Atomic Trader Usage InstructionsHome tab

The Tools panel is used by the end user to choose the markets of his interest that he wants to trade.

SUGGESTED

This is the primary tool to be used at this point. Under the SUGGESTED Tab is a list of high performance markets that have been selected according to specific start date and interval to give an exceptionally high performance returns. Simply select any of these then click the “Compute” button and it will add it to your Portfolio.

There is a limit of 10 markets that can be added to the Portfolio at any one time. (If you would like to trader more markets than 10 for wider diversification, extra markets can be added at a cost of $5/month to pay for the additional resource use.)

Add these high performance markets to your Portfolio, and the current trade, stop loss will show in the Portfolio window. You can go to the BackTest tab to look at the historical performance statistics there to see the results of the backtest

trading. When a market is added into your Portfolio, you will receive automated emails giving you the buy and sell signals for each markets in your Portfolio.

CUSTOM

This Tab will be evolved to a higher function soon. Currently you can select any market and pick one of the 2 algorithms and time period and fill out the variables listed below to test various markets. HOWEVER, we now have a dedicated server with a market scanner that searches ALL markets for the best start dates, and time intervals which give the highest performance. Since there are so many possible variables, it is more efficient to have the automated scanner select search for the best combination.

Within the next couple upgrades, we will have a list of best performance dates and indicators for EVERY markets, so you will simply select your market of interst and will be automatically given all the best performance options in that market with a selection of time frames (Daily and at least 1 Intraday).

If you would still like to play with the Custom tool, the following explains the various inputs that must be filled in. (But Note: returns change according to the start date selected, so if you do not get a good result, try a different start date)

- Indicator which can be either Circular, a turning point indicator, or Hyperbolic, a trend following indicator.

- RR – Risk/Reward (values up to 100) which is only applicable for Circular indicator and it is used to set the distance from the entry price to the stop-loss level. A bigger Risk/Reward means a bigger distance to the stop-loss, hence a bigger risk. A selection of 20 will give a 20% stop-loss.

- Market Name – the symbol of the Market. You need to use the .FXCM after the currency pair for major currencies (i.e. EURUSD.FXCM) or .COMP for exotic pairs. For Equities you simply add the market symbol (i.e. AAPL)

- Bar Interval – used to choose the duration of the OHLC bar when we request the Historical and live data for the specific market

- Start Date – the Start date for the Historical data that we request for the specific market

- Initial Amount – The amount used for Back-testing purposes.- Slippage – You can opt for using a slippage percentage that will be applied

against us on each entry and exit price. A normal slippage would be 0.125%. That will be applied on each trade on the entry price and on the exit price. You can also enter 0 have no slippage.

- Commission – You can opt for using a commission to be applied on each trade. Each trader will choose the commission that is normally applied by his broker. You can also enter 0 have no commission.

- Leverage – Enter a number here to determine the amount of leverage you want to be trading this market with in your account. 1 = no leverage. 2 = 2x leverage, 5 = 5x, 10 = 10x, etc…

After clicking the “Compute” button the market will be displayed in Home-> Portfolio where we display the current trade, with all the necessary details needed to follow in real live trading.

The Chart displays the market from the Start date until the current time, being fed with live data. The market displayed in the Chart can be changed by clicking another line in Home->Portfolio to select another test run that has been entered.

Toolbar Controls

Click the sun-like circle in the far right of the bar that says PROTFOLIO to see some further options of what you can do with this market list:

- Excel exports the trade to

- Alert will give you alerts for trades

- Portfolio Manager this is what you will click in the Automated Trading Module to add markets to be trader through your Interactive Broker’s account.

- Message Trade – will send you emails when trade signals are generated

- X Delete – This will delete the selected market from the PORTFOLIO list in the Home Tab.

BackTest Tab

Portfolio

All markets that were computed in Home-Tools are also loaded in Back-test – > Portfolio, with the purpose of showing the performance of the chosen indicator on the specific market. Clicking a line in Back-test ->Portfolio will display the Trades Details, Back-test and P/L Chart on the specific market from the Start Date until the current date.

Trades Details

Displays all trade recommendations given from the Start Date until the current trade, with all details of entry price, exit price and P/L%, starting with the initial Amount, and going full amount in each trade (with the applied leverage).

Back-test

A set of statistical indicators that measure the performance of all trade recommendations given. See the GLOSSARY for more detailed explanations of these statistics.

P/L Chart

A line chart showing the evolution of the Exit amounts after each trade recommendation.

NOTE – you can expand and contract each box on this page to full screen mode, by clicking the icon at the top right corner of each bar.

Portfolio Monitor Tab

This tab will function ONLY in the Automated Trading Module. The Automated Trading Module will integrate with an Interactive Broker’s account and will let the markets selected in the HOME Tab be automatically traded in real time 24/7/365. It will automatically place trades, move stops and calculate Portfolio returns in real time, accounting for commissions, slippage and all market variables.

For those NOT subscribing to the Automated Trading Module, this Tab will be in active because it is not possible to calculate your account costs, commissions, slippage, leverage and other key variables required to track your portfolio

Indicator Comparison tab

Each market you Compute in Home->Tools with a specific indicator will be also loaded in Indicator Comparison->Portfolio panel, with the purpose of showing a statistical comparison between the performance of the selected indicator (i.e. Hyperbolic) and the other indicator (i.e. Circular). This helps you see if it is worth computing the other indicator, or whether you have already chosen the best performing indicator on the specific market, within the specific range.

Statistic Comparison

A set of statistical indicators, that show which of the 2 indicators has a better performance on the same market, within the same back-tested data set.

P&L Chart

A line chart displaying the returns of both indicators’ as they progress through each trade recommendation.

Chat Chat is not currently active but will let users chat with each other and Catalin and Cosmin to suggest trades, share ideas, or ask questions.

Glossary

See below for a Glossary of terms and functions used throughout the Atomic Trader App.

GlossaryHome tab

Tools

Indicator - The Atomic Trading Concept's proprietary technical analysis indicator used on selected market

RR(Risk/Reward) - The percentage (<=100) that we use when calculating the stop loss level based on the correspondent entry price of each trade. The bigger the risk-reward, the bigger the distance between the entry price and the stop-loss level.

Market Name - The underlying market (Equity, Currency, Commodity, etc.). When entering an Equity Market, we should use the basic ticker symbol (i.e. AAPL for Apple stock, BAC for Bank of America, etc.), while for Currencies we should use the pair symbol (EURUSD) along with the termination .FXCM for major pairs, or .COMP for exotic pairs (i.e. EURUSD.FXCM, AUDUSD.FXCM, etc.)

Bar Interval – The duration of the OHLC bar

Start Date – The start date for the data set we request for back-testing purposes. On each market a Back-test is performed using the underlying indicator and the data set from the Start date until the current date, and the current recommendation is being displayed in Portfolio.

Initial Amount – The initial amount used for back-testing purposes. The back-test is created by investing the initial amount in the first trade and continuously investing full amount in each following trade

Slippage – You can opt for using a slippage percentage that will be applied against us on each entry and exit price. A normal slippage would be 0.125%. That will be applied on each trade on the entry price and then on the exit price.

Commission – You can opt for using a commission to be applied on each trade. Each trader will choose the commission that is normally applied by his broker.

Leverage – The leverage size to be applied on the Initial Amount for the back-testing purposes. Choosing leverage 3 and Initial Amount 100k will translate into investing 300k in the first trade and then going 3 times the Amount on each following trade.

Portfolio

Ticker – The selected Market symbol

Live Quote – The current trading price

Bar – The Bar Interval as chosen in Tools before computing.

Indicator – The underlying technical analysis indicator as chosen in Tools before computing.

RR – The Risk Reward percentage as chosen in Tools before computing.

Trend – The direction of the current recommendation as given by the underlying indicator (it can be either BUY or SELL). Buy means Long position while SELL means Short position.

Entry Price – The price of the market when the trade recommendation was given.

From – The time stamp of the bar on which the trade recommendation was given

Stop Loss – The Stop-Loss level for the current prediction

Stop Loss% - The distance in percentages between the Entry Price and the Stop Loss level

Next Trade – The direction and the distance in Bars of the next trade (only applicable to Circular)

Back-Test

Portfolio

Ticker – The selected Market symbol

Bar – The Bar Interval as chosen in Tools before computing.

From – The Start Date as chosen in Tools before computing.

RR – The Risk Reward percentage as chosen in Tools before computing.

Indicator – The underlying technical analysis indicator as chosen in Tools before computing.

Trades Details

Trade# - The trade number sorted by oldest to newest.

Direction - – The direction of the trade recommendation as given by the underlying indicator (it can be either BUY or SELL). Buy means Long position while SELL means Short position.

Entry Amount – The amount invested in the trade recommendation. Leverage applies to this amount.

Start Date - The time stamp of the bar on which the trade recommendation was given.

Entry Price - The price of the market when the trade recommendation was given.

End Date - The time stamp of the bar on which the trade recommendation was ended.

Exit price - The price of the market at which the trade recommendation closed.

P/L% - The profit and loss in percentages as calculated between the Entry Price and the Exit Pirce

Exit Amount – The amount resulted at the end of the trade.

Back-Test

Ind (Indicator) – The specific Statistical indicator

Long – The values of each Statistical indicator correspondent to the BUY recommendations (Long positions)

Short - The values of each Statistical indicator correspondent to the SELL recommendations (Short positions)

Total - The values of each Statistical indicator correspondent to all recommendations.

Trades – Number of trades

Win Trades – Number of trades with P/L bigger or equal to 0

Losing Trades – Number of trades with P/L smaller than 0.

PL – Amount by which the Initial Amount has changed after all trades were performed.

P/L% - Percentage by which the Initial Amount has changed after all trades were performed.

Average P/L – The P/L divided by the number of trades

Total wins – Sum of P/L of Winning Trades.

Total Losses - Sum of P/L of Losing Trades.

Average wins – Total Wins divided by number of Winning Trades.

Average Losses - Total Losses divided by number of Losing Trades.

Biggest Win – Maximum amount won by one trade.

Biggest Loss – Maximum amount lost by one trade.

Num Bars – Number of bars with that had active trades.

Average Duration – Num Bars divided by Trades.

Max DD – Maximum DrawDown from the biggest amount to the smallest following amount.

Max DD length – The duration in days of the Max DD.

Max Increase – The Maximum Increase from the smallest amount to the biggest following amount.

Max Increase length - The duration in days of the Max Increase.

Max DD Recovery period – The duration in days from the end of the Max DD until reaching the biggest amount again (if applicable).

Max Fav Ex – Maximum Favorable Excursion inside a trade.

Max Adv Ex – Maximum Adverse Excursion inside a trade.

Portfolio Manager

Portfolio

Ticker – The selected Market symbol

Live Quote – The current trading price

Bar – The Bar Interval as chosen in Tools before computing.

Indicator – The underlying technical analysis indicator as chosen in Tools before computing.

RR – The Risk Reward percentage as chosen in Tools before computing.

Trend – The direction of the current recommendation as given by the underlying indicator (it can be either BUY or SELL). Buy means Long position while SELL means Short position.

Entry Price – The price of the market when the trade recommendation was given. (If when adding to Portfolio Manager there is an ongoing trade recommendation, the Entry price will be the price of the market at that moment.)

From – The time stamp of the bar on which the trade recommendation was given

Stop Loss – The Stop-Loss level for the current prediction

Live P/L – The live P/L calculated between the Entry Price and the Live Quote

Trade Details

Trade# - The trade number sorted by oldest to newest.

Direction - – The direction of the trade recommendation as given by the underlying indicator (it can be either BUY or SELL). Buy means Long position while SELL means Short position.

Entry Amount – The amount invested in the trade recommendation. Leverage applies to this amount.

Start Date - The time stamp of the bar on which the trade recommendation was given.

Entry Price - The price of the market when the trade recommendation was given.

End Date - The time stamp of the bar on which the trade recommendation was ended.

Exit price - The price of the market at which the trade recommendation closed.

P/L% - The profit and loss in percentages as calculated between the Entry Price and the Exit Pirce

Exit Amount – The amount resulted at the end of the trade.

Account Details

Account Size – The Amount chosen when first adding a market into the Portfolio Manager.

Invested Amount – The sum of the invested amounts as chosen when adding each market to the Portfolio Manager.

Leverage – The leverage resulted by dividing the Invested Amount by the Account Size.

Back-Test (applied to whole Portfolio)

Ind (Indicator) – The specific Statistical indicator

Long – The values of each Statistical indicator correspondent to the BUY recommendations (Long positions)

Short - The values of each Statistical indicator correspondent to the SELL recommendations (Short positions)

Total - The values of each Statistical indicator correspondent to all recommendations.

Trades – Number of trades

Win Trades – Number of trades with P/L bigger or equal to 0

Losing Trades – Number of trades with P/L smaller than 0.

PL – Amount by which the Initial Amount has changed after all trades were performed.

P/L% - Percentage by which the Initial Amount has changed after all trades were performed.

Average P/L – The P/L divided by the number of trades

Total wins – Sum of P/L of Winning Trades.

Total Losses - Sum of P/L of Losing Trades.

Average wins – Total Wins divided by number of Winning Trades.

Average Losses - Total Losses divided by number of Losing Trades.

Biggest Win – Maximum amount won by one trade.

Biggest Loss – Maximum amount lost by one trade.

Num Bars – Number of bars with that had active trades.

Average Duration – Num Bars divided by Trades.

Max DD – Maximum DrawDown from the biggest amount to the smallest following amount.

Max DD length – The duration in days of the Max DD.

Max Increase – The Maximum Increase from the smallest amount to the biggest following amount.

Max Increase length - The duration in days of the Max Increase.

Max DD Recovery period – The duration in days from the end of the Max DD until reaching the biggest amount again (if applicable).

Max Fav Ex – Maximum Favorable Excursion inside a trade.

Max Adv Ex – Maximum Adverse Excursion inside a trade.

Winning ratio – The ratio of Winning Trades from Total Trades.

Losing ratio - The ratio of Losing Trades from Total Trades.

Indicator Comparison

Portfolio

Ticker – The selected Market symbol

Bar – The Bar Interval as chosen in Tools before computing.

Indicator – The underlying technical analysis indicator as chosen in Tools before computing.

RR – The Risk Reward percentage as chosen in Tools before computing.

From – The time stamp of the bar on which the trade recommendation was given

Leverage – The leverage as chosen in Tools before computing.

Statistics Comparison

Trades – The Total number of trades.

Winning Trades – The Total number of Winning Trades.

Losing Trades – The Total number of Losing Trades.

P/L% - The Total P/L% .

Winning ratio – The ratio of Winning Trades from Total Trades.

Losing ratio - The ratio of Losing Trades from Total Trades.

Max DD - Maximum DrawDown from the biggest amount to the smallest following amount.

Max Increase – The Maximum Increase from the smallest amount to the biggest following amount.