn from the masters and then make it yours 26:54
• How Alejandro learned to code for himself 28:28
• Mixing Human discretion with Algo trading (this is what top prop firms are doing) 35:13
• Example results from the BB Reversal algo portfolio 42:27
• The value of compounding in a portfolio 46:07
• And much more!

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Resources Mentioned

• FXPro Quant App (free algo builder)
• TickDataSuite (high-quality data for algo backtest on MT4)
• MT4 ReportManager
• SPONSOR: Soft4FX (manual backtesting software for MT4)

Charts and Images discussed

Telegram Alert Example 8:40

BB R Algo Portfolio Backtest Results 42:27

BB R Algo Portfolio Compounding Backtest 46:07

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