Greetings to all!
Although VJF is presented as an easy tool for non-programmers to build strategies with I am unable to get started developing some trading hypotheses.
At this point I need to hire a programmer or I would need the following:
I've found that, under Development there is a step by step JavaSE strategy building tutorial called Simple Strategy:
https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/en/devel ... e-strategyThis tutorial is much more detailed and gradual (step by step) than the videos supplied for Visual JF.
Now, I would like to request a similar step by step tutorial for VJF. It should be written not in video format and more detailed than the current written VJF instructions and it should cover the step by step creation of a strategy, from including the account, equity, margin, position parameters to introducing variables and so on.
The strategy itself might be simple but we could later improve upon it by adding more blocks. Where I'm lost is in the how to begin and what to include and how in the beginning of the strategy, which Simple Strategy seems to do in Java.
I think such an effort might be welcome in our community of Java illiterates and it would allow us to experiment with trading hypotheses that are not verifiable without a testable strategy. That is it would allow us to answer questions like the following: What percentage of times, after the preceding 1hr bar has closed in the green (Close>Open) does a long position entered at the 5 minute countertrend low (by MACD or Stochastics or RSI?) produce a profit of n pips vs. a loss of n pips?
These kinds of questions would help in live trading as well as allow for automated strategy creation.
I hope this request is not something that most readers of this forum find ridiculous or useless, in which case I apologize for the sorry state of my intellect, but it's what I would need in order to take advantage of VJF.
Thank you,
RadarTradar