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  • #721
  • Apr 9, 2010 11:24am Apr 9, 2010 11:24am
Quoting paulbt38
Saying that I have a nice healthy open profit at the moment and my first 2ma MACD 4hr pending trades have been taken. Pity the week had to end.
Seems like you're seeing some good results overall Paul. Profit is profit.

I've been experimenting with the 2MA-MACD bot manually closing some trades, either partial or full close. I've been looking at the trades once placed by the bot and examining higher timeframes, support/resistance and news reports. I use some judgment and close some trades to capture profit, particularly if I doubt the trade's eventual profitability within the bot's take profit strategy. Using this approach on one demo I have captured 1912 pips this week. I hope that the next few weeks show this approach to be viable and/or that the demo of the bot without manual intervention continues to be profitable.

Massive thanks to our great leader and master contributor, Steve, and his Beneficent Prolific-ness and a respectful, appreciative acknowledgment to Schlossberg and Lien
  • #722
  • Apr 9, 2010 1:08pm Apr 9, 2010 1:08pm
Massive thanks to our great leader and master contributor, Steve, and his Beneficent Prolific-ness and a respectful, appreciative acknowledgment to Schlossberg and Lien http://cdn.forexfactory.com/images/s.../notworthy.gif

Yes, thanks Steve!!

Sometimes I realy wish I could say what I think but my language is Swedish and my knowledges are to bad in english. Im to old, my children speaks perfect english. I´m really thankfull for what you do!

Best wishes
Elovv
  • #723
  • Apr 9, 2010 2:26pm Apr 9, 2010 2:26pm
Quoting paulbt38
Steve

Glad your 10 a day burst into live last night. Just checked my account and no action (this is on Alpari UK Demo). Also no trade on Asian Breakout all week after a promising run last week. I can only see my account on myfxbook when at work so will check the log tonight and see if any errors stopped any trades.

Again, thanks for your hard work
I too have ea's that have done nothing all week on one demo, whilst going insane on another. Do The Right Thing has taken umpteen trades and lost a mint on my programming machine, yet taken bugger all on my trading machine.

It could be that too many robots on too many charts on one platform causes the platform to simply close down some of them without telling us. I simply do not know.

  • #724
  • Apr 9, 2010 2:31pm Apr 9, 2010 2:31pm
Quoting astral77
Hi Paul

You are quite right. Sometimes when automating you can not replicate the system 100% and I THINK that this is the case here. I do not know if the same thing happens if you choose the full candle option since I do not use that option. I agree with you that this seems to be a sound system and STEVE has done a fantastic job automating it. Please bear in mind what Schlossberg says (i.e. Trading is an ART). I think this BOT benefits from some manual intervention for example when you feel the entry was not good enough closing the trade or adjusting...
Yep. I am being a bit optimistic describing the robots as 'auto-traders'. Ok, so they can be, but a bit of manual intervention does no harm.

Let's face it, if a buy trade has an auto-calculated tp of 1.4015, the market has hit 1.3995 and the trade is massively, even slightly, in profit, then only the naive would not close it.

  • #725
  • Apr 9, 2010 5:33pm Apr 9, 2010 5:33pm
Quoting Elovv
Massive thanks to our great leader and master contributor, Steve, and his Beneficent Prolific-ness and a respectful, appreciative acknowledgment to Schlossberg and Lien http://cdn.forexfactory.com/images/s.../notworthy.gif

Yes, thanks Steve!!
Here, Here. I agree and think Steve was sent by God to help us battle the criminal plonkers that call themselves Forex brokers.
  • #726
  • Apr 9, 2010 5:41pm Apr 9, 2010 5:41pm
Quoting sundog
Astral,

How is your 2ma Macd on the 4 hr going? you're live with it correct?
Yes I am live and still making some profit. However, during the last 2 weeks I had the worst Flu virus in my life and could not get rid of it, lung infection, fever, etc. after 2 weeks and 2 courses of Antibiotics I am a bit better, but still under the weather. During this time I was not watching the trades a lot and 5 trades cost me around 600 PIPS!!!

I am convinced this is a sound system (results have proven it) in particular in 4H and D1 TF and very good EA by Steve, but needs manual intervention and limit of SL levels.

Kind Regards
P.s. when I get back to normal I will post my results.
  • #727
  • Apr 9, 2010 5:54pm Apr 9, 2010 5:54pm
Quoting astral77
...when I get back to normal I will post my results.
Hope you are back to full health very soon Astral. Sounds like an awful, awful flu.
  • #728
  • Apr 9, 2010 8:18pm Apr 9, 2010 8:18pm
Quoting astral77
Yes I am live and still making some profit. However, during the last 2 weeks I had the worst Flu virus in my life and could not get rid of it, lung infection, fever, etc. after 2 weeks and 2 courses of Antibiotics I am a bit better, but still under the weather. During this time I was not watching the trades a lot and 5 trades cost me around 600 PIPS!!!

I am convinced this is a sound system (results have proven it) in particular in 4H and D1 TF and very good EA by Steve, but needs manual intervention and limit of SL levels.

Kind Regards
P.s....
Thanks for the reply, and I hope you get well soon.
  • #729
  • Apr 10, 2010 1:07am Apr 10, 2010 1:07am
Quoting astral77
Here, Here. I agree and think Steve was sent by God to help us battle the criminal plonkers that call themselves Forex brokers.
Cheers guys. Looks like I am on the road to rehabilitation from my criminal activities.
  • #730
  • Apr 10, 2010 1:14am Apr 10, 2010 1:14am
Quoting astral77
I am convinced this is a sound system (results have proven it) in particular in 4H and D1 TF and very good EA by Steve, but needs manual intervention and limit of SL levels.
I suppose that trading 4H and D1 charts are going to give some fairly distant stops, given that they are the hi-lo of the previous 5 bars. This in turn will give a fairly distant tp and half-close at open price +- 50% of the stop.

Would you like a Maximum_Stop_Loss_Pips feature?

I hope you get better quickly. The flu is horrible.

  • #731
  • Apr 10, 2010 1:40am Apr 10, 2010 1:40am
I have been doing a bit of housekeeping

 

  1. correct template for 2ma
  2. added code to stop changing time frames messing up the display for: 10 a day; 5mm; Asian Session break out.

  • #732
  • Apr 10, 2010 9:59am Apr 10, 2010 9:59am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Would you like a Maximum_Stop_Loss_Pips feature?
Steve, I think that might be useful addition to the bot.
  • #733
  • Apr 10, 2010 11:09am Apr 10, 2010 11:09am
Quoting octomanoak
Steve, I think that might be useful addition to the bot.
Just coding it now 'cos I am in the mood.

Any preferences for a default?

  • #734
  • Apr 10, 2010 11:55am Apr 10, 2010 11:55am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Would you like a Maximum_Stop_Loss_Pips feature?
This sounds like a good idea Steve. A settable S/L would be my own preference so you can play around on different T/Fs. Still the choice is yours !!
  • #735
  • Apr 10, 2010 11:58am Apr 10, 2010 11:58am
Hi Steve,
This is a repost from last Thursday about the JS on this bot. It took 5 trades in all on Thursday and Friday. Three went into the second position and the JS never moved on all three. I got from the video that the JS was the only TP exit on the bot.
You were so run over on Thursday I just waited till today to repost. If you get a chance to look it over I'll try it out again Monday.......

Have a great weekend

whip
  • #736
  • Apr 10, 2010 3:26pm Apr 10, 2010 3:26pm
Quoting hiredwhip
Hi Steve,
This is a repost from last Thursday about the JS on this bot. It took 5 trades in all on Thursday and Friday. Three went into the second position and the JS never moved on all three. I got from the video that the JS was the only TP exit on the bot.
You were so run over on Thursday I just waited till today to repost. If you get a chance to look it over I'll try it out again Monday.......

Have a great weekend

whip
Sorry whip, I didn't see your post on Thursday.

Trying to hone down onto the problem here.

I am not sure what you mean by "Three went into the second position". Do you mean that the trades half-closed and the stop moved to be + BEP?

Cheers
  • #737
  • Apr 10, 2010 3:34pm Apr 10, 2010 3:34pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
Sorry whip, I didn't see your post on Thursday.

Trying to hone down onto the problem here.

I am not sure what you mean by "Three went into the second position". Do you mean that the trades half-closed and the stop moved to be + BEP?

Cheers
Hi Steve,
Yes the trades went to half closed but the JS didn't go to + BEP.
thanks for the answer.....have a good weekend...

whip
  • #738
  • Apr 10, 2010 4:02pm Apr 10, 2010 4:02pm
Quoting hiredwhip
Hi Steve,
Yes the trades went to half closed but the JS didn't go to + BEP.
thanks for the answer.....have a good weekend...

whip
Nice one whip, and thanks for nagging.
I have looked at the code and spotted a logic flaw. It is all about loops.

The half-close happened within the loop around open trades that spotted that the market had moved sufficiently to close half of the trade.

The move to be +- BEP needs to happen outside that loop, else a failure means the robot will never spot that it is needed. I had not moved the code outside the loop, so the robot never spotted that a failed attempt to move to be had happened.

JS only works once the stop has moved to be +- BEP. So, once the initial move to be failed, the robot makes no subsequent attempts and so the JS cannot work.

See what I mean about a logic fuzz?

Lost the will to live yet? You should have. This is the world that I live in.

I have updated the code and added the fix to post 1. Mind, the drinkies have been good tonight and I have Added Code Under The Influence. I shall look at it again in the morning, so you might want to wait a few hours before downloading the fix.

  • #739
  • Apr 10, 2010 4:08pm Apr 10, 2010 4:08pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
Nice one whip, and thanks for nagging.
I have looked at the code and spotted a logic flaw. It is all about loops.

The half-close happened within the loop around open trades that spotted that the market had moved sufficiently to close half of the trade.

The move to be +- BEP needs to happen outside that loop, else a failure means the robot will never spot that it is needed. I had not moved the code outside the loop, so the robot never spotted that a failed attempt to move to be had happened.

JS only works once the stop has moved to be +-...
Thankz Steve,
I think I'll wait........haha

whip
  • #740
  • Apr 10, 2010 4:22pm Apr 10, 2010 4:22pm
Quoting Rascacio
This sounds like a good idea Steve. A settable S/L would be my own preference so you can play around on different T/Fs. Still the choice is yours !!
Added and uploaded to post 1.

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