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  • #7,941
  • Apr 1, 2010 6:49am Apr 1, 2010 6:49am
thanks I'll look it over
so you are down just a touch since 02-24

the bot has been acting strange since the time change here in the states
I know it shouldn't matter but just an observation

All is not bad worked on my sailboat yesterday waiting for it's May 1 launch SPRING IS HERE
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  • #7,942
  • Apr 1, 2010 7:16am Apr 1, 2010 7:16am
I accidentally put a version with UseM15ATRrt set to true in the post 1 zip. I have replaced this with the default UseD1ATRrt set to true, so just check your settings when you load up the bot.

  • #7,943
  • Apr 1, 2010 9:33am Apr 1, 2010 9:33am
Quoting SteveHopwood
I accidentally put a version with UseM15ATRrt set to true in the post 1 zip. I have replaced this with the default UseD1ATRrt set to true, so just check your settings when you load up the bot.

I have put the Ea on a 1hour GJ chart, all settings default. It immediately placed 6 pending orders. I can´t see their is some retrace on the charts.

best wishes
Elovv
  • #7,944
  • Apr 1, 2010 9:44am Apr 1, 2010 9:44am
Quoting SteveHopwood
I accidentally put a version with UseM15ATRrt set to true in the post 1 zip. I have replaced this with the default UseD1ATRrt set to true, so just check your settings when you load up the bot.

Hi Steve,

Going to peak under the bonnet on this one.

Notice that it calls a file 'Economic News', which does not seem to be in your robot indicators directory. Not a great problem to dig it out of the thread but for newbies may be an idea to drop a copy into the robot indicators directory, next time you are doing some spring cleaning?

Cheers -
  • #7,945
  • Apr 1, 2010 10:02am Apr 1, 2010 10:02am
Quoting macman
Hi Steve,

Going to peak under the bonnet on this one.

Notice that it calls a file 'Economic News', which does not seem to be in your robot indicators directory. Not a great problem to dig it out of the thread but for newbies may be an idea to drop a copy into the robot indicators directory, next time you are doing some spring cleaning?

Cheers -
Cheers. I have stripped it out. Also added pretty colours to the trend direction display. Post 1 as usual.

  • #7,946
  • Apr 1, 2010 10:24am Apr 1, 2010 10:24am
Quoting dryclean
thanks I'll look it over
so you are down just a touch since 02-24

the bot has been acting strange since the time change here in the states
I know it shouldn't matter but just an observation

All is not bad worked on my sailboat yesterday waiting for it's May 1 launch SPRING IS HERE
My last two positive trades should leave me in the green zone. Should have 2% return as of today. Will check and update the publisher tomorrow.

Nice boat you have. Will have one of my own soon. Am i allow to have one if i don't know how to swim?
Ă§Â¦Â Ă¥Â­Â Victor V
  • #7,947
  • Apr 1, 2010 10:28am Apr 1, 2010 10:28am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Anybody here not trying this one is missing a trick big-time. It is out-performing all the robots I have ever coded by a vast distance.

How can i missed that? Will start live next week.
Ă§Â¦Â Ă¥Â­Â Victor V
  • #7,948
  • Apr 1, 2010 10:33am Apr 1, 2010 10:33am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Anybody here not trying this one is missing a trick big-time. It is out-performing all the robots I have ever coded by a vast distance.

Using the default of D1ATR?
  • #7,949
  • Apr 1, 2010 10:42am Apr 1, 2010 10:42am
Yes. I haven't actually tried the smaller ones; the bigger the better seems logical to me.

  • #7,950
  • Apr 1, 2010 11:04am Apr 1, 2010 11:04am
2 minutes profit EURCHF
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  • #7,951
  • Apr 1, 2010 11:11am Apr 1, 2010 11:11am
Quoting bruunoalves
2 minutes profit EURCHF
Be careful with EUR pairs. Hedge funds are playing about with them.

Scoobs.
  • #7,952
  • Apr 1, 2010 11:25am Apr 1, 2010 11:25am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Anybody here not trying this one is missing a trick big-time. It is out-performing all the robots I have ever coded by a vast distance.

I'll put it up on demo. So much to track and test. But its a good thing.
  • #7,953
  • Apr 1, 2010 12:11pm Apr 1, 2010 12:11pm
Hi Steve

I am not very clued up on code, but I was wondering about this:

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EMA_020_M15 = iMA(symbol,M15,020,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,0);
double EMA_020_H01 = iMA(symbol,H01,020,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,0);
double EMA_020_H04 = iMA(symbol,H04,020,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,0);
double EMA_020_D01 = iMA(symbol,D01,020,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,0);
Should the first line not have "double" in front of it also, or am I making an error here?

(These are lines 544 to 547.)

Invisible

EDIT: I think I get it now: This variable is defined earlier?
  • #7,954
  • Apr 1, 2010 12:15pm Apr 1, 2010 12:15pm
Quoting Invisible
Hi Steve

I am not very clued up on code, but I was wondering about this:

Should the first line not have "double" in front of it also, or am I making an error here?

(These are lines 544 to 547.)

Invisible
EMA_020_M15 is already defined at the top of the EA;

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//Stop and tp ATR periods
int   RetraceAtrTf;
int   TpAtrTf;
int   SlAtrTf;
[b]double EMA_020_M15;[/b]
24 hours in a day – 24 bottles of beer in a case – Coincidence? I think not
  • #7,955
  • Apr 1, 2010 2:24pm Apr 1, 2010 2:24pm
Steve

On the trend retracement robot is it supposed to place pending BUY orders where the price is above the current market price if the trend is UP and pending SELL orders where the price is below the current market price if the trend is down ?

I would assume it would/should do the reverse ???

An example was GBPJPY where it said the trend was up but it placed a pending BUY order @ 143.450 which was above the current price of 143.283.

Cheers.

Scoobs.
  • #7,956
  • Apr 1, 2010 2:37pm Apr 1, 2010 2:37pm
Quoting scooby-doo
Steve

On the trend retracement robot is it supposed to place pending BUY orders where the price is above the current market price if the trend is UP and pending SELL orders where the price is below the current market price if the trend is down ?

I would assume it would/should do the reverse ???

An example was GBPJPY where it said the trend was up but it placed a pending BUY order @ 143.450 which was above the current price of 143.283.

Cheers.

Scoobs.
Nope. As coded, we do not get stuck with an open trade if the retrace actually continues rather than stopping. The trade fills when the trend resumes.

Th bot's name might be a bit misleading. It is attempting to trade the direction of a trend after a retrace, not the retrace itself.

  • #7,957
  • Apr 1, 2010 3:10pm Apr 1, 2010 3:10pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
Nope. As coded, we do not get stuck with an open trade if the retrace actually continues rather than stopping. The trade fills when the trend resumes.

Th bot's name might be a bit misleading. It is attempting to trade the direction of a trend after a retrace, not the retrace itself.

Got ya.

Me being thick as usual.

Sorry for that

Scoobs.
  • #7,958
  • Apr 1, 2010 4:49pm Apr 1, 2010 4:49pm
Quoting scooby-doo
Got ya.

Me being thick as usual.

Sorry for that

Scoobs.
Just a poverty-sticken dimbo thrashing around in the dark hoping to make a few pips here and there to save being thrown out on the street, aren't you?
  • #7,959
  • Apr 1, 2010 4:57pm Apr 1, 2010 4:57pm
I might rename Trend Retracement to something more glamorous. How about Monica's Graduate Sister or some such?

I think the code needs reviewing because I have noticed this pattern:

 

  1. loading the bot for the first time, it immediately takes a number of trades.
  2. most of these turn into losers. Most people will abandon it at this stage. I did, except that I accidentally left it on a demo on my trading machine.
  3. subsequently, it sent fewer trades that proved profitable, made up the losses and grew the account.

Frankly, as I sit here writing this I cannot even remember what the system logic is. Ok, so I will work this out pretty quickly as I coded the robot in the first place, but in the meantime: if any of the coders here can see any reason why the robot should send incorrect trades on first load-up, please sing out.

  • #7,960
  • Apr 1, 2010 5:17pm Apr 1, 2010 5:17pm
OK, so here is the logic behind sending the trades, just looking at long trades as an example, so take the opposite for sells:

 

  1. a mix of different moving averages over a mix of time frames identifies a trend. If no trend, then nothing else happens.
  2. from here, a 20 period 15M EMA minus the chosen RetraceAtr takes over. The logic is this:

    1. If the Ask is below this on load-up, the robot sends a buy. In my experience, this has yet to happen. The logic must be that the retrace is already so deep that it is right to take an immediate market trade. Hmmmmmmmm.
    2. If the Ask is above this, then the retrace has ended, so send a pending trade a few pips above the Ask, just in case the retrace has not ended.

So, why all those trades entered immediately the robot is loaded onto a chart, as experienced by me and commented on earlier by Elovv? This sounds like a logic rather than a coding problem.

Any ideas, expert coders?

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