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  • #5,241
  • Feb 3, 2010 2:33pm Feb 3, 2010 2:33pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
Don't be so silly, you fool. I don't do things like that.

I wish. We all know I do this kind of thing all the time.

Not this time, though. I downloaded the zip myself to check.

Well, seems like you & my wife agree on lots ...

Sorry to be a pain in the upper octaves but checking the Opposite Positions V1 from the zip in post 1 of this thread against the earlier version which I have on demo test only shows this difference starting at line 255:

!> //This robot is not to be used on live accounts yet
!> if (!IsDemo() )
!> {
!> MessageBox("This robot will not run on a live account.");
!> Comment(" This robot does not run on a live account");
!> DisabledMessage = "This robot does not run on a live account";
!> RobotDisabled = true;
!> return;
!> }//if (IsDemo() )

I used windiff to compare the files.

What am I overlooking ?
  • #5,242
  • Feb 3, 2010 3:46pm Feb 3, 2010 3:46pm
Quoting macman
What am I overlooking ?
Don't know.

  • #5,243
  • Feb 3, 2010 3:49pm Feb 3, 2010 3:49pm
TCF V2.

I have added a trade expiry time to the pending orders - the relevant input is PendingOrderDeleteMins, which defaults to 2 hours.

This is attempting to cater for replacing pending orders after a period where the market has continued in its original direction, so the RS has not changed direction.

  • #5,244
  • Feb 3, 2010 4:38pm Feb 3, 2010 4:38pm
Quoting Fx Optimist
Scoobs & Steve, great work

Here's a statement after just 2 days of running Scoob's EA in post 5153 with default settings. I have been closing some out just 'cos they're in profit, or applying a 15-25 pip TS if I was near the PC, but it definitely warrants further investigation.

I haven't seen anybody else comment on this EA, unless I missed it.

^ Chris ^
On which chart and TF are you running it? I loaded it on A/U 4H chart just now and it took 4 trades immediately. The MM is great. I am running it on live a/c. Are you placing the TP / SL manually? My trades do not have these.

Vinesh
  • #5,245
  • Feb 3, 2010 4:56pm Feb 3, 2010 4:56pm
Quoting macman
Sorry to be a pain in the upper octaves but checking the Opposite Positions V1 from the zip in post 1 of this thread against the earlier version which I have on demo test only shows this difference starting at line 255:

!>...
You're correct. I saw the same thing. There is no new file there.
  • #5,246
  • Feb 3, 2010 5:00pm Feb 3, 2010 5:00pm
Quoting vinesh
On which chart and TF are you running it? I loaded it on A/U 4H chart just now and it took 4 trades immediately. The MM is great. I am running it on live a/c. Are you placing the TP / SL manually? My trades do not have these.

Vinesh
This looks like the trade closure routine in the code:

if(HTF < 30) TradeClose(pairs[c],OP_SELL);
if(HTF > 70) TradeClose(pairs[c],OP_BUY);
  • #5,247
  • Feb 3, 2010 5:04pm Feb 3, 2010 5:04pm
Quoting vinesh
On which chart and TF are you running it? I loaded it on A/U 4H chart just now and it took 4 trades immediately. The MM is great. I am running it on live a/c. Are you placing the TP / SL manually? My trades do not have these.

Vinesh
Yes, that would be interesting. For the programmers: Is it possible to add a feature that you can change the lot size?
Best regards!
  • #5,248
  • Feb 3, 2010 5:15pm Feb 3, 2010 5:15pm
Quoting Meister81
Yes, that would be interesting. For the programmers: Is it possible to add a feature that you can change the lot size?
Best regards!
Are you joking?
  • #5,249
  • Feb 3, 2010 5:17pm Feb 3, 2010 5:17pm
Quoting watube
This looks like the trade closure routine in the code:

if(HTF < 30) TradeClose(pairs[c],OP_SELL);
if(HTF > 70) TradeClose(pairs[c],OP_BUY);
Thanks Jezza.
  • #5,250
  • Feb 3, 2010 5:37pm Feb 3, 2010 5:37pm
Quoting Fx Optimist
Scoobs & Steve, great work

Here's a statement after just 2 days of running Scoob's EA in post 5153 with default settings. I have been closing some out just 'cos they're in profit, or applying a 15-25 pip TS if I was near the PC, but it definitely warrants further investigation.

I haven't seen anybody else comment on this EA, unless I missed it.

^ Chris ^
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Yes, Scoob's EA is doing well since Febuary 1-4, 2010, (manual TP)

Observation since 2 weeks :

- NO SL/TP, 5 pairs make max. floating loss(DD) around 10%, Floating Profit around 10%. I'm really don;t know if max. 10% of DD is due to the 5 pairs Hedged or just simply 5 pairs Price Action.

- Manually TP(no rules) making around 20% within 4 days, but we must careful with partial TP, since we don;t know if the open 5 pairs hedged each others or just trade trade each pair seperately. needs further obvervation regarding to max DD.

note : May be Scooby can give us the logic embedded behind this Scoob's EA ?


Cheers
  • #5,251
  • Feb 3, 2010 5:41pm Feb 3, 2010 5:41pm
Quoting ad2008
------------------
Yes, Scoob's EA is doing well since Febuary 1-4, 2010,...
See post 5149 for the logic
  • #5,252
  • Feb 3, 2010 6:12pm Feb 3, 2010 6:12pm
Quoting vinesh
On which chart and TF are you running it? I loaded it on A/U 4H chart just now and it took 4 trades immediately. The MM is great. I am running it on live a/c. Are you placing the TP / SL manually? My trades do not have these.

Vinesh
I´m running it on a gbpjpy chart due to the higher tick frequency. TF shouldn´t matter because the robot checks different timeframes by itself. Scooby, if I´m wrong here, please correct me.

It also has a hidden TP, calculated as per Scoobs exit parameters, probably a dynamic one. I hope the SL as well (I just started testing it today, so far with 1 winner and 6 open trades). Something to take into consideration seriously is to run it on a VPS because of the hidden SL and TP, and with the reconnect EA also running on a different chart. You MUST have a no-downtime connection with this kind of features, let alone if you´re trading it live.

Been two weeks out in the mountains and returned just to see how Steve keeps crucifying people... I guess some things just cannot change...
  • #5,253
  • Feb 3, 2010 6:52pm Feb 3, 2010 6:52pm
Quoting watube
See post 5149 for the logic
---------------
Thank you Watube.

Cheers,
  • #5,254
  • Feb 3, 2010 7:32pm Feb 3, 2010 7:32pm
EA opened two buy trades at 23.03 GMT, but also gave the following error:

GBPJPY wave 3: 0 order send failed with error(130):invalid stops:lots=0.06

Also had repeated warnings in expert on being unable to open FFCal file.

This is a live account with latest Original EA. Previously no problem with demo at same broker IBFX, not with order send nor FFCal.

Maybe IBFX is playing 'sillybuggers'.
  • #5,255
  • Feb 3, 2010 7:51pm Feb 3, 2010 7:51pm
Quoting ikdenk
EA opened two buy trades at 23.03 GMT, but also gave the following error:

GBPJPY wave 3: 0 order send failed with error(130):invalid stops:lots=0.06

Also had repeated warnings in expert on being unable to open FFCal file.

This is a live account with latest Original EA. Previously no problem with demo at same broker IBFX, not with order send nor FFCal.

Maybe IBFX is playing 'sillybuggers'.
Here is what I think happened:

 

  1. The robot placed the trades.
  2. At some point during this process, another tick triggered a call to FFCal.
  3. This confused the order in which mt4 does things, which lead to the error message about invalid stops.

Not sure, mind. Were the trades sent with their emergency stops in place?

  • #5,256
  • Feb 3, 2010 10:35pm Feb 3, 2010 10:35pm
Hi,

I just read the all thread and took around 3 weeks to do that on my free time.
For at least 2000 post was unsure about the right time settings until the light comes to my mind. You know secure kills trust.

I wish to thanks Steve, Scoobs and all the great contributors of this thread.

I want to start focusing with the Original bot and then the others bots, that are really a lot of bots.

But today I noticed the error with the FFCal indicator about error with the opening of the file, invalid Filename for FileOpen function. I beleive to remember that Scoobs said that the weekly file is created some time between sunday and monday.

Also, read somewhere what with the original bot 95% of days we will get 2 trade setups, and noted last days there was no trades.

Please Steve, can you give light about this?. thanks in advance.

With respect to error 130 want to contribute with this:
mt4 metaeditor help says this about this error:

"StopLoss and TakeProfit levels cannot be too close to the market. The minimal distance of stop levels in points can be obtained using the MarketInfo() function with MODE_STOPLEVEL parameter. In the case of erroneous or unnormalized stop levels, the error 130 (ERR_INVALID_STOPS) will be generated."

So, I guest that the error is maybe related to error with the emergency stops settings for the bot. Correct me if i am wrong please.

-best

Hernando
  • #5,257
  • Feb 4, 2010 1:43am Feb 4, 2010 1:43am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Here is what I think happened:

 

  1. The robot placed the trades.
  2. At some point during this process, another tick triggered a call to FFCal.
  3. This confused the order in which mt4 does things, which lead to the error message about invalid stops.

Not sure, mind. Were the trades sent with their emergency stops in place?

All settings as per default (except times).

Can hedging at 10% on 0.06 lots be the problem? (Now increased to 20%)
  • #5,258
  • Feb 4, 2010 3:17am Feb 4, 2010 3:17am
Scoob original v2.2 (GMT+1 so input hours are 23-7 )
hmmm,
Last night I get differents results between Demo and Live
Demo :
SELL EurJpy 08:26 @126.305 CLOSE 08:35 126.192 (+11 pips)
SELL GbpJpy 08:26 @ 144.683 CLOSE 08:35 144.621 (+6 pips)
Live :
BUY EurJpy 01:01 @126.296 CLOSE manually this morning @ -15 pips
BUY GbpJpy 01:01 @144.626 CLOSE manually this morning @ -4 pips
I guess because there was still open trades it didn't opened the SELL at morning.
  • #5,259
  • Feb 4, 2010 3:34am Feb 4, 2010 3:34am
Quoting ikdenk
EA opened two buy trades at 23.03 GMT, but also gave the following error:

GBPJPY wave 3: 0 order send failed with error(130):invalid stops:lots=0.06

Also had repeated warnings in expert on being unable to open FFCal file.

This is a live account with latest Original EA. Previously no problem with demo at same broker IBFX, not with order send nor FFCal.

Maybe IBFX is playing 'sillybuggers'.
If you are running live I would consider using the extra routines available in the OrderReliable_V1_1_0.mqh file. These can often solve problems like invalid stop errors.

Attached is Steve's Original v2.2 with the routines included. You MUST place OrderReliable_V1_1_0.mqh in your Experts > Include directory & test on demo first !
Attached File(s)
File Type: mqh OrderReliable_V1_1_0.mqh   46 KB | 334 downloads
File Type: mq4 scooby-doo BOJ basket robot Original V2.2_rel.mq4   60 KB | 343 downloads
  • #5,260
  • Feb 4, 2010 4:51am Feb 4, 2010 4:51am
Steve,

I started DB in demo, and also a modified version where I made some changes in the Trend direction (I replace SMA(h4) with BollingerBands of MACD). I will compare the 2 robots results.
I have 1 suggestion : Why not use the "KG RS GROUP V1.1" indic to trade the stongest currency vs weakest currency ?
For example, if EURUSD is OS (rsi15) and EURval<20 and USDval>80 (KG indic, H4 or D1 ?) and EurUsd trend is up >> BUY EurUsd.
Another idea is to determine the OS and OB state with KG indic rather than with Rsi, or add the 2 conditions (KG + rsi)
I have tried to include this idea in DB but as you know, fully understand other programmer's code is not an easy task.
Any toughts, comments ?
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