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Quoting damiend
Thanks for your tests and your patience guys. Attached is the new version 1.2
Hey Damiend

New version doesn't open any SELL orders, only open BUYs

I tried diff timerames, including M15, same thing
I've done a few test tests the results are much, much better with this version - I think we finally got something GOOD here. Surprisingly, I think the trailing stop will actually improve the performance.
There is much much to see and test (I test visually, so it will take me a long time). But THANK YOU DAMIEND, for your very professional work so far.
Quoting alecsa72
{quote} Hey Damiend New version doesn't open any SELL orders, only open BUYs I tried diff timerames, including M15, same thing
Check settings of EA on General tab, there you can choose what type of orders EA should open (only sell / buy / or both long and short)
Maybe this will help. (my mt is in russian, but I think it's easy to understand what you need to check)
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Quoting fotolia
{quote} Check settings of EA on General tab, there you can choose what type of orders EA should open (only sell / buy / or both long and short) Maybe this will help. (my mt is in russian, but I think it's easy to understand what you need to check) {image}
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Quoting alecsa72
{quote} Hey Damiend New version doesn't open any SELL orders, only open BUYs I tried diff timerames, including M15, same thing
There's no reason for that, the EA manage the buy and sell orders the same way.
As fotolia said, check in your "Common" tab that you allow the EA to open long & short positions, attached is a screenshot in english.

If it still doesn't work, could you be more precise ? Like posting a chart where it should have opened a Buy + the settings you are using.
You could also check the Journal tab from your terminal (screenshot attached too), maybe it tried to open a buy but there was an error.
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Quoting MickeyMar
I've done a few test tests the results are much, much better with this version - I think we finally got something GOOD here. Surprisingly, I think the trailing stop will actually improve the performance. There is much much to see and test (I test visually, so it will take me a long time). But THANK YOU DAMIEND, for your very professional work so far.
Nice, happy to read that

Yes trailing stop could maybe improve the performance from an intraday perspective. I mean if the goal is to close the positions at the end of the day, it could help maximize the profits. But if the goal is to let the profitable trades running during the night, most of the time it will close the position too early.

About the feature to close the trade when price closes on the other side of the channel, from my first tests on one pair I don't think it will be valuable for us, the results don't look good. I will post some test examples tomorow if possible.
Quoting damiend
{quote} Nice, happy to read that Yes trailing stop could maybe improve the performance from an intraday perspective. I mean if the goal is to close the positions at the end of the day, it could help maximize the profits. But if the goal is to let the profitable trades running during the night, most of the time it will close the position too early. About the feature to close the trade when price closes on the other side of the channel, from my first tests on one pair I don't think it will be valuable for us, the results don't look good....
Ty for all the job your doing it seems is becoming a pip machine
Just spent some time with the tester. The attached chart and stats are for year 2017 to present, trailing stop, and no stop loss. When the stop loss is set to 0, the EA only goes long, so what you see are only long trades. When a SL is entered, the EA goes long and short. Not a recommendation, only food for thought.
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Quoting ChicagoRob
Just spent some time with the tester. The attached chart and stats are for year 2017 to present, trailing stop, and no stop loss. When the stop loss is set to 0, the EA only goes long, so what you see are only long trades. When a SL is entered, the EA goes long and short. Not a recommendation, only food for thought. {image} {image}
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Thanks CR. My problem is not getting time constraint trades using MT4. Therefore my results show up as being skewed. I've check for other testers, however, MT4 is the only one I've found that accepts all EAs.

I'm back to visual testing, which is slow, but it's not like picking one out of a "Box of Chocolates"... at least I know what I see is pretty close to accurate.
Quoting damiend
Thanks for your tests and your patience guys. Attached is the new version 1.2 The new features for this version are: A trailing stop. You will need to configure TrailingStop and TrailingStep for that. Set TrailingStop=0 to disable it. MinBarsBetween2Signals parameter which is the Minimum number of candles between 2 valid signals to avoid multicross CloseTradesAtOtherChannelSide parameter to close the trade when price closes on the other side of the channel TradingBrokerStartTime and TradingBrokerEndTime have been renamed to TradingGMTStartTime...

Hi Damiend, thanks for this, all up and running. I am on holiday from today and will let it run for the next 5 or 6 days on a new £10000 demo account to see what happens, should be interesting.
Just trying to put a kiss on the cheek of success
Hi Damiend, any ideas why i keep seeing Stopped on my screen? you can see the icon smiling top right, and I have activated auto trading.

https://charts.mql5.com/16/523/audus...services-2.png
Just trying to put a kiss on the cheek of success
Damiend, I still had the old EA on my main testing platform last night... and it missed entering the EURAUD trade (delayed entry). I can't find any explanation (the dotted line was there, max spread was set to 6 (I have 2), the time spent at or below the level it was supposed to enter was more than sufficient... I checked all parameters, the EA was surely on... Could you have a look, please? the same thing happened on EURNZD. There is some bug with the delayed entries, which I'm not sure was fixed in the last version.
I will close trades today and start testing with the last version the whole basket of pairs, just in case, but I thought you should know.
https://www.mql5.com/en/charts/78042...global-markets
Quoting MickeyMar
Damiend, I still had the old EA on my main testing platform last night... and it missed entering the EURAUD trade (delayed entry). I can't find any explanation (the dotted line was there, max spread was set to 6 (I have 2), the time spent at or below the level it was supposed to enter was more than sufficient... I checked all parameters, the EA was surely on... Could you have a look, please? the same thing happened on EURNZD. There is some bug with the delayed entries, which I'm not sure was fixed in the last version. I will close trades today and...
In 1.2 version i have big problem and seems Ea can't opena any order.
Seems time session problem ... look at my screenshot experts log says market closed...
Hope for a solution..
Regards
https://i.gyazo.com/9373ecd1e8ba69c8...b13bc4f0e4.png
Quoting MickeyMar
Damiend, I still had the old EA on my main testing platform last night... and it missed entering the EURAUD trade (delayed entry). I can't find any explanation (the dotted line was there, max spread was set to 6 (I have 2), the time spent at or below the level it was supposed to enter was more than sufficient... I checked all parameters, the EA was surely on... Could you have a look, please? the same thing happened on EURNZD. There is some bug with the delayed entries, which I'm not sure was fixed in the last version. I will close trades today and...
Hi Mickey

I am testing the old version too and my broker is Pepperstone Aud, my trade was taken on that EURAUD and EURNZD
Quoting ChicagoRob
Just spent some time with the tester. The attached chart and stats are for year 2017 to present, trailing stop, and no stop loss. When the stop loss is set to 0, the EA only goes long, so what you see are only long trades. When a SL is entered, the EA goes long and short. Not a recommendation, only food for thought. {image} {image}
Hi
I confirm the issue...no short trades.
The MM is not working too.
Hi traders,

Last night I left open my basket that was -70 pips. I mean left opened in asian session. This morning I've seen the basket has closed +100 pips, so again we are in positive this week. I see that it had would be more profitable leave it open all positive trades until "oposite signal". If I had set this way the basket we could reached three times more pips. More test is needed, that for sure.

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thank you
PD: still testing with old EA

TONI
Quoting ChicagoRob
Just spent some time with the tester. The attached chart and stats are for year 2017 to present, trailing stop, and no stop loss. When the stop loss is set to 0, the EA only goes long, so what you see are only long trades. When a SL is entered, the EA goes long and short. Not a recommendation, only food for thought. {image} {image}
Hi ChicagoRob,
Thank you for these info, it helped me to find the bug with sell orders when when SL=0. I was opening sell trades if slPrice > CHANNEL_HIGH only, it couldn't work with SL=0 ;-)
Attached is a minor version 1.21 that fixes this SELL orders issue.

And yes the curve without SL is interesting, but not advised because you know what could happen at the end
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Quoting pet3250
Hi Damiend, any ideas why i keep seeing Stopped on my screen? you can see the icon smiling top right, and I have activated auto trading. https://charts.mql5.com/16/523/audus...services-2.png
Thanks for your tests while you are in holidays!

For this Stopped stuff at the bottom, I have no idea what this is about. It looks like you are using an indicator that prints information at the bottom but I don't know this indicator at all. It has nothing to do with the EA, the EA status "waiting for signal" is OK.
Quoting MickeyMar
Damiend, I still had the old EA on my main testing platform last night... and it missed entering the EURAUD trade (delayed entry). I can't find any explanation (the dotted line was there, max spread was set to 6 (I have 2), the time spent at or below the level it was supposed to enter was more than sufficient... I checked all parameters, the EA was surely on... Could you have a look, please? the same thing happened on EURNZD. There is some bug with the delayed entries, which I'm not sure was fixed in the last version. I will close trades today and...
Hi MickeyMar,
I'm not sure why it didn't open the trade. The two only reasons that could prevent the delayed entry to be opened are: a spread too high and a SL price > channel low.

For the spread, I will make an improvement in the next version because (for a Buy) it's using the Ask price to look for the EMA33 touch currently. I will use the Low of the candle instead to ensure the spread doesn't prevent some trades to be opened.
Quoting cescof
{quote} In 1.2 version i have big problem and seems Ea can't opena any order. Seems time session problem ... look at my screenshot experts log says market closed... Hope for a solution.. Regards https://i.gyazo.com/9373ecd1e8ba69c8...b13bc4f0e4.png
I think it's a broker related issue. It's an error message coming from the mt4 platform when trying to open an order.
In your screenshot it tried to open an order at 23:59:59, I guess your broker doesn't take orders at this time.
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