{quote} Sorry, I still can not see this function ((( {image} {image}{image}{image} {quote} I love your graph, but still can't repeat it with the same parameters. Will check and fix, I believeCheers!
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Free Grid EA Ikarus - From zero to hero
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- Edited 7:25am May 5, 2021 7:10am | Edited 7:25am
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Just an opinion. Based on research
- #565
- May 5, 2021 7:11am May 5, 2021 7:11am
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{quote} Acoount_Risk is the SL Function...
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Just an opinion. Based on research
- #566
- May 5, 2021 7:14am May 5, 2021 7:14am
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{quote} Nice take-off I'm just curious how did you choose certain parameters such as grid size or profit lock which seems to be an accurate number of 0.89? Did you just optimize it for EU or you did something more? That would be great to share your ideas on your criteria for optimizing the parameters
no I did not run an optimazation so far. I used settings which I used on older versions of the EA. And I trained myself long time ago to use fibo-numbers to prevent me on overoptimasation...that is the hole secret behind my settings
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- #571
- May 5, 2021 9:54am May 5, 2021 9:54am
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{quote} Hmmm, no clou, it´s on a 1:400 € Acc, I downloaded the history of Metaquotes, so this should not cause a problem for you to duplicate. I test it with 10 MT4 points, in average I trade on 0.2 pips but with 6 € com roundturn, thats why I take 10 points... One think comes up in my mind: My broker does not charge any margin for hedged positions (rare, but superb important when griding in both directions), maybe this is the explanation we are searching for... Cheers
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- #574
- May 5, 2021 1:15pm May 5, 2021 1:15pm
{quote}
Can you kindly check with another history? Your broker's history for instance. I will double check as well to see which history caused the same settings to a call margin
- #575
- May 5, 2021 3:10pm May 5, 2021 3:10pm
Metaquotes history has issues that prevent backtesting properly.
This is a BT with my own broker's history but with Grid Progress = 3 instead of 0: (By changing it to 0 it was a margin call)
This one is also with my broker's history data but on the VPS and with a low-quality model but good result:
However, this one is a backtest with MetaQuotes history data which caused to call margin. I attached the chart to see what happened:
ps. the parameters are exactly the same as MaPy's
You can see the price started to failing with the initial long order.
BTW dear MaPy I hope that would not be a problem if I share a set file that contains your parameter settings. Hopefully, other traders will backtest it.
(If you find it disrespectful tell me to remove it)
PS. I hope such reports consider as a progression and motivator to the thread, not sort of an interruption.
This is a BT with my own broker's history but with Grid Progress = 3 instead of 0: (By changing it to 0 it was a margin call)
This one is also with my broker's history data but on the VPS and with a low-quality model but good result:
However, this one is a backtest with MetaQuotes history data which caused to call margin. I attached the chart to see what happened:
ps. the parameters are exactly the same as MaPy's
You can see the price started to failing with the initial long order.
BTW dear MaPy I hope that would not be a problem if I share a set file that contains your parameter settings. Hopefully, other traders will backtest it.
(If you find it disrespectful tell me to remove it)
PS. I hope such reports consider as a progression and motivator to the thread, not sort of an interruption.
Metaquotes history has issues that prevent backtesting properly. This is a BT with my own broker's history but with Grid Progress = 3 instead of 0: (By changing it to 0 it was a margin call) {image} This one is also with my broker's history data but on the VPS and with a low-quality model but good result: {image} However, this one is a backtest with MetaQuotes history data which caused to call margin. I attached the chart to see what happened: ps. the parameters are exactly the same as MaPy's You can see the price started to failing with the initial...
My broker keeps Intraday History quite short, need to install external data when finding time...cheers
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- #578
- May 5, 2021 5:57pm May 5, 2021 5:57pm
- Joined Nov 2008 | Status: Trader | 50,194 Posts
Metaquotes history has issues that prevent backtesting properly. This is a BT with my own broker's history but with Grid Progress = 3 instead of 0: (By changing it to 0 it was a margin call) {image} This one is also with my broker's history data but on the VPS and with a low-quality model but good result: {image} However, this one is a backtest with MetaQuotes history data which caused to call margin. I attached the chart to see what happened: ps. the parameters are exactly the same as MaPy's You can see the price started to failing with the initial...
Hi Farzad
Thanks for sharing these tests results.
Can you also run the same tests for GBPUSD, EURGBP and USDJPY.
I am sure the tests results will help us all learn something more about the market conditions during the same time period and what we shall do when we are forward testing in realtime markets.
Thank you.
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- #580
- May 6, 2021 1:26am May 6, 2021 1:26am
{quote} Hi Farzad
Sure I'll do. However, it needs better historical data as well as optimizations on each pair. Former is possible to be downloaded, latter one needs precise attention and take time but definitely necessary.
Anyone else optimized the parameters, sharing is highly appreciated in order to put our heads together and achieve the best results altogether.
{quote} I tell you the reason why. Icarus prefers a smaller grid size but not too small. a too small grid size will cause margin calls. Then what is the appropriate grid size for Icarus? It depends on the swinging range of the market. That is why I suggest use ATR to decide the grid size. If You can predict the range of a swinging market by whatever means, for instance, 50 PIPs, you may divide 50 by n, where n less than the max positions you set, and greater than the number of new positions you are going to add progressively. You have to make sure...
Sometimes trends happen after a side-way market. So by using ATR with any period such as 14 that would be a small number and may cause a loss after starting a trend.
Meanwhile, Icarus is more sophisticated than my EA and this was the reason why I got interested in Icarus in the first place. So there are 2 possibilities to consider your idea as a good one.
1- My coding is not that good, so probably I could have done something more advanced to make the ATR progression feasible.
2- As I mentioned, Icarus is a sophisticated EA that has options for lot progression as well as distance progression (the distance between every new position when they are in loss)