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- Lazyjones replied Sep 7, 2016
Different pairs show trends at different times. Something like this can occur at any time at any pair. I would suggest the following for mhunt. Before deciding what pairs to open, check for: spreads of course, and correlation of the pairs ...
- Lazyjones replied Sep 7, 2016
I noticed the same. Tried live trading on XM demo, but it didn't open any positions in more than a day.
- Lazyjones replied Sep 7, 2016
That's not how survive works. If it hits survive, it will attempt to close the trades at break even. However, to do so, it still needs to open more positions should the price move in the wrong direction. Otherwise, it would need a lot more pips in ...
- Lazyjones replied Sep 6, 2016
I tried mhunt antitrend last night (started around 15 GMT) on XM real with 43€ (two times remon's recommendation) and 0,01 lot. It hit the stop loss at 4 GMT this morning. Still at 32€, but it can die any moment, since it can't open any more ...
- Lazyjones replied Sep 4, 2016
Despite the inaccuracies of the strategy tester, I did some more backtesting. I think there are at least a few things that can be learned. I advise you to take a look at this AUDUSD historical data: The second week of January 2014: Set the testing ...
- Lazyjones replied Sep 4, 2016
I tried to backtest this on XM demo, but it doesn't work and just throws alot of "order error: 130".
- Lazyjones replied Sep 2, 2016
Would you say antitrend mhunt needs more balance/lot than normal mhunt? Your previous recommendation for mhunt was 10/0.01 I'm using 20/0.01 for normal mhunt right now, since 10/0.01 was too dangerous.
- Lazyjones replied Sep 1, 2016
Did they all run at the same time? What was the lot size for each of them? Judging from that image, at least one of them was at 0.04.
- Lazyjones replied Sep 1, 2016
I would say that this account got lucky. It all depends on when the first position was opened and it's direction (buy/sell). Also, a short spike is not as dangerous as a long trend with slow movement. Because, after a large spike, there is often ...
- Lazyjones replied Aug 31, 2016
I'm starting to believe that, for mhunt, there is no safe trading time. From US to Japan, something is always going on all around the clock. Even one pair going rogue can destroy you. I'm a bit scared, so I will double the balance/lot ratio to ...
- Lazyjones replied Aug 31, 2016
Maybe increase the balance/lot ratio by 50% or double it. For some reason, AUDUSD at XM has low spreads and a crazy leverage of 1:1460. I think I'll try double your ratio and that brings me to 232/0,01 [The "real" leverage for your GBPJPY was ...
- Lazyjones replied Aug 31, 2016
"Quit while you're ahead" Backtesting your strategy blows the account several times a year. Surviving backtest is no guarantee to win at live trading, but dying on backtest is a guarantee to fail on live. Withdraw and continue with less aggressive ...
- Lazyjones replied Aug 27, 2016
Instead of lot size, it would be better to base this upon the number of steps the martingale already went through. This way it would scale with automatically increasing lot sizes.
- Lazyjones replied Aug 27, 2016
custom lot size steps setting to activate survive not only based on equity, but also lot size. If a certain lot size has been reached, it should be able to activate survive, regardless of equity. edit: Instead of lot size, it would be better to base ...
- Lazyjones replied Aug 26, 2016
8-19 GMT is most likely the most dangerous time for martingale based EAs. But that doesn't mean movements like this can't happen at other times.
- Lazyjones replied Aug 26, 2016
Yeah, but even with 1000/0,01 mhunt won't survive a movement like this (see first screenshot). I have an mhunt open since 8 GMT today, it almost died and, while still alive, cannot open any more positions (not enough free margin). So depending on ...
- Lazyjones replied Aug 26, 2016
I'm deliberatly running mhunt on demo accounts during the day to find safe settings. It's true that the GMT night is usually calmer than the day, but anything can happen anytime. There are no rules, only estimates, there is no safe timeframe. I'm ...
- Lazyjones replied Aug 26, 2016
I see, that means 1000/0.01 (10/0.01) lot might not be enough.
- Lazyjones replied Aug 25, 2016
@remon Is 41 positions the maximum a single mhunt can open? Even at XM (demo, max positions 200), it only opened 41 positions (margin had still plenty of headroom) and remained like that until it died, after about 10 hours, because the market moved ...
- Lazyjones replied Aug 25, 2016
Well, since your leverage is halved and your lot size is halved, you are now at the same risk as before. Also, I reduced the lot size to 0.02 (level 5) and while it survived the 23.05 it still died on the 14.06. Only the standard setting ...