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  • #21
  • Aug 20, 2008 8:47pm Aug 20, 2008 8:47pm
I just tried that PDF and it works on my PC. Maybe it's a corruption of your Acrobat? Try installing the latest version of Acrobat from Adobe.com
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  • #22
  • Sep 5, 2008 2:10am Sep 5, 2008 2:10am
It's very useful,thanks a lot!
  • #23
  • Sep 11, 2008 8:51am Sep 11, 2008 8:51am
hi

is there any chance that i could load my ea and then just let the simulator run and ea would take trades?

it would be a really great way to test different ea's
  • #24
  • Oct 3, 2008 7:10am Oct 3, 2008 7:10am
Hi Quantum,

I do not know if I have to be jealous or just thankful for clever people like yourself. I installed your simulator and I am amazed at how easy and well it works.

Thank you very much, it is going to enhance my trading training to a great extend.

Regards
  • #25
  • Nov 15, 2008 1:45am Nov 15, 2008 1:45am
Quoting boerseun
Hi Quantum,

I do not know if I have to be jealous or just thankful for clever people like yourself. I installed your simulator and I am amazed at how easy and well it works.

Thank you very much, it is going to enhance my trading training to a great extend.

Regards
Yes, a nice one!

Forex37
  • #26
  • Dec 6, 2008 12:12am Dec 6, 2008 12:12am
I Love this tester its awsome!!!
  • #27
  • Dec 6, 2008 9:34am Dec 6, 2008 9:34am
I also like this simulator much better than vhands!

My only suggestion would be with the buy/sell scripts.... let there be some way we can pre-define other stop/take profit amounts (so that we don't have to do it every time we open a trade) and the option to disable stops and take profits altogether. And maybe a trailing stop option.

And then a way for the script to run (once we have the parameters set the way we want) without the confirmation box.

That way we could leave the simulator moving along without having to pause it, and just click the script to open/close an order, and it would be more like real-time. I use similar buy/sell scripts for real trading and they are set up the way I want them, and so are very fast to execute in real trading (and no confirmation boxes, just click and the order open/closes the way you want).

However, even the way it is, is MUCH better than vhands
  • #28
  • Dec 7, 2008 5:11pm Dec 7, 2008 5:11pm
Quantem,

Great job on this simulator! This is what the strategy tester has been missing. Outstanding!!

I agree with celticheart. The Buy & Sell Open Scripts need a Trailing Stop feature and the ability to preset (.mq4 script files would do the trick) parameters. This would then be about as close to "live' as one could get.

Just wanted to say thanks for sharing!
  • #29
  • Dec 13, 2008 4:45pm Dec 13, 2008 4:45pm
Wow!
Thanks Quantem.....this is great. Well, on second thought, maybe not. I can definately see a problem with my wife and trading & simulating 7 days a week http://www.forexfactory.com/images/icons/icon10.gif.
Ya only get out of it what you put into it!
  • #30
  • Dec 14, 2008 11:24am Dec 14, 2008 11:24am
celticheart,

Could you possibly post your buy/sell scripts w/ preset feature, no confirmation boxes and trailing stop option or direct me to their download location?

I'm currently using scripts that only provide preset SL/TP & lots.

Thanks in advance!
  • #31
  • Dec 14, 2008 12:12pm Dec 14, 2008 12:12pm
Quoting Big E!
celticheart,

Could you possibly post your buy/sell scripts w/ preset feature, no confirmation boxes and trailing stop option or direct me to their download location?

I'm currently using scripts that only provide preset SL/TP & lots.

Thanks in advance!
I haven't yet found a script with trailing stop, but i do prefer the buy/sell scripts with no confirmation box. My favorite buy/sell scripts are the pipsing ones... copy the buy, sell and setup scripts to the scripts folder, and then you just click on the setup one to set your options. You can't actually disable sl/tp, but you can set the values very high if you don't want to use them.

Attaching a few others you can try out, too, including one that sets the stop loss to break even, which I like to do after profit has reached a certain point. The pipsing and set_zero stop scripts are very nice, when your chart is active, you just double-click them and they do their job I haven't really tried out the other two buy/sell scripts, but figured I'd incude them so you could see what you like better.
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Buy with SL and TP without conf.mq4   2 KB | 2,183 downloads
File Type: mq4 Sell with SL and TP without conf.mq4   2 KB | 2,051 downloads
File Type: mq4 PipsingV1_BUY.mq4   11 KB | 1,935 downloads
File Type: mq4 PipsingV1_SELL.mq4   12 KB | 1,961 downloads
File Type: mq4 PipsingV1_Setup.mq4   3 KB | 1,907 downloads
File Type: mq4 Set Zero SL.mq4   2 KB | 1,928 downloads
  • #32
  • Dec 14, 2008 4:03pm Dec 14, 2008 4:03pm
celticheart,

Thank you so much for the scripts!

I believe the first 2 are the "no confirm box" version of what I have been using. Parameter preferences are set via the editor.

Perhaps one of the coders out there would be so kind as to add a Trailing Stop function to the first two in your list. It appears the Pipsing Buy/Sell scripts are written in another language (Russian?) and it may be easier to code the first two as a result.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated!
  • #33
  • Dec 17, 2008 7:45pm Dec 17, 2008 7:45pm
Hello and thanks for this great software:

I was curious to know how I can get this software to load data further back that the 8th of this month. I have tried and that is as far back as I can get it to go.

I am trying to load the 5 min chart

Under tool, options and the charts tab I have under "Max bars in History" 250,000 and

65000 max bars in chart.

When I try to load anything farther than the 8th it says "Waiting for Update" and then never loads...

Any ideas...?

I tried to look through the thread but did not see a questions/response.

Thanks,


ADD I just saw a post about the history...so I selected Eur/Usd and clicked download...maybe that will help...

I'll keep you updated !!
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  • #34
  • Jan 8, 2009 3:33pm Jan 8, 2009 3:33pm
Hello,

I must say that You've made very powerfull utility to test strategies almost live.

I'm currently using this.

Quantem is there posibility to add more than 2 your stop orders to the chart?

If no - is there possibility for You or someone experienced to modify your scripts attached in this post so thas they could work like OCO fe.

I set 2 stop buy orders (at the same level but different tp and sl) and 2 stop sell orders at the same time. When buy orders get triggered they cancel both sell orders and vice versa.

Secong thing is if there is possibility to add trailing stop function to those scripts?
Attached File(s)
File Type: ex4 LFH_Simulator_Limit_Stop_Buy.ex4   2 KB | 1,335 downloads
File Type: ex4 LFH_Simulator_Limit_Stop_Sell.ex4   2 KB | 1,262 downloads
  • #35
  • Mar 7, 2009 8:17pm Mar 7, 2009 8:17pm
Hi.
This is a good simulator. Thank you for posting it. Is it possible to open more than one order at a time. If I have a sell open it doesn't seem possible to open a buy.

Thanks again,
Art.
  • #36
  • Apr 3, 2009 4:35pm Apr 3, 2009 4:35pm
This is the way to go for Multi-terminal MT4 fund managers like me who must test different strategies to apply across all the managed accounts. Thanx so much for this great tool, Quantem
From the tips to the dips, it's all about the pips
  • #37
  • May 30, 2009 2:25am May 30, 2009 2:25am
Hi there,

Can someone tell me how I can test EAs with this simulator? Thanks.
  • #38
  • Sep 20, 2009 1:27pm Sep 20, 2009 1:27pm
I too have had the problem of the data not going past 10 days does anyone know how to correct this?
  • #39
  • Sep 22, 2009 11:32am Sep 22, 2009 11:32am
thanks for sharing!
  • #40
  • Sep 27, 2009 1:10am Sep 27, 2009 1:10am
Another option, is to install another mt4 program on your computer, load up both mt4 software, have each one run a different time frame. and just toggle inbetween using the ALT+TAB key. MT4 is not a cpu hog, so having 4 different ones running at once shouldn't be a problem. I use Alpari UK broker, so it was easy to setup different accounts under the name email address.

Quoting Quantem
Yes and No.
Because of the limitations of only loading one chart at a time in strategy tester, you have to use a workaround.

There are a couple of options to this:

1. Just have the other timeframes open on a normal chart. So you can't see the bars coming (to keep it real), you can press F12, which exposes 1 bar at a time on your normal charts. Now you will have to be careful not to expose bars that give the direction away. This will work if you load the higher timeframes on standard charts.

To show the simulator chart, and the other...
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