The chances of a live strategy stopping just before a major crash or major market change in direction are very small
I do agree with your logic of your full post above and I have run with both ticked and unticked in the past.
Another factor is that loads of the 12 Rejects in a row / Strategy stopped seem to happen at periods of high volatlity and so could well be before a minor, but sizable rise or fall.
Assuming that we have TP / SL / Exit conditions and the strategy has not reached those yet (else it would have exited naturally) then maybe best to auto-close than be left without Stop Loss as Jebus was … especially as it may be in a period of high volatility.
Another factor is Timeframe. Most of mine are intraday and lots at 1 min / 5 min TF so a running profit or loss would generally be a lot lower than the values seen on Daily Timeframe (as I think most of yours are Vonasi).
Another factor ( 🙂 ) is do we want to be woken in the night by an email alert about a strategy that was closed by external event??
Just a few thoughts anyway, like a lot of trading practices … there often is no right or wrong way to go?
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