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  • #81
  • Jan 19, 2010 12:22am Jan 19, 2010 12:22am
ignore previous post, i got it sorted.

One question though, my Original Basket robot worked like a charm on a big account. I now went to a micro account and yesterday I got a err 130 invalid stoploss on GBPJPY only, my other pairs entered normally. It still opened a position for GBPJPY and at the end still took a profit on the basket, just didnt modify sl and tp in the order.

My crimECN is set to true. Im trading Alpari UK now. I want to replicate real account balances and profits as I plan to open a micro account at Alpari UK soon.
  • #82
  • Jan 22, 2010 9:01am Jan 22, 2010 9:01am
Hi all, you got a forex newbie here.
Before I ask the first daft question of which there will probably be a few more, I would like to send out a big "thank you" to Steve and Scooby Doo for the strategy and EA and to Scalps who seems to be helping out a lot on this thread.

Here we go for the daft questions -

1). What are you guy's talking about when you mentiom baskets ??

2). In the original thread there is reference to - XJPY. Is this refering to a trading pair i.e Aud/Jpy, Gbp/Jpy etc.

3). When refering to criminals, are we talking about brokers.

I know these are very basic questions and are showing how much of a newbie I am, but we all have to start somewhere...lol.

Best Wishes

Harmudge
  • #83
  • Edited Jan 23, 2010 5:23pm Jan 22, 2010 10:00pm | Edited Jan 23, 2010 5:23pm
Quoting harmudge
Hi all, you got a forex newbie here.
Before I ask the first daft question of which there will probably be a few more, I would like to send out a big "thank you" to Steve and Scooby Doo for the strategy and EA and to Scalps who seems to be helping out a lot on this thread.

Here we go for the daft questions -

1). What are you guy's talking about when you mentiom baskets ??

2). In the original thread there is reference to - XJPY. Is this refering to a trading pair i.e Aud/Jpy, Gbp/Jpy etc.

3). When refering to criminals, are we talking about...
Hi Harmudge,
After reading thouse Q's I thought - gee that hill must look soo BIG.
So some Answers -
1) . Baskets is a group of trades being handled together. eg GBPJPY & EURJPY & maybe other ...JPY pairs. When they reach the intended total profit level (upl) they are all closed as a group by the ea. Of course if they reach the unintended TP , then they are all closed as a group at a big loss.
2). Yep, xJPY or xxxJPY is refering to all/most JPY pairs like GBPJPY, EURJPY etc.
3). Yep, crims they is. Steve's humour, lol.

And before you ask whats upl ?
Is somewhere in the original thread, cant recall exactly, but something like Unaccrued or Unaccounted Profit Level. ie it hasnt been captured into the account ballance as yet. The profit is still "on the table".

cheers scalpz
Target 2 : Stoploss in the green
  • #84
  • Jan 23, 2010 3:40am Jan 23, 2010 3:40am
Thanks for helping out here scalpz. Nice one.
  • #85
  • Jan 23, 2010 2:44pm Jan 23, 2010 2:44pm
I asked the upl question earlier in this thread (#36).

This was Steve's answer:

upl = unrealised profit or loss - i.e. the figure that appears at the bottom of your Profit column. It is unrealised because the figure only becomes realised when you close your open trades.
  • #86
  • Jan 24, 2010 12:03pm Jan 24, 2010 12:03pm
Many, many thanks for the reply's guy's, that has cleared up some of those queeries for me.

Yes Scalpz, that hill does indeed look very steep but is getting smoother by the day....lol.
  • #87
  • Jan 25, 2010 4:04am Jan 25, 2010 4:04am
Quoting FX_newbee
ignore previous post, i got it sorted.

One question though, my Original Basket robot worked like a charm on a big account. I now went to a micro account and yesterday I got a err 130 invalid stoploss on GBPJPY only, my other pairs entered normally. It still opened a position for GBPJPY and at the end still took a profit on the basket, just didnt modify sl and tp in the order.

My crimECN is set to true. Im trading Alpari UK now. I want to replicate real account balances and profits as I plan to open a micro account at Alpari UK soon.
Wierd! I'm having the exact same problem. Opens fine with everything except for GBPJPY where it pops up that error!
  • #88
  • Jan 25, 2010 4:10am Jan 25, 2010 4:10am
Oh, I also have another newbie query. The Immediate buy basket / Immediate Sell Basket / Immediate Close basket buttons dont seem to work. They act like labels and get moved around.

I am currently testing the original v 2.2 system on Alpari US Demo account.
  • #89
  • Feb 2, 2010 7:56pm Feb 2, 2010 7:56pm
Last week I went live, and using a server. Three days up, in a row, then had a bad hit with a 10% SL.

Although my screen says "Hedging is enabled", it doesn't look like it attempted to take a hedge trade. Shouldn't it?

Now, I have a US broker, but they say that: "Meta Trader being the front end of your trading, does allow you to place offsetting positions. You will be able to place a buy and sell position on your meta trader platform at the same time. FXDD's backoffice does not recognize hedging. It is a position based system an all opposing orders are offset immediately. You can still trade as you have done in the past, since the placement of offsetting positions is allowable on the front end, and should NOT affect your EA."

All that aside, if the Orig tried to place a hedge trade and the criminal disallowed it, shouldn't there at least be an error message in the Journal tab in MT4?
  • #90
  • Feb 3, 2010 5:44am Feb 3, 2010 5:44am
Quoting MurphyMan
Last week I went live, and using a server....
Let's have a look at your setfile.

  • #91
  • Feb 3, 2010 7:54am Feb 3, 2010 7:54am
Okay, where do I find the set file? I see two .set files under the Experts folder, but they just list pairs.


Quoting SteveHopwood
Let's have a look at your setfile.

  • #92
  • Feb 3, 2010 8:02am Feb 3, 2010 8:02am
Sorry, Steve. A little more poking a found revealed how I make a settings file. Again, trying to find out why the hedge didn't try to trade.

Here is my Scoob_Orig.set file:

GVI=-----General trade inputs-----
PairsToTrade=GBPJPY,EURJPY
SellHourStarts=16
BuyHourStarts=24
BaseLot=0.10000000
RobotCalculatesLotSize=1
TpMultiplicationFactor=200
BasketStopLossPercentage=10.00000000
EmergencyStopLoss=6000
EmergencyTakeProfit=6000
MaxSpreadAllowed=100
MagicNumber=123456
OnlyTradingThisSystem=1
TradeComment=Original Basket trade
CriminalIsECN=0
TradeSundayCandle=0
stu=-----Stop trading-----
StopTrading=0
st=Use format dd.mm.yyyy h:mm
NoTradeUntil=1259013600
rsg=----RS Group JPY Strength Index V1.2----
LowerTfOverBought=90.00000000
HigherTfOverBought=80.00000000
LowerTfOverSold=10.00000000
HigherTfOverSold=20.00000000
news=-----News filter-----
UseNewsFilter=1
MinsBeforeNews=60
MinsAfterNews=30
news1=3=High; 2=Medium; 1=Low
NewsImpact=3
new=----Next JPY Public Holiday----
newi=Use format dd.mm.yyyy h:mm
NextPublicHoliday=1265792400
isi=----Immediate basket features----
ShowImmediateBuyBasket=1
ShowImmediateSellBasket=1
ShowImmediateCloseBasket=1
LabelColour=65535
hed=----Hedging----
AllowHedging=1
MaxHedgeTradesAllowed=5
HedgeAtLossPercent=5.00000000
PercentageToHedge=10.00000000
TrailingStopPips=1000
oae=----Odds and ends----
DisplayGapSize=30

Quoting SteveHopwood
Let's have a look at your setfile.

  • #93
  • Feb 3, 2010 11:29am Feb 3, 2010 11:29am
I can't see anything wrong there. Were your lot sizes big enough to be divided by 10 for the hedges?

  • #94
  • Feb 4, 2010 6:35am Feb 4, 2010 6:35am
Scooby posted an expert, Scooby.mq4. It calls for an indicator called "Economic News". Can someone post that indicator please?

Thanks, Jack
  • #95
  • Edited 11:29pm Feb 4, 2010 1:30pm | Edited 11:29pm
Quoting jack h
Scooby posted an expert, Scooby.mq4. It calls for an indicator called "Economic News". Can someone post that indicator please?

Thanks, Jack
Hi Jack, just my guess at a fix. Based on the following code for NewsFilterCheck function out of Steve's ea Original V2.2, substitute "FFCal Scoobs" for "Economic News".

void NewsFilterCheck()
{
// Checks for impending news events.
//Call the news reader every 1 minute
static int OldBar;
if (OldBar == iBars(Symbol(), PERIOD_M5) ) return(false);
OldBar = iBars(Symbol(), PERIOD_M5);

NewsTime = false;
for(int cc = 0; cc < NoOfPairs; cc++)
{
int minutesSincePrevEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCal Scoobs", TradePair[cc], true, true, false, true, true, 1, 0);
int minutesUntilNextEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCal Scoobs", TradePair[cc], true, true, false, true, true, 1, 1);
if((minutesUntilNextEvent <= MinsBeforeNews) || (minutesSincePrevEvent <= MinsAfterNews))
{
//News event within the chosen timescale
int impactOfNextEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCal Scoobs", TradePair[cc], true, true, false, true, true, 2, 1);
//Should the robot suspend trading?
if (impactOfNextEvent >= NewsImpact)
{
NewsTime = true;
break;
}//if (impact >= NewsImpact)
}//if((minutesUntilNextEvent <= Mins.Before.News) || (minutesSincePrevEvent <= Mins.After.News))
}//for(int cnt = 0; cnt < PairsToTrade; cnt++)

}// End void NewsFilterCheck()

cheers scalpz
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 FFCal Scoobs.mq4   47 KB | 268 downloads
Target 2 : Stoploss in the green
  • #96
  • Feb 4, 2010 9:36pm Feb 4, 2010 9:36pm
Hi,

The KG RS Group v1.1 indicator work on 4 digits Broker well, anyone knows how to set on Forex.com, 5 digits ECN Broker ?

Thank you

Cheers,
  • #97
  • Feb 5, 2010 1:40am Feb 5, 2010 1:40am
Sorry Guys, Problem solved. just re-download and attached on clean MT4 5 digits Brokers,

Cheersl


Quoting ad2008
Hi,

The KG RS Group v1.1 indicator work on 4 digits Broker well, anyone knows how to set on Forex.com, 5 digits ECN Broker ?

Thank you

Cheers,
  • #98
  • Feb 5, 2010 5:02am Feb 5, 2010 5:02am
Quoting scalpz
Hi Jack, just my guess at a fix. Based on the following code for NewsFilterCheck function out of Steve's ea Original V2.2, substitute "FFCal Scoobs" for "Economic News".

void NewsFilterCheck()
{
// Checks for impending news events.
//Call the news reader every 1 minute
static int OldBar;
if (OldBar == iBars(Symbol(), PERIOD_M5) ) return(false);
OldBar = iBars(Symbol(), PERIOD_M5);

NewsTime = false;
for(int cc = 0; cc < NoOfPairs; cc++)
{
int minutesSincePrevEvent = iCustom(NULL, 0, "FFCal Scoobs", TradePair[cc], true, true,...
Thanks Scalpz, I was able to successfully compile with FFCal Scoobs. No trades yet.

Jack
  • #99
  • Feb 8, 2010 7:37am Feb 8, 2010 7:37am
hi all i am attempting to trade this manually just by using 1 indicator which is the RS group jpy strength index. does any1 know how to incorporate alerts when both the red n white lines touch say 10,90?
  • #100
  • Feb 9, 2010 5:33pm Feb 9, 2010 5:33pm
I think that indicator is only available as an ex4, which means we can't see the code in MetaEditor and can't add an alert to the indicator. The author of the indicator could do it.

I think it would be possible to write an EA to monitor the indicator and send alerts.

(I'm a beginner coder and not very good.)

Jack
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