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  • #361
  • Oct 23, 2006 3:22am Oct 23, 2006 3:22am
Quoting Benna
Hendrick

I use Camzip but I cannot get the thing to work as it should.

Can you suggest annother zip-program I can use?

Ben
Try WinZip ... available at www.winzip.com
Just my 2 pips worth
  • #362
  • Oct 23, 2006 3:32am Oct 23, 2006 3:32am
Quoting Mun
Hi guys. I've been away for the past few days. When I came back CPU was at 100%... culprit was MS Outlook . Anyway, stuff was still working (but talking a long time) so I think it had no effect on P4 but I'm not certain. I also found the EA was not running on the GBPJPY chart . I've put everything back to normal now but take the results of thursday and friday for what its worth. Seems to have hit a few stops.

Anyway, North Finance statement as of 22 Oct 06. Starting equity $5000, current equity $5257. Forward testing pairs USDCHF, GBPUSD, EURUSD, USDJPY, AUDUSD, USDCAD, EURGBP, EURCHF, EURJPY, GBPJPY, GBPCHF, EURAUD with Pheonix_EA_v4_2_03 on M30 charts.
Remeber that you can always change the priority of a process under windows. This way when you get a "rouge" process like Outlook stuffing up your system it will have a very limited impact on running your MT4 program.

By default, process when they start up in Windows they will be assigned a priority of "Normal" ... go to Task Manager and find the processes called "terminal.exe" (these are for running MT4) and you can safely bump them up to "Above Normal". You can have multiple copies of these depending on how many MT4 demo or live accounts you have installed.

I wouldn't recommend going higher as this can cause system instability if your MT4 programe start to misbehave.

If you have any more questions then let me know and i will try to answer them.

For live accounts (and only for live accounts) I'd potentially consider using a priority of "High".

WARNING: Never, never, never set you priority to "Real Time". This WILL cause you problems with your system.
Just my 2 pips worth
  • #363
  • Oct 23, 2006 3:46am Oct 23, 2006 3:46am
I've attached updated results over the last week running Phoenx 4.2.03 on 3 broker accounts.

Results are a mixed bag, some up some down. Since launching this version I've bumped up the MaximumRisk to 0.1 (as opposed to 0.05 as default). As Harry mentoned once before ... if you are going to become rich you have take on a bit more risk. And looking at the results, I'd be willing to run with it at a higher risk parameter.
Attached File(s)
File Type: zip 20061023phoenix4.2.03.results.zip   27 KB | 280 downloads
Just my 2 pips worth
  • #364
  • Oct 23, 2006 3:49am Oct 23, 2006 3:49am
Quoting Hendrick
Did I forgot something? Please give me some feedback on this.<o></o>
Maybe ... I was thinking about that optimisation of the open, stop loss and take profit levels.
Just my 2 pips worth
  • #365
  • Oct 23, 2006 3:59am Oct 23, 2006 3:59am
Oops ... forgot to mention the results for the tests posted above ... the IBFX results I wouldn't trust too much. I've been having difficulty keeping that demo running. They appear to have a timeout setting or something as the IBFX demo account is pretty consistently showing "No connection" in the mornings when I arrive at work. So it means that overnight it must have "broken" at some point in time. I don't really have a way of telling when that happens.

The other two demo accounts haven't had these problems. I think that I'm going to substitute IBFX with FXDD in the future.
Just my 2 pips worth
  • #366
  • Oct 23, 2006 4:28am Oct 23, 2006 4:28am
For the week 16-20 October

Platform SBFX

Trades on 9 pairs

Starting balance 4700
Closing balance 4732

Result Breakeven

Regards
Regards
  • #367
  • Oct 23, 2006 8:33am Oct 23, 2006 8:33am
had 1 trade match ur contest trade results on FXDD today, i been running it since last week, FXDD demo USDJPY Phoenix4Contest expert--
open buy 118.63 take profit 119.05 so only one PIP off --
this has only 10000 USDJPY contest loaded -2171 currently

my other tests i was running on IBFX and they went poooopooo

thnx for ur contributions --
  • #368
  • Oct 23, 2006 8:34am Oct 23, 2006 8:34am
Quoting howard
For the week 16-20 October

Platform SBFX

Trades on 9 pairs

Starting balance 4700
Closing balance 4732

Result Breakeven

Regards
Howard - would you mind showing us the detailed statement please (Account History tab -> Right click -> "Save as detailed report...")? It will help us see the trades on the individual pairs (some pairs perform well, others not so good). Thanks.
  • #369
  • Oct 23, 2006 11:21am Oct 23, 2006 11:21am
Quoting saltcafe
...I've been having difficulty keeping that demo running. They appear to have a timeout setting or something as the IBFX demo account is pretty consistently showing "No connection" in the mornings when I arrive at work. So it means that overnight it must have "broken" at some point in time. I don't really have a way of telling when that happens...
Last week was the first week out of many, many weeks of forward testing w/IBFX that this situation became noticeable on my end. Three out of the five mornings i came to the EAs with them showing "No connection", and sometimes it took closing down that MT4 and reopening it to get things up (would not do kick in with "rescan servers" or "Login"). I would hope this would not be the case w/live accounts at IBFX? I'm still planning on opening a small .5k or 1.0k mini and trade micro lots w/the EA sometime soon.

: ) Thom
  • #370
  • Oct 23, 2006 12:09pm Oct 23, 2006 12:09pm
Anyone know where I can get past Forex data in .txt format so I can paste into a spreadsheet? (free of course) Thanks much.
"Its not where your at, but where your coming from"
  • #371
  • Oct 23, 2006 1:06pm Oct 23, 2006 1:06pm
I have been running v 4_02_01 for the last few weeks.

Is that still the current version? Or have we moved to a different one? This version appears reasonably profitable on my demos at this time.

Thanks for any advice.
Don Life is expensive, but includes a free trip around the sun.
  • #372
  • Oct 23, 2006 1:19pm Oct 23, 2006 1:19pm
Quoting traderone
I have been running v 4_02_01 for the last few weeks.

Is that still the current version? Or have we moved to a different one? This version appears reasonably profitable on my demos at this time.

Thanks for any advice.
We are waiting for ver. 5 currently post #140 has v4_2_03.
  • #373
  • Oct 23, 2006 2:38pm Oct 23, 2006 2:38pm
NVWine- The meta-method worked like a charm. I appreciate it. Matt
"Its not where your at, but where your coming from"
  • #374
  • Oct 23, 2006 5:05pm Oct 23, 2006 5:05pm
Quoting Hendrick
Interesting results for the USDCAD and the EURAUD. Dropped them earlier, but seeing these results I think I was to hasty.

There's no doubt in my mind that your system Phoenix WORK. Let's impove it by mutitude test. You are on very good way. Sorry for my english. I'm basicly french.

Ciao
I just believe in... Peace and good Karma!
  • #375
  • Oct 23, 2006 9:08pm Oct 23, 2006 9:08pm
Great job on the contest, Hendrick! I had been in a trade (negative) with the USD/JPY from Friday until this evening so I missed the nice trade you had in the contest today. No doubt that a time limit/nimble stop, with the winning trades getting added to will help Phoenix. Can't wait for the revisions!
"Its not where your at, but where your coming from"
  • #376
  • Oct 24, 2006 12:44am Oct 24, 2006 12:44am
I'm starting to keep track the win loss record of each currency. I realize this needs to be done over months not weeks but I need to start somewhere. I'll try to post this a couple of times a week. It is hard to understand how the outcome can be so different between two brokers. EURUSD was very different. GBPJPY looks good.
Attached File(s)
File Type: pdf IBFXm Live 1006-1023.pdf   63 KB | 533 downloads
File Type: pdf Alpari Demo 1005-1023.pdf   58 KB | 403 downloads
  • #377
  • Oct 24, 2006 1:21am Oct 24, 2006 1:21am
Hendrick, great idea on the reversing signals! I was just contemplating that a couple weeks ago. I see only one problem that should be pretty easily remedied:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o></o>

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How do we avoid having phoenix place many trades during periods of little activity and taking many 5 or 10 pip losses? <o></o>

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Possible Solutions:<o></o>

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1. Do we limit phoenix to only reversing signals after X pip movement either up or down?<o></o>

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2. Do we only allow phoenix to place one extra trade in the opposite direction while leaving the first trade open with the original stops?<o></o>

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3. Combination of both?

What are everyone's thoughts on this?

L2T
  • #378
  • Oct 24, 2006 5:14am Oct 24, 2006 5:14am
Due to problems with Interbank price feed going up and down like a yo-yo, I've decided to pull the plug on this one in my tests. I simply don't trust the results when they deviate so much form the others.

What it does show is that for the EA to be effective you do need to have a constant connection to the Internet and your PC up and running, otherwise you will get crap results as illustrated in the statement below.

I've replaced interbank with neuimex ... we'll see how it performs over the next couple of weeks. This is running with Phoenix 4.2.03 version on all currencies that have settings for them coded in the EA (12 in total).
Attached File(s)
File Type: zip 20061024Interbank FX Trader 4.zip   9 KB | 263 downloads
Just my 2 pips worth
  • #379
  • Oct 24, 2006 6:43am Oct 24, 2006 6:43am
Quoting saltcafe
Due to problems with Interbank price feed going up and down like a yo-yo, I've decided to pull the plug on this one in my tests. I simply don't trust the results when they deviate so much form the others.

What it does show is that for the EA to be effective you do need to have a constant connection to the Internet and your PC up and running, otherwise you will get crap results as illustrated in the statement below.

I've replaced interbank with neuimex ... we'll see how it performs over the next couple of weeks. This is running with Phoenix 4.2.03 version on all currencies that have settings for them coded in the EA (12 in total).
lol I started running P4 on an M15 on IBFX a couple of days ago but it kept going down so I switched to Neuimex this morning too! I thought others were going to FXDD so I chose Neuimex.

So from now I'm going to be posting 2 statements: one of the M15 on Neiumex and one of the M30 on North Finance. Here they are so far. Neuimex is all pairs EA supports. North Finance is USDCHF, GBPUSD, EURUSD, USDJPY, AUDUSD, USDCAD, EURGBP, EURCHF, EURJPY, GBPJPY, GBPCHF, EURAUD, CHFJPY (I found CHFJPY was supported by NF demo account only this morning so the EA's been working on that also from today).
Attached File(s)
File Type: zip P4_NorthFinance_M30.zip   9 KB | 259 downloads
File Type: zip P4_Neiumex_M15.zip   6 KB | 234 downloads
  • #380
  • Oct 24, 2006 7:16am Oct 24, 2006 7:16am
Nice way of presenting your findings nvwine! Will try to do it in a similar way in the future.
(That is, if you don't mind me 'steeling' your layout of course... ;-) )
Quoting nvwine
I'm starting to keep track the win loss record of each currency.
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