Does anyone have any good ideas for a forex algorithm? by Apollos Hill

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Hi All,

I'm fresh out of ideas. Here is a list of what i have tried.

Most indicators(EMA Cross over, MACD, BB, RSI, WILR, MOM, MOMERSION, Regression Channels, etc)

Daily, Hour Minute and Second strategies with those and others in the tutorial library.

Currency Neutral hedgeing using correlated assets like USDCHF EURUSD.

Currency Carry Trades

Using spread correlation between positively correlated assets to signal buy/sell squeezes such as AUDUSD AUDCAD...When the spread between these 2 prices travels wide from each other, you would buy one and sel lthe other.

I'm a python coder.

Looking forward to hearing your ideas.

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Jared Broad

Pro ,

What about trading economics AUD economy data; as a factor for the currency strength?

I always start with - what fundamental real-world causes impact my assets? For FX - inflation, politics, exports set the trend - then you can use technicals for short term purchasing.

Apollos Hill

9.9k Pro ,

Thanks Jared, I don't think i knew we had that data for forex. I will look into this. I'm more of a technicals guy but i guess i could try something new!

Apollos Hill

9.9k Pro ,

Jared Broad Do you know why my algo is stuck waiting for the
TradingEconomics.Calendar.UnitedStates.CoreInflationRate to find the key? (in my containsKey function)?

Alexandre Catarino

Pro ,

Hi Apollos Hill ,

I think the problem is that it is returning if usdrate or usdinfla are not present in Slice.
Maybe while it should return if usdrate and usdinfla and trade because one of the two has new data.

Apollos Hill

9.9k Pro ,

No that is not it because if i take out the usdrate or udsinfla and just trade off of the usdrate announcements, it still gets stuck at waiting for keys. Please see this backtest.

Alexandre Catarino

Pro ,

Hi Apollos Hill ,

Please make the following changes in the algorithm:

# Using the data is the same as other data types: 

if (not data.ContainsKey(self.usdrate) and

    not data.ContainsKey(self.usdinfla)):

    return

        

usdrateannouncement = data[self.usdrate] if data.ContainsKey(self.usdrate) else \

    self.Securities[self.usdrate].GetLastData()

        

usdinflaEvent = data[self.usdinfla] if data.ContainsKey(self.usdinfla) else \

    self.Securities[self.usdinfla].GetLastData()

Since the data is sparse, and it doesn't fill forward, the current code will return in either ContainsKey check for TradingEconomicsCalendas Symbol.

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