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Pavel
AshFX system, V2: Steve Hopwood's trading robot
- #162
- Jun 16, 2009 12:39pm Jun 16, 2009 12:39pm
I put the robot onto 1 minute charts this morning and settled down to find the problem.
It was not too long before I realised I had not added code to make the MaxSpread input 5 digit wally-plonker-pillock-dipstick broker compatible. I thought I had, but had not actually done so.
The reason the problem persisted is I my live IBFX mt4 platform is still giving me 4 digit quotes, so the robot was perfectly happy with that. I bet contributors here whose robot is still trading are with 4 digit brokers.
The bot is happily opening and closing...
Thanks for fixing the problem.
It's working now on my account, it opened a trade today on 4H GBPUSD - Buy @ 1.6408 but broke even.
- #164
- Jun 21, 2009 4:30am Jun 21, 2009 4:30am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Now I have persuaded the robot to trade again, here are my results for last week. I started 2 demos: one for 'naked' Ash - the strategy as Ash published; the second with all the filters turned on. Early days, but the results are interesting.
0.02 lots IBFX
Naked Ash -
deposit $200,
balance at close of markets on Friday $205.77
6 trades 4 winners biggest winner $5.17 biggest loser $3.43
Ash - full filters
deposit $200,
balance at close of markets on Friday $192.71
4 trades 1 winners biggest winner 4.96 biggest loser 4.47
There are trades still open on both demos. The upl for both is positive, although not enough to bring the second demo back into profit.
I would still not trust this live yet, as I am still do not know why I had the episode of rapid opening/closing a few weeks ago. I want this to run on demo for a good while yet.
That has just given me an idea. I shall add a 'no trade for x hours after one closes' input. Watch this space.
0.02 lots IBFX
Naked Ash -
deposit $200,
balance at close of markets on Friday $205.77
6 trades 4 winners biggest winner $5.17 biggest loser $3.43
Ash - full filters
deposit $200,
balance at close of markets on Friday $192.71
4 trades 1 winners biggest winner 4.96 biggest loser 4.47
There are trades still open on both demos. The upl for both is positive, although not enough to bring the second demo back into profit.
I would still not trust this live yet, as I am still do not know why I had the episode of rapid opening/closing a few weeks ago. I want this to run on demo for a good while yet.
That has just given me an idea. I shall add a 'no trade for x hours after one closes' input. Watch this space.
- #165
- Jun 22, 2009 6:29pm Jun 22, 2009 6:29pm
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
V2.3 is added to post 1 - see updates as usual.
I have copied the relevant code from another ea I coded, so everything should be ok. Please use this on demo for now just in case, and report any bugs here.
I have copied the relevant code from another ea I coded, so everything should be ok. Please use this on demo for now just in case, and report any bugs here.
- #167
- Jun 23, 2009 10:50am Jun 23, 2009 10:50am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
4H tf, as many charts as your equity can stand. I have it on the 4 majors, GJ, EJ and a couple of others.
- #168
- Jun 24, 2009 5:16am Jun 24, 2009 5:16am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
I never bothered about having the Stochastic Main line crossing the Signal line in the appropriate direction. I simply assumed this would be the case by the time everything else lines up.
It occurred to me that the signals for, say, a buy often line up but Stoch is overbought. By the time it falls out of the overbought area, the Main line is often below the Signal line; this could herald the start of a reverse.
I have added code to check that Stoch is correct according to Ash's 'rules'. V2.4 is in post 1.
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I went back to Ash's thread and reread the pdf document. I am interested in this bit:
Sell: When the first PSAR dot appears above the candle
My robot is not coded this way. Every 4 hours (or whatever tf is being used) the robot looks back at the close of the previous candle and starts looking for trades from there, if there has been a PSAR flip.
Should I alter the code? My 'naked' Ash demo is kicking butt, so there is a sense of it-aint-bust-so-don't-fix-it about all this. The fact is, though, that I appear to have misunderstood the original strategy slightly.
What do you guys think? Should I change the code?
It occurred to me that the signals for, say, a buy often line up but Stoch is overbought. By the time it falls out of the overbought area, the Main line is often below the Signal line; this could herald the start of a reverse.
I have added code to check that Stoch is correct according to Ash's 'rules'. V2.4 is in post 1.
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I went back to Ash's thread and reread the pdf document. I am interested in this bit:
Sell: When the first PSAR dot appears above the candle
My robot is not coded this way. Every 4 hours (or whatever tf is being used) the robot looks back at the close of the previous candle and starts looking for trades from there, if there has been a PSAR flip.
Should I alter the code? My 'naked' Ash demo is kicking butt, so there is a sense of it-aint-bust-so-don't-fix-it about all this. The fact is, though, that I appear to have misunderstood the original strategy slightly.
What do you guys think? Should I change the code?
- #169
- Jun 24, 2009 2:20pm Jun 24, 2009 2:20pm
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
I decided to see what happens if I strip out the code that makes the robot wait until the end of the candle before looking for trades. It now starts looking as soon as the PSAR flips.
If you want to keep the wait-until-candle-ends feature, then simply keep on using V2.4. V2.5 has the code stripped out.
If you want to keep the wait-until-candle-ends feature, then simply keep on using V2.4. V2.5 has the code stripped out.
Steve if I enter my birth date the same on all pairs will not the magic number be the same on all pairs? Don't you need each pair to have their own separate magic number. Please let me know if I am miss understanding this.
Gary
Gary
I decided to see what happens if I strip out the code that makes the robot wait until the end of the candle before looking for trades. It now starts looking as soon as the PSAR flips.
If you want to keep the wait-until-candle-ends feature, then simply keep on using V2.4. V2.5 has the code stripped out.
Gary
I decided to see what happens if I strip out the code that makes the robot wait until the end of the candle before looking for trades. It now starts looking as soon as the PSAR flips.
Pavel
Steve if I enter my birth date the same on all pairs will not the magic number be the same on all pairs? Don't you need each pair to have their own separate magic number. Please let me know if I am miss understanding this.
Gary
This is why birthday value exists...
Pavel
- #175
- Jun 27, 2009 8:53am Jun 27, 2009 8:53am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
V2.6 is in post 1. Details in the updates.
- #176
- Jun 27, 2009 9:48am Jun 27, 2009 9:48am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Steve....I've had versions 2.3 running on the G/J 4 hour chart, IBFX demo, since Sunday evening....no trades....not one. I have all the inputs set as per your instructions with PSAR and MacD set to True. Do you, or anyone else, have any ideas what's wrong? Just arrived back home after being outa town, so see that you have made a couple upgrades....so will change to V. 2.5 and see if that helps any.
Also, you have all the filters turned on, so these will filter out most possible trades.
All the extra filters seemed like a good idea a the time, but they have not stood the test of time. I have stripped them out of the latest version.
- #179
- Jun 27, 2009 4:40pm Jun 27, 2009 4:40pm
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Steve.....downloaded latest zip file from first page....it doesn't contain the latest version 2.6. Also the other zip file contains something called "KG Relative Strength Original and Range Trading EA Version 1.zip". What is this ea and why is it included in this thread? Thanks for your help and work!
