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  • #441
  • Apr 23, 2010 11:46am Apr 23, 2010 11:46am
Hi Geoff,

do you turn on the EA for sundays Tokyo open??

cheers

Grant
  • #442
  • Apr 23, 2010 12:16pm Apr 23, 2010 12:16pm
Quoting grant18265
Hi Geoff,

do you turn on the EA for sundays Tokyo open??

cheers

Grant
Yes, for me it's midnight when Tokyo opens, one hour after Alpari comes back on line.

The EA will use Fridays trend data to place its order.
  • #443
  • Apr 23, 2010 2:50pm Apr 23, 2010 2:50pm
Bummer, had my first losers last night. Lost on both the GU and the EU. Oh well, will continue to test. Using version 5
Believe and Achieve!
  • #444
  • Apr 23, 2010 3:12pm Apr 23, 2010 3:12pm
The same thing happened to me but I had 4 of them, two on each.

But that means we have it out of the way and don't have to worry about it for awhile. Isn't that the way it goes?

Have a great weekend.
  • #445
  • Apr 23, 2010 4:06pm Apr 23, 2010 4:06pm
Quoting sirwolf
Bummer, had my first losers last night. Lost on both the GU and the EU. Oh well, will continue to test. Using version 5
I did some testing on EURUSD today and I'm afraid it did not look good.

When you say v5 I hope you mean v5a?

I didn't get any trades last night on v5 or v4!

Wierd!
  • #446
  • Apr 23, 2010 4:27pm Apr 23, 2010 4:27pm
Quoting geoffb65
I did some testing on EURUSD today and I'm afraid it did not look good.

When you say v5 I hope you mean v5a?

I didn't get any trades last night on v5 or v4!

Wierd!
I didnt see 5a in time. I have it loaded and ready for Monday.

Have a great weekend all!

SirWolf
Believe and Achieve!
  • #447
  • Edited 7:35pm Apr 23, 2010 7:24pm | Edited 7:35pm
Quoting sirwolf
Bummer, had my first losers last night. Lost on both the GU and the EU. Oh well, will continue to test. Using version 5
I have to raise my voice here, I placed geoffb65 robot on my account

and first day run v2 and second v5... You guys have to figure out first

how to set Start_Time at Asia session, which is 0.00 (midnight) GTM..

Set Trailing stop/ Target and so on... It's all important, no jokes...

Then you'll have results. Spend some time, do some learning at least,

before complaining on FREE stuff (probably that's why I never start my

own thread..)

Here is results trading last 2 days with 1 Lot (100,000 units)

Looks inside green (that's what robot did while I was sleeping, rest is my manual trading activity):
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  • #448
  • Apr 23, 2010 7:46pm Apr 23, 2010 7:46pm
Here are my backtests for v5a. It works a lot better, but first 4 months of 2009 were still rather weak. I've also noticed that you're doing your backtests since May of 2009, so that's why you don't see those "bad times" on your graph.

Please note that I'm using 23:00 GMT (NY close +1) as the start hour, other hours give me worse results.

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  • #449
  • Apr 23, 2010 9:28pm Apr 23, 2010 9:28pm
SkyzerFX

I was not complaining. I was simply reporting on the results of my testing. There are different results from different brokers. I am reporting for InterbankFX. I have figured out the time factor. My EA initiates right at the beginning of the Tokyo session. However, you will see that you had 2 Sells initiated that ended in profit. I had 1 SELL initiated which ended in loss. DIfferent results from different brokers. I reported my 3 nights in profit the 3 nights before. Reporting results, good and bad, is all part of refining the system.
SirWolf


Quoting SkyzerFX
I have to raise my voice here, I placed geoffb65 robot on my account

and first day run v2 and second v5... You guys have to figure out first

how to set Start_Time at Asia session, which is 0.00 (midnight) GTM..

Set Trailing stop/ Target and so on... It's all important, no jokes...

Then you'll have results. Spend some time, do some learning at least,

before complaining on FREE stuff (probably that's why I never start my

own thread..)

Here is results trading last 2 days with 1 Lot (100,000 units)

Looks inside green (that's what robot...
Believe and Achieve!
  • #450
  • Edited 3:25am Apr 24, 2010 3:11am | Edited 3:25am
Quoting piotrek_FX
Here are my backtests for v5a. It works a lot better, but first 4 months of 2009 were still rather weak. I've also noticed that you're doing your backtests since May of 2009, so that's why you don't see those "bad times" on your graph.

Please note that I'm using 23:00 GMT (NY close +1) as the start hour, other hours give me worse results.

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I only tested for 12 months, I don't have enough disc space on my laptop to handle Dukascopy data, so your results are extremely valuable.

However, I can't help wondering just how relevent past results are.
I admit, these are the only guide we have at this time and many would argue that without them we would have to wait for 12 months live forward results before deciding to use the EA.

The way the market changes over time really leaves us little option but to find a compromise solution and accept that there will be periods when our EA will do well and other times when it will not do so well.

If it does well more often than it does badly, in the long term we will profit!

P.S.
For anyone interested in viewing Robot comparisons here is a very interesting site where they do live testing of, remember this, commercial Robots:

http://www.forexrobotsfactory.com/si...obot_Main.aspx

Some of the Robots on this site do very well for an odd month and then fall down dramatically.
For some of them the results are pathetic from day one!

I am quite sure our EA beats the pants off any of these commercial Robots!
  • #451
  • Apr 24, 2010 3:35am Apr 24, 2010 3:35am
Quoting sirwolf
I didnt see 5a in time. I have it loaded and ready for Monday.

Have a great weekend all!

SirWolf
Hi sirwolf

I need to point out to you that there is a bug in v5 that prevents the trailing stop from working on the second order.

As it is both orders will close at the same value +22 pips.

Can't wait for Monday!
  • #452
  • Apr 24, 2010 3:45am Apr 24, 2010 3:45am
Quoting SkyzerFX
I have to raise my voice here, I placed geoffb65 robot on my account

and first day run v2 and second v5... You guys have to figure out first

how to set Start_Time at...
I love this "that's what robot did while I was sleeping" how many manual traders can say that!

The perfect way to use an EA, generate some extra profit while you sleep!
  • #453
  • Apr 24, 2010 4:59am Apr 24, 2010 4:59am
hey i'm back in that nice thread, i've taken some vacations, so i've not tested it yet.
Since the early days, you have made so much work and nice coding: easy to read and understand, no all that eyecandy stuff here, all i like

Some comments and questions:
- totalopenorders: on a non stop trading account, how many trades can be taken at once ? Is there a need to calculate it against free margin ?

- what do you think about its return on the dead hours ?

- TP SL & TS are not linked to atr and are not dynamic, what's about ?

Ready to test it on next week
  • #454
  • Apr 24, 2010 5:33am Apr 24, 2010 5:33am
Quoting dinofx
hey i'm back in that nice thread, i've taken some vacations, so i've not tested it yet.
Since the early days, you have made so much work and nice coding: easy to read and understand, no all that eyecandy stuff here, all i like...
Welcome back!

There can be 4 current orders, 2 long, 2 short, the lots are calculated on the account equity, so each new order will have a smaller lot size.

Not quite sure what you mean about the "dead hours", I'm not usually "dead" only asleep!

I am open to suggestions regarding TP, SL & TSL being linked to ATR because I have yet to see a system that works, especially through the Asian session when the market can be very quiet.

I'm very pleased that you like my code, it has to be simple for me to understand it!

It is based on a very old program that I have used hundreds of times to quickly test strategies, a sort of "template" that is easy to change!
  • #455
  • Apr 24, 2010 5:49am Apr 24, 2010 5:49am
thanks for your comments,

by "dead hours" i mean the "quiet hours"/"ranging hours" mainly 16gmt to 02gmt
  • #456
  • Apr 24, 2010 5:56am Apr 24, 2010 5:56am
Quoting dinofx
thanks for your comments,

by "dead hours" i mean the "quiet hours"/"ranging hours" mainly 16gmt to 02gmt
When I started this thread I was mainly interested in the period after NY close up to Tokyo open and I have tried the EA with different start times and that is how I ended up with the Tokyo open as the optimum!

I'm sure the strategy will work at different times, for instance there is often a reversal with London open and with NY open.

Oh my God, I feel a "scalper" EA coming on!
  • #457
  • Apr 24, 2010 6:13am Apr 24, 2010 6:13am
Quoting geoffb65
When I started this thread I was mainly interested in the period after NY close up to Tokyo open and I have tried the EA with different start times and that is how I ended up with the Tokyo open as the optimum!

I'm sure the strategy will work at different times, for instance there is often a reversal with London open and with NY open.

Oh my God, I feel a "scalper" EA coming on!
i agree too, the starting point is good no doubt but BOJ can break the trend how and when they want/need with the collaboration of other central banks, so i follow the weekly yen trend to understand or try to what they will do. Then market often asleep after the first 3 or 4 NY activity hours and range waiting Tokyo market, so my question about dead hours and maybe stop the robot for the end of the day, just trail the opened trades.
  • #458
  • Apr 24, 2010 9:42am Apr 24, 2010 9:42am
Good day,
I tried your EA simple v5a and it's very impressible on Alpari account. My account on GMT+3 server. I tried to change a GMTOFF to 3 and I don't get good results. Maybe I need to change anything more?
Thank you.
  • #459
  • Apr 24, 2010 10:37am Apr 24, 2010 10:37am
Geoff, seems like (just thinking not looking) the trend starts or excellerates at the start of the London session and tends to reverse strongly about 2 hours into the session. Im sleeping then but always thought that would be the most exciting time to trade.
  • #460
  • Apr 24, 2010 1:04pm Apr 24, 2010 1:04pm
Quoting Bankshot
Geoff, seems like (just thinking not looking) the trend starts or excellerates at the start of the London session and tends to reverse strongly about 2 hours into the session. Im sleeping then but always thought that would be the most exciting time to trade.
Yes, the London session is often volatile, I am seriously thinking about coding a scalper for the GBPUSD!
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