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- nquental replied Oct 3, 2013
I see, it makes sense what you say, even if I think there's a way to use real spreads and tick data, but it would probably be too complicated.
- nquental replied Oct 3, 2013
Alan, is there any way of backtesting the expert to try to understand what are the best parameters? I know it would have to be done one news at a time, but better than nothing. I tried to backtest in MT4 but it didn't work.
- nquental replied Oct 1, 2013
Hi Alan Here's the log. It seems that it was the spread. Cheers Nuno MAILBOX Order triggered but could not be completed due to invalid SL LOG 2013.10.01 09:59:46 Amazing Forex System Expert Advisor v 4.0.0 By Alan Prothero 2013.10.01 09:59:46 ...
- nquental replied Oct 1, 2013
Hi Since I've updated to version 4 I'm getting sometimes a "SL above limit" error which leads to the cancellation of the order. Do you know what could this be? It's not clear why it happens. By SL is set at 10 pips. Cheers, nuno
- nquental replied Aug 7, 2013
Please note that the prices of spot instances are low and it's preferable to have a small than a micro instance (micro instances have only 600 Mb of RAM). Spot instances however will be stopped if the bid price if lower than the current instance ...
- nquental replied Aug 5, 2013
Alan, have you seen my suggestion in my previous post regarding the SL? I think it could be interesting as a future improvement. I have changed to Oanda and although experience is still very limited I have been obtaining very good fills even though ...
- nquental replied Aug 1, 2013
Hi I have another idea regarding the trailing SL. Instead of making it constant, we could make it narrower when we are well ahead into profits. For example, if we are 20 pips positive, instead of keeping the trailing SL at 8 pips distance, we could ...
- nquental replied Jul 30, 2013
Thanks Adam and Alan. I think your idea of setting the points away having the average between ask and bid could be good but I understand that it will require more coding. For now I'll change broker as well as FXCM charges too much and their spread ...
- nquental replied Jul 29, 2013
Hello Due to a sudden spread increase I had recently a buy stop caught when I should have sold. However I found this interesting article with an elegant solution for this problem: specifying the buy stop with the bid price as reference (and not the ...
- nquental replied Jul 17, 2013
You have the smiley face happy?? It's strange, post your parameters here so people can better evaluate your problem.
- nquental replied Jul 17, 2013
But even so, in these two seconds we would lose a lot of pips. My question is not related to the EA, of course, it's related to the news itself.
- nquental replied Jul 17, 2013
Anyone knows why the spike of USDCAD (to trade the BOC Rate Statement) took place at the minute 59, instead of 00? In GMT 14h. Is it normal to happen 1 minute before? It would destroy the trade...
- nquental replied Jul 17, 2013
Maybe you had the same problem I had. Perhaps the far away pending orders were opened correctly but then cancelled as the spread was higher than the max. spread, thus disabling the EA.
- nquental replied Jul 17, 2013
Hi again I think my settings are better now but today for example the GBP trade didn't open. I think it was because of maxspread = 50, probably too low. I'll have to see when I get back home. My question: what happens if pending orders are there, ...
- nquental replied Jul 3, 2013
Thanks again for your excellent response. I'll try a few more times and if unsuccessful I'll forget about trading the news. These things seem simple but they're very far from it. Are there other nice EA like this one that you can recommend?
- nquental replied Jul 2, 2013
My broker is FXCM UK, do you have any recommended VPS in this case, or would it also be beeksfx?
- nquental replied Jul 2, 2013
Dear all What is your experience with good parameters for this EA? I have been trying different combinations, but as it's not really easy to backtest this it's like a time consuming trial and error process. The recommended setting for example ...
- nquental replied Jul 2, 2013
Thank you so much. Today I was able to closely watch a trade an in fact as you said it seems the EA works perfectly and the trades are opened at the right time, but they are registered with the wrong time. I'll use the tool. I'll also check the VPS ...
- nquental replied Jun 29, 2013
Thanks again Alan. Here's the log of another trade. I'm using a vps and I couldn't find the actual log file of the EA.In this case, the news was at 1:50 local time. I'm on a non dealing desk account. 2013.06.27 01:51:03 AmazingEA USDJPY,M30: delete ...
- nquental replied Jun 27, 2013
Thanks a lot Alan. I cannot send the file from here (I'm at work) but I can now provide additional info. When I mean the pending orders were being modified, I mean the buy stop and the sell stop were being adjusted (according to the open candle) ...