Attachments: Supernova GBP/JPY Mini Trend Catcher

Supernova GBP/JPY Mini Trend Catcher

#4,421
Jan 22, 2008 4:43am Jan 22, 2008 4:43am

rmyers
| Joined Aug 2006 | Status: Trader | 317 Posts

Quoting SteveHopwood

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All on demo: 15 min tf on gu, gj, ej. Settings as default, 0.1 standard lot entries.

Carol ran 1.4 last week using Codec's settings of sl 100, tp 20, 30, 50 respectively on the 3 pairings and made shed-loads. I did the same on Friday and made over 10% on the account.

For now, I just want to see if 1.7 will emulate the success of 1.4 using these settings - the reason I was trying to set a tp. I know the ea has moved on, but these settings appear to be working.

They failed spectacularly yesterday because gu whipsawed every trade to ribbons and took out about 40% of the account. They are slowly making up ground today.

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Hi Steve,

I had mentioned in a post a while back that for really short TF's like you are using the fixed TP could be very effective. As the TF's get larger, long trends can really add to the profit and using the indicators along with the PSAR TS is usually the best route over fixed TP's. The next phase of optimization will be to add pyramiding so that we can take better advantage of trends.

If you'd like to give it a go in parallel, the LaGuerre exit is designed to be used for shorter TF's. Also, Matt's QQE exit TF idea might also prove helpful. I have been anxious to try it, but have not done so yet.

Rick

#4,422
Jan 22, 2008 4:46am Jan 22, 2008 4:46am

rmyers
| Joined Aug 2006 | Status: Trader | 317 Posts

Quoting Gnat

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Hallo Rick!

This is really a big group of testers that came together. Looks like we will spare a lot of time if all goes well.
Thanks for steering the "functions" test and all the work that you did so far! A really big move forward!

Greetings!
Matt

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Hi Matt,

Thanks for the kind words. You and the rest of the SuperNovae are a pleasure to work with and I am really encouraged by the progress we have made.

Rick

#4,423
Jan 22, 2008 5:40am Jan 22, 2008 5:40am

faliowino
| Joined Nov 2007 | Status: Trader | 36 Posts

Quoting Gnat

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Hallo Rick!

This is really a big group of testers that came together. Looks like we will spare a lot of time if all goes well.
Thanks for steering the "functions" test and all the work that you did so far! A really big move forward!

Greetings!
Matt

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hay Gnat any help on the b5 probelm i posted earlier i realy need your help

#4,424
Jan 22, 2008 5:42am Jan 22, 2008 5:42am

faliowino
| Joined Nov 2007 | Status: Trader | 36 Posts

Quoting rmyers

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Hi Matt,

Thanks for the kind words. You and the rest of the SuperNovae are a pleasure to work with and I am really encouraged by the progress we have made.

Rick

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Hi posted posted another chat showing my journal pls look at it and advise me am confused

#4,425
Jan 22, 2008 5:47am Jan 22, 2008 5:47am

rmyers
| Joined Aug 2006 | Status: Trader | 317 Posts

Quoting faliowino

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thanks for your reply are suggestung i reduce the number of indicators for the entry? also do i have to put on my computer and internet access on for 24 hours for this thing to run effectively finally i have attached another screen shot showing the message in my journal is that supposed to be an error message if so how do i resolve it thanks

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Hi FalioWino,

Yes, reduce the entry filters to just QQE to see if you get a signal. Also, that bad tick looks like your feed is returning bad historical data to MT4. I would close the platform, re-open it, then create a fresh demo account.

Rick

#4,426
Jan 22, 2008 6:09am Jan 22, 2008 6:09am

Eureka
| Joined Aug 2006 | Status: Trader | 383 Posts

Hi Dee,

Yep, Carol and Eureka are the same person. Me! LOL

Are you Dee from Utah?

Carol

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I think Carol & Eureka are the same person.

Hi Carol!

dee

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#4,427
Jan 22, 2008 6:11am Jan 22, 2008 6:11am

Eureka
| Joined Aug 2006 | Status: Trader | 383 Posts

Awwwwww..............how nice, Rick.

Quoting rmyers

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Carol's so nice, I added het twice

Rick

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#4,428
Jan 22, 2008 6:12am Jan 22, 2008 6:12am

Eureka
| Joined Aug 2006 | Status: Trader | 383 Posts

I agree. Gnat Matt.

Quoting Gnat

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LOL ...
Making a little poem out of that is really neat!!
Matt

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#4,429
Jan 22, 2008 6:13am Jan 22, 2008 6:13am

Gnat
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Quoting faliowino

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hay Gnat any help on the b5 probelm i posted earlier i realy need your help

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Hi Faliowino!

Sorry - I was really busy here for the better part of the morning. Rick was faster on that - your platform seems to be caught. Maybe you should even go as far as to start a completely new installation for MT4 and the open a freah DEMO.

Sorry for being a bit lame today. We had a bit of water in the house due to five days of endless rain tonight.

Ciao!

GMAtt

#4,430
Jan 22, 2008 6:16am Jan 22, 2008 6:16am

Eureka
| Joined Aug 2006 | Status: Trader | 383 Posts

Yesterday I had computer problems. Have resolved them and while the computer was down, our tech did some additional work, so I'm up and running today.

Glad to get that out of the way and on to making serious pips!

Carol

#4,431
Jan 22, 2008 6:17am Jan 22, 2008 6:17am

Gnat
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Quoting Eureka

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I agree. Gnat Matt.

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Hi Carol!

Hope you are fine! Yeah, I really liked that way Rick put it

!!

See ya testing soon!
Gnat Matt

#4,432
Jan 22, 2008 6:38am Jan 22, 2008 6:38am

Eureka
| Joined Aug 2006 | Status: Trader | 383 Posts

Hey Gnat Matt,

Yeah, I'm fine. I didn't know that Rick was a poet as well. Kewl!!!

Carol

Quoting Gnat

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Hi Carol!

Hope you are fine! Yeah, I really liked that way Rick put it !!

See ya testing soon!
Gnat Matt

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#4,433
Jan 22, 2008 7:25am Jan 22, 2008 7:25am

faliowino
| Joined Nov 2007 | Status: Trader | 36 Posts

Quoting rmyers

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Hi FalioWino,

Yes, reduce the entry filters to just QQE to see if you get a signal. Also, that bad tick looks like your feed is returning bad historical data to MT4. I would close the platform, re-open it, then create a fresh demo account.

Rick

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Ok haw about the exit variables?

#4,434
Jan 22, 2008 8:13am Jan 22, 2008 8:13am

Gnat
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Quoting faliowino

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Ok haw about the exit variables?

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Hallo Faliowino!

The exit can also just be equipped with the QQEA only to begin with. Then you can test out the other options like DMI, Momentum or CCI. Not all at the same time, but the combination QQEA + x (or y or z).
Then later on the combinations QQEA +xy (or yz or xz etc.)

Happy testing!
GMatt

#4,435
Jan 22, 2008 8:21am Jan 22, 2008 8:21am

fxtradera
| Joined Jan 2006 | Status: Trader | 63 Posts

I have both and running a couple of flavours of beta5 on demo right now. This morning at 8:20 when there was lots of price action I noticed a difference in all prices. GBPJPY was out by up to 60 pips at times. This lasted at least 20 minutes - not 60 pips, but varied by 10-40 pips.

I had a live chat with an IBFX rep. Rather protracted. Anyway, it seems, as it appears, that the demo feed can be delayed. This is the bit I didn't like so much...

IBFX may stop and restart the demo feed so it catches up with the live platform. What does this mean? That some prices on the live may never reach demo, so stop losses or target prices may not get hit, trades may not get closed or entered if there are no SLs or TPs but the entry/exit criteria is met (if you were trading on the live).

How often does this happen? Don't know. If you have live and demo with the same broker, worth keeping an eye out for... This is something that needs to be recognised. That's why trading the same system with different brokers will have some value.

One other thing. Maybe just my set up here. I have Win XP Pro, two monitors and sometimes get odd displays and stuff, eg can't cut and paste into Paint. Sometimes my charts don't appear on the MT4 platform. I see everything else, including open trades and prices, but just like a window into another screen underneath the MT4 screen. Only way to fix is not close MT4, but reboot. Don't want to do this sometimes as this will interrupt the EA. Anyone else?

#4,436
Jan 22, 2008 8:37am Jan 22, 2008 8:37am

Gnat
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Quoting fxtradera

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I have both and running a couple of flavours of beta5 on demo right now. This morning at 8:20 when there was lots of price action I noticed a difference in all prices. GBPJPY was out by up to 60 pips at times. This lasted at least 20 minutes - not 60 pips, but varied by 10-40 pips.

I had a live chat with an IBFX rep. Rather protracted. Anyway, it seems, as it appears, that the demo feed can be delayed. This is the bit I didn't like so much...

IBFX may stop and restart the demo feed so it catches up with the live platform. What does this mean? That some prices on the live may never reach demo, so stop losses or target prices may not get hit, trades may not get closed or entered if there are no SLs or TPs but the entry/exit criteria is met (if you were trading on the live).

How often does this happen? Don't know. If you have live and demo with the same broker, worth keeping an eye out for... This is something that needs to be recognised. That's why trading the same system with different brokers will have some value.

One other thing. Maybe just my set up here. I have Win XP Pro, two monitors and sometimes get odd displays and stuff, eg can't cut and paste into Paint. Sometimes my charts don't appear on the MT4 platform. I see everything else, including open trades and prices, but just like a window into another screen underneath the MT4 screen. Only way to fix is not close MT4, but reboot. Don't want to do this sometimes as this will interrupt the EA. Anyone else?

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Hallo FXTradera!

Right now my demo accounts with IBFX have no connection at all. Then again the US rates are not changed every day and normal traffic will be handled by their servers I guess, but you are right about the spoiling it does to the results.
In order to see the long term differences in results I would be willing to run the same tests we will do together on a live account with mirco's or microminis. It should just percentagewise be the same capital to lotsize ratio as the 5.000 USD demo. Then we could see how they deviate in the long run.

I have no problem with Windows XP here with single or multiple monitors. I run the trading computers nearly naked of anything else and never use them to receive EMail or Skype or the like. I also use the setup that is closest to Windows 2000 - giving more resources free to use.

See you!

Matt

#4,437
Jan 22, 2008 9:06am Jan 22, 2008 9:06am

rmyers
| Joined Aug 2006 | Status: Trader | 317 Posts

Quoting fxtradera

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I have both and running a couple of flavours of beta5 on demo right now. This morning at 8:20 when there was lots of price action I noticed a difference in all prices. GBPJPY was out by up to 60 pips at times. This lasted at least 20 minutes - not 60 pips, but varied by 10-40 pips.

I had a live chat with an IBFX rep. Rather protracted. Anyway, it seems, as it appears, that the demo feed can be delayed. This is the bit I didn't like so much...

IBFX may stop and restart the demo feed so it catches up with the live platform. What does this mean? That some prices on the live may never reach demo, so stop losses or target prices may not get hit, trades may not get closed or entered if there are no SLs or TPs but the entry/exit criteria is met (if you were trading on the live).

How often does this happen? Don't know. If you have live and demo with the same broker, worth keeping an eye out for... This is something that needs to be recognised. That's why trading the same system with different brokers will have some value.

One other thing. Maybe just my set up here. I have Win XP Pro, two monitors and sometimes get odd displays and stuff, eg can't cut and paste into Paint. Sometimes my charts don't appear on the MT4 platform. I see everything else, including open trades and prices, but just like a window into another screen underneath the MT4 screen. Only way to fix is not close MT4, but reboot. Don't want to do this sometimes as this will interrupt the EA. Anyone else?

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Hi Tradera,

Many of the brokers play fast and loose with their demo feeds viewing it more as a favor than a necessity. To those of us building automated strategies, it is more than annoying. Fortunately, the data is good most of the time, but the brokers can and do foul up the demo servers on occasion. I also us IBFX and the live servers have behaved very well for me.

That having been said, this is one of the reasons I am putting back in the ability to have the SL placed with the order in Supernova, rather than just hiding it from the broker. I will permit the user to choose which he or she prefers. I like to set a catastrophic stop loss designed to be far enough away that the EA's signals do all the work, except in exceptional situations like power outages, loss of connection, or violent changes in price. These situations are rare, but I believe that capital preservation is a vital part of any system whether it be automated or discretionary.

Rick

#4,438
Edited 9:41am Jan 22, 2008 9:11am | Edited 9:41am

rmyers
| Joined Aug 2006 | Status: Trader | 317 Posts

Quoting Gnat

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Hallo FXTradera!

Right now my demo accounts with IBFX have no connection at all. Then again the US rates are not changed every day and normal traffic will be handled by their servers I guess, but you are right about the spoiling it does to the results.
In order to see the long term differences in results I would be willing to run the same tests we will do together on a live account with mirco's or microminis. It should just percentagewise be the same capital to lotsize ratio as the 5.000 USD demo. Then we could see how they deviate in the long run.

I have no problem with Windows XP here with single or multiple monitors. I run the trading computers nearly naked of anything else and never use them to receive EMail or Skype or the like. I also use the setup that is closest to Windows 2000 - giving more resources free to use.

See you!
Matt

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I agree with Matt about XP. Mine is fine, but I also run my trading platform with only the trading software and no extra apps. I built this server myself and it has 2 PCIx 16 video ports, so it handles 4 monitors.

However, since I am traveling, I am testing with a Samsing Q1 Ultra UMPC machine and it runs Supernova really well. I really like these UMPC's both for travel and to monitor my trades remotely. They run real Windows XP or Vista, not Windows mobile.

Rick

#4,439
Jan 22, 2008 10:37am Jan 22, 2008 10:37am