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Quoting dynamicsoul
everyone elses gains just get nearly wiped out on a few trades there on the 30 min?
Mine is running at home.. I'll let you know later.
Mr Benn,
The easiest way for you to run the EA on demo would be to just download a demo from a 4 digit broker (ibfx)

To make the ea work on FxPro will take some modification to the ea. You usually have to add a zero (0) to places in the code to account for the extra digit place.
example,
if the code calls for the stop loss level where we will use say 35 you would have to input 350. there could be many other instances of this depending on the ea and the indicators used and such. (I have done it before but just basically guess work)
Sometimes you can figure it out just looking at the code but I'm not a programmer,
It would be easier to download another demo.
Quoting dynamicsoul
everyone elses gains just get nearly wiped out on a few trades there on the 30 min?

went from + 113 to - 185 over the last hour.
Nigel,

Its definitely in the Indicators folder and I am getting "Custom indicator MACD colour loaded successfully" in my journal........but also getting that conflicting message in the experts folder (as per my post above).

Bah, bloody computers. Why isn't anything simple!!!!

Anyway, any input much appreciated guys.

Cheers.
MetaTraderexpertsindicatorsMACD_inC olor.ex4

Try to rename the .mq4 in MetaTraderexpertsindicatorsMACD_inC olor.mq4 and restart mt4. maybe it is because the space in the indicator, look if you have "MACD_inC olor.mq4" in your indicator Folder.

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Quoting Mr Benn
Nigel,

Its definitely in the Indicators folder and I am getting "Custom indicator MACD colour loaded successfully" in my journal........but also getting that conflicting message in the experts folder (as per my post above).

Bah, bloody computers. Why isn't anything simple!!!!

Anyway, any input much appreciated guys.

Cheers.
OK one more thing to try.

Is it just the .ex4 file you have in there or the ones I've attached to this post. For some reason I have the MACD_incolor and these additional ones.

Try adding them.

If this doesn't work then, as "Number 5" said in the film "we need innnpuuuutt".

Nigel
Attached Files
File Type: ex4 MACD_inColor.ex4   4 KB | 202 downloads
File Type: ex4 MACD_inColor_Alert.ex4   4 KB | 154 downloads
File Type: mq4 MACD_inColor_Alert.mq4   2 KB | 197 downloads
Hi llambert3 -

I agree and will modify in the next version. Thanks to you and others for the response.

Gary

Quoting llambert3
First on the 5 digit broker I think the indicators have to be set up for them as well or it may not work. Maybe that is not the case, but I am sure the code has to be modified some before it trades. I had downloaded FXPro as a demo to test, but I've given up on it.

Gary, regarding the stop I think we want 1 pip below the low when we buy and 1 pip above the high plus spread as the stop when we sell, so I think the code below just needs to be modified in red..

if (OrderType()==OP_BUY)
{
dblStop = Low[index]-1*Point;
dblTightestStop...
Hi Mr Benn -

The ea and the various indicators written for this system which use the macd (MacdTrendSetter_v3, SSMaxMacdFilter_v1, SSMultiFilter_v1) all make calls to the MACD_inColor indicator to calculate the macd trend. For the ea and the various indicators you may be using to work properly, the MACD_inColor indicator has to be in you indicator folder. If it continues to give you error messages, you may want to delete it, reinstall the indicator, shut down metatrader and then restart metatrader. I believe we only have the .ex4 file type for this indi so you should have to compile it but you may need to restart metatrader after you reinstall it. I think you know this from your notes but thought I'd go over it just in case others are having the same issue. You've been getting some good ideas from others, we're all trying to help each other - this thread has been great about everyone pitching in to help. damonl has set a great example.

Gary

Quoting Mr Benn
Nigel,

Its definitely in the Indicators folder and I am getting "Custom indicator MACD colour loaded successfully" in my journal........but also getting that conflicting message in the experts folder (as per my post above).

Bah, bloody computers. Why isn't anything simple!!!!

Anyway, any input much appreciated guys.

Cheers.
Hi,

i got home quite excited to see today's report and sadly it wasn't giving me a reason to smile!
yesterday it all went good using all filters to true (1,2,3 ones). Today only the 2 combined and 3 combined filters were on, the individual ones were not.

The EA had lots of entries on the same bar (4 entries per bar, I guess it's because of the filter setup 3x double + 1x triple = 4).
anyway, all gains from yesterday have been wiped out, i'm in serious minus now.
SL is as per #1 post, no TP set. I'm trading all 5 charts on demo.

Also, what do these messages mean? (in experts tab):
2009.02.11 19:06:37 MACD_inColor USDJPY,M30: loaded successfully
2009.02.11 19:06:33 MACD_inColor_Alert USDJPY,M30: removed
2009.02.11 19:06:33 MACD_inColor_Alert USDJPY,M30: uninit reason 1

Thanks!
hsa
Quoting tommyd
went from + 113 to - 185 over the last hour.
Here are my results for last 5 hours. Got it started late - didn't turn it on until 13:00 GMT. Traded 4 pairs 30m & 1hr. Didn't trade the GJ because the spread is too high from my broker (FXDD).

  1. Used S/L per post 1
  2. MMF: True
  3. SF: True
  4. ZF: True
  5. -230 Pips

One observation is that only 6 of the 28 trades (or 4 of 12 if you count each pair "block") closed the entry bar in profit. The other profitable trades were a result of the next bar getting back to one pip above BE.

Live Account:

Attached Image (click to enlarge)
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nickj,
how do you export to this format, showing the pips and today's trades only?
thanks!


guys,
something went wrong today, i'm thinking about reinstalling the EA and all filters. I've got only massively losing trades for the afternoon.
Not huge pips today but it was ok. I traded all 3 single filters independently (ie., first 3 trading options = true) on all 5 pairs and used both time frames (M30 and H1). Trading times and SL for each pair were the set according to post #1.

GBP/JPY M30 W = 17 (412 pips) L = 9 (495 pips) Net = -83 pips
GBP/JPY H1 W = 3 (142 pips) L = 0 (0 pips) Net = +142 pips

USD/JPY M30 W = 14 (26 pips) L = 2 (43 pips) Net = -17 pips
USD/JPY H1 W = 1 (5 pips) L = 0 (0 pips) Net = +5 pips

EUR/USD M30 W = 15 (261 pips) L = 9 (233 pips) Net = +28 pips
EUR/USD H1 W = 2 (36 pips) L = 0 (0 pips) Net = +36 pips

GBP/USD M30 W = 17 (194 pips) L = 7 (297 pips) Net = -103 pips
GBP/USD H1 W = 2 (22 pips) L = 2 (90 pips) Net = -68 pips

EUR/JPY M30 W = 9 (187 pips) L = 2 (90 pips) Net = +97 pips
EUR/JPY H1 W = 3 (62 pips) L = 0 (0 pips) Net = +62 pips

Total M30 W = 72 (1080 pips) L = 29 (1158 pips) Net = -78 pips
Total H1 W = 11 (267 pips) L = 2 (90 pips) Net = +177 pips

Grand Total W = 83 (1347 pips) L = 31 (1248 pips) Net = 99 pips

Weekly Total W = 229 (3682 pips) L = 84 (3188 pips) Net = 494 pips


Gary
Hi hsa013 -

I don't think anything in particular when "wrong" - just one of those days trading forex. Early in the trading window I had almost all wins including some very large ones - the afternoon was the opposite - overall I came out with a net gain. In an earlier post, I think you mentioned you changed the trade options you were using today compared to yesterday. Remember we are still testing the theory of the trading system, the ea and all these trading options we have. It will take time to sort out what works and what doesn't. If your changing your trading plan frequently it will hard to see if its working over a reasonable period to time - every good system will have its bad days, every bad system will have its good days. That is why feedback is so important - your is appreciated. Thank you.....

Gary

Quoting hsa013
guys,
something went wrong today, i'm thinking about reinstalling the EA and all filters. I've got only massively losing trades for the afternoon.
I know Gary, I know...
I simply wanted to see some nice pos pips, that's all.

but, it was rather surprising to see 4 entries for every bar, yesterday - with ALL filters set to TRUE - I haven't experienced this behaviour at all. That's why I said sg went wrong on my platform.

Shouldn't have been maybe 7 entries with all filters on yesterday ? If I'm reducing the number of filters, the entries should go down accordingly, is that right? (and vica versa)
Basically as I figured the "safest" setting is the 3x filter on true, and "most risky" is if I have all 7 on true.

Finally, this might've been mentioned: do we need to change the expert ID (or "magic number") to different numbers for every instance/chart?

Thanks Gary, your work is much appreciated!
It simply is telling you that the MACD_inColor_Alert indicator was removed from your USDJPY chart and a different indicator, MACD_inColor was successfully added to your USDJPY chart.

Gary

Quoting hsa013
Also, what do these messages mean? (in experts tab):
2009.02.11 19:06:37 MACD_inColor USDJPY,M30: loaded successfully
2009.02.11 19:06:33 MACD_inColor_Alert USDJPY,M30: removed
2009.02.11 19:06:33 MACD_inColor_Alert USDJPY,M30: uninit reason 1
hsa
Ok, yes disaster happened in NY... here are my numbers for today:

EJ = +121 (+$134.21)
EU = -15 (-$15)
GJ = +46 (+$50.43)
GU = -150 (-$150)
UJ = 0 (-$0.25)

Total +2 pips or +$19.39
Mr. Benn may be on a 4 digit broker while the indicator is written for 5, or vice versa.
Quoting Pavatar
Not huge pips today but it was ok. I traded all 3 single filters independently (ie., first 3 trading options = true) on all 5 pairs and used both time frames (M30 and H1). Trading times and SL for each pair were the set according to post #1.

GBP/JPY M30 W = 17 (412 pips) L = 9 (495 pips) Net = -83 pips
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]GBP/JPY H1 W = 3 (142 pips) L =...
Wonder what you are doing differently than me? Also, I should say I fixed my code to do the spread + 1 only on the one already. I did it last night before trading started.. Wonder if that affected the results. I wish I ran another instance with say 100 pip stop on all pairs to see where that got me.
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