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Trading

  • Analysing a continuous contract to trade a futures

    Sentient Trader needs the data from a continuous contract because it needs to look back many years in order for it to perform an analysis. But the actual trading has to happen on the trading platform ...

  • Using Sentient Trader to trade Binary Options

    We are often asked whether Sentient Trader can be used to trade binary options. Binary options usually have a fixed time span, or a deadline at which time the trade is closed. To trade them successful...

  • Short trade with target above (or long trade with target below) the entry level

    Sometimes Sentient Trader will present a trade opportunity that is either a short trade with a target above the entry level or a long trade with a target below the entry level. Although this may look ...

  • Why do I have the wrong initial equity?

    ST calculates the initial equity by taking the current equity and subtracting the total profit (or adding the total loss). If a chart has a record of all trades, and the current equity is correct then...

  • How to build a trade history (backtesting)

    Building Trading Histories - the Matrix Analyzer One of the most common questions that new users of Sentient Trader ask is can I back-test the software? The answer is, Yes, sort of. You can perform so...

  • Why doesn't Sentient Trader make any trades?

    If you find that Sentient Trader is making no trades (whether when working in real time or when building a trading history), then you should look at the Trading Journal to see what is going on. Note t...