214: Swing Trading Algorithm: How We Built & Made It Profitable! Etienne Crete & Alejandro Pérez

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.   >> Watch the video recording! 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! What is one thing you are going to implement after listening to this podcast? Leave a comment below, or join me in the Facebook group! 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   DesireToTRADE's Top Resources DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!) Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist One-Page Trading Plan (free template) Recommended brokers: AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus) Pepperstone (special signup offer) SCM (Scandinavian Capital Markets) Desire To TRADE Academy About The Desire To Trade Podcast Subscribe via iTunes (take 2 seconds and leave the podcast a review!) Subscribe via Stitcher Subscribe via TuneIn Subscribe via Google Play See all podcast episodes Where to find Alejandro Pérez! Email Twitter Desire To TRADE Academy What is one thing you are going to implement after listening to this podcast episode? Leave a comment below, or join me in the Facebook group!