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First Post: Edited Feb 18, 2009 7:53pm Jan 16, 2009 10:11am | Edited Feb 18, 2009 7:53pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Demo Deposit of $5000 was placed at 12:02 EST 1/15/2009

EA Trades .01, .03, .15, .29, .86 Lots with various TP & SL Levels.
(Yes that should signal MARTINGALE

to anyone who knows trading systems)

RESULTS ATTACHED BELOW IN MULTIPLE POSTS - THIS POST WILL BE USED TO SHOW OVERALL RESULTS

TOTAL PIPS COLLECTED THUS FAR: since 1/15/09

Pips Collected When
AVG'd out to .01 Lots = 7052
Total Trades =
Profit = $705.20

LOOK AT UPDATES BELOW

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Jan 16, 2009 4:02pm Jan 16, 2009 4:02pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Time to leave for the day, this EA will continue to trade on sunday w/o any intervention at all, but hopefulyl I will get to the office in time for London Open (as i've noticed that is the only time the martingale fails... and one time when Obama spoke)

Total Pips collected = -44
Total Profit = $32.80 = equivalent to 328 pips since I'm averaging everything out to .01 Lots (starting lot size)

Thats 328 pips in one 24 period...

Attached are summary results, profit chart, as well as perfectly executed trades the EA made earlier today.

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Jan 19, 2009 4:46pm Jan 19, 2009 4:46pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Computer was accidently off for half the day, still managed to collect multiple trades.

Overall Pips Collected = -22
Overall Profit Amount = $45.20

Profit Collected today: $11.40
Pips Collected today: 12

Averaged Pips = 114 pips collected today with .01 lots as the avg

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Edited 4:51pm Jan 20, 2009 4:31pm | Edited 4:51pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Pips Collected Today = 101
Profit Collected Today = $41.00

Total Pips Collected = 79
Total Profit Collected = $86.20

Total Pips collected when AVG'd out to .01 Lots (starting lot size) = 862 Pips in

Summary:

Had lots of trades close in level 1 today, hence why so many pips we're collected today and we went from negative pips to positive pip totals. However profit also doubled today (and profit is always more important than pips), so overall today was a very decent day for this EA.

Please see attached summary's below

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Jan 20, 2009 11:21pm Jan 20, 2009 11:21pm

damonl
Joined Oct 2007 | Status: I'm on a 10 year plan. | 4,309 Posts

I'll give it a try and get back to you...thanks for sharing

"Keep your eyes on the helpers" - Mr. Rogers

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Jan 21, 2009 9:19am Jan 21, 2009 9:19am

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Quoting damonl

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I'll give it a try and get back to you...thanks for sharing

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damonl, i will post the EA in a day or so, i would like a full week's worth of demo trading before:

1. Potentially taking this EA live in a micro acct
2. Giving it to anyone else because it still has some work needed on it.

Check back tomorrow or Friday.

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Jan 22, 2009 9:24am Jan 22, 2009 9:24am

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Didn't update yesterday...

Hit Level 4 trades more times than one would like. (kind of scary trading .29 lots with the possibility of a .86 lot coming, but level 5 was never needed as you can see below). Yesterday was not a good day to collect pips, but a nice day for profit. As you can see, COLLECTING PIPS W/O SHOWING LOT SIZES MEANS NOTHING.

Total Pips collected: -159
Total Profit collected: $142.20

Pips collected when method is avg'd out to .01 lots = 1422

In a little under 1 week of trading this EA made +2.8% profit on a $5000 demo acct. Later Today will complete full week of demo trading EA.

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Jan 22, 2009 4:50pm Jan 22, 2009 4:50pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

EA has run for one full week.

Net Results:

$151.60 profit = 3.03%

Pips Collected = -237 (nice feeling collecting negative pips and still making profit)

Pips collected when avg'd out to .01 lots = 1516

253 pips per day

Daily Summary:

Didn't hit any level 4 trades today, which is always a good feeling... however level 4 & 5 both account for 20 pips a piece so we had 40 pips of "noise" room...

EA is trading rather well, i would love to implement a standard trailing stop of 4 but no coding i have tried has worked.... i usually set the .01 to BE once i can, but obviously i miss alot of trades while im at work.

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Jan 23, 2009 3:53pm Jan 23, 2009 3:53pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Daily Summary:

Hit Level 4 a few times today, nothing major as level 5 (what should be known as Defcon 5, lol) was never close to being hit.

Profits posted below, and the link in my signature now shows the trades this EA makes. It is being published to show this isn't a fraud.

Looking forward to next week i think i may try to avoid having this EA on during the 8:30 AM EST on Thursday, and the 2:15 PM EST on wednesday, but we'll see when we get there. Thats why we demo.

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Jan 26, 2009 5:08pm Jan 26, 2009 5:08pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Hit Level 5 twice today, but the trades finished in profit both times 2 minutes after opening, then price shot in our direction 30 pips after the trade closed, so i need a breakeven TS implemented there... we would have gained 30+ pips at .86 lots... which is huge.

One level 5 was hit during london open. I now know that the EA must be turned off 1 hour after Londons open for the week. even though we survived this week we may not next week.... not worth the risk.

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All trades are published in the hyperlink in my signature.

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Jan 28, 2009 10:38am Jan 28, 2009 10:38am

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Daily Summary:

My computer was shut off for half the night apparently. so no trades were made for alot of Jan 28th. (I keep this computer at work, so I'm obviously not around all the time)

Nevertheless profit was made yet again. Level 5 was hit once, which can be seen by that awful spike in profit at the end of the profit chart. But as always it pulled itself out.

THIS STRATEGY CAN COMPENSATE FOR <100 PIP SWINGS IN PRICE. therefore only MAJOR news affects this EA. thats why every single trade sequence has made us profit.

Take a look at the pictures below and the hyperlink in my signature.

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Jan 28, 2009 12:26pm Jan 28, 2009 12:26pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Two Perfect trades executed for +20 pips = $2 profit trading .01 lots.

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Jan 28, 2009 3:58pm Jan 28, 2009 3:58pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

ANNUALIZED PROFITS OF $11,236.90 trading .01 lots!

Annualied return of 225.278%! (yeah right, lol

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Daily Summary:

FOMC Speaker @ 215 EST was fun. thats the type of Major news announcement that could kill this strategy. The EA managed the trades accordingy and nothing over level 3 was ever reached (LUCKILY). once i realized what was happening i usually turn off trading until ST DEV drops. When ST DEV is above 0.005, markets are way too unpredictable and don't act "normally"

I've attached all relevant pictures, including what happened at 2:15 for all to see.

Once there is more activity on this thread i will attach the EA

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Jan 29, 2009 3:55pm Jan 29, 2009 3:55pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

I'm turnig my comp off for an hour, so no more trades until I'm Done.

No Level 5 Trades today, lots of profit, and even positive pips.

Strategy is working flawlessly. (KNOCK ON WOOD, lol)

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Jan 29, 2009 6:46pm Jan 29, 2009 6:46pm

damonl
Joined Oct 2007 | Status: I'm on a 10 year plan. | 4,309 Posts

Quoting Jwentro

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damonl, i will post the EA in a day or so, i would like a full week's worth of demo trading before:

1. Potentially taking this EA live in a micro acct
2. Giving it to anyone else because it still has some work needed on it.

Check back tomorrow or Friday.

Ignored

Understood...I will keep checking back. What happens after the 5th level? Is that where the loss comes in, the 5th level fails, and then start over again?

"Keep your eyes on the helpers" - Mr. Rogers

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Jan 29, 2009 10:12pm Jan 29, 2009 10:12pm

Jwentro
| Joined Sep 2008 | Status: Pips do not always equal profits | 370 Posts

Quoting damonl

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Understood...I will keep checking back. What happens after the 5th level? Is that where the loss comes in, the 5th level fails, and then start over again?

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yes. if the 5th level fails then we take our losses and restart.

However, this strategy accounts for the following changes in price before level 5 fails:

before level 1: 15 pips
level 1: 15 pips
level 2: 15 pips
level 3: 15 pips
level 4: 20 pips
level 5: 20 pips
level 6*: 20 pips (level 6 has not been added yet but if i feel like it i'll code it... i'm demoing to see if we need it.. lot sizes might be way too big for level 6)

nevertheless, w/o level 6, the price of EURUSD must move 100 pips with no retracement before we take a loss. this only happens when MAJOR news comes, or FOMC or President speakers take place.... thats why its been 100% correct so far, nothing EXTREMELY major has happened.

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Jan 30, 2009 7:08am Jan 30, 2009 7:08am

damonl
Joined Oct 2007 | Status: I'm on a 10 year plan. | 4,309 Posts

Quoting Jwentro

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yes. if the 5th level fails then we take our losses and restart.

However, this strategy accounts for the following changes in price before level 5 fails:

before level 1: 15 pips
level 1: 15 pips
level 2: 15 pips
level 3: 15 pips
level 4: 20 pips
level 5: 20 pips
level 6*: 20 pips (level 6 has not been added yet but if i feel like it i'll code it... i'm demoing to see if we need it.. lot sizes might be way too big for level 6)

nevertheless, w/o level 6, the price of EURUSD must move 100 pips with no retracement before we take a loss. this only...

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Sounds interesting...please keep us up to date