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  • #641
  • Jul 5, 2018 4:30am Jul 5, 2018 4:30am
https://fxtestify.com
That's the link to the page that was created by stevehopwood site to show which of their EA's are doing well.
Scroll to that bottom of that page. Slope peaky Bob is doing extremely well
  • #642
  • Jul 5, 2018 9:29am Jul 5, 2018 9:29am
Hello Quinqamp. Just wanted to say thanks you always place a like on my posts, even though you have never post.

Your likes are much appreciated
  • #643
  • Jul 6, 2018 9:45am Jul 6, 2018 9:45am
Quoting candyman752
Merlin , my fellow EA developer. The latest code added to the EA relates to how positions are added. In the past i have tried stacking i have tried adding positions when price has moved x pips distance . Example add position every 30 pips I have also tried gridding and also adding positions based on so called Magic moving average. Have not worked out nicely. In the latest EA I have coded that position be added if the previous HR4 candle low [1]( current candle shift is [0] previous is [1]) is 15 pips higher that HR4 candle low [2]. I believe this...
candy, so much busy in these weeks , sorry for not actively in here, i want to say your effort are good, but i want to say adding positions is not the good way. but it doesn't mean it has no work. i think a good ea should be less orders, and just several orders will make you enough money in each week. your ea development should consider this factor.
  • #644
  • Jul 6, 2018 5:58pm Jul 6, 2018 5:58pm
Quoting merlin1331
{quote} candy, so much busy in these weeks , sorry for not actively in here, i want to say your effort are good, but i want to say adding positions is not the good way. but it doesn't mean it has no work. i think a good ea should be less orders, and just several orders will make you enough money in each week. your ea development should consider this factor.
Interesting, I was doing a back test before you wrote this. I had removed the adding position part and it was better results than the adding positions code.
I will take note of that. You are a star buddie
  • #645
  • Jul 7, 2018 3:28am Jul 7, 2018 3:28am
EA updated in post 1. As merlin pointed out do not add positions willy nilly. I have removed that part of the code and future EA's will not have them. Positions will be opened if there is a signal.
While looking at the charts I observed the following as shown in screenshot
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Pivots are good at showing us when Trend will continue and when a reversal is taking place.
I have posted two EA's with this observation coded.
  • #646
  • Jul 9, 2018 5:24am Jul 9, 2018 5:24am
Wind chaser sent PM.
The best EA at steve hopwood is
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Slopey Peaky Bob.mq4   440 KB | 290 downloads

If you have a 10 000 account use this set file
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File Type: txt Steve.txt   6 KB | 249 downloads

if you have less than a thousand usd use this file
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File Type: txt Gareth.txt   6 KB | 243 downloads


Trade explorer created for slope peaky bob - gareth
https://www.forexfactory.com/candyman752#acct.33

Ezios how is the awesome ea going?

you can find the various ea's being tested at steve hopwood and how they are performing
https://fxtestify.com/
  • #647
  • Jul 9, 2018 6:23pm Jul 9, 2018 6:23pm
Quoting candyman752
Wind chaser sent PM. The best EA at steve hopwood is {file} If you have a 10 000 account use this set file{file} if you have less than a thousand usd use this file{file} Trade explorer created for slope peaky bob - gareth https://www.forexfactory.com/candyman752#acct.33 Ezios how is the awesome ea going? you can find the various ea's being tested at steve hopwood and how they are performing https://fxtestify.com/
the awesome i removed from demo because it wins alot but loose alot too.... no good.
the slopey peaky bob i have put in my little account but wrong setting with steve.
i will change the setting. and we will se..
  • #648
  • Jul 10, 2018 10:29am Jul 10, 2018 10:29am
PivotSPBV1 uploaded to post 1.
Interesting what you learn from observing an EA trade. I was observing slope peak bob(SPB) from yesterday and i managed to understand how it is trading.
When the EA registers a buy signal it sends a buystop 40 pips above market + grid. When the market drops 80 pips from that buystop it sends another
buystop 40 pips above the current dropped market price. This EA (SPB)is using the gareth setfile. It appears trading this way is successful. I am hoping
that using pivots to determine trend reversal and trend continuation will allow traders to start with a USD 200 account. Lets see.
  • #649
  • Edited 12:14pm Jul 11, 2018 11:27am | Edited 12:14pm
sailorvt asked in a pm to adjust an ea his trading.
he does not want it to take higher time frames in to account in current trading time frame
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in the above screen shot i show the before picture.the red box is line to deal with.green arrow is where i will put two forward slashes / /
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above is after. just by doing that i have blocked the code telling ea to read higher time frames
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File Type: mq4 SailorVT_v1.mq4   404 KB | 197 downloads
  • #650
  • Edited 12:02pm Jul 11, 2018 11:51am | Edited 12:02pm
The next request from sailorvt was he wanted the EA yellow wave to differentiate between bear and bull
Look at below screen shot
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The screenshot is from the code in the EA. Firstly it calls yellow wave ranging. Next the code equates bull wave and bear range.
I will try to modify but i do not know how it will affect trading as this is a multipair one chart trading EA
EDIT 7 minutes later
Here is screen shot of the modifcation
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I have modified the code to try differentiate a bull wand bear yellow range wave
Below is the EA. Let us know how it goes
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 SailorVT_v2.mq4   406 KB | 248 downloads
  • #651
  • Jul 14, 2018 12:42pm Jul 14, 2018 12:42pm
Post 1 has been updated with PivotSPBV2 and PivotCatchTrendReversalV2.
The additions done to the EA was with regards to position adding .
Positions will be added when Previous Daily Candles show flag pole Bullish hammer or Head and Shoulders pattern.
The performance is not that exciting for this week.
  • #652
  • Jul 15, 2018 6:43am Jul 15, 2018 6:43am
I have reloaded V2 of the above EA's. I made an addition to signal reading.
Boris and kathy have an EA called Trend Catcher. The EA buys when price crosses the upper 20 ; 1 daily bollinger band
and sells when price crosses the lower 20:1 daily bollinger band
Below is screenshot of places the EA will read the signal
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File Type: mq4 PivotCatchTrendReversalV2.mq4   651 KB | 197 downloads
File Type: mq4 PivotSPBlV2.mq4   637 KB | 225 downloads
  • #653
  • Jul 16, 2018 8:58am Jul 16, 2018 8:58am
Wind chaser you requested
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File Type: ex4 xxx_lib.ex4   18 KB | 191 downloads
File Type: ex4 XXX_v16.09.ex4   56 KB | 203 downloads
File Type: ex4 XXX_v17.00.ex4   107 KB | 194 downloads
  • #654
  • Jul 16, 2018 9:20am Jul 16, 2018 9:20am
PM from sailorvt. This will help you who have downloaded the EA to see where the discussion started from.
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  • #655
  • Jul 18, 2018 4:24am Jul 18, 2018 4:24am
EDIT 18 July 2018
Post 1 updaated with V3
The adjustment is minor. EURNZD had huge buy trade draw down on the account. No sell position had opened.
Using SMA 7 daily BB 20 : 1 daily and weekly pivots I saw buyers in the previous weeks had driven the price to extreme highs.
They were signs that they had run out of steam as shown by SMA 7, BB and Weekly Pivots. See screen shot
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  • #656
  • Jul 19, 2018 3:12am Jul 19, 2018 3:12am
EDIT 19 July 2018
I want to clean up my Trade Explorers. But want evidence of failed attempts to be kept.
I will be leaving Pivot Trend Catcher_V3, Slope peaky Bob and PivotSPB_V3.
Here is screen shot as of today's profile
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  • #657
  • Jul 19, 2018 3:31am Jul 19, 2018 3:31am
This is what it looks like after cleaning up.
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I ain't got nuthin to hide ya know
I believe these EA's are promising but time will tell.
Now need to have data on the draw down that comes with market volatility.
Starting with USD 200 might not be possible but USD 500 looking very possible.
To clarify once again i have borrowed the 40 pip gap distance concept from slope peaky bob.
I then have introduced filters. The filters are SMA 7 daily Weekly Pivots and Bollinger Band 20 : 1.
Also positions are added according to candle patterns shown on daily chart.
Namely, Head and shoulders, Flag pole, Bullish etc etc. I have put these together and are now being tested.
  • #658
  • Jul 19, 2018 3:41am Jul 19, 2018 3:41am
Just in case you wondering why i stopped working on multi pair one chart EA's
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I agree with steve they are COMPLICATED
  • #659
  • Jul 20, 2018 4:40am Jul 20, 2018 4:40am
For future reference
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  • #660
  • Jul 20, 2018 2:30pm Jul 20, 2018 2:30pm
Analysis on the EA's performance.
Pivot_SPB and Pivot Trend Catcher have both performed well.
Unfortunately i am unable to tell which of the two performed better.
Both of them had a max DD of usd 40. Trumps statement yesterday was handled well.It brought a some DD.
Today , friday, brought some reversals of the DD because of some huge moves in USD index. Though it was not enough to breakeven.
I had to then manually intervene. The trades that opened today that were in profit were used to close the Trump DD trades.
This left two -ve trades on each account rather ten trades some +ve and some -ve. Next week will open with these -ve trades
and hopefully Trump can make the market play tango.
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