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  • #2,881
  • Apr 30, 2008 4:10pm Apr 30, 2008 4:10pm
Here are my FXDD demo results:

EAs effected on 20th 6 pm EDT. Ult, Del & Best run separately on 3 FXDD demo accounts, 1:200, $10,000 starting Balance/Equity each.

15 pairs: GU, GJ, UJ, AJ, EJ, EU, Uchf, UC, EC, EG, CJ, AU, NU, Echf, Gchf. Hourly charts.

1st day: @ 5pm EDT 21st April 2008:
- Ult: Balance $10,848, Equity $10,820 Margin $978
- Del: 10,788 10,787 978
- Best: 9,963 9,867 296

2nd day: @ 5 pm EDT 22nd April:
- Ult: 10,740, 10,440 1,032
- Del: 10,699 10,357 983
- Best: 10,138 10,032 574

3rd day: @ 5 pm EDT 23rd April:
- Ult: 10,444, 10,160 934
- Del: 10,420 10,093 934
- Best: 9,691 9,625 498

4th day: @ 5 pm EDT 24th April:
- Ult: 10,840, 10,890 551
- Del: 10,756 10,816 452
- Best: 9,660 9,632 235

5th day: @ 3:30-3:40 pm EDT 25th April:
- Ult: 10,433, 10,433 0
- Del: 10,520 10,520 0
- Best: 9,305 9,305 0

#5th day ... all trades closed @3:30-3:40 pm for weekend per T101's suggested Option 2. EAs removed... On Sunday April 27 EAs attached and effected before 6 pm EDT, FXDD's market open time. #


6th day: @ 5 pm EDT 28th April:
- Ult: $9,973 $9,775 $1,022
- Del: 10,040 9,846 982
- Best: 9,152 8,996 747

Another down day but nothing to be frustrated. Just follow the "euity" numbers. We lost one day and gained back another... today's loss was relatively small.

7th day: @ 5 pm EDT 29th April:
- Ult: $10,530 $10,371 $851
- Del: 10,567 10,427 754
- Best: 9,171 9,227 349



8th day: @ 5 pm EDT 30th April:
- Ult: $11,109 $10,725 $1,050
- Del: 11,140 10,789 1,020
- Best: 9,760 9,797 511


Cheers, RS
  • #2,882
  • Apr 30, 2008 4:53pm Apr 30, 2008 4:53pm
  •  MPP
  • Joined Jun 2007 | Status: Be yourself, everyone else is taken | 2,734 Posts
Quoting RisingSun
Here are my FXDD demo results:

EAs effected on 20th 6 pm EDT. Ult, Del & Best run separately on 3 FXDD demo accounts, 1:200, $10,000 starting Balance/Equity each.

15 pairs: GU, GJ, UJ, AJ, EJ, EU, Uchf, UC, EC, EG, CJ, AU, NU, Echf, Gchf. Hourly charts.


Cheers, RS
have you noticed how little differnce the number of pairs is having on the results, i'm trading 13 on MT4 and 14 on Mig, here you are with 15 but the results are all similar pip wise
  • #2,883
  • Apr 30, 2008 5:16pm Apr 30, 2008 5:16pm
Quoting MPP
have you noticed how little differnce the number of pairs is having on the results, i'm trading 13 on MT4 and 14 on Mig, here you are with 15 but the results are all similar pip wise
Yes, you are right MPP. It so happend 15 charts are visually better than 13 or 14 on a screen when tiled...same size. Also notice Ult and Del are similar in performance.

The global TP or basket TP is a good idea, although I don't want T101 to spend a lot of time at this moment. I would simply close all positions manually (a script would do the job nicely) once the week's target (of mine) is reached like $500, $700, etc. and call the week. 5% or 10% a week is very, very good, if consistent, and it looks like these EA will do that.

Due to time difference (I am in Japan) I cannot monitor the screen during active time, but occasionally peep in. Is it that the day's peak if often reached around NOON eastern time (USA) and then fall down towards the close? If so it's worth waking up and push button to close all positions!

Let's see how it goes in the next 7 days ... RS
  • #2,884
  • Apr 30, 2008 7:08pm Apr 30, 2008 7:08pm
Quoting trader101
Yeah i notice that rebootting everyday now, what is it with that??? Something going on with IBFx . Good for you .. Bro. i think you will be over 1000 this week that would be 33% of you 3000 account.
Interesting, IBFX is not rebooting my demo account where I am using the Ultimate EA but it is rebooting the demo account that I just use to look at different timeframes. I did send a comment back to them on one of their reboots to find out why they are doing this but of course no response. I just hope they keep their molly muckers off of my EA demo account!
  • #2,885
  • Apr 30, 2008 7:11pm Apr 30, 2008 7:11pm
Quoting trader101
That is good too.. Like moving your stops to 100 after reaching 120 for the JPY crosses and 60 after reaching 70 for the non jpy pairs. Or just simply implement the trailing stop of 20 when it reaches 120 or 15 if it reaches 75.
Very good idea.
This sounds like a good idea.
  • #2,886
  • May 1, 2008 4:39am May 1, 2008 4:39am
Hi trader,

I´m not doubting the ea reliability and profitability, but i´m just
curious about the backtest result.
I know the backtests aren´t accurate and don´t show the real
potentials or wekness of the ea´s. If you ever performed any backtest
on any of the three ea´s would you mind posting it.

Forward test are performing great. Lost some pips this night, but still
in positive and with profit trades open.

I think you´ve done a good job with this ea´s. keep going

Thanks
  • #2,887
  • May 1, 2008 7:02am May 1, 2008 7:02am
Quoting wezer
Hi trader,

I´m not doubting the ea reliability and profitability, but i´m just
curious about the backtest result.
I know the backtests aren´t accurate and don´t show the real
potentials or wekness of the ea´s. If you ever performed any backtest
on any of the three ea´s would you mind posting it.

Forward test are performing great. Lost some pips this night, but still
in positive and with profit trades open.

I think you´ve done a good job with this ea´s. keep going

Thanks
I know i had it somewhere but i can assure you that these EA were never published here had the backtest were not good.
  • #2,888
  • May 1, 2008 8:16am May 1, 2008 8:16am
Hello everyone,
We are having sensational week here.

UPDATE: on Closed Trades

NFDelight +1520 pips
IBF Delight +997
NF Ultimate +1349
IBF Ultimate +997
I want to see some of your updates as well..anyone.... for comparison purpose...
  • #2,889
  • May 1, 2008 10:31am May 1, 2008 10:31am
I am reading through your awsome thread and I am now gonna start to test the EA's on demo.

Do you want a specific broker for comparison ?


Quoting trader101
Hello everyone,
We are having sensational week here.

UPDATE: on Closed Trades

NFDelight +1520 pips
IBF Delight +997
NF Ultimate +1349
IBF Ultimate +997
I want to see some of your updates as well..anyone.... for comparison purpose...
Inflation in things we need, Deflation in things we want.
  • #2,890
  • May 1, 2008 10:47am May 1, 2008 10:47am
Quoting Thijs
I am reading through your awsome thread and I am now gonna start to test the EA's on demo.

Do you want a specific broker for comparison ?
No preference. Your call.. Bro and thanks for joining the crowd of happy traders.
  • #2,891
  • May 1, 2008 11:00am May 1, 2008 11:00am
UPDATE: on Closed Trades

NFDelight +1760 pips
IBF Delight +1177
NF Ultimate +1649
IBF Ultimate +1276
  • #2,892
  • May 1, 2008 11:02am May 1, 2008 11:02am
  •  MPP
  • Joined Jun 2007 | Status: Be yourself, everyone else is taken | 2,734 Posts
Quoting trader101
Hello everyone,
We are having sensational week here.

UPDATE: on Closed Trades

NFDelight +1520 pips
IBF Delight +997
NF Ultimate +1349
IBF Ultimate +997
I want to see some of your updates as well..anyone.... for comparison purpose...
Hi ALL

I'm away from home today and thought i would just drop by to see how it's going, wish i was at home watch the green lights

Will post update tomorrow when i get home. T101 if you want me to run any variasion next week can you try to get them to me for Sat, gonna be pouring the beers and BBQ this sunday so need to get things setup before. As it is my intention is to run current delight and ultimate along side the ent h1 indicator so i can compair this for exit method, i will be starting it up on Sunday night to see how it handles the uk shut down compaired to thoughs of you starting on the Tuesday.

The following week i will test the same Ea's but along side the MA indicator i have so we can have similar for comparision

I will create a daily (24x1h candle) chart in word format for each day of the week.

regards

MPP
  • #2,893
  • May 1, 2008 11:07am May 1, 2008 11:07am
Quoting trader101
UPDATE: on Closed Trades

NFDelight +1760 pips
IBF Delight +1177
NF Ultimate +1649
IBF Ultimate +1276
I have been letting this run nonstop for 10 days on the delight2 and Ultimatetrader2 with IBFX demo on $10,000 standard acounts and my results are no where near what you have posted

traderdelight2 $10,619.32 with -25.35 floating thats only +632

Ulitmatetrader2 $10,402.72 with -13.52 floating and thats +419
Don't chase the market, Let the market come to you
  • #2,894
  • May 1, 2008 11:40am May 1, 2008 11:40am
I've been running it off and on, and on different computers. It's interesting how the EA will open a trade with one broker and not with another, or even sometimes open the trade 10-15 minutes later.

I have never had open trades in all 13 currencies during the same time. The most I've ever seen is 5 or 6. Is this normal?
  • #2,895
  • May 1, 2008 11:42am May 1, 2008 11:42am
Quoting hansel
I've been running it off and on, and on different computers. It's interesting how the EA will open a trade with one broker and not with another, or even sometimes open the trade 10-15 minutes later.

I have never had open trades in all 13 currencies during the same time. The most I've ever seen is 5 or 6. Is this normal?
The most I had was 10 I think. But, I got booted off the IBFX demo server last night and restarted this morning and currently have 0 trades after running it about 2 hours.
  • #2,896
  • May 1, 2008 12:12pm May 1, 2008 12:12pm
Quoting trader101
Hello everyone,
We are having sensational week here.

UPDATE: on Closed Trades

NFDelight +1520 pips
IBF Delight +997
NF Ultimate +1349
IBF Ultimate +997
I want to see some of your updates as well..anyone.... for comparison purpose...
Chugging along like a Swiss watch!

NF Delight +1567
NF Ultimate + 1372

A thought about the times when you get instant re-entry after a take profit has triggered: Not sure if there may be a way to add some trailing stops for the second and in some cases third re-entries? Or maybe better yet, when the conditions are such with the indicators that the EA will be re-entering a trade after it takes profit - just have it move the TP instead of closing the trade and opening a new one which would save some pips. A trailing stop at this point may also be an idea.

All in all - Totally amazing!
  • #2,897
  • May 1, 2008 1:02pm May 1, 2008 1:02pm
Quoting Telac
Chugging along like a Swiss watch!

NF Delight +1567
NF Ultimate + 1372

A thought about the times when you get instant re-entry after a take profit has triggered: Not sure if there may be a way to add some trailing stops for the second and in some cases third re-entries? Or maybe better yet, when the conditions are such with the indicators that the EA will be re-entering a trade after it takes profit - just have it move the TP instead of closing the trade and opening a new one which would save some pips. A trailing stop at this point may also be an idea.

All in all - Totally amazing!
Telac and I seems to be doing almost the same..
I dont know with Tmac -- something is definitely wrong with your system you should be within the range that we have. Hansel -- yours is on-off system is not definitely good, as i said everytime you turn off then on the program will reset and start to zero again that is the reason why only a few are being traded. This program is not design for this situation. I suggest you dont test it like this because you will not get good results. Or you might even loss you account. Also you are trying to limit the EA usage of pairs has a great effect on the hedging property. This one also will can blow your account away. EA are design in a specific way and condition and should be subject to such condition else it would not perform well. Telac, i would not subscribe to the idea of trailing stop at the moment, maybe in the future revisions after intensive testing then your suggestions will be considered. As my mother would "If its not broken, why fix it?"
  • #2,898
  • May 1, 2008 1:59pm May 1, 2008 1:59pm
iff you give the EA more pairs does it mean it has more options to hedge (cover) trades ?

Probably i'm not completely understanding the logic of the EA.

by the way this thread has some great info

Quoting trader101
Telac and I seems to be doing almost the same..
I dont know with Tmac -- something is definitely wrong with your system you should be within the range that we have. Hansel -- yours is on-off system is not definitely good, as i said everytime you turn off then on the program will reset and start to zero again that is the reason why only a few are being traded. This program is not design for this situation. I suggest you dont test it like this because you will not get good results. Or you might even loss you account. Also you are trying to limit the EA usage of pairs has a great effect on the hedging property. This one also will can blow your account away. EA are design in a specific way and condition and should be subject to such condition else it would not perform well. Telac, i would not subscribe to the idea of trailing stop at the moment, maybe in the future revisions after intensive testing then your suggestions will be considered. As my mother would "If its not broken, why fix it?"
Inflation in things we need, Deflation in things we want.
  • #2,899
  • May 1, 2008 2:37pm May 1, 2008 2:37pm
Quoting Thijs
iff you give the EA more pairs does it mean it has more options to hedge (cover) trades ?

Probably i'm not completely understanding the logic of the EA.

by the way this thread has some great info
Thanks, the more the better. I fyou are goind to test the EA, please do it at the beginning of the week not in the middle of the week. Here: how it works:
At the opening of the EA it gathers data of the current week (reason why he encurs losses at the beginning but not all the time) process the data collected. if incomlete will wait for some more data. Reson why it is not trading at the beginning. Start trading at the beginning of a new trend. Check the history record of the currency. If some reason that it made a mistake and is incurring losses at a certain number, it will trade a hedge currency to offset the losses( eg if trading B-Eu and the price is falling heavily then it will call to trade B-UCHF and eventually drop the losing Euro trade and maintained the UCHf trade.). that is the reason why a minimum of 13 popular currencies should be traded. It seldom trade all 13 at the same time. If it does that definitely you are winning. The number of currency in the basket should be 13 or 14 some got 15. Remember the Margin requirement all the time.
  • #2,900
  • May 1, 2008 4:08pm May 1, 2008 4:08pm
Here are my FXDD demo results:

EAs effected on 20th 6 pm EDT. Ult, Del & Best run separately on 3 FXDD demo accounts, 1:200, $10,000 starting Balance/Equity each.

15 pairs: GU, GJ, UJ, AJ, EJ, EU, Uchf, UC, EC, EG, CJ, AU, NU, Echf, Gchf. Hourly charts.

1st day: @ 5pm EDT 21st April 2008:
- Ult: Balance $10,848, Equity $10,820 Margin $978
- Del: 10,788 10,787 978
- Best: 9,963 9,867 296

2nd day: @ 5 pm EDT 22nd April:
- Ult: 10,740, 10,440 1,032
- Del: 10,699 10,357 983
- Best: 10,138 10,032 574

3rd day: @ 5 pm EDT 23rd April:
- Ult: 10,444, 10,160 934
- Del: 10,420 10,093 934
- Best: 9,691 9,625 498

4th day: @ 5 pm EDT 24th April:
- Ult: 10,840, 10,890 551
- Del: 10,756 10,816 452
- Best: 9,660 9,632 235

5th day: @ 3:30-3:40 pm EDT 25th April:
- Ult: 10,433, 10,433 0
- Del: 10,520 10,520 0
- Best: 9,305 9,305 0

#5th day ... all trades closed @3:30-3:40 pm for weekend per T101's suggested Option 2. EAs removed... On Sunday April 27 EAs attached and effected before 6 pm EDT, FXDD's market open time. #


6th day: @ 5 pm EDT 28th April:
- Ult: $9,973 $9,775 $1,022
- Del: 10,040 9,846 982
- Best: 9,152 8,996 747

Another down day but nothing to be frustrated. Just follow the "euity" numbers. We lost one day and gained back another... today's loss was relatively small.

7th day: @ 5 pm EDT 29th April:
- Ult: $10,530 $10,371 $851
- Del: 10,567 10,427 754
- Best: 9,171 9,227 349



8th day: @ 5 pm EDT 30th April:
- Ult: $11,109 $10,725 $1,050
- Del: 11,140 10,789 1,020
- Best: 9,760 9,797 511


9th day: @ 5 pm EDT 1st May:
- Ult: $10,940 $10,703 $814
- Del: 10,916 10,656 814
- Best: 9,683 9,790 210

Both Ultimate and Delight were running at +1,200 levels, at around NOON time EDT. This phenomena is usual as most of you have noticed. Am personally tempted to bank the peak gain for the day.

T101 - if close all positions at seemingly near-peak time (or at some set $$$) and cut off EA, and re-activate EA b4 Asian session, do this every day, what would be the overall results, based on the logic?

Cheers, RS
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