am trying a simple moving average strategy with crossover ( 9 & 5 ) automated strategy over a minute time frame

back testing shows a profit of $45 for one contract bought and sell over one day
will try this on the paper trading account tomorrow thanks for help everyone.

anything that works in back testing mode never works the real time data! i would like to know are automated trading strategies ever successful. does anyone have any pointers ? please suggest, which signals should i use for profit in the real world ie with the real time streaming quotes ? i hope that...

seeing the tick data with AB / multicharts results in very small lines scattered and not a single line as expected.

i am a new trader please bear with me. :) the connection is properly setup and the trading strategy is properly setup. in backtesting it shows a profit of about 2700 and with optimise it comes very close to default parameters - the technical indicators are MACD but when i run it on live account - ie...