EA development journal

I'll try it. 30 days to try and decide. You never know if you don't try. This MLM isn't my thing, but maybe EA is good.

Finally I have done an EA that will give each trade sent its own target and stop loss based on the conditions that were prevailing when it was sent.
I have hacked mutilated the shell EA that steve hopwood allows to freely use . Find the EA in post 1.
Also have totally sorted that duplicate multiple order thingy that plagued previous EA's.
This has been a long time coming. Now the coding of setups starts. A new bot coming soon.

A little explanation on magic shell EA.
it has five slots for buy trades five slots for sell trades. What do I mean by slots,
Each slot has a name. Example buys.
When first buy is sent the slot is called first buy trade
Second buy sent will be called second buy trade. and so on and so forth.
Lets say I have four trades open and then second buy trade closes. We now First buy trade slot Third Buy trade fourth buy trade slot.
Unfilled slots are now second and fifth slot
If a buy trade is sent it will be called second buy trade.
Each trade requires you to tell it what the target or take profit is and what the stop loss is. Also how long the trade should last as a pending order before it is deleted.
For the Expert advisor to be to this I had to call up Order Comment function.
Each trade sent is inserted with comment of whether it is first trade or second etc etc.
This is how I have managed to get each trade to unique and be monitored.
Merlin I am sure you will go through it. Sorry man it is a spider web in there.
Let my try make thoughts, on how I came up with connections , known.
First I code a setup. Because there is not only one setup we go to second step.
Second differentiate ,if more than one setup is triggered which setup has the EA has chosen will go to next step.
Third give the chosen setup a trade comment. The function for this is called insertTradeComment.
Fourth now we have a trade comment we send an order. No order is to be sent without a trade comment.
Fifth once we have a market order with a trade comment we now can put target and stop loss by calling up the trade comment.
Also the trail function is awesome.
Looking forward to hear reports from you guys. The shell has two setups which can be cleared

I am currently coding setups for a bot I will call Pip Xilla. It is using this new shell of mine.
I will start its own Trade Explorer.

Now I want to reward people that say they are benefitting or enjoying this thread like merlin, majami, quingquamp, ezios,
What will happen is once its ready I will send to those who .(above this thread there is a poll) have voted positively

So far we have these guys or gals
Also other condition is that one is my buddy.You do this by subscribing to me. Once you do that you become my buddy

@Candyman,
Let me first say this, that you actually forced my hand to join forex factory (I have gain so much from this factory). I have followed you from the very beginning and have all, as in all your ea right from the very start. This has been a very long journey. Will love to thank merlin, ezios and majamivice for encouraging you all along. Well done.

Thank you . I am humbled.Nice one

Currently doing forward test of the latest modifications done to enable bots monitor trades. The code shows no bugs.
The tests show that I need to make the trailing function to also be conditional to setup that is sent with a trade. Currently the trailing function is user input defined.

The way the EA is designed is some trades are for a ranging market others are for a trending market. So trailing can not be hard and fast it needs to be flexible.

Bottom line is we want a bot that is flexible because the market is not hard and fast. From the forward tests the bot would go in profit and then loss.
A flexible trailing function should deal with these swings bank the profit before going in loss

Here is PipXilla with mostly ranging setups or scalping setups. Still yet to code those nice trend trades.

I was thinking the giving of EA to selected individuals concept and I thought what's to stop people from then coming and posting the EA on the thread after sending it to them by email. So will just post the EA here.

The EA has yet to generate any error in the journal TAB in MT4. So far so good. Code wise. Now need to see the Trade explorer also show some success.

I have managed to come up with twenty market ranging setups. I based them on EMA 50 on the Min 15 chart.
Please if you have a ranging market setup strategy post it.
That's version 2 with all twenty setups for ranging market.

I have just had a pop up message saying failed to close an order because of wrong ticket number. First bug,

I have carried out a cleansing exercise on the trade explorer. Reason being is that the above error is not coming from the code it is coming from changing templates on the same chart.
The latest EA's I have modified are heavily dependent on draw on the chart. When a trade is sent a line drawn . This helps identify the ticket number.
So what happened was I would save a template that had the EA example eurusd then I begin saving it on other pairs . Disaster. Because Eurusd had its lines drawn on it and now confusing other pairs with information generated by eurusd on the chart.
Advise is place ea on clean chart and never touch it. Any new versions I upload just go to meta editor and copy paste and then compile finito.
Do not touch the chart

For better graphs than Trade explorer https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/555289#!tab=tab_account

The trade explorer is trading all 28 pairs. Once I have a few months data on trades I want to see which pair is loosing too much money and which makes a lot of money. I am not using a basket trade manger. Well it will mess up the concept of some trades are for range and others for trending. Basket trading would close trades that planning on stay open for a long time. (Trend trades)

Post1 updated with V3 Pip Xilla
With v3 xilla I added a few more intraday setups

Tomorrow I will code trending setups .
My idea is get swings of the 150 Simple moving average of an Hour 4 chart.
What do you think of that?

buddy, in my words, i am not favor in divide range and trend strategy alone. in actually we can not fully catch the range and trend , that is my thought.

so you should careful to set up price action formular.

I just realised that this thread has fulfilled or achieved its purpose. An EA has developed been developed .
Now what is needed is a strategy. SO I will start a new thread called strategy development journal.

Such ideas will be needed on the new journal

you should link your new thread in here, so other members can know your new link.

Here is link to new thread
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=910821

Also while I have been thinking of strategies I realised I needed more trades. So in post one you will find shell with room for ten trades

Nice thread. subscribed.