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  • #121
  • Jan 4, 2010 9:53am Jan 4, 2010 9:53am
I came up with 8640 bars on the 5m chart for 30 days. Can somebody check this please.
  • #122
  • Jan 4, 2010 9:56am Jan 4, 2010 9:56am
I agree with your approach Ronald Raygun. There's that old-fashioned admonition to "diversify your portfolio" regarding stock portfolios. For system traders and automated traders, having a diversified portfolio of *systems* is essential. Market conditions change over time, sometimes trending, sometimes trading sideways. Having systems to make money under these varying conditions converts a trader from a "one trick pony" to a business.

The trick is knowing which systems to use and when. Your EA does this.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  • #123
  • Jan 4, 2010 10:36am Jan 4, 2010 10:36am
Quoting Ronald Raygun
I'm not sure if the lack of interest is due to the hangover, or because I didn't give everything on a silver platter. In an effort to partially eliminate the latter...

Consider this: Over a long enough time, the ratio between winning breakout trades and winning counter-trend trades is 1:1 (50%). When you shorten the period to something like 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, patterns start to emerge, as well as trends.

What I would do is have multiple instances of this EA running on my server. There would be a 1 month, 3 months, 6 month, etc. Each...
Curious with the 20 sl isn't that a little tight in case there is bad news or central banks like BOJ do their daily intervention?
Vince
  • #124
  • Jan 4, 2010 11:15am Jan 4, 2010 11:15am
Yeah, I'm currently trying to get a refund from the webhost. When I get back to school, I'll build my own server and host it on campus.
  • #125
  • Jan 4, 2010 11:26am Jan 4, 2010 11:26am
Quoting letizia
Curious with the 20 sl isn't that a little tight in case there is bad news or central banks like BOJ do their daily intervention?
Vince
Numbers are different of course, but SL and TP were the same.
  • #126
  • Jan 6, 2010 12:04pm Jan 6, 2010 12:04pm
I was wondering why a trade wasn't taken? I am only using one pair this week since I have an older computer. I would think a sell order would trigger? Using the ea without lines.
Thanks
Vince
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  • #127
  • Jan 6, 2010 1:05pm Jan 6, 2010 1:05pm
Quoting letizia
I was wondering why a trade wasn't taken? I am only using one pair this week since I have an older computer. I would think a sell order would trigger? Using the ea without lines.
Thanks
Vince
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Any attempts at a trade in the journal/expert tab? SL and TP might be too tight.
  • #128
  • Jan 6, 2010 1:09pm Jan 6, 2010 1:09pm
Nothing in both journal or expert tab. SL TP both at 20/20 with win% 70. Perhaps win% is too high and should lower it to 50%?
Thanks
Vince
  • #129
  • Jan 6, 2010 1:45pm Jan 6, 2010 1:45pm
What were the win requirements? EA said counter trade, so it knew to place a trade.
  • #130
  • Jan 6, 2010 2:06pm Jan 6, 2010 2:06pm
Here is the set file.
Remark1=== Main Settings ==
MagicNumber=0
SignalsOnly=0
Alerts=0
SignalMail=0
PlaySounds=0
ECNBroker=0
EachTickMode=1
CloseOnOppositeSignal=0
Lots=0.10000000
MoneyManagement=0
Risk=4
Slippage=5
StopLoss=20
TakeProfit=20
Remark2=
Remark3=== HiLo Settings ==
BarStart=0
InitialRange=10
WinPercent=70.00000000
MinimumSuccessScore=0.00000000
MinimumConfidence=90
Thanks
Vince
  • #131
  • Jan 6, 2010 2:16pm Jan 6, 2010 2:16pm
Your winpercent is 70, and the highest win is only 50. So, yeah that's preventing trades.
  • #132
  • Jan 6, 2010 2:46pm Jan 6, 2010 2:46pm
Guess should take it down to 50% or just wait for it to make it to reach 70%
Thanks
Vince
  • #133
  • Jan 8, 2010 3:36pm Jan 8, 2010 3:36pm
Ronald and all, I am somewhat amazed there is so little interest being shown with your "Old Dog / New Tricks"! Am I among only a few that think there is REALLY something to what you have done so far, Ronald?

I for one ask that we keep it going.

Otherwise, I ask you Ronald, to keep me in the loop privately, if you will.

Thank you,

Ron Rhodes
  • #134
  • Jan 10, 2010 3:16pm Jan 10, 2010 3:16pm
Hi Ron. Hope you had a good weekend. Cold here in southern Illinois.

I just fired up the Old Dog and noticed on the experts tab I'm getting a lot of error messages. Can you tell me what this is about? Here is an example.

Thanks, and thanks for sharing all this.

Murph

2010.01.10 17:13:37 HiLo%20Trader%20%5BTD%5D%20Lines GBPUSD,M1: GBPUSD Error: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /TickDB/Load.php was not found on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2
2010.01.10 17:13:37 HiLo%20Trader%20%5BTD%5D%20Lines GBPUSD,M1: GBPUSD Error: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /TickDB/Load.php was not found on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2
  • #135
  • Jan 10, 2010 4:04pm Jan 10, 2010 4:04pm
EA is trying to contact the tick database. It's currently down and I'm trying to transfer the data to another host.

Quoting MurphyMan
Hi Ron....
  • #136
  • Jan 10, 2010 4:06pm Jan 10, 2010 4:06pm
Quoting ronrhodes
Ronald and all, I am somewhat amazed there is so little interest being shown with your "Old Dog / New Tricks"! Am I among only a few that think there is REALLY something to what you have done so far, Ronald?

I for one ask that we keep it going.

Otherwise, I ask you Ronald, to keep me in the loop privately, if you will.

Thank you,

Ron Rhodes
I suspect the reason behind the lack of interest is lack of understanding. Most of the forum is looking for a mechanical system that they can trade manually.
  • #137
  • Jan 10, 2010 5:44pm Jan 10, 2010 5:44pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
I suspect the reason behind the lack of interest is lack of understanding. Most of the forum is looking for a mechanical system that they can trade manually.
some are interested, but no new questions yet.
  • #138
  • Jan 12, 2010 6:26am Jan 12, 2010 6:26am
I've noticed this EA gets a higher tester quality on 4 digit brokers as opposed to 5 digit brokers, can anyone confirm this?

Also, this seems very promising on commodities like gold, natural gas and some CFD's. Has this been tested?

Hopefully I'll start forward tests on those this week.

Thanks to RR and all the testers so far
  • #139
  • Jan 13, 2010 5:00am Jan 13, 2010 5:00am
Had my settings set to the following E/U 1min TF since 01-03-10 with no trades

I change to the bottom ones to see if it will prompt anything

Could someone confirm the bottom settings or even why the top settings made no trades.
I'm using a 5 didget broker so I'm suer I have that set right

Thanks


Remark1=== Main Settings ==
MagicNumber=123
SignalsOnly=0
Alerts=0
SignalMail=0
PlaySounds=0
ECNBroker=0
EachTickMode=1
CloseOnOppositeSignal=1
Lots=0.10000000
MoneyManagement=1
Risk=3
Slippage=0
StopLoss=500
TakeProfit=500
Remark2=
Remark3=== HiLo Settings ==
BarStart=0
InitialRange=100
WinPercent=50.00000000
MinimumSuccessScore=0.00000000
MinimumConfidence=90

**************************************
Remark1=== Main Settings ==
MagicNumber=0
SignalsOnly=0
Alerts=0
SignalMail=0
PlaySounds=0
ECNBroker=0
EachTickMode=1
CloseOnOppositeSignal=0
Lots=0.10000000
MoneyManagement=0
Risk=4
Slippage=5
StopLoss=200
TakeProfit=200
Remark2=
Remark3=== HiLo Settings ==
BarStart=0
InitialRange=100
WinPercent=50.00000000
MinimumSuccessScore=0.00000000
MinimumConfidence=90
  • #140
  • Jan 13, 2010 5:45am Jan 13, 2010 5:45am
What did trading style say?
Did trade trigger say anything else?

My suggestion would be to set alerts, and e-mail to true (make sure you set up e-mail) then you can at least know if the EA attempts to make a trade.
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