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  • #7,221
  • Mar 6, 2010 10:28am Mar 6, 2010 10:28am
These past couple of weeks have been excellent for testing any bots thanks to the volatility.. if they survived now, they wont fail too easyily in the future.

Well done chaps.
  • #7,222
  • Mar 6, 2010 10:36am Mar 6, 2010 10:36am
Quoting sundog
The vagaries of MT4 has been well demonstrated.

I have 2 live accounts with different brokers, with the same Bots on each. The setup identical. 1 made 1.5% for the week, while the other made 20%.
this is way too dramatic, so i guess now you are trying to avoid the 1.5% one :-)
  • #7,223
  • Edited 10:40am Mar 6, 2010 10:37am | Edited 10:40am
Quoting Middleastern
Since Feb 23, here the win/lose ratio was 30/8 for an roi=13%, with a max DD = 5.6%

Evidently different feeds lead to different results, but we all seem to be well into the green; yet another confirmation of profitability, if it keeps behaving that nice.
Middleastern were you using mptm or just letting the EA manage the trades? Congrats on your results.

Sandy
  • #7,224
  • Mar 6, 2010 10:49am Mar 6, 2010 10:49am
Quoting scooby-doo
They have already stated that they reserve the right to widen the spread on some/all pairs during Asian session.

It mainly happens with EURCHF and EURGBP because someone is scalping thousands of trades for 2 pip profits.

Not only are they losing money but it is kicking the hell out of their servers.

I believe that there has been a new/modified version of FAPTURBO which is the cause of this.

Scoobs.

PS. I had a trade on EURCHF which the spread increased to 27 which I mentioed previously. This combined with its low ADR means it is untradeable...
Does anyone have an indicator or EA which logs the max & min values of the spread against time?

Interesting to see just what the borkers are up to ...
  • #7,225
  • Mar 6, 2010 12:34pm Mar 6, 2010 12:34pm
Quoting nubchai
Middleastern were you using mptm or just letting the EA manage the trades? Congrats on your results.

Sandy
I just let it run 24/5 without intervention of any kind. If it succeeds to keep DD at such a low level in the long term, a lot increase is the obvious next step.
  • #7,226
  • Mar 6, 2010 12:38pm Mar 6, 2010 12:38pm
Quoting Middleastern
I just let it run 24/5 without intervention of any kind. If it succeeds to keep DD at such a low level in the long term, a lot increase is the obvious next step.
Thanks Middleastern

Sandy
  • #7,227
  • Edited 5:16pm Mar 6, 2010 5:05pm | Edited 5:16pm
Just to add my results for THG v1.6.
Pdf attatched below. 22nd Feb - 5th March. I closed the last 4 trades manually. Results speak for themelves! OK so it's only 2 weeks of testing, but it's damn impressive!
Heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Scoobs. And it sounds like the latest version of THG just blows v1.6 out of the water.

Attached File(s)
File Type: pdf THG 1.6 Alpari UK VPS Demo.pdf   78 KB | 612 downloads
  • #7,228
  • Mar 6, 2010 5:09pm Mar 6, 2010 5:09pm
It is great to see many HG v1.6 success.

Since we have scoobs testing his HG v2.x one more week, during waiting, we may continue test HG v1.6 too.

here is an updated version of HG v1.6, the trading logic is completely intact (since great results are reported), but I added these for your convenience:

1. correct GMGoffset using mbkennel's routine: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...04646&page=479
2. correct NewsExist() using mbkennel's suggestion, no more sucking FF server;
3. change pairs to HG v2.x according to scoobs: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...04646&page=480
4. add 'PosCount()' to allow multi-EA on 1 account, "OrderLimit" only considers how many positions HG v1.6 placed, doesn't care how many other EAs are trading;
5. add a switch for fixed lotsize, like 0.01 or 10.

have fun.
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 The Holy Grail v1.6_charvo.mq4   15 KB | 1,127 downloads
  • #7,229
  • Mar 6, 2010 5:19pm Mar 6, 2010 5:19pm
Quoting Jezza
Just to add my results for THG v1.6.
Pdf attatched below. 22nd Feb - 5th March. I closed the last 4 trades manually. Results speak for themelves! OK so it's only 2 weeks of testing, but it's damn impressive!
Heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Scoobs. And it sounds like the latest version of THG just blows v1.6 out of the water.

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Looks awesome! More tests reports like this will be highly appreciated! Thanks, Jezza!

I'd like to say that in addition to Scoobs and Steve's leadership contributions, it is also us thread followers who did tests, report bugs, provide routines... that make these EAs outstanding!

This is seldom seen in FF other threads that often suffer from either greedy but dumb questions or lack of consistent support. Many thanks to Steve's vouch management
  • #7,230
  • Mar 6, 2010 5:27pm Mar 6, 2010 5:27pm
Quoting charvo
Looks awesome! More tests reports like this will be highly appreciated! Thanks, Jezza!

I'd like to say that in addition to Scoobs and Steve's leadership contributions, it is also us thread followers who did tests, report bugs, provide routines... that make these EAs outstanding!

This is seldom seen in FF other threads that often suffer from either greedy but dumb questions or lack of consistent support. Many thanks to Steve's vouch management
No worries! And thanks a lot for your modified version. Will give it a demo this week as well.
Agree with you that the contribution of the members is also invaluable. I've said before and will say again that there are some great minds on here showing some amazing ingenuity.
  • #7,231
  • Mar 6, 2010 7:04pm Mar 6, 2010 7:04pm
Quoting charvo
this is way too dramatic, so i guess now you are trying to avoid the 1.5% one :-)

Profit is profit. I will take what I can get, while trying to increase the return.

Thanks for your update, I'll pop that on the Demo for the coming week.
  • #7,232
  • Mar 6, 2010 9:11pm Mar 6, 2010 9:11pm
This should help simplify EA's and get rid of those incessant time zone issues.

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=224571
  • #7,233
  • Mar 6, 2010 9:17pm Mar 6, 2010 9:17pm
Now comes the challenge of getting Master de MQL Hopwood to buy into it and implement it moving forward!
  • #7,234
  • Mar 6, 2010 9:26pm Mar 6, 2010 9:26pm
I am not sure if these are worth posting after hearing about THG doing so well, but for the sake of continuing research, here are my new mods to play with. (Thank you to Charvo and zzbrm for their assistance on these.):

 

  1. Scooby 3TF MA 20 34 100 - RSI 80 - 20.mq4 - As the name suggests, this one uses the 20 and 34 EMAs as well as the 100 SMA on three timeframes to figure out the trend. I did not have it on demo until the end of last week, so it did make a loss, but it was interesting to note that it was avoiding a number of losing / high floating DD trades that were taken by the original mod. Also, the addition of the third (H4) timeframe MA check would have protected it in the big move that would have killed the original mod version on Feb 3 - 4.
  2. Scooby MA 20 34 100 - RSI 80 - 20 - MACD.mq4 - This has the original mod 2 timeframe trend checking logic, but then it also refers to the MACD on the H1 before entering a trade. Also if it is in a trade and the MACD turns then it will exit that trade. Eyeballing charts suggests that the addition of MACD may well keep it out of some losing trades and it would definitely cut the big losers short. However, it may well be that it does not give the main trade logic a chance to breathe and therefore may be counter-productive. Only testing will tell.

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File Type: mq4 Scooby 3TF MA 20 34 100 - RSI 80 - 20.mq4   7 KB | 475 downloads
File Type: mq4 Scooby MA 20 34 100 - RSI 80 - 20 - MACD.mq4   7 KB | 371 downloads
  • #7,235
  • Mar 7, 2010 3:38am Mar 7, 2010 3:38am
Quoting getdown71
Now comes the challenge of getting Master de MQL Hopwood to buy into it and implement it moving forward!
As I pointed out in an email, Nick, if people are too thick to work out times for themselves they should not be trading forex.

  • #7,236
  • Mar 7, 2010 3:51am Mar 7, 2010 3:51am
Quoting SteveHopwood
As I pointed out in an email, Nick, if people are too thick to work out times for themselves they should not be trading forex.

The atomic clock submarine only surfaces every six months, do I need to put in another call Steve ?

Scoobs.
  • #7,237
  • Mar 7, 2010 5:01am Mar 7, 2010 5:01am
I am going to run the latest version without news checking for the following reasons....

1. ALL DAY events are not handled.
2. TENTATIVE events are not handled.
3. News impact is not allways correct.
4. The file is not always updated before Sunday open.
5. There is no support for different timezones when called by an EA.
6. The function is over complicated and difficult to modify.
7. If high impact news is enough to turn the trade against you by more than your ADR SL then you should just take the loss or kill the trade. Most likely a trend reversal anyway.

This should give us more trades but potentially more loses if we get multiple trend reversals.

One main area whereby this EA will fail is where the markets go through a consolidation/ranging phase. This does happen and is not something you can fully automate for.

Scoobs.
  • #7,238
  • Edited 7:22am Mar 7, 2010 6:59am | Edited 7:22am
Quoting SteveHopwood
As I pointed out in an email, Nick, if people are too thick to work out times for themselves they should not be trading forex.

Hey Steve,

I totally agree with your position and email on this topic. Time is a fundamental that needs to be mastered early on in the Forex learning curve. Otherwise the time-less numbties are destined to fail.

Darn, I have uttered the "T" word. What shalt become of thee ?
  • #7,239
  • Edited 7:23am Mar 7, 2010 6:59am | Edited 7:23am
Quoting scooby-doo
The atomic clock submarine only surfaces every six months, do I need to put in another call Steve ?

Scoobs.
Dive Dive!

mbkennel, disarm the libGMT torpedo's
  • #7,240
  • Mar 7, 2010 10:31am Mar 7, 2010 10:31am
Quoting scooby-doo
I am going to run the latest version without news checking for the following reasons....

1. ALL DAY events are not handled.
2. TENTATIVE events are not handled.
3. News impact is not allways correct.
4. The file is not always updated before Sunday open.
5. There is no support for different timezones when called by an EA.
6. The function is over complicated and difficult to modify.
7. If high impact news is enough to turn the trade against you by more than your ADR SL then you should just take the loss or kill the trade. Most likely a trend...
These thoughts are golden. I guessed some of these, but not really sure... it's good to know you think so. Looking forward to your new reflection on forward testing.
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