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  • #821
  • Sep 11, 2009 8:45am Sep 11, 2009 8:45am
Longbar,

I've noticed that when I have the boxes checked for live trading and Ask manual confirmation, it's impossible to decline the trade.
The order confirmation window, after I close it, just pops up again at the next tick. There is no option in the order window to decline the order confirmation.

Is this an inherent MT behavior or is there some way to leave the boxes checked, but have the order window close permanently (until a new signal on a later bar), if I decline the order it wants confirmed?

For now I've unchecked both boxes, and the expert log is writing a new line at every tick for each unchecked pair, "DEBUG: CheckPrereqs-Trade is not allowed, will try again at next tick". Makes for a huge experts log file.

Cheers,

JR
  • #822
  • Sep 11, 2009 10:49am Sep 11, 2009 10:49am
Quoting forex4me
I downloaded HA indicator from this thread, but it doesn't look like the one MR ED posted. My colors are different which is not a big issue, but what about those vertical lines? I don't have those.

So HA is overlaid over regular candles in the indicator.. Correct? I'm not that familiar with HA.

Are settings 2632 preset in his HA indicator?

Thanks
Hi Forex4me

The vertical lines I just added manually to help indicate where the trade signals were, they are not part of any indicator.

The HA settings you will need to check when you set up the HA on the chart. Just click on the HA smoothed indicator and look in the properties.

The HA is overlaid on the candles.

I hopefully will be able to update more this weekend. Last month was tough but things appear to be a bit more stable now, some good trends recently,eg Gold. Looks like the JPY crosses are going for a big move this afternoon.

All the best,

Mister ED
  • #823
  • Sep 11, 2009 12:53pm Sep 11, 2009 12:53pm
Quoting Mister ED
Hi Forex4me

The vertical lines I just added manually to help indicate where the trade signals were, they are not part of any indicator.

The HA settings you will need to check when you set up the HA on the chart. Just click on the HA smoothed indicator and look in the properties.

The HA is overlaid on the candles.

I hopefully will be able to update more this weekend. Last month was tough but things appear to be a bit more stable now, some good trends recently,eg Gold. Looks like the JPY crosses are going for a big move this afternoon.

All...
Mister ED,

When I click on HA property and then on inputs i see color 1, color 2, color 3 and color 4in the box. Is that what i should see? Where do I place your setting numbers?

The thin sticks in blue and red colors over the regular candles are actual HA. Correct? So the stick and Candles must be the same colors to enter trade?

How do I read ATR value?

Thanks again and sorry for taking so much of your time.
  • #824
  • Sep 11, 2009 4:59pm Sep 11, 2009 4:59pm
Quoting JRpips8
Hi Longbar,

Sure, I'd be happy to run it for you.
It would be interesting to know how it happened.

Is it run like any other MT4 script?
Let me know when you have it ready.

JR
JR, see the attached script. To install copy it to your <path to MT>/experts/scripts folder and restart MT. It should show up in the Navigator window at the Scripts node.

I would ask you to execute the script once on a USDCHF chart and once on an AUDJPY chart. All you do is to open a chart, any time frame, drop the script to it, double check that the ticket number matches the one we talked about and click OK. A few lines should appear in the Experts tab/Terminal window. Please select those lines (click on first line, shift+click on last then ctrl+c) and post them here - I am curious

Cheers
Longbar
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File Type: mq4 DumpTicket.mq4   2 KB | 338 downloads
  • #825
  • Sep 11, 2009 10:23pm Sep 11, 2009 10:23pm
Quoting LongBar
JR, see the attached script. To install copy it to your <path to MT>/experts/scripts folder and restart MT. It should show up in the Navigator window at the Scripts node.

I would ask you to execute the script once on a USDCHF chart and once on an AUDJPY chart. All you do is to open a chart, any time frame, drop the script to it, double check that the ticket number matches the one we talked about and click OK. A few lines should appear in the Experts tab/Terminal window. Please select those lines (click on first line, shift+click on last then ctrl+c)...
Hi Longbar,

Here's the results:

2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: removed
2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: uninit reason 0
2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: Symbol matches
2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: 6908461,USDCHF,1,7.24,2009.09.08 06:01:12,1.0596,2009.09.08 22:38:23,1.0473,0,0,20090906,1.06046 MisterED*
2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: #6908461 2009.09.08 06:01 sell 7.24 USDCHF 1.05960 0.00000 0.00000 2009.09.08 22:38 1.04731 0.00 0.00 8496.01 1.06046 MisterED 20090906
2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: Running on 'USDCHF' chart
2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1 inputs: Ticket=6908461;
2009.09.11 21:13:54 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: loaded successfully
2009.09.11 21:13:30 DumpTicket AUDJPY,H1: removed
2009.09.11 21:13:30 DumpTicket AUDJPY,H1: uninit reason 0
2009.09.11 21:13:30 DumpTicket AUDJPY,H1: Symbol mismatch
2009.09.11 21:13:30 DumpTicket AUDJPY,H1: 6908461,USDCHF,1,7.24,2009.09.08 06:01:12,1.0596,2009.09.08 22:38:23,1.0473,0,0,20090906,1.06046 MisterED*
2009.09.11 21:13:30 DumpTicket AUDJPY,H1: #6908461 2009.09.08 06:01 sell 7.24 USDCHF 1.05960 0.00000 0.00000 2009.09.08 22:38 1.04731 0.00 0.00 8496.01 1.06046 MisterED 20090906
2009.09.11 21:13:30 DumpTicket AUDJPY,H1: Running on 'AUDJPY' chart
2009.09.11 21:13:30 DumpTicket AUDJPY,H1 inputs: Ticket=6908461;
2009.09.11 21:13:17 DumpTicket AUDJPY,H1: loaded successfully

Appears not to have done any damage to AUDJPY but still very unexpected.
Hope this helps.

Cheers,

JR
  • #826
  • Sep 14, 2009 12:04am Sep 14, 2009 12:04am
Quoting LongBar
Hi Atlas1,

Instaling the EA in the form of source code or compiled is no difference, so as have done EA installation in the past this is easy for you. These are the steps:

 

  1. Download the EA, copy it to your <path to MT>/experts folder
  2. Download the HA indicator from the very first post, copy it to your <path to MT>/experts/indicators folder
  3. Restart/start up MT

The EA should be now listed in the Navigator window (Ctrl+N) at the Expert Advisors section. Similarly the HAS should be listed at the Custom Inidicators...

Thank you Longbar. I was able to get the EA and HAS loaded with a couple Pair. No executions however. Have you added buy and sell instructions? Perhaps I need to study the set files more?

It seems plain to view the priceline intersecting with the HAS on major trends and much criss-cross on ranging movements. What mechanisms are available to ignore horizontal ranging "noise"? Only checking the higher TF's? Or are other filters possible to do this?

Again, thank you for the instructions to load the EA. Any mods coming in the near future?

Atlas1
  • #827
  • Sep 14, 2009 2:32pm Sep 14, 2009 2:32pm
Quoting JRpips8
Hi Longbar,

Here's the results:

2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: removed
2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: uninit reason 0
2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: Symbol matches
2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1: 6908461,USDCHF,1,7.24,2009.09.08 06:01:12,1.0596,2009.09.08 22:38:23,1.0473,0,0,20090906,1.06046 MisterED*
[size=1][color=blue]2009.09.11 21:14:01 DumpTicket USDCHF,H1:...
Hi Jr,

Well, the above output looks like perfect ticket details for the USDCHF trade. I assume you use the magic number 20090906 for the EA.

The thing is that the EA code did not change (ver0.17 was used) and all other trades are properly handled by the EA code, except this one. The EA implementation does filter orders based on the chart's currency when picking them up for processing. This filtering did not work at that time, however did work before & after, and when you executed my recent script. Based on all these I am leaning towards saying that there could have been an MT terminal problem at that time, otherwise would be difficult to explain this red log message:
23:01:08 MisterED_v0.17.0 USDCHF,H1: INFO: SubmitOrder - new SELL order at bid:1.05955000 , entry:1.05955000 SL:0.00000000 TP:0.00000000 Lot:7.24000000 exp:1970.01.01 00:00:00 ExitMethod:1
23:01:08 MisterED_v0.17.0 AUDJPY,H1: modify #6908461 sell 7.24 USDCHF at 1.060 sl: 0.000 tp: 0.000 ok
 23:04:28 MisterED_v0.17.0 USDCHF,H1: ERROR: SubmitOrder - order submit failed (MT Code: 128 Desc: trade timeout)

Just make it clear the 6908461 ticket belongs to USDCHF:
2009.09.07 23:04:28 '2088184702': order sell 7.24 USDCHF opening at 0.00000 sl: 0.00000 tp: 0.00000 failed [Trade timeout]
2009.09.07 23:01:09 '2088184702': order was opened : #6908461 sell 7.24 USDCHF at 1.05960 sl: 0.00000 tp: 0.00000
2009.09.07 23:01:09 '2088184702': request in process
2009.09.07 23:01:09 '2088184702': request was accepted by server
2009.09.07 23:01:09 '2088184702': order sell market 7.24 USDCHF sl: 0.00000 tp: 0.00000

What we might want to do is to double check every Journal and Expert logs for this 6908461 ticket to see if any additional info was available. If there was then that might change the conclusion I am leaning towards...

Longbar
  • #828
  • Sep 14, 2009 5:48pm Sep 14, 2009 5:48pm
Quoting LongBar
Hi Jr,

Well, the above output looks like perfect ticket details for the USDCHF trade. I assume you use the magic number 20090906 for the EA.

The thing is that the EA code did not change (ver0.17 was used) and all other trades are properly handled by the EA code, except this one. The EA implementation does filter orders based on the chart's currency when picking them up for processing. This filtering did not work at that time, however did work before & after, and when you executed my recent script. Based on all these I am leaning towards saying...

Hi Longbar,

Yes, the magic number was 20090906 for both the AUDJPY and USDCHF charts.

I checked the subsequent logs and there weren't any additional references to that ticket number, other than this manual closing of the ticket:

15:38:18 '2088184702': close order #6908461 sell 7.24 USDCHF at 1.05960 sl: 0.00000 tp: 0.00000 at price 0.00000
15:38:18 '2088184702': request was accepted by server
15:38:18 '2088184702': request in process
15:38:18 '2088184702': order #6908461 sell 7.24 USDCHF at 1.05960 sl: 0.00000 tp: 0.00000 closed at price 1.04731


JR
  • #829
  • Sep 15, 2009 2:27am Sep 15, 2009 2:27am
Quoting JRpips8
Longbar,

I've noticed that when I have the boxes checked for live trading and Ask manual confirmation, it's impossible to decline the trade.
The order confirmation window, after I close it, just pops up again at the next tick. There is no option in the order window to decline the order confirmation.

Is this an inherent MT behavior or is there some way to leave the boxes checked, but have the order window close permanently (until a new signal on a later bar), if I decline the order it wants confirmed?

For now I've unchecked both boxes, and...
Will take a look at the above - I am going to prepare the next version 1.0 soon. It would have the minimum ATR filter added in as well.

LB
  • #830
  • Sep 15, 2009 2:34am Sep 15, 2009 2:34am
Quoting Atlas1
Thank you Longbar....
Hi Atlas1,

I am glad you got it running... I guess just be patient, could take for a while to get trade triggered

Re filtering there is going to be a new parameter to skip trades should the ATR reading be less than a certain value. That could eliminate trades when price action flattens.

Longbar
  • #831
  • Sep 15, 2009 4:31pm Sep 15, 2009 4:31pm
Quoting LongBar
Will take a look at the above - I am going to prepare the next version 1.0 soon. It would have the minimum ATR filter added in as well.

LB
Hi Longbar,

I'm looking forward to having v 1.0. The ATR filter should prove useful in trading short tf's in the manner of Mr Ed's method.

#2 on my wishlist of post 765 was for an Option to "Trade opposite to signal."
I know it sounds heretical, but I've been doing more testing with M15, M30 and H1. The losses are much greater than the current H4 results. Depending on the exit method and tf, the loss rates range from 72% to 96+%. These results are on runs of 55-90 trades each test, enough to indicate some potential for this approach.
A switch to "Trade opposite to signal" would allow more thorough testing and make it easier to refine the most effective times/ pairs. It appears to be especially successful during the late NY-Asian-Frankfurt power hour sessions. It doesn't work for London session.

If it's possible to do, even just for the exit0=ATR, it could prove very profitable on the H1 and lower tf's.

What do you think?

JR
  • #832
  • Sep 15, 2009 6:15pm Sep 15, 2009 6:15pm
Right: here comes the version 1.0.0

New feature:

 

  1. ATRMinimumTriggerPips parameter to filter out triggers where ATR value is less than this value
  2. Validating at EA startup some of the main parameter values like EntryMethod, ExitMethod, MoneyMgtMethod etc
  3. Warning user if Expert Advisors were not enabled at start up

Fixed/polished:

 

  1. Proper handling of trading allowed/context busy cases

So if you want to go ahead with trade triggers only where the ATR value is 10 or more pips then set the new ATRMinimumTriggerPips parameter to 10.

There will be log message for each tick if the trading context is kept busy by another EA or manual trading. However when live trading is not enabled on the EA dialog window then a log message is made only at new bars.

JR: I had a look at the manual trade confirmation case, but MT does not give back sufficient information to the EA to recognise user cancellation as opposed to some other possible platform errors. This will need a bit more thoughts...

Many pips to everyone!

Longbar

Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 MisterED_v1.0.0.mq4   49 KB | 457 downloads
  • #833
  • Sep 15, 2009 6:23pm Sep 15, 2009 6:23pm
Quoting JRpips8
Hi Longbar,

I'm looking forward to having v 1.0. The ATR filter should prove useful in trading short tf's in the manner of Mr Ed's method.

#2 on my wishlist of post 765 was for an Option to "Trade opposite to signal."
I know it sounds heretical, but I've been doing more testing with M15, M30 and H1. The losses are much greater than the current H4 results. Depending on the exit method and tf, the loss rates range from 72% to 96+%. These results are on runs of 55-90 trades each test, enough to indicate some potential for this approach.
A switch...
Hopefully reversing the trigger would not be a big deal - will take a look.
  • #834
  • Sep 16, 2009 4:07am Sep 16, 2009 4:07am
Quoting JRpips8
Hi Longbar,

Yes, the magic number was 20090906 for both the AUDJPY and USDCHF charts.

I checked the subsequent logs and there weren't any additional references to that ticket number, other than this manual closing of the ticket:

15:38:18 '2088184702': close order #6908461 sell 7.24 USDCHF at 1.05960 sl: 0.00000 tp: 0.00000 at price 0.00000
15:38:18 '2088184702': request was accepted by server
15:38:18 '2088184702': request in process
[size=1][color=blue]15:38:18...
OK, so no new info to consider re that ticket.

I wonder if MT was restarted between the ticket creation and closure? Might not be a fair question as I got very short term memory but wanted to ask...

Sometimes MT restart may help get things "back to normal".
  • #835
  • Sep 16, 2009 5:31am Sep 16, 2009 5:31am
Quoting LongBar
Right: here comes the version 1.0.0

Longbar
LB thanks for the new ea.
Finally got the ea (v1.0.0) to take a trade.
I have it on GBPUSD H1 chart & 5 selected for "monitoring 60 mins".
Also changed days to trade from "all" to "Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri" probably not make a difference, but thats what I set it to.
Helps if I have the Profile with the chart in, open before the hr is up, then wait.

I am sure I used to have trades from other ea's while I was looking at charts on another Profile. Maybe when platform was new & not so loaded up. Anybody else notice something like that.

Oh FXDD demo acct, long at 1.6506. Doesn't look that promising but will see.

cheers scalpz
Target 2 : Stoploss in the green
  • #836
  • Sep 16, 2009 11:08am Sep 16, 2009 11:08am
LB,

I may have missed this in an earlier post. The "tradetimemon" in parameters area, is this for setting a time of day to trade? For example if you wanted the EA to trade on the Euro session only are we able to set it to do so. Being able to do so might decrease the number of trades that occur during low volumn / small ATR sessions.

If this is what this is for, how would I set this up in parameters.

Thanks for you answer and all your work on the EA

Doug
  • #837
  • Sep 16, 2009 11:46am Sep 16, 2009 11:46am
Quoting LongBar
OK, so no new info to consider re that ticket.

I wonder if MT was restarted between the ticket creation and closure? Might not be a fair question as I got very short term memory but wanted to ask...

Sometimes MT restart may help get things "back to normal".
It's possible, but normally I start it up Sunday, run it 24x6 and close it late Friday. I may have put in a new EA version, which would have done a restart, but I don't recall. I'm looking closer at the logs now, but I haven't seen a repeat yet.

JR
  • #838
  • Sep 16, 2009 3:52pm Sep 16, 2009 3:52pm
Quoting scalpz
LB thanks for the new ea.
Finally got the ea (v1.0.0) to take a trade.
I have it on GBPUSD H1 chart & 5 selected for "monitoring 60 mins".
Also changed days to trade from "all" to "Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri" probably not make a difference, but thats what I set it to.
Helps if I have the Profile with the chart in, open before the hr is up, then wait.

I am sure I used to have trades from other ea's while I was looking at charts on another Profile. Maybe when platform was new & not so loaded up. Anybody else notice something like that.

Oh FXDD...
Good stuff!

Please note that the EA can do its magic only when it is attached to a live chart and the Expert Advisors button is green. You would see a smiley face in the upper right corner of the chart and the EA would show its status on the chart real-time. If you do not see these then it is likely that the EA is not operational.
  • #839
  • Sep 16, 2009 3:59pm Sep 16, 2009 3:59pm
Quoting backdoc
LB,

I may have missed this in an earlier post. The "tradetimemon" in parameters area, is this for setting a time of day to trade? For example if you wanted the EA to trade on the Euro session only are we able to set it to do so. Being able to do so might decrease the number of trades that occur during low volumn / small ATR sessions.

If this is what this is for, how would I set this up in parameters.

Thanks for you answer and all your work on the EA

Doug
Hi Doug,

Yes, the TradeTimeXXX parameters are used to select the bars where the EA should check for trading trigger. If you run the EA on 4H period and you want to check London session 8am to 4pm only then, assuming your broker is in London time, you would set all the relevant TradeTimeXXX parameters to: 08:00,12:00,16:00
Also dont forget to set the TradeDay to: Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri

Longbar
  • #840
  • Sep 16, 2009 4:28pm Sep 16, 2009 4:28pm
Quoting LongBar
Good stuff!

Please note that the EA can do its magic only when it is attached to a live chart and the Expert Advisors button is green. You would see a smiley face in the upper right corner of the chart and the EA would show its status on the chart real-time. If you do not see these then it is likely that the EA is not operational.
Yep thanks, got all those. Nice smily face, not sad or an x.
I suspect I have too many profiles around, may need to do some tidying up.
By "live chart" do you mean actually showing on the screen in the current open profile. Or can it be in the current profile but minimized.

If I change to another profile to see say a range of charts for EURUSD instead of MrED charts, I suspect the ea's become inactive for those minutes/hours the profile isn't open. I get sets of lines in the journal like:
2009.09.17 09:05:09 Custom indicator Atr&CandleLength GBPUSD,H1: removed
2009.09.17 09:05:09 Custom indicator Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed GBPUSD,H1: removed
2009.09.17 09:05:09 Expert MrED_v1.0.0 GBPUSD,H1: removed
When I come back to my charts on my MrED profile, I get lines like:
2009.09.17 09:09:54 Expert MrED_v1.0.0 GBPUSD,H1: loaded successfully
2009.09.17 09:09:54 Custom indicator Atr&CandleLength GBPUSD,H1: loaded successfully
2009.09.17 09:09:54 Custom indicator Heiken_Ashi_Smoothed GBPUSD,H1: loaded successfully

Of course when the charts aren't showing, can't see if there is still a smily face.

I am sure I used to get some trades taken by ea's while I was looking at a different profile. I used to have a profile for each of the main pairs, as thats how things looked when I first setup the platform.
But now I tend to have a profile mainly for each system. Of course the old ones are still there adding to the mess and maybe slowing things down.

Anybody with a new platform just setup able to clarify 1 way or the other, would be great.

cheers scalpz
Target 2 : Stoploss in the green
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