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  • #1,421
  • May 14, 2009 2:54am May 14, 2009 2:54am
Quoting puntalara
I have reset all my pairs again this morning (after horrid losses) and i am getting a message on a few pairs saying enterposition in the top left hand corner - what does this mean please??

punta
Hi Puntalara,

Not sure what it means. I have also come across another in top left corner which says "marketanalysis" - do not know what it means either - the Ea still enters trades, no problem. Later it changes back to "==trades enabled== safe to trade=="

Comments anyone?

Andy
  • #1,422
  • May 14, 2009 4:42am May 14, 2009 4:42am
Well guys, i decided to close down metatrader and reopen, as i had the enterposition on all my 10 pairs, and it was not opening any trades - when i reopened MT4 EVERY trade had been closed - VERY glad i am in demo.

Not sure why it did this worrying though.

Punta
  • #1,423
  • May 14, 2009 7:22am May 14, 2009 7:22am
Hi
Thank you for your system. It is a brilliant idea to use the EA. Infact I started it from 11 May and now accumulate about 400 pips. However I found that sometimes EA does not open any trade even the direction is correct. Any advice. Is it possible to use a chart to show the behaviour of 1.4? I am really confused with the function and trend line. Thank you

Happy Trading
  • #1,424
  • May 14, 2009 12:07pm May 14, 2009 12:07pm
Quoting footy
Hi
Thank you for your system. It is a brilliant idea to use the EA. Infact I started it from 11 May and now accumulate about 400 pips. However I found that sometimes EA does not open any trade even the direction is correct. Any advice. Is it possible to use a chart to show the behaviour of 1.4? I am really confused with the function and trend line. Thank you

Happy Trading
I would check the safe level I usually move it up to like 5000 that way it is not taken into account. Only seems to keep me from trading the trend lol ;P

Hope this helped. ( I think the external Variable is called something like "SafePip" ? ) Not for sure off hand.
  • #1,425
  • May 14, 2009 12:44pm May 14, 2009 12:44pm
Hello all! I started to test this EA but i have a small problem. On my demo account it opens many orders, but on my live account it only opens 1 order per pair even if my MaxOrders is set to 5. Lot size is 0.10 and i got the money for more orders. Do you know why? Thank you?
  • #1,426
  • May 14, 2009 1:10pm May 14, 2009 1:10pm
Is there really a Pinocio Nose Indicator that draws that reversal pattern? If so, where can I find it?

Thanks
Jim (MrChips)
  • #1,427
  • May 14, 2009 6:30pm May 14, 2009 6:30pm
I was going over the Firebird code (with actionpl's latest code) trying to understand it and I have a few questions.

One, is there any reason to have BOTH the "OpeningHour" and "ClosingHour" along with the four "TradeFrom" and "TradeUntil"? They appear to both do the same thing with the exception you have a little more room & choices with the "TradeFrom" and "TradeUntil" setup.

Two, if I'm reading the code correct, if you're trade goes south and you start getting "excessive loss" alerts, the way the code is written after alerting you to the "excessive loss" it won't do anything else and just let it go on.

Wouldn't the better thing be when you get an "excessive loss" it should either close the open trades and not trade until you take care of the problem, or not trade but continue to manage the open trades for trend reversals etc.
"I don't want to take over the world, just my own little part of it."
  • #1,428
  • May 14, 2009 7:29pm May 14, 2009 7:29pm
Quoting Divyendu
Is there a special version of the EA for the Yen USD cross, or are there special settings to use?

Grateful for answer

Divyendu
You need to adjust the safearea to a higher level and the divergence limit.
My setup is:
SafeArea=10,000 basicaly disable it
DivergenceLimit=0.05

If you look at left top screen you will see message "divergence too low" that mean your setup is too low for the given pair. you need to find the right setup. If you put it too high, you will disable those filter and get in market that are moving too fast. It could be big winner but also traders trap. Same type of message for SafeArea.

Bye
  • #1,429
  • May 14, 2009 7:43pm May 14, 2009 7:43pm
Quoting puntalara
I have reset all my pairs again this morning (after horrid losses) and i am getting a message on a few pairs saying enterposition in the top left hand corner - what does this mean please??

punta
Hi ountalara, If this comment appear and stay there for more than 10 min and you can see price changing and you have communication, it meant that your metatrader pgm is broken. Unload the program and start it again. Normally you should not see this message for more than a split second.

If you see message marketAnalysis, it is that you are in a waiting time since you had a close in the last 10 min. The EA will not trade for 10 min after a close. That is a feature from the initial FireBird.

Bye

ActionPl.
  • #1,430
  • May 14, 2009 7:55pm May 14, 2009 7:55pm
Quoting footy
Hi
Thank you for your system. It is a brilliant idea to use the EA. Infact I started it from 11 May and now accumulate about 400 pips. However I found that sometimes EA does not open any trade even the direction is correct. Any advice. Is it possible to use a chart to show the behaviour of 1.4? I am really confused with the function and trend line. Thank you

Happy Trading
FireBird will open a trade when
1- If no trade is open, it will open a trade as soon the price go in the window define by your variable "malengh" and "Matimeframe" and Percent. Also you need to pass the filter condition for SaveArea, and Divergence then you need to have the Relative Vigor index going your way between the current bar and previous bar.
2- it will open trade also if all the previous condition are met and that the price when agains your position by more than "pipstep" if you already have a trade open.

This is quite complex but, in general, it will open trade when market retrace and that the volatility is not too high and you are on the safe side of the trendline and inside the timeperiod that you have setup.

If you want to know exactly how it work, you need to look at the code and understand it.

Bye
  • #1,431
  • May 14, 2009 8:12pm May 14, 2009 8:12pm
Quoting pulainmata
Hello all! I started to test this EA but i have a small problem. On my demo account it opens many orders, but on my live account it only opens 1 order per pair even if my MaxOrders is set to 5. Lot size is 0.10 and i got the money for more orders. Do you know why? Thank you?

I've never test it live. So i have look at the code and could you try the following and let me know.
Set your last variable "writelog" to 1.

This will produce a file which will follow your equity variation. If from tic to tic, your equity reduce by more than this operation: "Pipsloss * lots" it will stop openning new trade and you will have message "excessive loss". It will not close the open trades. So you need to monitor your account.

Bye
Actionpl
  • #1,432
  • May 14, 2009 8:25pm May 14, 2009 8:25pm
Quoting ByerRA
I was going over the Firebird code...
is there any reason to have BOTH the "OpeningHour" and "ClosingHour" along with the four "TradeFrom" and "TradeUntil"? They appear to both do the same thing with the exception you have a little more room & choices with the "TradeFrom" and "TradeUntil" setup. Your right. I did not change this section of the code. It is redundant. The only advantage is what you have mentionned. If you want to trade around news, you can do it with those variables.

Two, if I'm reading the code correct, if you're trade goes south and you start getting "excessive loss" alerts, the way the code is written after alerting you to the "excessive loss" it won't do anything else and just let it go on. It will stop openning new positions until your equity comeback to an acceptable level. That the initial way it has been program.

Wouldn't the better thing be when you get an "excessive loss" it should either close the open trades and not trade until you take care of the problem, or not trade but continue to manage the open trades for trend reversals etc. The way it is ritht now, it will do that only on live account and will not do anything else until price come back so your equity is back to normal. I agree with you that it seem to be dangerous. I'm open to suggestion from those who are trading live for some time. We could imrove this function after we got a concensus or implement some choice so people can select a strategy or disable it. For now it is not very flexible.

Waiting for input from live traders.

Bye


Actionpl
  • #1,433
  • May 14, 2009 8:28pm May 14, 2009 8:28pm
Need info on features in the EA. onFXDD digit broker.DivergenceLimit SafeArea
DivergenceLimit
ReduceFactor, PipStep ,, TakeProfit , SL = , TSFlag,, TrailingStop ,, TStrigger,, SafeArea ,, PipsGoal ,, PipsLoss ,
  • #1,434
  • May 15, 2009 1:02am May 15, 2009 1:02am
Hi Samurai & Actionpl
first of all congratulations, this is the first EA I found usefull becouse is SEMIAUTOMATIC...and you guys did wonderful job...
Sorry silly q:
Where do I find info about how to instal the trend function?
Is it in the EA? How to attache it to the daily chart?
Thank you.
  • #1,435
  • May 15, 2009 3:38am May 15, 2009 3:38am
This for me is just not working - I have "UpTrend_Close_Alert_" some times it closes and then some times it does not and just keeps opening trades even when the trendline has been hit and shows "UpTrend_Close_

HELP Please - Have i got this set up right????
  • #1,436
  • May 15, 2009 4:00am May 15, 2009 4:00am
Quoting Actionpl
Hi ountalara, If this comment appear and stay there for more than 10 min and you can see price changing and you have communication, it meant that your metatrader pgm is broken. Unload the program and start it again. Normally you should not see this message for more than a split second.

If you see message marketAnalysis, it is that you are in a waiting time since you had a close in the last 10 min. The EA will not trade for 10 min after a close. That is a feature from the initial FireBird.

Bye...
Thanks for the info...........
Andy
  • #1,437
  • May 15, 2009 9:57am May 15, 2009 9:57am
Quoting puntalara
This for me is just not working - I have "UpTrend_Close_Alert_" some times it closes and then some times it does not and just keeps opening trades even when the trendline has been hit and shows "UpTrend_Close_



HELP Please - Have i got this set up right????


It seemed to work for me. Make sure you have that in the description and not the name. I had my Reduce Factor set to 50 when it seemed to work for me and that may have just been the reduce factor closing the Trade for me. I will try it again with reduce factor off to see if I have the same problem. Actionpl if you need farm out some of the coding work I will be more than glad to help. I am very busy too so I understand and thanks for the awesome work
  • #1,438
  • May 15, 2009 11:20am May 15, 2009 11:20am
Can someone please list the different phrases that can go in the description section of a trendline and what they do. Ex. downtrend_close. Thanks
  • #1,439
  • May 15, 2009 11:58am May 15, 2009 11:58am
Actionpl thank you for your answer!

I have 3 trades open with -60$ total. Is there any problem if they don't close before the weekend? Thank you.
  • #1,440
  • Edited 12:08pm May 15, 2009 12:05pm | Edited 12:08pm
I just put the HA EA vs1_3b on the eur/us. I added an ascending trendline below the prices on the daily chart and put uptrend_close_alert in the description. The EA opened a trade immediately even though the price is above the trendline. Shouldnt the EA wait to open a trade until the price drops below the TL? What did I do wrong?
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