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  • #961
  • Aug 9, 2025 3:18am Aug 9, 2025 3:18am
Started with 10k Demo.
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  • #962
  • Aug 9, 2025 3:23am Aug 9, 2025 3:23am
Hi Gene - Spent a little time with this machine today. It is only the Strat 5 platform that is edgy. I am on Win 10 but have 7 on this machine as well. Next week is update Tuesday and I defer updates to the weekend following. At that point I will re-install this instance but revert it to the same acc # and see if that fixes the issue. All going well otherwise.
  • #963
  • Aug 9, 2025 8:51am Aug 9, 2025 8:51am
Quoting AltosTrader
Hi Gene - Spent a little time with this machine today. It is only the Strat 5 platform that is edgy. I am on Win 10 but have 7 on this machine as well. Next week is update Tuesday and I defer updates to the weekend following. At that point I will re-install this instance but revert it to the same acc # and see if that fixes the issue. All going well otherwise.
I am making a few changes to the next version of Strategy Trader which should cut down on the CPU usage. I need to test them out this next week to make sure they work OK.
  • #964
  • Aug 9, 2025 3:34pm Aug 9, 2025 3:34pm
Quoting seller9
{quote} I am making a few changes to the next version of Strategy Trader which should cut down on the CPU usage. I need to test them out this next week to make sure they work OK.
Good work - Every little helps in every way. I actually started your system on 7 back in April and have those installs still on that machine so I might have a look at that next weekend also.
  • #965
  • Aug 10, 2025 12:16pm Aug 10, 2025 12:16pm
Three weeks running 24hrs/day. No Marty, no basket; .05 lotsize
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  • #966
  • Aug 10, 2025 3:55pm Aug 10, 2025 3:55pm
Quoting fatolepig
Three weeks running 24hrs/day. No Marty, no basket; .05 lotsize {image}
You have something badly wrong in your setup. Post a full screenshot of the manager screen and show the pairs along the bottom of screen, maybe we can help.
  • #967
  • Aug 10, 2025 11:13pm Aug 10, 2025 11:13pm
Quoting seller9
{quote} I am making a few changes to the next version of Strategy Trader which should cut down on the CPU usage. I need to test them out this next week to make sure they work OK.
Looks great job, Gene.
I’ve been running the EA 24 hours a day on a laptop with an i7 2.8 GHz processor and 16 GB of RAM.
The computer fan is always running, which means the processor seems to be running a little hot.
Hopefully, the new updated EA can be released soon.
  • #968
  • Aug 11, 2025 12:44am Aug 11, 2025 12:44am
Quoting AltosTrader
{quote} You have something badly wrong in your setup. Post a full screenshot of the manager screen and show the pairs along the bottom of screen, maybe we can help.
Yea, I must; thanks for looking...
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  • #969
  • Aug 11, 2025 2:19am Aug 11, 2025 2:19am
Quoting fatolepig
{quote} Yea, I must; thanks for looking... {image} {image}
Hi - No, we need a screenshot of the Manager screen, not the settings behind it, these settings can all be influenced from the Manager screen itself. That's what we need. You must show it as you were running it - if you have changed Manager settings you will be changing results.
  • #970
  • Aug 11, 2025 10:04am Aug 11, 2025 10:04am
Quoting AltosTrader
{quote} Hi - No, we need a screenshot of the Manager screen, not the settings behind it, these settings can all be influenced from the Manager screen itself. That's what we need. You must show it as you were running it - if you have changed Manager settings you will be changing results.
sorry about that; here you go...
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  • #971
  • Edited 6:44pm Aug 11, 2025 5:32pm | Edited 6:44pm
Quoting fatolepig
{quote} sorry about that; here you go... {image}
Hi - Looks around mid US market time but the spreads are inordinately high for that time of day. Nothing else is obvious to me but I am no expert. I suggest, since this is, I hope just demo, you increase the allowable spread to five pips and see if Strat 5 begins to trade. A red spread number means no trading at that moment. I would suggest you reduce your lot size to 0.01 as 0.05 is a bit high for 1:50 on 28 pairs at that balance - that will cause troubles and I would compare your average spreads against another broker and find one with better spreads. Gene has the Manager on USDTRY and I use USDSGD - both of these seem to be fine. Hope that helps and you see some action.

Gene - if you see anything else amiss, please chip in.
  • #972
  • Edited 10:31am Aug 12, 2025 9:16am | Edited 10:31am
Just for the fun of it. This version not out yet but thought I would run all 7 strategies on different pairs and see what happens. LOL

This next version also has a Auto/Manual Trade Strategy. "MN"

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  • #973
  • Aug 12, 2025 10:48am Aug 12, 2025 10:48am
Day 2 of testing new Strategy 6 (NOT AVAILABLE YET), looking good so far.

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  • #974
  • Aug 13, 2025 9:54pm Aug 13, 2025 9:54pm
Quoting AltosTrader
{quote} Hi - Looks around mid US market time but the spreads are inordinately high for that time of day. Nothing else is obvious to me but I am no expert. I suggest, since this is, I hope just demo, you increase the allowable spread to five pips and see if Strat 5 begins to trade. A red spread number means no trading at that moment. I would suggest you reduce your lot size to 0.01 as 0.05 is a bit high for 1:50 on 28 pairs at that balance - that will cause troubles and I would compare your average spreads against another broker and find one with...
Thanks for the input, Altos! I'll definitely give those a shot.
  • #975
  • Aug 14, 2025 11:22am Aug 14, 2025 11:22am
Quoting AltosTrader
{quote} Hi - Looks around mid US market time but the spreads are inordinately high for that time of day. Nothing else is obvious to me but I am no expert. I suggest, since this is, I hope just demo, you increase the allowable spread to five pips and see if Strat 5 begins to trade. A red spread number means no trading at that moment. I would suggest you reduce your lot size to 0.01 as 0.05 is a bit high for 1:50 on 28 pairs at that balance - that will cause troubles and I would compare your average spreads against another broker and find one with...
Just after a day of using your suggestions, all is better! (Closed P/L is bad as I closed everything out before using the suggestions. This is a demo account.) Thanks, Altos!
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  • #976
  • Aug 14, 2025 2:47pm Aug 14, 2025 2:47pm
Quoting fatolepig
{quote} Just after a day of using your suggestions, all is better! (Closed P/L is bad as I closed everything out before using the suggestions. This is a demo account.) Thanks, Altos! {image}
Use a "Trade Comment" filter to keep your Stats cleaner when starting a new test.
  • #977
  • Aug 15, 2025 2:25pm Aug 15, 2025 2:25pm
Looks like the EUR had a good day.

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  • #978
  • Aug 16, 2025 1:21am Aug 16, 2025 1:21am
Hi All, does anyone here have sharings of being able to do a successful basket trading? In my current setup, I tried to do that on S4/5, but results so far have been mixed, on days, there are good days and the basket got closed 2-3 times, but suddenly on next, it will go into large DD, and it takes a few days to recover. It seems like my current setup isnt as optimal as it should be and its sensitive to sudden news releases. Do you set your TP to be below the intended lot size to increase the chances?
  • #979
  • Aug 16, 2025 6:43am Aug 16, 2025 6:43am
Quoting rootie91
Hi All, does anyone here have sharings of being able to do a successful basket trading? In my current setup, I tried to do that on S4/5, but results so far have been mixed, on days, there are good days and the basket got closed 2-3 times, but suddenly on next, it will go into large DD, and it takes a few days to recover. It seems like my current setup isnt as optimal as it should be and its sensitive to sudden news releases. Do you set your TP to be below the intended lot size to increase the chances?
It's happened with my setting too.
  • #980
  • Aug 16, 2025 5:07pm Aug 16, 2025 5:07pm
running S5 on v10; trading 24hrs/day; no Marty; no baskets
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