Share your Worse Performing (EA's) & Performance Test Results

Nice to have you stop by. A question for you:

What if they did?
Have you tried to see what the possibilities are?

Just try and then when it cannot be made to work then... we can take it from there.

Please make a contribution, who knows? You may very well be a part of the solution, but it is a free-will endeavor so you and only you decide whether you help or otherwise.

But it has been said that some will plant and some will reap. In a perfect world those who reaped would be part of the planting... Still we pray.

Thanks again for the input.

Bless!

Yes ForexSait, Thank you; that would be nice if you could optimize the EA an choose the settings whch produced forwad tests leading to Profit Factor and Win/loss ratios of as close to 0.3 as possible. If we found settings less han 30% it would be even better.

The Time frame would be 1 minuteorh the next workable one to that. Whichever one can produce the sired parameterr levels.

I am unable to optimize it (th one you shared). If you do a run on the nintial one I shared you'll see how easily that one optimizes.

Again I thank you for the inputs, and if you indicated which parameters to vary during the strategy test, maybe I could help too as that would provide clse to the person-hours.

Bless!

I would suggest to stay away from a high frequency EA as the spread could be the main reason it fails, or at least a part of it...

Hello Scientist

welcome and we hope you will stay and lend you skills & knowledge to the development of this endeavour.

Could you please explain what is meant by 'high frequency' EA? Are those ones which trade every bar of very often?

What are your thoughts on reverse signaling and how do you think this would be negatively/Positively affeted by high frequency?

Could you contribute one of your EA's that have ceased being profitable, so we could get to work at getting worse settings for them (acording to the foregoing) and see how they perform under reverse signalling.

In the event you did not subsribe to the thread, I take the liberty through a PM. As a member of the FF family your input is most sppreciated.

Bless!

Load the following setting on backesting with EU pair, 30min, last 1mth
it will show similar values you require!

Hello ForexSaint,
I will have a look and share the progress.

Bless!

I must be missing something. Even with the settings suggested:

Well have you bought that trade copy? or downlaoded from somwhere?
Care to share that?


# change the MAx order settings to 25 and TF to 30min.
# backtest with last 1mth data ...08-08-2009 to 08-09-2009

I still have no results from theLevel_trading_123 EA.mq4.

ForexSaint, would you be so kind as to run it again and when you arive at the desired settings at ~ 30%, right click and do a 'save as' on the " Optimization Report" window, which will result in a '.htm' file.

If you have PDF you can print in that form upload here or simply paste copy all from the '.htm' document, paste to a standard word document, adjust margins and picture size as required for readability.

Infact the frgoing sugestion will provide a world of details for all who pass bay and would indeed be invaluable to the cause. I am available if needed with replicating your results here as per above suggestion.

In the interim I will continue trying, but so far I have not been sicessfeul.. With your posting as sugested I will also readily see the setings that MT4 is actually changing.

Also if you have another EA that is more easily optimized, that may help as well. By way of comparison, have you tried to optimze the one I uploaded?, try it and post what you come up with you may even be able to get closer to the desired 30% for Profitfactor & #Wins/#Losses (simultaneously).

For certain it is a lot easier to optimize. Why not try it (mine) and see if you agree


Bless.

It is difficult going alone, what if you find our Goal at the top of your mountan and when you look around you are the only one there, for as far as sound can travel?

The attached is a smaple, EA is clearly visible. It is hoped that with the information here supplied others will be similarly motivated to realize their vision of dreams.

If you doubt that there are possiblitlities to here, please give it a try and feel free to speak your mid, the gravity of the acts will take the chips where they belong.

It would be even nicer to have a wider population of suitable EA's from which to choose, but I understand how being siezed of a distant vision, can be dificult. The real answer is though, how far are we from the answers we seek. Some already know and speak, not. That leaves the vast majority to lend a hand or other wises. I will share as oft as I can. Will you reciprocate?

I do hope so.

Just apassing thought, for those of use who are incapable of programming or are without the means to bank roll expert advisors that win 80-90% of the time, there is a larger poulation of EA, some for free, that will perform as well only 20-20% of the time. With a lot of Sweat and tears, we can get some of the latter to do so naturally, heck that is the nature of the vast majority of freely/cheaply available EA's.

So if you can enhance this natural tendency, with a lot less need for cash and just a little less mental fatigue, the scales can be balanced. A lot more wins are on the otherside that is let on.

Bless

pathumracled

Good to see I am not the only one that thought of this, lol. I just thought of this about 3 weeks ago thinking that if I could just find a robot that lost 90% of the time I'd be golden if I just choose the opposite side of the robots trade suggestions. All I'd have to do is put it on unlimited demo account and use it as a "signaling" software and I'd make bank in no time!!!

By watching the market in the past 50 days or so I've noticed sporadic movements in the prices ... moving in BOTH directions at breakneck speeds commonly referred to as "noise." With that in mind, as long as we can see that the majority of the losses are NOT because of hitting a close stop loss then we can be more comfortable with out decision to trade this "super reverse bot" on a LIVE account with REAL money ... ummm after testing on a forward test of course

I look forward to future posts in this thread about this shared idea and I hope to contribute as best I can. As of now I do not have an EA that has any track record let alone a bad record, lol. I am also not a programmer. I am simply another man with ideas and hopes about such an EA.

Thank you everybody!

an interesting idea.
However i think reversing the orders for a losing EA to make it a winning one only works when the tp:sl ratio is 1:1.

You'll probably struggle to find an EA that genuinely loses more than the spread, they're probably more rare than profitable EA's, and are equally as difficult to design.

Most EA's are basically taking entries and exits that are no better than random, and the opposite of random is of course, still random.

Hello lmyyyks
if you are serious about the idea the read around there are some posts that can give you a good start. 1:1 does not cater for Slip and spread which are key factors. Your TP has to leave you with a profit after spread and Slippage, even in the most volatile of times. But, I tell you this… If you are willing to get yourself up to speed on the technique you can realize what most have missed

What I have also found is you have to be prepared to do the work and work at it. Very rarely will there be any results till you roll your sleeves up and get greasy & Grimy. Most are convinced it is non-sense BUT is it?

Bless!

My best result on dukas contest...
http://www.dukascopy.com/strategycon...item-178188759