Not being able to use more than eight buffers for the indicators is a pretty big limitation of MT4. Nice use of the trendlines.
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DislikedDear Mr Hopwood
[font=Times New Roman]Thank you for your excellent ea.
As I understand it, the ways for MPTM to mange trades as a basket is to select by trade comment, OR M#, or under the basket settings select alltradesbelongtobasket=true.
[color=black][font=Times New Roman]For several months I have been tweaking a free ea and found a way to run it in reverse and simultaneously synchronize as a hedge if required....Ignored
DislikedMy previous post seems to have gone unnoticed in this ask anything thread.
Are there settings that will enable management of two or more baskets of different pairs- on the same brokers account. Of course I use two or more instances of mptm to manage the separate pairs, but they pickup each others trades if alltradesbelongtobasket=true on the same account. I cannot use the trade comment or M# as there is more than one M# within each pair.
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DislikedHi Steve,
How could we control the direction of the first trade I'm asking this because I found the robot usefull if it is used with manual trading.
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DislikedIf you are experiencing a lockup during backtesting or live operation in Rip or Reversi, comment out or shorten the strings constructed by the StringConcatenate function, if you understand what implications this will have.
This appears to be a bug in MT4, versions 226 and 402 for sure, and according to some older threads, certain older versions as well. It does not appear to be a problem with the EA's logic.
The calls at the end of these EAs in the UseScoobsMarginCheck and UseForexKiwi sections were the culprit in my case.Ignored
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Don't have trustworthy settings yet, because I am encountering vastly different results running the same parameters in Backtest vs. Optimization. So far I have narrowed it down to AccountMargin() returning only 100 in Backtest mode, but returning 100 or sometimes 300 in Optimization mode. Using Birt's patch and am offline, so it's not because of spread differences. Turning off the two margin checks solves this problem, but of course takes a feature away.
I have debugged Rip using FileWrite to write out variables at various places,...Ignored
DislikedIts regarding "Awesome" auto-trading robot by SteveHopwood.mq4. As I don't have enough vouch, i cannot post in the main thread and as Steve mentioned, the questions can be posted here also.
I'm demo'ing in four pairs. I'm getting the following error as attached
Error 146 ("Trade context busy")
Thanks.
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DislikedHi
That error just means the broker is busy and I'm afraid we all have to live with that in MT4. Steve's EAs will retry until the order gets through.
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