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  • #641
  • May 11, 2021 4:53am May 11, 2021 4:53am
Quoting bilal1947
{quote} personally i take divergence of rsi or mfi as a signal and based of market structure price action i take entry, but in EA i am not sure how it would be possible to programmed, so want to use like the same logic you have added stochastic and RSI, with same classical way overbought and oversold. since MFI also considers volume not only price like RSI, so want to back test with all three rsi, stoch and mfi on m1
As I predicted, your 'use together' is the complicated one. To find a divergence could occur potentially is easy from the terminal window visually but is difficult to code in an EA. The purpose we use indicators is just for helping to initiate a cycle at the not too bad price. Icarus_M_3.0 use indicators give us a Buy_High Sell_Low entry point for Icarus. While Icarus_2.2 use indicators give us a Buy_Low Sell_High entry point.
Although MFI considers volume, but in Forex market, it is impossible to get a real volume from the market. That's why MFI is not included.
If MaPi think it is OK, adding one more indicator MFI is a piece of cake.
  • #642
  • May 11, 2021 5:19am May 11, 2021 5:19am
Quoting bilal1947
{quote} personally i take divergence of rsi or mfi as a signal and based of market structure price action i take entry, but in EA i am not sure how it would be possible to programmed, so want to use like the same logic you have added stochastic and RSI, with same classical way overbought and oversold. since MFI also considers volume not only price like RSI, so want to back test with all three rsi, stoch and mfi on m1 but just to explain how i trade is below screen shots: (grey box is entry when price return after the break in market structure after...
Hi, I like MFI but we should be aware that in MT4 it is not working with the real volume...Volume in MT4 equals ticks (price changes) per candle...

Cheers
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  • #643
  • May 11, 2021 5:25am May 11, 2021 5:25am
Quoting TeChaoLiang
{quote} As I predicted, your 'use together' is the complicated one. To find a divergence could occur potentially is easy from the terminal window visually but is difficult to code in an EA. The purpose we use indicators is just for helping to initiate a cycle at the not too bad price. Icarus_M_3.0 use indicators give us a Buy_High Sell_Low entry point for Icarus. While Icarus_2.2 use indicators give us a Buy_Low Sell_High entry point. Although MFI considers volume, but in Forex market, it is impossible to get a real volume from the market. That's...
As quoted before, I am ok with everything...

Personaly I would not do it, due to the fact we are having allready 2 Ozillators in the code, so I would shy away of bringing a third in, which is NOT basing on volume but ticks...

But I will be fine with it...

In general I am a little concernd everybody will ask for his/her favorite indis to be coded in. In praxis we will be faster when thinking on gerneral stuff and when we have a solid logic it will be easy to replace or add indicators for sure...Just my 3 cents...

But again, I am fine with adding MFI, as long as everybody understands it is not refering on volume in MT4...

Cheers
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  • #644
  • May 11, 2021 5:43am May 11, 2021 5:43am
Hi is it possible to add auto money management for lot sizing, so that the lot size increase equally with the balance?

This will let the balance to stress equally during backtest.

Thanks.
  • #645
  • May 11, 2021 8:20am May 11, 2021 8:20am
Quoting Bewave
Hi is it possible to add auto money management for lot sizing, so that the lot size increase equally with the balance? This will let the balance to stress equally during backtest. Thanks.
We did not even start to work on moneymanagement...But when this will be implementet I am pretty sure your request will be solved...Cheers
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  • #646
  • May 12, 2021 9:00am May 12, 2021 9:00am
Today I was playing a little manual in EURUSD...The news from US hit in hard, but one of the nice things with Icarus is: Every drawdown you survive will give you nice gains

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So with 16% + I will hand the trading over to the EA again Cheers
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  • #647
  • Edited 8:40am May 13, 2021 7:38am | Edited 8:40am
Sorry Newbie question here, just found this thread, thanks MaPi and Te Chao Liang (everyone that's contributing) for this interesting EA. I just installed 3.1 on several charts and although I got smiling faces all round and experts tab is saying, Icarus initiated, no trades are being opened. I tried the hot BUY/SELL buttons too but nothing, am missing something obvious? Thanks in advance.
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  • #648
  • May 13, 2021 9:55am May 13, 2021 9:55am
Quoting jayfxer
Sorry Newbie question here, just found this thread, thanks MaPi and Te Chao Liang (everyone that's contributing) for this interesting EA. I just installed 3.1 on several charts and although I got smiling faces all round and experts tab is saying, Icarus initiated, no trades are being opened. I tried the hot BUY/SELL buttons too but nothing, am missing something obvious? Thanks in advance.{image}{image}
It’s Not showing in your settings but my guess is you have not change the five digit magic number. For some reason there was a bug on E/U only, that would not initiate an order unless the 5 digit magic number was changed to any other 5 digit number of your choice.
If that’s not it, it may also be your deviation of 3 on the Bollinger band. Depending on the time frame you are using that can be a very extreme event to trigger a trade. 2 is a more commonly used deviation.
That is Just my uneducated guess, but I hope that helps.
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  • #649
  • May 13, 2021 1:13pm May 13, 2021 1:13pm
Thanks so much SurVivor, I'll try those changes to my settings. USDCAD has now opened two trades.
  • #650
  • Edited May 14, 2021 2:10am May 13, 2021 5:45pm | Edited May 14, 2021 2:10am
Robin_1.1 attached.
Robin now is totally a with trend grid trading EA. I run it on several currency pairs, EU, GU, AU, NU, EJ, GJ, AJ, NJ, simultaneously for couple days with the settings I set as the default. (I give each currency pair a different magic number.) The results seem so far so good.
I only use BB as the trigger indicator, with TF 4H, period 14, std 2.0 shift 0.
I always use ATR to determine the grid size, that is, the grid size is dynamically adaptable to the range of swinging. The settings I use are TF 1H, Period 5, shift 0, multiplier 0.9. (The settings of Grid_size and Take_profit are no effect when ATR is used)
To combinations of other indicators, I didn't try. You can arbitrarily test any combinations of indicators and compare to my default settings. When you find some better settings, please feedback to me. Thanks.
You can download Robin_1.1, make a copy of it and rename the now copy to Robin_1.2. Keep one copy my defaults and another do your arbitrary testing. This way you can compare two copies by switching them in the Back Test.

Edit Note: The version number is modified for consistence.
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  • #651
  • May 13, 2021 8:23pm May 13, 2021 8:23pm
Quoting TeChaoLiang
Robin_1.1 attached. Robin now is totally a with trend grid trading EA. I run it on several currency pairs, EA, GA, AA, NA, EJ, GJ, AJ, ZJ, simultaneously for couple days with the settings I set as the default. (I give each currency pair a different magic number.) The results seem so far so good. I only use BB as the trigger indicator, with TF 4H, period 14, std 2.0 shift 0. I always use ATR to determine the grid size, that is, the grid size is dynamically adaptable to the range of swinging. The settings I use are TF 1H, Period 5, shift 0, multiplier...
#define versionNo "1.5"
#define versionBMI "Robin " + versionNo


In source looks version 1.5 ... should we rename it as 1.5 beside 1.2 ?
  • #652
  • Edited 9:42pm May 13, 2021 9:24pm | Edited 9:42pm
Quoting laharjaya
{quote} #define versionNo "1.5" #define versionBMI "Robin " + versionNo In source looks version 1.5 ... should we rename it as 1.5 beside 1.2 ?
You can change 1.5 in source code to 1.1. The 1.5 is my testing version number, when I tuning Robin there were many versions modified,
from 1.1 to 1.5 tuning and modifying version by version. When I reached a relative consistent and stable one, I share it here.
1.5 is my testing version number, 1.1 should be the sharing out version number. I forgot to change 1.5 to 1.1 before I share it here.

For you in testing, you just need make a copy of the ex4 file and rename to another name for the convenience of comparing my default settings and your new settings.
  • #653
  • May 13, 2021 9:44pm May 13, 2021 9:44pm
Quoting TeChaoLiang
Robin_1.1 attached. Robin now is totally a with trend grid trading EA. I run it on several currency pairs, EA, GA, AA, NA, EJ, GJ, AJ, ZJ, simultaneously for couple days with the settings I set as the default. (I give each currency pair a different magic number.) The results seem so far so good. I only use BB as the trigger indicator, with TF 4H, period 14, std 2.0 shift 0. I always use ATR to determine the grid size, that is, the grid size is dynamically adaptable to the range of swinging. The settings I use are TF 1H, Period 5, shift 0, multiplier...
What TF are you testing it on?
Please excuse the bad English via Google Translate.
  • #654
  • May 13, 2021 10:00pm May 13, 2021 10:00pm
Quoting TeChaoLiang
Robin_1.1 attached. Robin now is totally a with trend grid trading EA. I run it on several currency pairs, EA, GA, AA, NA, EJ, GJ, AJ, ZJ, simultaneously for couple days with the settings I set as the default. (I give each currency pair a different magic number.) The results seem so far so good. {file}{file}
Thanks very much Sir! Going to try her out with default settings on 15m timeframe.
“The waiting is the hardest part” Tom Petty
  • #655
  • May 13, 2021 10:19pm May 13, 2021 10:19pm
My suggestion is you can run Robin 1.0 on multiple currency pairs at the same time. Robin is a with trend grid trading EA, so the indicator trigger condition is Buy-Low Sell-High. I use BB at a relative larger TF H4, the trigger condition is not so easy to be met. But once met, we are possibly to sell at a relative highest price and to buy at a relative lowest price. Although trades are not so easy to be opened, but if you trade multiple pairs together, you will see your account equity is higher the your account balance in most of the time.
  • #656
  • May 14, 2021 12:16am May 14, 2021 12:16am
Quoting dokopy
{quote} What TF are you testing it on?
If you saw my default settings of BB and ATR, you should know you can test it on whatever time frame you like.
I set a fixed time frame for the indicators I used. It means, on whatever time frame, the indicators will give the value on the fixed time frame I gave to it.
Only in the case that you set the time frame of indicator to current, the time frame you are testing is relevant to the testing result.
  • #657
  • May 14, 2021 1:22am May 14, 2021 1:22am
Hallo,
I wanted to run Ikarus 3.1 and Robin 1.0 simultaneously. Accidently I turned on Ikarus 3.1 on 2 accounts (same pair EURUSD) with identical settings. Grid size automatic using ATR... On one account it made grid size 2 and opened 3 trades on the other one it mage the size 20 and opened 1 trade. How is that possible?
  • #658
  • May 14, 2021 1:23am May 14, 2021 1:23am
Quoting TeChaoLiang
{quote} If you saw my default settings of BB and ATR, you should know you can test it on whatever time frame you like. I set a fixed time frame for the indicators I used. It means, on whatever time frame, the indicators will give the value on the fixed time frame I gave to it. Only in the case that you set the time frame of indicator to current, the time frame you are testing is relevant to the testing result.
I don't know all the details, so I want maximum matching in my settings. I'll put it on the M15. There is a problem selecting H4 in the settings. The shape of the H4 candle depends on the broker's time.
Please excuse the bad English via Google Translate.
  • #659
  • May 14, 2021 1:33am May 14, 2021 1:33am
Quoting dokopy
{quote} I don't know all the details, so I want maximum matching in my settings. I'll put it on the M15. There is a problem selecting H4 in the settings. The shape of the H4 candle depends on the broker's time.
When you are running BT, it depends on the historical data of each time frame. So I like to do BT on the M1 time frame. If you are running fore test, the time frame should be irrelevant. Because the EA is iterative running every tick value changed and the indicators calculate its value according to the time frame you set to them.
  • #660
  • May 14, 2021 1:55am May 14, 2021 1:55am
Quoting TeChaoLiang
Robin_1.1 attached. Robin now is totally a with trend grid trading EA. I run it on several currency pairs, EA, GA, AA, NA, EJ, GJ, AJ, ZJ, simultaneously for couple days with the settings I set as the default. (I give each currency pair a different magic number.) The results seem so far so good. I only use BB as the trigger indicator, with TF 4H, period 14, std 2.0 shift 0. I always use ATR to determine the grid size, that is, the grid size is dynamically adaptable to the range of swinging....
What pairs exactly of the above abbreviation?
- EA (EURAUD)
- GA (GBPAUD)
- AA () ?
- NA () ?
- EJ (EURJPY)
- GJ (GBPJPY)
- AJ (AUDJPY)
- ZJ (NZDJPY) ?
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