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  • #21
  • May 5, 2009 4:10pm May 5, 2009 4:10pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
I see the confusion. The bot trades Ash's V2 strategy. The bot itself if V1.

Mine hasn't traded either, but that is because I have the MACD higher filter turned on. This forces the bot to trade in the direction of the next higher tf trend and will cut trades dramatically.

What I am hoping is that the trades that are sent are much more accurate; we shall see.

The MACD and PSAR htf filters do not quite work properly; a bit of mis-coding means they miss the most distant of the candles out of the calculation. I will post a fix for this soon.

OK, and thanks for the explanation Steve.
Will await fix for MACD & PSAR.
Thanks again for all the good work and sharing!
PipBear
  • #22
  • May 5, 2009 4:28pm May 5, 2009 4:28pm
Quoting PipBear
OK, and thanks for the explanation Steve.
Will await fix for MACD & PSAR.
Thanks again for all the good work and sharing!
PipBear
All I had done was put the higher tf filter in the wrong place, although the effect is the same so far as users are concerned. Even with the fix, you won't notice any difference.

  • #23
  • May 5, 2009 5:25pm May 5, 2009 5:25pm
You are trying it with macd and I am trying it with PSAR only turned on. Lets see which is best.... No trades so far, but everyone is saying today and yesterday is not trending any direction, so no trades is correct.

Quoting SteveHopwood
I see the confusion. The bot trades Ash's V2 strategy. The bot itself if V1.

Mine hasn't traded either, but that is because I have the MACD higher filter turned on. This forces the bot to trade in the direction of the next higher tf trend and will cut trades dramatically.

What I am hoping is that the trades that are sent are much more accurate; we shall see.

The MACD and PSAR htf filters do not quite work properly; a bit of mis-coding means they miss the most distant of the candles out of the calculation. I will post a fix for this soon.

Gary
  • #24
  • May 5, 2009 5:29pm May 5, 2009 5:29pm
Quoting alpine4133
You are trying it with macd and I am trying it with PSAR only turned on. Lets see which is best.... No trades so far, but everyone is saying today and yesterday is not trending any direction, so no trades is correct.
Yep. Chart after chart has 'no trend' for the MACD daily.

  • #25
  • May 5, 2009 8:25pm May 5, 2009 8:25pm
I'm running it with MACD enabled as well.
  • #26
  • May 6, 2009 12:02am May 6, 2009 12:02am
What does the FFCAL EA do? is it required?

and steve how does the NEWS filter work? how does it know when there will be news?


Quoting SteveHopwood
Yep. Chart after chart has 'no trend' for the MACD daily.

Gary
  • #27
  • May 6, 2009 6:39am May 6, 2009 6:39am
I have been running a simple Psar on the hourly to enter only on a change to match the daily Psar No losses on entries

Put the same Ea on an hourly on a different computer and let it trade either way. 3 losses 1 winner

Psar shows you support and resistance and well as start and change of moves on price.
  • #28
  • May 6, 2009 7:03am May 6, 2009 7:03am
I'm running with PSAR filter, no trades as well.
FFCAL goes in the indicator spot doesn't it ?
How resource hungry is it?
We all see the same dream, just from different viewpoints
  • #29
  • May 6, 2009 7:33am May 6, 2009 7:33am
Quoting Blud4oilPrgm
I'm running it with MACD enabled as well.
The MACD filter still is not working properly.

Here is how it should work (PSAR as well):

 

  1. The robot detects that the chart PSAR has flipped, and prepares to set a Golbal Variable.
  2. It then consults the higher tf MACD. If this is favourable, the bot sets the GV; if not, it aborts the process.

This interdiction is not happening and GV's are being set even when MACD higher tf filter is unfavourable. Until I sort this out, we can still use the on-screen MACD display.

A Global Variable is a file saved within the platforms folders; it is accessible until deletion. This robot's GV's have names consisting of "AshFx", the pair symbol and "TradePending"; an potential EU trade will have the filename "AshFxEURUSDTradePending".

Each GV has the value of either 0 or 1:

 

  1. 0 means the bot is looking to go long.
  2. 1 means the bot is looking to goshort.

I check every four hours. When the value held in the GV contradicts the value of the higher tf filter, I delete it. Here is how:

 

  1. Press the F3 key to bring up the Global Variables window with the GV list.
  2. Study the value of each relevant GV (there will be others) and compare it with the higher tf filter. If they disagree, then click on the GV and click the Delete button to remove it.

  • #30
  • May 6, 2009 7:37am May 6, 2009 7:37am
Quoting alpine4133
What does the FFCAL EA do?
It is an indicator and should be in your indicator file.

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is it required?
If you want to use the news filter. You don't need it on the chart, but it must be in your indi folder.

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and steve how does the NEWS filter work? how does it know when there will be news?
It consults data obtained by FFCal, which in turn gathers this data by phoning home (i.e. FF) about once an hour. Then, depending on your settings the bot will either try to trade or will hang up its hat for a while.

  • #31
  • May 7, 2009 4:52pm May 7, 2009 4:52pm
V1.1 is in the zip attached to post 1. An explanation is in the edit section.

  • #32
  • May 7, 2009 5:18pm May 7, 2009 5:18pm
Since the psar indicator is one time frame higher, I have been trying this on 1 hr, with the psar indicater - looking at 2 bars. And all day got lots of positive response!

Quoting SteveHopwood
I have started this thread so that people can find the latest version of my AshFX V2 robot.

Newcomers, please go to http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=156889 to read about trading the system manually.

The new version has two higher time frame filters: MACD and PSAR. By default, they are both turned off, so you will have to decide which one you need. The settings should be obvious, but sing out if you do not understand.

Please feel free to suggest improvements.



Edits and version revisions:

7th May 2009:
V...
Gary
  • #33
  • May 9, 2009 4:01am May 9, 2009 4:01am
V1.2 in post 1. Explanation in the Edits section.

  • #34
  • May 10, 2009 5:52am May 10, 2009 5:52am
I think I have solved the htf filter problems. V1.3 and details in post 1.

  • #35
  • May 11, 2009 6:48am May 11, 2009 6:48am
I have spent the weekend working with the indicators AC and AO and how they interact with the Macd and the PSAR

If MACD is set to 5-34-5 it goes weel with the PSAR in the daily, or any chart that matter.

I have set PSAR to .05 and .4 and MACD with 5-34-5 , haven't tested it yet., Can't get the indicator in my charts yet. Not good at that yet.

See what you think.
  • #36
  • May 11, 2009 9:18am May 11, 2009 9:18am
With the help of Husband, got the indicator in the program files

I am going to test it on an 8h chart and maybe some other 1h charts.

Thanks, this looks great Ash.

Thanks very much.
  • #37
  • May 12, 2009 5:22pm May 12, 2009 5:22pm
Loaded the EA yesterday morning 9am EST which is about 13:00 GDT and haven't had a trade yet. Have anyone had any trades this week?

Also Steve, do have an updated template that you can share.
  • #38
  • May 12, 2009 8:38pm May 12, 2009 8:38pm
Hi I have the EA added to 1h charts all day and last night. No trades yet picked up by the ea. Should have though.
  • #39
  • May 12, 2009 9:41pm May 12, 2009 9:41pm
Quoting ClearTrade
Loaded the EA yesterday morning 9am EST which is about 13:00 GDT and haven't had a trade yet. Have anyone had any trades this week?

Also Steve, do have an updated template that you can share.
AshFx v 1.3 - 4h chart - Stoch true - Psar false
Today Eur/Jpy buy at 11.00 GMT at 133.354
Stop loss 132.120 at 15.00 GMT
  • #40
  • May 12, 2009 10:43pm May 12, 2009 10:43pm
Quoting casaleamelia
AshFx v 1.3 - 4h chart - Stoch true - Psar false
Today Eur/Jpy buy at 11.00 GMT at 133.354
Stop loss 132.120 at 15.00 GMT
I hope you're trading on DEMO. I'm setting everything (Stoch, MACD, and PSAR) to "true" and see how it goes.
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