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  • #1,861
  • Dec 5, 2006 11:08pm Dec 5, 2006 11:08pm
Quoting wackena
I don't think so. It seems your History data may be corrupt. The EA does not calculate Ask or Bid price. It only uses price quoted from backtest data file or if demo/live from server.

Wackena
I think you're right. I backtest start from 1 Dec 2006 and FB is fine. Maybe i should download history data from alpari.

Thanks!
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  • #1,862
  • Dec 8, 2006 11:38am Dec 8, 2006 11:38am
Attached is report sorted by pairs for 1st week of Firebird 3.2. Early in the week had 2 loses due to PercentFloat for equity protection set too low. Turned equity protection off and had no more loses for remainder of week. could be just pure luck, but FB 3.2 handled OK the US non-farm employment report at 0830 EST.

Broker FXDD - eurusd, gbpusd, usdjpy, usdchf
Deposit $3,000
Timeframe M5
Balance $3,511
Equity $3,221
Wins 31 - Loses 2
ROI 7.4%

I believe FB 3.2 does trade slower then other versions due to no trading when trending up or trending down. There were several hedge orders that closed for profit.

Wackena
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File Type: zip Firebird 3.2.zip   14 KB | 1,005 downloads
  • #1,863
  • Dec 8, 2006 12:19pm Dec 8, 2006 12:19pm
wackena,

FireBird v3.2 compiles fine on IBFX but on StrategyBuilder, I'm getting an error code for TimeCurrent and TimeLocal values : "function not defined". Is it that SB's version does not support those functions?
  • #1,864
  • Dec 8, 2006 12:22pm Dec 8, 2006 12:22pm
Here are my results. The changes I made to the set file seem to be in the wrong direction. I ran the EA on 3 time frames for each pair. They all had the same settings except I changed the Name_Expert string and saved the EA to 3 different names so the comment for each time frame would be distinguishable. I now find it is not easy to sort the report but anyway here it is. I ran the EA 24 hrs a day starting Tuesday through NFP.

Did anyone trade 30min charts and get trades. The only 30min trade I got was when I first turned on the EA and nothing since. There may be some conflict between time frames on my demo.

The hedge function seemed to work. I don't understand why the hedge trades are placed at the same time. This only seems to be the case some of the time. What causes the EA to open an immediate hedge or none at all?
Attached File(s)
File Type: zip FB v3_2 - 1208.zip   9 KB | 716 downloads
  • #1,865
  • Dec 8, 2006 12:52pm Dec 8, 2006 12:52pm
Hi MonyMaster,

Use CurTime and LocalTime instead. there are API changes between different viersions.
  • #1,866
  • Dec 8, 2006 12:58pm Dec 8, 2006 12:58pm
Quoting futurefuture
Hi MonyMaster,

Use CurTime and LocalTime instead. there are API changes between different viersions.
Roger that futurefuture, changing to CurTime and LocalTime per API standards. Thanks good buddy.
  • #1,867
  • Dec 8, 2006 1:24pm Dec 8, 2006 1:24pm
Quoting MoneyMa$ter
wackena,

FireBird v3.2 compiles fine on IBFX but on StrategyBuilder, I'm getting an error code for TimeCurrent and TimeLocal values : "function not defined". Is it that SB's version does not support those functions?
MoneyMa$ter,
Just recently, MetaQuotes (MQL4) made CurTime() and LocalTime() obsolete and replaced them with TimeCurrent() and TimeLocal(). http://docs.mql4.com/obsolete

I think the MetaEditor in your SB account is an older version and does not have these changes in the Compile reference. You could try to update to build 200 and hopefully these errors will stop.

NOTE: To All:

Please make sure you use latest MT4 Platform build 200 with this EA. If using older version, EA time routines could fail to function.

MoneyMa$ter, thanks for the heads up.

Wackena
  • #1,868
  • Dec 8, 2006 1:56pm Dec 8, 2006 1:56pm
Quoting nvwine
Here are my results. The changes I made to the set file seem to be in the wrong direction. I ran the EA on 3 time frames for each pair. They all had the same settings except I changed the Name_Expert string and saved the EA to 3 different names so the comment for each time frame would be distinguishable. I now find it is not easy to sort the report but anyway here it is. I ran the EA 24 hrs a day starting Tuesday through NFP.

Did anyone trade 30min charts and get trades. The only 30min trade I got was when I first turned on the EA and nothing since. There may be some conflict between time frames on my demo.

The hedge function seemed to work. I don't understand why the hedge trades are placed at the same time. This only seems to be the case some of the time. What causes the EA to open an immediate hedge or none at all?
nvwine,
I see similar hedge order openings as you report. This is the way I hoped this EA would work. The Hedge Order call is controlled by PipStep call and MaxOpenOrders setting. On call for PipStep order, a Hedge Order is also called. The number of Hedge orders is controlled by MaxOpenOrders setting. Example: if MaxOpenOrders=5:

1st order is normal EA call.
2nd normal order and 1st Hedge Order are on 1st PipStep call.
3rd normal order and 2nd Hedge Order are on 2nd PipStep call.

I think what is happening is if 1st Hedge order closes before 3rd normal order is open, it throws the complete sequence off. I will investigate the sequence this weekend.

Wackena
  • #1,869
  • Dec 11, 2006 7:20am Dec 11, 2006 7:20am
Anyone running Firebird this week? What version? And what pairs? With what looks like some sort of reversal for the $ Will the majors start trending? Is anyone using FB this week, or is it a little too risky for Firebird??

Thanks
Rusty
  • #1,870
  • Dec 13, 2006 10:34am Dec 13, 2006 10:34am
Here is what I have...
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File Type: pdf 63GResults.pdf   622 KB | 1,468 downloads
  • #1,871
  • Dec 13, 2006 1:23pm Dec 13, 2006 1:23pm
FireBird took winter holiday some days ago. South for the winter. Look for a return between January and spring, when FOMC reduces rates in an effort to spice up the recessed US economy (or awaken the lethargic economy, for those who don't see a recession).
  • #1,872
  • Dec 14, 2006 11:50am Dec 14, 2006 11:50am
Firebird 3.2

Broker FXDD - eurusd, gbpusd, usdjpy, usdchf
Deposit $3,000
Timeframe M5
Balance $5,120
Equity $4,779
Wins 72 - Loses 7
Open Orders 4 (Float p/l $-340)
ROI 25.9 %

Started test on 2006.12.03.

I had 7 loses, that were my fault. They comprised of 2 groups, 1st for 2 loses and 2nd for 5 loses. 1st group was when I started the test and had PercentFloatLevel=10. This only allows negative Float to be 10% of Balance before it closes all orders. 2nd group of loses was when I broke a basic rule of never working on a code if EA is running. I set the equity proctection level again too low and it closed all open orders again. you can see none of the loses were sl loses. If I hadn't made these 2 miistakes, I should be up even more by a few hundred dollars with no loses.

This doesn't it mean that Firebird 3.2 won't blowup sometime in the future, but it survived the NFP news on Friday. The Hedge orders seem to be very useful in making profits during both trend directions. We will need to wait and see a few major trend spikes before we know if this EA can play and not get hurt too bad in the real world.

Firebird is a counter trend EA and needs a range of negative float to perform as designed. I suggest that PercentFloatLevel setting be set to allow ~$1,000 per each lot for negative float. Example: 1 lot = ten orders of 0.1 lot. To protect equity, PercentFloatLevel needs to be adjusted as equity increases. On equity increases, PercentFloatLevel can be set lower to maintain necessary amount for negative float.

I can not over state the importance of protecting your equity when running Firebird EAs. It's history has been to make real impressive profits over time, just to see it quickly get wipe out in only a few days. Use the equity protection, trading time filter, manual observations or whatever it takes.

Wackena
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File Type: zip Firebird 3.2.zip   10 KB | 838 downloads
  • #1,873
  • Dec 15, 2006 8:22am Dec 15, 2006 8:22am
first week of demo.
deposit : 50k
profit : 8K
float : 2k
firebird v3.2, usehedge:false, useequityprotection:false

very good job wackena
  • #1,874
  • Dec 15, 2006 11:25pm Dec 15, 2006 11:25pm
Quoting pooshkin
first week of demo.
deposit : 50k
profit : 8K
float : 2k
firebird v3.2, usehedge:false, useequityprotection:false

very good job wackena
wackena always does an excellent job. my question to you pooshkin: is there a difference between demo trading and live trading with real dollars on the line?
  • #1,875
  • Dec 16, 2006 5:09am Dec 16, 2006 5:09am
Quoting MoneyMa$ter
wackena always does an excellent job. my question to you pooshkin: is there a difference between demo trading and live trading with real dollars on the line?
I would like to know that too, my broker doesnt support MT4.
  • #1,876
  • Dec 17, 2006 7:24pm Dec 17, 2006 7:24pm
Quoting pooshkin
I would like to know that too, my broker doesnt support MT4.
so how are you testing firebird and getting results with the settings you posted if your broker doesn't support Mt4?
  • #1,877
  • Dec 17, 2006 9:59pm Dec 17, 2006 9:59pm
Has anyone have problems with t/s activating?

For some reason even when the t/s is hit......... nothing happens

Any suggestions?
  • #1,878
  • Dec 18, 2006 3:29am Dec 18, 2006 3:29am
Hi,

Im having problem working with Microaccount, when i put 0.01 lots.

I get the error as..

2006.12.18 14:50:58 Firebird v3.2 EURUSD,M5: invalid lots amount for OrderSend function.

Is there a quick fix.

Thanks.
  • #1,879
  • Dec 18, 2006 6:28am Dec 18, 2006 6:28am
Quoting MoneyMa$ter
so how are you testing firebird and getting results with the settings you posted if your broker doesn't support Mt4?
like I said in the first post, its a demo account.
my real account broker doesnt support mt4 so i cant try it live.
  • #1,880
  • Edited 2:28pm Dec 19, 2006 5:41am | Edited 2:28pm
HI all ,

I began a demo account with NorthFinance with 5000 USD ,
and launced the FB v3.2 on it with these pairs , EUR/USD , GBP/USD , USD/JPY and USD/CHF
all on M5 Charts .

you can see the report at this link
http://www.forex.gogohost.com/detailed/

It is auto updated each 5 minutes and you can filter it , and take a look and sort for the time Diff for each deal ( time toke per deal )

Hope that could help :-)


I got some problems in the code and I had to open a new dedmo account , and it was good time to change some settings in FB ..

so it is a new fresh statment now but will not be deleted again , so if things went well I could then tell that the settings I made in the FB went good.
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