I have been using your EA on 4hr TF and doing pretty good as long as I close trades manually. When I optimize TPFactor and Trailtrends it seems as if it always sets Take Profit at an unrealistic high level that may get hit in a trending market but ...

My results for EUR/USD show worst results too as far as % but was able to re optimize for better overall profit. Old Profit $201 Trades 107 Short 53(83.02%) Long 54(85.19%) Profit 90(84.11%) New Profit $194 Trades 113 Short 57(80.7%) Long 56(85.7%) ...

I only checked GBP/USD and it did not change to much so I changed everything over to run on new EA. Since you had bad results I will test more tonight. On GBP/USD total trades stayed the same, short side dropped one trade long side picked up one. ...

When the price varies from one broker to another there is no way you can get the same performance. Check these two charts which should be the same.

Have you tried the 4 hr time frame on any platforms beside FXDD? FXDD starts their 4 hr bar at GMT -2, IBFX starts their 4 hr bar at GMT -1 and it makes a huge difference in how they trade. On FXDD I can get several pairs to trade fairly well, ...

Have you tried forward testing yet. I get better results so far on 30 min or 60 min when forward testing.

I can get similar results with your EA. The big difference is in the number of trades. Smilee89 shows 219 trades for the same period that I can only get 28. I think part of this is due to Smilee making multiple entries on the same IB. On 4 hr time ...

Did you post EA here?

This is an example of what I was trying to explain in post 759. Offset was at 8 pips Max Start was at 40 the OB top was 1.4490 and it executed a buy at 1.4510. Since I first saw this I have learned if you set Max start to a lower number it will not ...

For the sample I posted I increased Bar offset in order to create the situation we were looking for and bar 7 did not exceed that limit. While watching that run on other IB's I noticed that the new bar where the buy or sell is placed does not have ...

Here is a screen shot where the IB was first broken on the 6th bar but order was filled on 8th bar.

So far i have not been able to find any settings for higher timeframes that will repeat when I shift from one time period to another. My best success has been mostly 30 min. and 1 pair on 60 min.. When I optimize for 1/1/2009 thru 2/28/2009 I have ...

My IBFX account was a dedicated tester till last week and I decided to let it go on line to forward test and when I did I had to update the program. Since updating I have not been able to optimize with it so I am trading 2 pairs using optimized ...

I think the results of the EA are going to vary greatly depending on the broker you use. My test for trading hours show similar results to 1ka's when I use IBFX but if I transfer the same hour to FXDD and adjust for 3 hour time difference the ...

If I were to go live now my first choice would be E/U 30 min or U/J 30 min followed by E/U 60 min and U/J 60 min. This opinion is based on the least amount of Draw down using FXDD data. These also showed up best on IBFX but I learned late yesterday ...

1ka — Your fantastic. I have looked at a lot of EA's and never seem one with the ability to turn time on and off this way. If I had an account with IBFX I think I would be tempted to go live today with results like this.

[[/quote] Thats was a great idea. Will take some time to test it, but your charts will help a lot.

New hours — I must be brain dead today, I am not sure I understand spread sheet. If you want to trade from 6 GMT till 16 GMT do you put x in 6 and 16 or 6 and 10? Do you use broker time, GTM, or local time?

Setting will vary from one broker to another. The main settings I change for FXDD can be found at the top of the picture in post #655

If you have never used it before you will find that it only shows the good results unless you right click on Optimize results screen and click show useless results. It might save you some time if you look at post #655 and use the numbers I have as ...