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  • #2,241
  • Nov 28, 2022 12:15am Nov 28, 2022 12:15am
@fmuleeto
Go to page 110 at the bottom, there you will find it
  • #2,242
  • Nov 29, 2022 2:19pm Nov 29, 2022 2:19pm
Thank you, @Flabby
  • #2,243
  • Dec 20, 2022 1:58pm Dec 20, 2022 1:58pm
Hi, I'm a dinosaur and in love with the version of Ikarus 2.2 (the initial one).
I would like to ask if any programmer can insert a condition on this version which is as follows.
Opens BUY cycles when two consecutive candles close above the M200, and vice versa opens SELL cycles with two candles below the M200.
Obviously a cycle that starts BUY, even if the two successive candles close below M200, the cycle must go on until the closure without restarting.
If possible, enter the Media you want to use and the TimeFrame as a variable....
Otherwise I use the M200 on the Day candle.
Obviously today I'm forced to work in semi-automatic mode.
Hoping I haven't stolen time or perhaps repeated speeches already made, I thank you regardless of the solution.
  • #2,244
  • Dec 28, 2022 6:28am Dec 28, 2022 6:28am
Try it on cent account EURUSD,USDJPY,GBPJPY.
  • #2,245
  • Jan 4, 2023 2:01pm Jan 4, 2023 2:01pm
May I ask , why I can not attach the EA to any chart , it is run with strategy tester buy can not attach to the chart , please advice.
  • #2,246
  • Jan 12, 2023 2:26am Jan 12, 2023 2:26am
hi , everyone , first of all i have to Thank you to everyone who contributed.
This is the best ea i have ever seen

i need help about cycles , i tried it all versions but i couldent find the answer.

when one sell cycle begins, its opening 1. position, 2.positions and after that, its returnig to buy cycle first buy position, adding 2. buy posiion adding 3. sell position... and the situation is like that.

What I want is for one cycle to end and the second cycle to begin...

I don't want them to continue together at the same time.
  • #2,247
  • Jan 13, 2023 5:50am Jan 13, 2023 5:50am
Quoting shark2112
hi , everyone , first of all i have to Thank you to everyone who contributed. This is the best ea i have ever seen i need help about cycles , i tried it all versions but i couldent find the answer. when one sell cycle begins, its opening 1. position, 2.positions and after that, its returnig to buy cycle first buy position, adding 2. buy posiion adding 3. sell position... and the situation is like that. What I want is for one cycle to end and the second cycle to begin... I don't want them to continue together at the same time.
please somebody help mee !!!
  • #2,248
  • Jan 16, 2023 10:26am Jan 16, 2023 10:26am
Quoting shark2112
hi , everyone , first of all i have to Thank you to everyone who contributed. This is the best ea i have ever seen i need help about cycles , i tried it all versions but i couldent find the answer. when one sell cycle begins, its opening 1. position, 2.positions and after that, its returnig to buy cycle first buy position, adding 2. buy posiion adding 3. sell position... and the situation is like that. What I want is for one cycle to end and the second cycle to begin... I don't want them to continue together at the same time.
Hi, you can do this in manunaly starting your cycles via the buttons (choose criterias like W1 BB StDe 4.0, it will not be reached)...Cheers
Green pips 2 all of us!
  • #2,249
  • Jan 22, 2023 7:36am Jan 22, 2023 7:36am
Quoting MaPi
{quote} Hi, you can do this in manunaly starting your cycles via the buttons (choose criterias like W1 BB StDe 4.0, it will not be reached)...Cheers
Thanks, i know that, buti wonder that there is any set for one direction cycle settings ?
  • #2,250
  • Jan 31, 2023 7:20am Jan 31, 2023 7:20am
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After one year it´s time for a new YT video-update! Cheers
Green pips 2 all of us!
  • #2,251
  • Edited 6:51am Feb 1, 2023 5:31am | Edited 6:51am
Quoting MaPi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7qf_Jhl8hc After one year it´s time for a new YT video-update! Cheers

dear mapi,

thank you for your response, here i explained more,
sorry about my English

Here are several point that i mentioned before about adding option to icarus/ikarus:
- turn off the grid logic, as a main trigger (un-grid).
so it would be more flexible and could choose which will be the main trigger plus one or two indicators as confirmation trigger. to more secure the set of entries.
i've already tried backtesting icarus the latest version 4.7x, 5 years backward from 2023 using 15M and 1H.
the problem always persist even other trigger indicator already set off. when the market anomali happened it always blown the account.
- daily start/off trade hour,
icarus version that i used parameter is when i choose Monday at 1.00 to start trade and end trade 16.00 on Thursday. it mean ikarus will be start from 1.00 Monday until 16.00 thursday.
some of us like to trade in less volatile market such asia market time only and not the whole hours.
for example :
I used momentum based logic that run automatically on asian market. i usually use 0-12 GMT. The rest hour until 24 for completing the set of floating trade.
i choose this set and configuration with ease in mind (and also already backtest it backward 5 or more years).so I'm not felt the urge of always need to look on VPS or the auto trade logic in real account, just to see, how it is perform, or it already blown out.
Just when i spare, check the news and monitored market with high volatility like london & newyork.
and sometimes i tried to manually enter.
- Manual Support Handle Setting,
i know icarus could handle manual entry by clicking the button buy/sell. but i don't know if it could handle manual pending order that entered manually without
using buy/sell button. i haven't tried this. but maybe if possible to add : manual trade handle/support manual trade.
- add another indicator trigger, such a leading indicator :
> divergence (I used macd divergence, but as I knew, oscillator divergence like stoch, rsi, cci and others could do also), there is a potential of reversal with leading indicator.
> td sequential, this sequential is also a leading indicator for a potential reverse.
> Volume indicator is good indicator for predict a reversal or continuity. i learn this in Volume Spread Analysis, using H4 TF. is there a reversal or continuation.
FYI:
I used momentum indicator I used this indicator as a main for catch reversal of trend, combine with macd and S/R Lines, Tick Volume and TD Seq.
- add hard stop loss according to DD%. and stop trade, until it manually turn on.
with assumption harmoni of logic is not good with market condition today.
and maybe for the option of un-grid based I wonder if it could discussed on the forum? thank you in advance for the great idea of the logic.
I know theres is setting for hardstop based on equity draw down. but i could make it work, always blown on backtest. maybe i miss something here.

Rgds,

P.S :
some people said:
it's not about how big profit that we could make,
but it is all about how long we could survive in the market.
  • #2,252
  • Feb 5, 2023 11:17pm Feb 5, 2023 11:17pm
Quoting Jarass1080
{quote} ********************** There is nothing strange here. you just need to turn it off and on.
I finally got this.
  • #2,253
  • Feb 11, 2023 2:25pm Feb 11, 2023 2:25pm
cheers, thank you for sharing ikarus with us, greetings from frankfurt, mapi is a hamburger?

i converted Ikarus_4.73___flexATR 2022june22.mq4 to mq5 to test it in backtesting after it did a very good job in the demo. it took me half a day... i have no clue about mql. performance in backtesting is poor because it is only converted, but you can access the tick/bar data from mt5. (that was my goal)
i also use it parallel in demo account as a trade manager for manual trades i get via a signal service... (stop next cycle is always active / no auto trading ) i ignore the SL of the signals and let ikarus "win" the losing trades.

in backtesting, unfortunately, ikarus is not successful in auto trading in the long run, it comes to "big bang".
is there a way to find out what happened on a day 10 years ago? if news was responsible for it?
then we would only have to give ikarus a function that disables trading in the case of news.
in Ikarus_4.73___flexATR 2022june22.mq4 grid trading is deactivated, in the mq5 version it is activated again, because i had no idea... i only fixed the compilererrors and then saw... grid is active again. no idea if it was deactivated on purpose.
trading in both directions must be disabled, leads to big bang in bars where fed babbles. (interesting to watch)
I have never seen the hedge option as functional. (was this only started and not completed?)

so, how can we prevent the account big bang?
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  • #2,254
  • Feb 13, 2023 7:32pm Feb 13, 2023 7:32pm
Quoting fraggli
Hi, tried to implement a TrendFilter like the one made by Thang in the closed source - feel free to test and use at your own risk https://github.com/fraggli/Icarus/tree/4.73-Trend {image}
Hi,

Thanks for the trend filter version. Can you implement or adding news filter?

Here is the mq4 from other thread.
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  • #2,255
  • Feb 26, 2023 4:01am Feb 26, 2023 4:01am
Quoting SciFiLoveBud
cheers, thank you for sharing ikarus with us, greetings from frankfurt, mapi is a hamburger? i converted Ikarus_4.73___flexATR 2022june22.mq4 to mq5 to test it in backtesting after it did a very good job in the demo. it took me half a day... i have no clue about mql. performance in backtesting is poor because it is only converted, but you can access the tick/bar data from mt5. (that was my goal) i also use it parallel in demo account as a trade manager for manual trades i get via a signal service... (stop next cycle is always active / no auto trading...
Hi, I have spend some time with a coder ans another trader to implement a new hedging mode. We did not finish and stopped the project.

Out of practice I have some new ideas here, but so far I just use them manually (I am not a coder). Hedging with Icarus is for my understanding not aiming on maximal protection, but on getting the possibility to survive more pips against us!
Green pips 2 all of us!
  • #2,256
  • Feb 26, 2023 9:03pm Feb 26, 2023 9:03pm
Quoting MaPi
{quote} Hi, I have spend some time with a coder ans another trader to implement a new hedging mode. We did not finish and stopped the project. Out of practice I have some new ideas here, but so far I just use them manually (I am not a coder). Hedging with Icarus is for my understanding not aiming on maximal protection, but on getting the possibility to survive more pips against us!
As I had mentioned before, I don't think it is a right approach to implement a hedging function into Icarus, because hedging function violate the against trend grid trading logic. However, it is not to say we cannot code another EA that serve as a watch guard of Icarus. When necessary, the EA can do hedging to protect the account, and handles the hedging pairs separtely.
  • #2,257
  • Feb 26, 2023 9:53pm Feb 26, 2023 9:53pm
Quoting Jarass1080
Also thanks to Mapi. I have been working with ikarus for some time. For me, the best versions are the ikarus 4.73 flex ATR. And 4.73 flexART 2022 june 22 Ikarus 4.73 flexATR after 2 months of work {image} Ikarus 4.73 flexATR 2022june22 after a month of work {image}
can you share your settings and currency? Thank you
  • #2,258
  • Feb 28, 2023 8:13am Feb 28, 2023 8:13am
Quoting TeChaoLiang
{quote} As I had mentioned before, I don't think it is a right approach to implement a hedging function into Icarus, because hedging function violate the against trend grid trading logic. However, it is not to say we cannot code another EA that serve as a watch guard of Icarus. When necessary, the EA can do hedging to protect the account, and handles the hedging pairs separtely.
Hi, hope you are doing fine. To prevent missunderstanding, I am not talking about heding in a classic way. The logic I am using is to close the last order of the loosing cycle, when there is a profit on, and using part of this profit to close the first orders or to reduce their volume, so market can go more agains us without causing a liquidation. If you are interested in this approach I can go into details, cheers!
Green pips 2 all of us!
  • #2,259
  • Mar 1, 2023 11:12am Mar 1, 2023 11:12am
Hi all, hope you all are doing well.
Beautiful thread, congratulations to MaPi for starting it.
I kindly ask to any coder to include a “Trailing Step” to the version 4.73___flexATR 2022june22 and version 4.31_ATRGridUpdate.
The “profit lock” trails any single tick, and this is not accepted by all brokers.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Mario
  • #2,260
  • Mar 3, 2023 5:37pm Mar 3, 2023 5:37pm
Quoting mariotrade
Hi all, hope you all are doing well. Beautiful thread, congratulations to MaPi for starting it. I kindly ask to any coder to include a “Trailing Step” to the version 4.73___flexATR 2022june22 and version 4.31_ATRGridUpdate. The “profit lock” trails any single tick, and this is not accepted by all brokers. Thanks in advance for your help. Mario
Hi, Trailing happens in the EA, not at the broker, so it should not be a problem. May I give you with 20 years of professionelle experience in the CFD&FX industry one advise? Even if the trailing SL is handeld on the EA side, for the case your broker is not allowing you to trail on every single tick (e.g. in setting a minimum distance for a SL) find a better broker who does not do so, cheeeeeeerrrsss
Green pips 2 all of us!
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