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  • #941
  • Jul 16, 2009 2:40am Jul 16, 2009 2:40am
Good morning,

Funny, I have noticed on 5 min that Trix MTF 15 minutes gives sometimes better signals than Trix 5 min. Just one or two 5-minutes candles faster.

J.

Due to last losses on real account im gonna back to demo account, just to polish the c4 strategy as much as I can. IMHO demo accounts are worth almost nothing and it's much, much better to do some training on real account with micro lots.
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  • #942
  • Jul 16, 2009 2:40am Jul 16, 2009 2:40am
Quoting Cherokee
Anne,
Don't feel there is no interest in an EA. We have been following your development with special interest. We have been working on an EA for 18 months now and we have had all the experiences you are having, including inspiration during lunch, mowing lawn, waking up in the morning to an account that tanked, etc. An EA is heartless and stupid. It will catch the good moves and give it all back in a flat shallow ranging consolidation. Or it will make good pips to a peak in price and give it all back until it gets an exit signal. It begs the question...
Hi Bill

Many thanks for your interest and good wishes. My EA is just 1 day old so, given your development, I clearly have a ways to go. But I think it will be worth it in the end!

Anne
  • #943
  • Jul 16, 2009 2:42am Jul 16, 2009 2:42am
Quoting nipapip
Well Anne another dismal failure, only 278 net pips on your first EA attempt last night. Is my math wrong because I think a lot of folks
would be happy with those pips. As always Good Luck
Yeah... I guess when you put it in perspective like it, it wasn't too bad for a first attempt !!!

Anne
  • #944
  • Jul 16, 2009 2:48am Jul 16, 2009 2:48am
Quoting ianf0ster
Anne,
In that case take a look at the Digital Signals thread on the tsd forum. From my (unspecialied) reading of the remarks about Kalman, it doesn't work so good for Market noise. But they do have some good stuff over there.

Ian
Hi Ian

It depends entirely on how closely you control the bandwidth of the feedback loop. If the BW is too high, you are naturally going to contaminate the phase estimates with jitter noise.

I am reasonably confident here as I am on "home turf". KF is one of my specialities (obviously, given my job) so I am hoping I can make this work.

The real guru on this is Codebreaker. He and his team worked on this on the Optimised Trend Trading thread before leaving to start their fund.

Anne
  • #945
  • Jul 16, 2009 2:57am Jul 16, 2009 2:57am
Quoting f4mnect
anybody have the MQ4 version of MA_color_ventana. I would love to turn this into a histogram
No I don't, but its is just a LWMA with colour in a separate window.
So you can just code it from scratch almost as easy as converting it to a histogram.

Ian
  • #946
  • Jul 16, 2009 3:01am Jul 16, 2009 3:01am
Quoting TudorGirl
Hi Ian

It depends entirely on how closely you control the bandwidth of the feedback loop. If the BW is too high, you are naturally going to contaminate the phase estimates with jitter noise.

I am reasonably confident here as I am on "home turf". KF is one of my specialities (obviously, given my job) so I am hoping I can make this work.

The real guru on this is Codebreaker. He and his team worked on this on the Optimised Trend Trading thread before leaving to start their fund.

Anne
OK, I recall that thread - so he is Simon... yes(?). Well if he is actually helping then you really have top notch expertise. Just don't let him make you do all of the work!

Ian
  • #947
  • Jul 16, 2009 3:03am Jul 16, 2009 3:03am
thanks alot, swingman hooked me up, but not quite the signal i'm looking for ty everybody

Quoting ianf0ster
No I don't, but its is just a LWMA with colour in a separate window.
So you can just code it from scratch almost as easy as converting it to a histogram.

Ian
  • #948
  • Edited 10:07am Jul 16, 2009 3:16am | Edited 10:07am
Very useful folks....

Try it out...
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  • #949
  • Jul 16, 2009 3:17am Jul 16, 2009 3:17am
two sweet signals on EJ. i really like this pair. GU can just be so sketchy.
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  • #950
  • Jul 16, 2009 3:28am Jul 16, 2009 3:28am
...Unfortunately, its hard to guess the top of the peak...

Quoting lrathi
Some versions of TRIX indicator has inputs for
TRIX Period
SIGNAL Period

The smTRIX version have both these parameters It is coded to show as histogram only. This is important to see divergence of momentum which TRIX shows too

The smSuper TRIX v1 and smSuperTrix_MTF_v1 has the SIGNAL PERIOD INPUT not available.

I am not suggesting any signal 9EMA to the chart..... The references I gave was the different ways TRIX is used and various options. It is up to the trader what works for them.

HOWEVER, what caught my eye is the image shown of using...
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  • #951
  • Jul 16, 2009 3:33am Jul 16, 2009 3:33am
Here is an EU loser, I was waiting for the 15M Trix signal and got in too late and it cost me on this one. The good thing was the loser was followed by a nice long signal. Ended up only at a -2.
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  • #952
  • Jul 16, 2009 3:37am Jul 16, 2009 3:37am
Quoting ozziedave
Here is an EU loser, I was waiting for the 15M Trix signal and got in too late and it cost me on this one. The good thing was the loser was followed by a nice long signal. Ended up only at a -2.

Rigth, the same - I traded short a bit too late (3-4 pips too late). Lucky closed with zero. Well, timing is a key to profit

J.
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  • #953
  • Jul 16, 2009 3:40am Jul 16, 2009 3:40am
Hi Guys

its good to post here after long time, and congrats to EDGE and all the contributors here, its a high class thread and very very profitable if you stick to the rules.

My only modifications are to add a 200 ema and take trades in the direction of the 200 ema, never fails you, works out 90% of the time.

Profits are as EDGE maintains, aim for 10 pips and if aggressive let it run more

I usually take 2 positions, exit one with 10 pips and leave the other to run till the next pivot point

a pic tells a thousand words,

nisha
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  • #954
  • Jul 16, 2009 3:46am Jul 16, 2009 3:46am
Hi Everyone,

I've been lurking in the background, reading and watching with great interest. I cannot thank Edge enough for bringing this system to the FF or for all the time and effort he has put into this thread. You are a star!

Also to TG - some fantastic posts, full of useful information. Thank you. (PS Lovely place where you live - I'm originally from Yorkshire too and know Harrogate and Knaresborough well)

So today I took the plunge and did my first trade on the Gbp/Usd - entry was at 7.50am (BST) and it bagged +10 pips.

One thing I have noticed though is that when the SMTrix and MTF Trix (I have it set for 15 mins on my 5 min chart - see attached image.) aren't in correlation for a trade and the MTF Trix is delayed in giving a signal by one 5 min bar, then it is best not to trade. The attached image is for the Eur/Jpy and you can see that an early trade was signalled on the SMTrix, but the MTF Trix for the 15 min chart was delayed by one bar. By the time this caught up and we had a correlation on both Trix then the move was gone. However later on we had another signal on the SMTrix and this time the MTF Trix was still in sell mode - hence a good trade. Just a thought.

I've also noticed that on the 1 hour time frame a correlation of a higher TF Trix is not really needed in order to take profitable trades. I have been looking at this on the GBP/USD for taking +50 pips on each trade and I'm still working on the SL values (65 seems ok at the moment). Also looking into whether it is more profitable to remove half the position at +50 and move the stop on the remaining half to break-even then let it run until price closes the other side of the WMA. This way it would catch big moves - like yesterday on the Eur/Usd and Gbp/Usd. I'll let you know how this goes.
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  • #955
  • Edited 4:04am Jul 16, 2009 4:00am | Edited 4:04am
Well, I made a test today since Asia open and only took +5.
Opened 2 Lots and moved SL to BE after +5 for the second with TP next Pivot.
With help of a tradeManager.
That nearly never fails...

Less is more... absolutely!

P.S. Sorry, I forgot to mark the entries, but it's obvious, no?
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  • #956
  • Jul 16, 2009 4:05am Jul 16, 2009 4:05am
Quoting nisha4x
Hi Guys


My only modifications are to add a 200 ema and take trades in the direction of the 200 ema, never fails you, works out 90% of the time.


nisha
Nisha,

EMA 200 is flat = no trade ? Sell or buy only if EMA 200 is going up or down ?

J.
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  • #957
  • Jul 16, 2009 4:39am Jul 16, 2009 4:39am
no trades yet on the Euro
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  • #958
  • Jul 16, 2009 4:45am Jul 16, 2009 4:45am
Quoting 137
no trades yet on the Euro
I thought we were currently outside the trading times that Edge specified in post 1?

There was one buy trade earlier at 8.25am on the Euro but that's been all for the morning session.
  • #959
  • Jul 16, 2009 4:48am Jul 16, 2009 4:48am
when 200 ema is flat, it means no trade zone, wait for a breakout and confirm this break with trix and take the ride

example, is the chart, see how the ema was flat till about 6:30 am GMT and then the downtrend.

Quoting chojnak
Nisha,

EMA 200 is flat = no trade ? Sell or buy only if EMA 200 is going up or down ?

J.
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  • #960
  • Jul 16, 2009 5:10am Jul 16, 2009 5:10am
Quoting JillyB
I thought we were currently outside the trading times that Edge specified in post 1?

There was one buy trade earlier at 8.25am on the Euro but that's been all for the morning session.
oh i was just saying that i haven't seen any signals according to my perspective.

personally i think that it's possible to trade from 2 hours before London open to about 4-5 hours into the New York session as long as you're taking high quality signals. The UK's got bank! It usually goes somewhere...
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