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  • #961
  • Nov 6, 2020 6:02am Nov 6, 2020 6:02am
Quoting blamshakk
i don't know what's happening, every time i try to allow live trading with it the platform freezes. Maybe some file corruption, i think i need to reinstall on a fresh terminal blam {quote}
Yes perhaps that's it. I've got V1.91 on 7 charts and there's no functionality errors with the EA.
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  • #962
  • Nov 6, 2020 8:49am Nov 6, 2020 8:49am
I added my demo FTC EA test account so you guys can follow along my forward testing experiments.

This account is running some weekly tests an daily tests. Most of the presets are in their final forward testing and the final presets will hopefully be selected by year end.
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  • #963
  • Nov 9, 2020 8:17am Nov 9, 2020 8:17am
+10% added today with the daily basket tests.
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  • #964
  • Nov 10, 2020 6:22am Nov 10, 2020 6:22am
Monday default weekly basket VB did not trigger so no trade this week.

Daily basket presets hit TP.
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  • #965
  • Nov 10, 2020 8:26am Nov 10, 2020 8:26am
Why i can not see signals? I have everything grey
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  • #966
  • Nov 10, 2020 9:16am Nov 10, 2020 9:16am
Quoting Wilczur
Why i can not see signals? I have everything grey {image}
It looks like your broker uses a suffix + so you will need to add the suffix to the list of pairs in the EA settings. As it is now the EA cannot see the pairs due to the suffix. Also make sure you have all the 28 pairs visible in your market watch window.
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  • #967
  • Nov 10, 2020 4:43pm Nov 10, 2020 4:43pm
Quoting mrdfx
Ok so there have been over 400 downloads of the current version 1.91 with hardly any feedback or comments so the assumption is that there are only a few guys using the EA, if that. So I am thinking of closing this thread and suspending sharing of further developments and just keeping it for myself. There's no point in sharing something if everyone takes it and no one participates. Now if you guys would like me to continue this thread and uploading new versions then like this post so I can see how many still want to use the EA. There also needs to...
Hi mrdfx

I've just stumbled on this thread. looks interesting. I'm still reading through it. Please keep up with posts

Regards
Seabreeze
Thank You James16, Fijitrader, Mbqb1, ghous, Pinbar and Jarroo. cpfleger
  • #968
  • Nov 10, 2020 5:10pm Nov 10, 2020 5:10pm
This week, 1.30am and 2am baskets triggered. 1.30am went to tp, and 2am went into some profit before closing for breakeven

blam
  • #970
  • Edited 8:17am Nov 11, 2020 7:07am | Edited 8:17am
How to calculate amount of lot to the account balance? Let's assume that i have 5% target and only 2 pairs will be in basket, so it will be harder to get this 5% instead there will be more pairs or highter lot? How to balance this problem?

I have one more question. If i set close basket time to 0:00, my orders will be closed on the end of day?
  • #971
  • Nov 12, 2020 4:52am Nov 12, 2020 4:52am
Nice to meet you.
The position was closed at the time of entry in some setting.
I entered again on the same bar and the position was closed again.
Is it a margin allowance setting?
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Margin does not appear to be reading.
Is it because of this?
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You should also be banned from entering in the same bar.
  • #972
  • Nov 12, 2020 8:08am Nov 12, 2020 8:08am
Quoting Wilczur
How to calculate amount of lot to the account balance? Let's assume that i have 5% target and only 2 pairs will be in basket, so it will be harder to get this 5% instead there will be more pairs or highter lot? How to balance this problem? I have one more question. If i set close basket time to 0:00, my orders will be closed on the end of day?
The EA has 2 options for money management, fixed lot of lots per balance. If you have a higher target and only a few pairs you would need to consider whether to close the basket manually or leave it to reach target. A we are trading a basket of pairs it is it not possible to use risk % for lot size.

If you set your close basket time to 0:00, your orders will be closed at the end of day (broker time) correct.
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  • #973
  • Nov 12, 2020 8:10am Nov 12, 2020 8:10am
Quoting narukami
Nice to meet you. The position was closed at the time of entry in some setting. I entered again on the same bar and the position was closed again. Is it a margin allowance setting?{image} {image} Margin does not appear to be reading. Is it because of this? {image} You should also be banned from entering in the same bar.
I see the same pairs listed more than once, so I think you are trading the EA on more than one chart correct? Are you using a different magic number for each chart? This could cause a conflict with the EA.
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  • #974
  • Nov 12, 2020 8:12am Nov 12, 2020 8:12am
Quoting northwind
Results for today, 9/28/2020. Using Virtual Baskets 3 of the 5 London Open time slots opened baskets and they all closed with profit. In addition I tried baskets using only correlated pairs. These correlated pairs had 4 NY Open time slots. 2 of the 4 baskets opened and closed in profit. These correlated pairs had much smaller draw down. The correlated pairs were: EURUSD,USDJPY,EURJPY,GBPUSD,GBPJPY,AUDUSD,AUDJPY,USDCHF,GBPCHF,EURCHF,AUDCAD,USDCAD,EURCAD You can search for "forex pair correlation" to see different correlation combinations. All the...
Hi northwind, are you still testing the EA? How have your results been?
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  • #975
  • Nov 12, 2020 9:10am Nov 12, 2020 9:10am
so if i understand it right, the EA will only take trade during the end of monday?
  • #976
  • Nov 13, 2020 3:06am Nov 13, 2020 3:06am
My yesterday trade.
Screenshot with ea is today.
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  • #977
  • Nov 13, 2020 6:42am Nov 13, 2020 6:42am
Quoting ulle73
so if i understand it right, the EA will only take trade during the end of monday?
The default setting will only trade on a Monday night 23:00 broker time. You are welcome to try other open times if you like and other settings.
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  • #978
  • Nov 13, 2020 9:57am Nov 13, 2020 9:57am
Quoting mrdfx
{quote} I see the same pairs listed more than once, so I think you are trading the EA on more than one chart correct? Are you using a different magic number for each chart? This could cause a conflict with the EA.
Thank you.
The magic number is a unique value.
Maybe it's your operation since other EA's were also running.

Still, I don't think it's a good idea to enter with the same candle.
Thanks again.

By the way, which is the best preset right now?
  • #979
  • Nov 14, 2020 1:47pm Nov 14, 2020 1:47pm
Sir, reporting for duty to develop and test out viable daily basket options Lets see if lessons learned from CCFp parts are also applicable here.

Loaded up EA and my idea of daily configuration and will report back my observations.

One question - do I see correctly that there is no option within EA (at the moment) to limit the number of pairs in real basket? E.g. if 15 pairs passes trend test and VB, then 15 will load up in RB?

Cheers,
I

Quoting mrdfx
I added my demo FTC EA test account so you guys can follow along my forward testing experiments. This account is running some weekly tests an daily tests. Most of the presets are in their final forward testing and the final presets will hopefully be selected by year end.
  • #980
  • Edited 4:23am Nov 16, 2020 3:16am | Edited 4:23am
Got started today with FTC and daily baskets.

I was surprised that Virtual Basket does not update itself during the VB run based on latest indicator data. Basically it just takes the snapshot of indicator settings at basket open time and then attempts to run with it.

As you can see it brings 2 problems:

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- Pairs which do not correspond to indicator settings delay the triggering of Real Basket (these rotten apples are down by -41pips in VB)
- When RB is finally opened with positive pairs, they have already done a lot of work and real basket stalls. This happened with todays RB - after opening it was at -100pips within 1 hour. Having started off with better run it would have been at -60pips only. But the day is young so lets see.

For future developments perhaps to consider two options for Virtual Basket:

1) Continuous update of VB during its run to capture most recent indicator data. This would probably solve automatically problem no 2.
2) Option to trigger RB only based on the Positive trade contributions in VB - to avoid losing momentum due to pairs in loss

Otherwise its very good and simple to use.

The indicator itself could use some upgrades e.g. to have option to use multiple of candles e.g. in order to fill the gap between 4H candle and D1 candle for instance in MT4.

Cheers,
I
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