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  • #321
  • Sep 5, 2008 5:13pm Sep 5, 2008 5:13pm
Jumped Ship, Huh?
  • #322
  • Sep 5, 2008 5:51pm Sep 5, 2008 5:51pm
Quoting bmwboyee
I have an EA for this. I paid to have it made. I can adjust the time in which it starts to draw the box and the time it ends to draw the box, i can adjust the t/p, i can adjust the trailing stop, i can adjust if it enters with a break of the line or if the candle closes above the line, i can adjust if it trades in the opposite direction, i can adjust what time frame i put it on, i can adjust how many lots i want to play, i can adjust if you just want it to enter one trade and not trade the opposite way. So it can be done.
y all this story if u can't share with us.Oh u want us to ask/beg before u give right. Nerry.
  • #323
  • Sep 5, 2008 6:42pm Sep 5, 2008 6:42pm
Quoting mahir79
sorry I missed the boat. Aren't we supposed to do PO right after 9.15PM New York time. The PO Buy..isn't it supposed 1.77192 (including 4 pip spread). How come you guys can ride 100 pips by now? time now 9.57PM New York Time?
Do not force the trade buddy,,,
With this strategy..let the trade comes to you...

Sonic
  • #324
  • Edited Sep 6, 2008 8:56pm Sep 5, 2008 10:03pm | Edited Sep 6, 2008 8:56pm
Quoting Thierry89
Bonjour

Firstly I use 1H chart instead 15mn

I do not trade today but the potential results in european session was good except USD/CAD

SELL EUR/USD: +65
BUY GBP/USD: +30
SELL USD/YEN: +100
BUY USD/CHF: +35
SELL AUD/USD: +140
SELL EUR/YEN: +150
SELL USD/CAD: -40

Good luck :-)
Sorry again guys..I'm bonehead here...
I am using the antbreakout GU and my chart looks like this
mt tf 15M
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my tf 1Hr
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I dun see anywhere the price breakout of the range?
I am using antex4GU provided by Mr. Dznmrd. The broker used is Fxpro (i have adjusted the time setting) and the time is between 7pm to 9pm New York time.

I'm still confused, cause different people posted different result. When they should only be one same result for all..

Please help. sorry for being a bonehead. I'm learning.
  • #325
  • Edited Sep 6, 2008 8:56pm Sep 5, 2008 10:56pm | Edited Sep 6, 2008 8:56pm
Quoting mahir79
Sorry again guys..I'm bonehead here...
I am using the antbreakout GU and my chart looks like this
mt tf 15M


my tf 1Hr


I dun see anywhere the price breakout of the range?
I am using antex4GU provided by Mr. Dznmrd. The broker used is Fxpro (i have adjusted the time setting) and the time is between 7pm to 9pm New York time.

I'm still confused, cause different people posted different result. When they should only be one same result for all..

Please help. sorry for being a bonehead. I'm learning.
They were trading the NFP report, not this strategy. The G/U hit TP 1 (+15)and no more today. This strategy did not produce 100 pips today.
  • #326
  • Sep 5, 2008 11:34pm Sep 5, 2008 11:34pm
I can understand your feelings

The event happens yesterday are as follows

NFP numbers came and GBP/US went high as well as EU/US$

After the numbers which was bad everyone was waiting for the above pairs to go up further but the reverse has happend

There was bull run on JPY/US$ and the currencies suppose to go up has come down as shown by you in the the chart

I myself has lost around 80 pip on Euro on live
  • #327
  • Sep 6, 2008 1:40am Sep 6, 2008 1:40am
Quoting dznmrd
OK, modified and fixed errors indicator version. (Special Thanks to Andee from Forex-TSD)
Attachment
When I try to load this into mt4, i get 'this file is corrupt, recompile it'. Does noone else get this?
  • #328
  • Sep 6, 2008 2:27am Sep 6, 2008 2:27am
Quoting harigp
I can understand your feelings

The event happens yesterday are as follows

NFP numbers came and GBP/US went high as well as EU/US$

After the numbers which was bad everyone was waiting for the above pairs to go up further but the reverse has happend

There was bull run on JPY/US$ and the currencies suppose to go up has come down as shown by you in the the chart

I myself has lost around 80 pip on Euro on live
I hope you didn't rely on the Big Dog System for trading the NFP. It was strongly suggested that you don't use it a few hours before the NFP was to be released.
"To Be A Successful Forex Trader, You Need A Successful Forex Mentor."
  • #329
  • Sep 6, 2008 2:36am Sep 6, 2008 2:36am
Quoting tazmaan
When I try to load this into mt4, i get 'this file is corrupt, recompile it'. Does noone else get this?
Here's the latest one....

Note:

- now, if you enter "End" < "Start", the indicator will automatically carry to next day.

- if the current day is Friday, the indicator will stop at 00:00 broker time.

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File Type: ex4 ant-GUBreakout_V.0.4.ex4   9 KB | 1,256 downloads
  • #330
  • Sep 6, 2008 2:48am Sep 6, 2008 2:48am
mahir79

Thierry uses Paris time, its why you'll be confused.
  • #331
  • Sep 6, 2008 8:28am Sep 6, 2008 8:28am
Quoting learnerdavid
Hi

If people would like to draw up a list of what would need changing, adding, removing etc to make that EA work perfectly with this strategy, 90% chance I can get it done, and post it (obviously!). Please mention any additions or changes at all, ones that are 100% necassary, and ones that are not, but would still be useful, however ambitious they might be.
Thanks for the offer to get us a customized EA for this strategy. I would like to see an option that would allow you to trade lot size as a percentage of account balance according to the pips being risked (size of the box). For example, if the range is 30 pips, and I want it to risk 2% on the trade, I would want to be able to have a long pending order placed 5 pips above the high, the stop loss 40 pips away (box allowing cushion both ways, SL 1 pip below box), and the lot size to be such that if the trade loses 40 pips it would be equal to 2% of the account balance. This option could be enabled or disabled according to user preference, and the amount of cushion and SL could be user defined. Hope that makes sense, may not be essential to everyone but I think it would be very helpful.

In addition to an OCO (one cancels the other) option for the pending orders, I would like to see an option where the second order only gets cancelled if the first trade is a winning trade.

Also, as has been mentioned, an option to set a time to close the trade would be ideal.

Thanks again for your offer to help with this!
  • #332
  • Sep 6, 2008 2:04pm Sep 6, 2008 2:04pm
Here is an EA I developed for this sort of breakout system. You can mark your range to the minute. There is one catch,

You need to use the HH:MM format for RangeStart and RangeEnd, otherwise the EA will malfunction.

The EA is hard coded to use the 1M timeframe for obvious reasons, otherwise it's just another one of my EAs.
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File Type: mq4 Generic Breakout.mq4   12 KB | 1,443 downloads
  • #333
  • Edited 4:31pm Sep 6, 2008 2:15pm | Edited 4:31pm
Quoting jwpdad
Thanks for the offer to get us a customized EA for this strategy. I would like to see an option that would allow you to trade lot size as a percentage of account balance according to the pips being risked (size of the box). For example, if the range is 30 pips, and I want it to risk 2% on the trade, I would want to be able to have a long pending order placed 5 pips above the high, the stop loss 40 pips away (box allowing cushion both ways, SL 1 pip below box), and the lot size to be such that if the trade loses 40 pips it would be equal to 2% of the account balance. This option could be enabled or disabled according to user preference, and the amount of cushion and SL could be user defined. Hope that makes sense, may not be essential to everyone but I think it would be very helpful.

In addition to an OCO (one cancels the other) option for the pending orders, I would like to see an option where the second order only gets cancelled if the first trade is a winning trade.

Also, as has been mentioned, an option to set a time to close the trade would be ideal.

Thanks again for your offer to help with this!
No problem. It benefits me to do this to, and your suggestions are part of that. I have already spoken to a couple of coders and it looks very do-able.

If anyone has any suggestions could they PM me rather than leaving them here where I might miss/forget them. Again, let me know if the suggestion is 100% necassary (IE Setting the SL to the low/high point), or luxury, such as the suggestion above. Not that luxury won't get done, but I need an order of priorities.
  • #334
  • Sep 6, 2008 4:04pm Sep 6, 2008 4:04pm
Quoting Thierry89
Bonjour

Firstly I use 1H chart instead 15mn

I do not trade today but the potential results in european session was good except USD/CAD

SELL EUR/USD: +65
BUY GBP/USD: +30
SELL USD/YEN: +100
BUY USD/CHF: +35
SELL AUD/USD: +140
SELL EUR/YEN: +150
SELL USD/CAD: -40

Good luck :-)
Hi Thierry, A few questions if I may:-

1.Are you entering on the direction of the trend only?... as others have suggested here?
2.How long you've been trading this strategy on the European/London open?
3. I've backtested CTGuys NY open going back 3 months for excellent results but I'm wondering if that will change now that we are out of the summer session and higher volumes will return.

CT....how has your experience been with that i.e. pre-summer volumes?

Thanks guys.
  • #335
  • Sep 6, 2008 4:38pm Sep 6, 2008 4:38pm
this is cool
  • #336
  • Sep 6, 2008 4:56pm Sep 6, 2008 4:56pm
Quoting KudzuFX
this is cool
Welcome Kudzu.
  • #337
  • Edited 7:31pm Sep 6, 2008 6:55pm | Edited 7:31pm
Quoting bmwboyee
I have an EA for this. I paid to have it made. I can adjust the time in which it starts to draw the box and the time it ends to draw the box, i can adjust the t/p, i can adjust the trailing stop, i can adjust if it enters with a break of the line or if the candle closes above the line, i can adjust if it trades in the opposite direction, i can adjust what time frame i put it on, i can adjust how many lots i want to play, i can adjust if you just want it to enter one trade and not trade the opposite way. So it can be done.
By the way. I am 100% serious about putting together a small team of coders to automate this strategy. If you have the source for this EA and would be willing to post it along with a list of any and all improvements additions and changes you would like to see that would be great.

I already have the people. The plan is to work with the EA that was posted earlier in the thread, but if yours is better (and it sounds like it is since it was built around this strategy). Posting yours will speed this process up.

Understood if you don't want to of course. Since you paid for it that would be totally understandable.
  • #338
  • Sep 6, 2008 8:03pm Sep 6, 2008 8:03pm
So far, this system is performing very well on more than a few pairs. Not sure if anyone has ever done a manual or other back tests of any length, but seems that from a couple of posts I've seen, the system is good at least for a few months of manual back tests. The prospect of an EA is exciting, even though this is easy to trade manually. Would be nice to have an OCO that would be done by the EA if you couldn't be around. Thanks again to the originator of the system and DMZ for introducing it.
Quoting learnerdavid
By the way. I am 100% serious about putting together a small team of coders to automate this strategy. If you have the source for this EA and would be willing to post it along with a list of any and all improvements additions and changes you would like to see that would be great.

I already have the people. The plan is to work with the EA that was posted earlier in the thread, but if yours is better (and it sounds like it is since it was built around this strategy). Posting yours will speed this process up.

Understood if you don't want to of course. Since you paid for it that would be totally understandable.
  • #339
  • Sep 6, 2008 9:33pm Sep 6, 2008 9:33pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
Here is an EA I developed for this sort of breakout system. You can mark your range to the minute. There is one catch,

You need to use the HH:MM format for RangeStart and RangeEnd, otherwise the EA will malfunction.

The EA is hard coded to use the 1M timeframe for obvious reasons, otherwise it's just another one of my EAs.
Hi Ronald - EA looks great (as does all your work). Everything is pretty self explanatory. I would like just a couple of confirmations if you would be so kind...

If I understand correctly, the EA will only work on charts set to the one minute time frame. The range times would then have to be:

START RANGE 11:00
END RANGE 13:15

Breakout buffer would be the number of pips above the range high or below the range low before an order would be initiated.

thanks

T....
  • #340
  • Sep 6, 2008 9:59pm Sep 6, 2008 9:59pm
Quoting tsquad
Hi Ronald - EA looks great (as does all your work). Everything is pretty self explanatory. I would like just a couple of confirmations if you would be so kind...

If I understand correctly, the EA will only work on charts set to the one minute time frame. The range times would then have to be:

START RANGE 11:00
END RANGE 13:15

Breakout buffer would be the number of pips above the range high or below the range low before an order would be initiated.

thanks

T....
Almost, the timeframe shouldn't matter. The EA will automatically follows the 1 minute bar. The only reason why timeframe would be important is for the EachTickMode function.

If EachTickMode is set to true, then the EA will take a signal whenever it sees one.
If EachTickMode is set to false, then the EA will take a signal ONLY at the end of a bar. (The timeframe the EA was placed on)
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