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  • #4,201
  • Jan 14, 2008 2:09am Jan 14, 2008 2:09am
Hallo Autaret and Rick!

I guess the approach of the Mint my help here. I am not yet sure how to use it in a mechanical way, but then I need to look into that in more depths once more. If we can have it with an "on"-"off" switch, that would certainly be a good thing!!

So far it seems the best results come with the very simplistic approaches. I was backtesting all weekend ... hope that is not the cause for this nauseating headache.

Greetings!
Matt
  • #4,202
  • Jan 14, 2008 2:59am Jan 14, 2008 2:59am
Quoting Gnat
Hallo Autaret and Rick!

I guess the approach of the Mint my help here. I am not yet sure how to use it in a mechanical way, but then I need to look into that in more depths once more. If we can have it with an "on"-"off" switch, that would certainly be a good thing!!

So far it seems the best results come with the very simplistic approaches. I was backtesting all weekend ... hope that is not the cause for this nauseating headache.

Greetings!
Matt
Hi Matt,

You are right. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that we already have enough indicators. Let's spend time understanding the best settings with what we have and refining the current EA. I am adding Glenn's LaGuerre cross and after that we will test and test some more

I am spending time this week looking at entries and exits. I think we can improve the entries, but I need to observe a bit first. If anyone testing has observations on this, it would help a lot.

How is Beta 3 holding up? Is the new alternate QQE TF helping?

Rick
  • #4,203
  • Jan 14, 2008 3:17am Jan 14, 2008 3:17am
Quoting rmyers
Hi Matt,

You are right. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that we already have enough indicators. Let's spend time understanding the best settings with what we have and refining the current EA. I am adding Glenn's LaGuerre cross and after that we will test and test some more

I am spending time this week looking at entries and exits. I think we can improve the entries, but I need to observe a bit first. If anyone testing has observations on this, it would help a lot.

How is Beta 3 holding up? Is the new alternate QQE TF helping?

Rick
Hi Rick!

I think that the "Mint" appraoch is valid and may be a good add-up in the future. Filtering the trade according to the long term trend may be key to let the relative drawdownm melt.

I will have a look at the entries on the QQEA so far and will give you more examples later on. Otherwise the beta3 is really a good little machine and is earnestly trying to make some money on the 15M with all sorts of setups. In backtesting the profitfactor went up without closing in the LaG ... hehehe .

The alternative TF to close the trade on the QQEA has shown really nice results on the longer TFs, but is insignificant on 15M or 5M. And here I had another question: The distance between 1H and 4H & 4H to Daily is really long. Is it possible to close on a 2H TF for instance? (No hit me - no hit me!)

On the LaG cross I will try to get FX_Ninja take a look at it and help us with the settings again for different TFs.

Happy start into the new week!
Matt
  • #4,204
  • Jan 14, 2008 4:01am Jan 14, 2008 4:01am
my first trade with supernova. many thanks cryten and other senior members for your insightful contributions . i kept losing my internet connection which usually happens when i'm managing a trade. the forex gods must be playing a joke on me or sumthin! LOL
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  • #4,205
  • Jan 14, 2008 4:28am Jan 14, 2008 4:28am
Quoting Gnat
Hi Rick!

I think that the "Mint" appraoch is valid and may be a good add-up in the future. Filtering the trade according to the long term trend may be key to let the relative drawdownm melt.

I will have a look at the entries on the QQEA so far and will give you more examples later on. Otherwise the beta3 is really a good little machine and is earnestly trying to make some money on the 15M with all sorts of setups. In backtesting the profitfactor went up without closing in the LaG ... hehehe .

The alternative TF to close the trade on the QQEA has shown really nice results on the longer TFs, but is insignificant on 15M or 5M. And here I had another question: The distance between 1H and 4H & 4H to Daily is really long. Is it possible to close on a 2H TF for instance? (No hit me - no hit me!)

On the LaG cross I will try to get FX_Ninja take a look at it and help us with the settings again for different TFs.

Happy start into the new week!
Matt
Hi Matt,

I agree that trading in the direction of the longer TF's is a good approach and that is how I trade manually. Let's let the EA do the work for us for a while and see how it does. If we see a good reason to filter on the longer TF's it will be easy to add.

I am really pleased that the alternate exit QQE TF is helping. As to other TF's like th 2 hour, let me do a few tests. I know how to do this in code (I did it while programming in the NinjaTrader environment), but hopefully I wont have to do all the data manipulation

I'll let you know later.

Rick
  • #4,206
  • Jan 14, 2008 4:40am Jan 14, 2008 4:40am
Quoting ab73
my first trade with supernova. many thanks cryten and other senior members for your insightful contributions . i kept losing my internet connection which usually happens when i'm managing a trade. the forex gods must be playing a joke on me or sumthin! LOL
Hallo AB!

That is really a good one there! Apparently in the good old NOFX style! Hope your internetconnection will get better - this can be really annoying.
Keep it up!

Gnat
  • #4,207
  • Jan 14, 2008 4:46am Jan 14, 2008 4:46am
Quoting rmyers
Hi Matt,

I agree that trading in the direction of the longer TF's is a good approach and that is how I trade manually. Let's let the EA do the work for us for a while and see how it does. If we see a good reason to filter on the longer TF's it will be easy to add.

I am really pleased that the alternate exit QQE TF is helping. As to other TF's like th 2 hour, let me do a few tests. I know how to do this in code (I did it while programming in the NinjaTrader environment), but hopefully I wont have to do all the data manipulation

I'll let you know later.

Rick
Hey Rick!

Ok - let's do it as you posted Well, and I hope you will not have too much "rebuilding of candles" to do on the mid-TFs. Otherwise we can postpone that. But it is really cool that you have done that before , it seems like some hefty work. I have my youngster (3years) with me right now - keeps distracting me!
I'll be back with more coherent babbling later! hehehe!

Ciao
Matt
  • #4,208
  • Jan 14, 2008 4:58am Jan 14, 2008 4:58am
Hi Gnat,

thank u for yr kind words. Nofx posts and chart examples were indeed very helpful. i could relate to how he trades as i use S/R levels a lot in my trading.

Ab




Quoting Gnat
Hallo AB!

That is really a good one there! Apparently in the good old NOFX style! Hope your internetconnection will get better - this can be really annoying.
Keep it up!

Gnat
Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes
  • #4,209
  • Jan 14, 2008 6:43am Jan 14, 2008 6:43am
Ok, now by EA is not opening trades. Initially it wasn't closing them (before I switched over to v1.7Beta2). Is anyone else having this problem too?
  • #4,210
  • Jan 14, 2008 7:07am Jan 14, 2008 7:07am
Quoting fxpepper
Ok, now by EA is not opening trades. Initially it wasn't closing them (before I switched over to v1.7Beta2). Is anyone else having this problem too?
Hallo Pepper-spray!

We are now on beta3 - but that should not matter. Is your EA smiling at you from the upper right hand corner of the chart? And does your little expert advisor man wear a kittke green badge in the middle of your MT4 platform setting knobs there?
Then there might be a problem with a loooong timeframe. If you are running it on a 4H chart, the triggering of signals can take a while.
Are there any red alerts on you experts or journal tabs down there where you have the trade history and the open trades tabs?
So far all trades were colsed and opened here without a problem. Let me know what is looks like and we will find a way!

Greetings!
GMatt
  • #4,211
  • Jan 14, 2008 7:10am Jan 14, 2008 7:10am
Quoting ab73
Hi Gnat,

thank u for yr kind words. Nofx posts and chart examples were indeed very helpful. i could relate to how he trades as i use S/R levels a lot in my trading.

Ab
Hey Ab!

I just realized that I do not see any QQE / QQEA on your chart? Do you have it somewhere else? It is the core engine of this concept, so doing without that seems like - odd! Hehehe! :

Best Wishes!
Gnat
  • #4,212
  • Jan 14, 2008 7:34am Jan 14, 2008 7:34am
Hello Gnat,

actually, i do have it on my chart. it's hiding below my mom indicator LOL. since i have pretty arrows to show QQE crossings, i don't really need to look at the indi all the time except to confirm crosses and spot potential ones.




Quoting Gnat
Hey Ab!

I just realized that I do not see any QQE / QQEA on your chart? Do you have it somewhere else? It is the core engine of this concept, so doing without that seems like - odd! Hehehe! :

Best Wishes!
Gnat
Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes
  • #4,213
  • Jan 14, 2008 7:45am Jan 14, 2008 7:45am
Quoting ab73
Hello Gnat,

actually, i do have it on my chart. it's hiding below my mom indicator LOL. since i have pretty arrows to show QQE crossings, i don't really need to look at the indi all the time except to confirm crosses and spot potential ones.
ROTFL!!

Hit senility when it bites! I am sorry - sure, now I see it!

Thanks!
Gnat
  • #4,214
  • Jan 14, 2008 8:19am Jan 14, 2008 8:19am
Hey Gnat,

no worries, mate! i appreciate yr concern. i'll be worried too if someone was trading a qqe based system w/o the qqe. it's like leaving the house with no pants on LOL.

Quoting Gnat
ROTFL!!

Hit senility when it bites! I am sorry - sure, now I see it!

Thanks!
Gnat
Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes
  • #4,215
  • Jan 14, 2008 9:58am Jan 14, 2008 9:58am
Quoting rmyers
As to other TF's like th 2 hour, let me do a few tests. I know how to do this in code (I did it while programming in the NinjaTrader environment), but hopefully I wont have to do all the data manipulation
Hi Rick,

Thanks for updating the EA for us. I'm new to this thread and am looking forward to testing this.

You may already be aware of the period converter script but if not, here's the link
http://codebase.mql4.com/277 . I believe people have been succesful getting EAs to pull info from non-standard TF indicators, with the use of this script.

Thanks Everyone for working on this strategy!

dee
  • #4,216
  • Jan 14, 2008 11:55am Jan 14, 2008 11:55am
Quoting dee
Hi Rick,

Thanks for updating the EA for us. I'm new to this thread and am looking forward to testing this.

You may already be aware of the period converter script but if not, here's the link
http://codebase.mql4.com/277 . I believe people have been succesful getting EAs to pull info from non-standard TF indicators, with the use of this script.

Thanks Everyone for working on this strategy!

dee
Hallo Dee!

Thank you very much for this link! Seems like that's what makes the timeframe go round!

Best Wishes!
Matt
  • #4,217
  • Jan 14, 2008 3:08pm Jan 14, 2008 3:08pm
Quoting dee
Hi Rick,

Thanks for updating the EA for us. I'm new to this thread and am looking forward to testing this.

You may already be aware of the period converter script but if not, here's the link
http://codebase.mql4.com/277 . I believe people have been succesful getting EAs to pull info from non-standard TF indicators, with the use of this script.

Thanks Everyone for working on this strategy!

dee
Thanks, Dee!

We had a Nor'Easter today and we were without power for 7 hours, so anything that will speed me up is very welcome

Rick
  • #4,218
  • Jan 14, 2008 5:34pm Jan 14, 2008 5:34pm
Quoting Gnat
Hallo Pepper-spray!

We are now on beta3 - but that should not matter. Is your EA smiling at you from the upper right hand corner of the chart? And does your little expert advisor man wear a kittke green badge in the middle of your MT4 platform setting knobs there?
Then there might be a problem with a loooong timeframe. If you are running it on a 4H chart, the triggering of signals can take a while.
Are there any red alerts on you experts or journal tabs down there where you have the trade history and the open trades tabs?
So far all trades were colsed and opened here without a problem. Let me know what is looks like and we will find a way!

Greetings!
GMatt
hi Gnat-gator!
I can't keep up with you guys i guess...lol...so beta3, ey? okay...let me see how that one works.

thx for the update!

fxpepper
  • #4,219
  • Jan 14, 2008 6:58pm Jan 14, 2008 6:58pm
LOL! hey Pepper-spray! (you will have to get used to Flyman changing your name - it happens to all of us hehe)

Finally caught up with you here. Good luck with the EA - I have no words of wisdom there. Gnat and the others are the best bet for that. Talk to you later this week on the yahoo or something when you have a chance.

Good trading my friend!

NOFX
  • #4,220
  • Jan 15, 2008 2:15am Jan 15, 2008 2:15am
Quoting Nofx
LOL! hey Pepper-spray! (you will have to get used to Flyman changing your name - it happens to all of us hehe)

Finally caught up with you here. Good luck with the EA - I have no words of wisdom there. Gnat and the others are the best bet for that. Talk to you later this week on the yahoo or something when you have a chance.

Good trading my friend!

NOFX
Hey Dogger!

Thanks for pointing that out! You seem to know Sgt. Pepper, cool for him!! LOL. I still have a solid headache and sort of a mental brake keeping me from being productive.

Have a good one!
GMatt
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