Phoenix 2007 (new thread)

Quoting wackena

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In backtest on IBFX mini, just as a test, I set Risk at 2 (200%) to have 6 lots at start on a $3,000 deposit. On a 6 months test, it ran past allowable lot size of 50 for a mini account and stopped trading. I put a 50 lot limiter in the code and then it kept on placing 50 lots order till the test end.

Since most mini accounts only allow max balance of $10,000, a 50 lot size limit may not be needed. But, just in case for the long run, you may want to consider adding coded 100 lot size limiter for standard accounts. If you had run a 7 months backtest on PBv2.0, you would had see this same situation.

It might also be a little early to be worried about this.

The backtest result was $62,479. Not bad for a Mini.

Wackena

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Quoting Hendrick

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Can you show the change of code you want?

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//---- return lot size
   if(lot<0.1) lot=0.1;
   if(MM==false) lot=Lots;
   if(AccountIsMicro==true) lot=lot/10;
   [color=red]if(lot>100)lot=100;[/color] 
   return(lot);  }

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void CheckForClose()
{

for(int i=0;i<orderstotal();i++)>
{
if(OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_TRADES)==false) break;
if(OrderMagicNumber()!=MAGICMA || OrderSymbol()!=Symbol()) continue;
{

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if(OrderType() == OP_BUY)
{
if(TrailingStop > 0)
{
if((Bid-OrderOpenPrice()) > (Point*TrailingStop))
{
if((OrderStopLoss()) < (Bid-Point*TrailingStop))
{
OrderModify(OrderTicket(),OrderOpenPrice(),Bid-Point*TrailingStop,OrderTakeProfit(),0,GreenYellow);
return(0);
}
}
}

}

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Quoting tradeigel

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Hi Hendrick,

the last day's test told me that it's really worth taking a closer look at Phoenix . So I did.
and btw, I always wanted to ask you a question about your CheckForClose() function.
So here it is:



What is that suppost to mean? if(....) continue; -> alright, that's clear. However, why do you have a '{' then? What does that { belong to, to the if()? But then you would have to put the { right after the if(), right?



Maybe I got you wrong there. And, I know, right now we don't use this part of code. However, since I am a programer too, my goal is it to keep Phoenix clean of unnecessary / wrong code and bugs.

I still wonder why nobody is putting real money into Phoenix. Are putting in real money, Hendrick? I will do that in a few weeks, I think. Only that my funds are really limited. :/ We will change that! Thanks for Phoenix, Hendrick!</ORDERSTOTAL();I++)>

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Quoting Hendrick

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For the Booster use PrefSettings=true and MM=true. The EA will do the rest!!

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Quoting nvwine

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Wackena
I noticed your testing with an IBFX mini account. Look at my trades for 09/27/06 and 10/12/06 below. Is this caused by the 'lot<0.1' line or something else? It may have something to do with the way lots are entered in the IBFX mini 1.0 = 10k or I may just have a backtesting error I created somehow. Could you run a back test with Phoenix Booster from Sept 1st to yesterday and see if you get the same thing? USDJPY $1000 mini account risk=3.

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Quoting wackena

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nvwine,

Attqched is PB-v2.0. This is IBFX mini backtest to emulate your test. It produced similar lost $-370, but with only 14 trades compared to youir 22 trades. DD% was different also.

Also attached is PB-v2.0-FXDD (loss $-572 & lot=0.3) for same time range as above and PB-v2.0-IBFX-6months (profit $ 56,928).

If you look at 6 months backtest, you will see that the last 2 months (same test range as previous tests) was not a good profit gain period.

Wackena

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Quoting howard

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All the inputs such as target stop osmafast slow etc are showing zero, is this the way it should be and does it work as it is ?

PrefSettings and MM are already = true

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Quoting nvwine

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Wackena, thanks for your help. It is nice to verify my backtest data. I had planned to show some backtests and give some opinions but in light of Hendrick's post #189 I'll wait and re-test his new version of the Booster EA.

Hendrick, thanks for your hard work. I'll be waiting for the revised version of Phoenix Booster.

In the PDF file below are my results for 6 trading days. The closed trades accounted for a 721 positive pip gain. The float was an aprox. 165 negative pip loss. So the 6 day average daily pip gain, based on equity, was over 90 pips a day. Very Good!

The first few of days of this week I may not post any results. My tests will still be running. There is a money and investing show in San Francisco and I'll go down daily to learn something maybe or at least waste time. My main reason is the free wine and cheese events and the free cocktail receptions the first couple of evenings. It is great what investment houses will do to try to attract your business. I hope they never hear that my numerous accounts are funded with a few hundred dollars each.

I think that EAs run much better with the least possible interruptions especially Phoenix. From what I have observed it takes quite a few days for the trades to start reflecting each other in two backtests that were started only a couple of days apart. Because of this I am planning to move my live and some of my test accounts to a virtual private server this week to see if it makes the results more consistent.

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Quoting A1Cruiser

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Attached are my test results of Phoenix 4.2. Since I had to shot my demo account down due to some technical improvements at the brokerage, I attached the results of my whole test period.
Strange: My results are not as good as other posters' ones here.

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Quoting Hendrick

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My advice: open a demo-account with one of the brokers that have almost no differences between data feed between demo and live accounts. Try http://neuimex.com/ for example. Let me know if your results will improve!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o></o>

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Quoting VinceTheBeast

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Thanks for that one. I just signed up with them as well now. Almost start to feel sorry for my pc... ;-) Got about 9 MT4's running @ the moment on 4 different traders :-)
Just trying to figure out which one is most reliable for me.
Thanks for your Booster too off course! Set up for forward testing next week.
Cheers!

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Quoting nvwine

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Because of this I am planning to move my live and some of my test accounts to a virtual private server this week to see if it makes the results more consistent.

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Quoting Hendrick

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Hi Vince!
Hope you've got your flu under control now! Well, that’s a lot of demo's you've running at the same time (have your Core 2 Duo already arrived?). Looking forward to your test results!!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o></o>

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Quoting tradeigel

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well...what do you mean? D'you mean just a computer in you house which is only running the EAs?

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