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- nobby911 replied Mar 25, 2015
Hi Dave The Strategy Optimizer program is looking brilliant can't wait to try it. I will leave most of my optimization testing until this is ready. I might just play around with time of day settings.
- nobby911 replied Mar 25, 2015
Hi Dave On the above chart are you testing different strategies or have you just not changed the comments field as it appears you are using MACD_RSI, RSI and BBands which are different to the traders concept. Also if you could give a bit more incite ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 20, 2015
Thanks Dave that explains it. I had thought that when it restarted it would know by the magic number all the settings and continue managing the trade. Keep up the good work
- nobby911 replied Mar 20, 2015
Hi Dave Is there any circumstances when the EA can lose control of a trade as you can see below the AUDUSD Trade is not being updated by the EA the SL to BE is set at 10 and the TSL 100 , i have attached the set file can restarting MT4 or the ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 19, 2015
Hi Dave Below is a quick screen shot to show I am still testing away also trying new strategies the one below is the Traders Concept only started it at the beging of the week had a bad start but hopefully recovering now increased the daily ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 18, 2015
Hi Dave Thanks for your patience. Finally sorted it and get similar results to you using your set file. Did a clean install and downloaded the data again and exported it to MT4 and now all works fine. I am using the /portable switch already. I have ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 17, 2015
Hi Dave I just ran your optimised file and still inconsistent so as you said there must be something with my data i shall re-download TickStory data and see if it makes a difference. is there any special settings you use when exporting to MT4 using ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 17, 2015
Hi Dave Sorry to be a pain but i want to do this correctly i ran an optimization where it showed a +6073 profit then ran that set using the every tick model and it then returned a loss of -121.15 is this normal to have such a drastic difference ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 17, 2015
Hi Dave Thanks for all your help, but i must apologise i had been up all night and was very tired and must have sent the wrong set file because on checking the only thing running on the 1 minute chart is the constant straddle. so it wasn't the MACD ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 17, 2015
Hi Dave set file attached. file Also Dave I am doing a lot of optimisation which is taking ages so thought i would try the Open prices only model as this is quicker and you designed the ea to work with it. However i ran a test using this model and ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 17, 2015
Hi Dave I am using the latest ea from Post1 but have noticed I am now seeing errors in the experts tab that i never saw before do you have any idea what may be causing it, is there any more info i can provide you. I have restarted MT4, the ea ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 12, 2015
Hi Dave From what i have found out it appears that you enter the spread in points as in 20 for 2 pips etc . Strategy Tester as of MT4 build 509 now enables you to fix the spread by setting the value in points in the small “Spread:” field on the ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 12, 2015
Thanks The reason i ask is when i set the spread in tester to current for AUDUSD the Report said the spread was 16 so i took this as meaning i needed to add the spread as 20 roughly what the AUDUSD is with my broker
- nobby911 replied Mar 11, 2015
When backtesting is the spread in pips or points ie for 2 pips on my five digit broker do i put in 20 for 2pips image
- nobby911 replied Mar 11, 2015
hi Dave What i meant was once you have run optimisation do you always choose the most profitable set of parameters or do you also go by the drawdown % or some other criteria I have been sorting by most profitable and then i scroll down until i find ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 11, 2015
Hi Dave I am running some optimisation test and was wondering once you have all the different sets of parameters how to you finally settle on which set to use
- nobby911 replied Mar 10, 2015
Thanks Dave
- nobby911 replied Mar 10, 2015
Hi Dave I'll reload all the presets then just wasn't sure which were correct. could you also confirm this is correct i noticed that some of the EMACross with SLDecrease presets dont actually have a SLDecrease for example the preset file below has ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 10, 2015
Hi Dave Sorry to be a pain, I downloaded the traders concept and installed all but some of the settings seemed peculiar so i checked the inputs in the EA and at the same time opened your preset files to check they matched but the don't could you ...
- nobby911 replied Mar 10, 2015
I think it was just unfortunate timing, its when my brokers closes a day does the swaps etc and reopens