Good Evening/Morning Geoff
If anyone had followed post #3197 .....well done you would have just closed a very nice trade on GU...
Just to make up for the EA not trading today...
Good morning/evening calstock!
I'm pleased to see that your methods are working, is there any way I can
get a DLL feed from your brain to the EA? :nerd:
Geoff,
sory for being a pain but as a morning routine I do most recent backtesting (allthoug I don't know if it is really worth the time). Still I don't find the logic behind different profitability between the v7a and v8.
I changed the setup for v8 from t/p1 24 to 22 and t/p2 47 to 50 to avoid the s/l on April6th and to have exactly the same setting on both versions.
Still something in v8 decreases the profitability from v7a.....at least for Alpari uk classic.....
There is no difference between the two in the way that the order is produced
but there is a difference in the way that the slippage is generated which will
have a small effect on the order price, as much as 3 pips per order.
But it had to be changed as the slippage was set too tight before and could
have resulted in trades being missed completely.
and here is my backtest...
. I am really getting worried!!Hi Geoff,
I backtested the V8 on IBFX from Feb 2010 till the 12th April and my results were totally different from Tinorio's.
While he got no losses in this same period, I've got 7.
Comparing our statements, while certain trades are consistent between Alpari and IBFX, he has some trades on which are not triggered in IBFX and vice versa. This I believe could be due to the 'minor' price differences between broker which could cause certain conditions not met in your EA and hence no trigger. But there are at least 2 trades which shows very strange...
I think someone should start a new thread for using this EA on different pairs!
I suspect that you have done these tests during the weekend as the Alpari
prices imply a spread of 8 to 10 pips.
The weekend spread, particularly on Alpari demo accounts, is very different
from spread during the week!
To clarify, I did the test on IBFX only ( Tinorio did it on the Alpari)
Sorry but do you mean that the spread is dependent on the time BACKTESTING is done? The mysterious trade which I highlighted previously falls on the 25th March which is a Thursday. It is not a weekend.
I have been asked to put together a file on how I would trade with the SimpleH1 EA.
So I have included it here, I hope some of you find it usefull.
Any questions feel free to ask..
Hi,
maybe is a stupid question, but you know, i'm a new in this world...
i'm testing your ea and i see that in the last year is really amazing, all year in profit!
I've test also the year before (from june 2008 to june 2009).
in this year your ea sometime has a loss, not a lot, but is not so unfailing like 2009/2010.
do you optimize this ea for the last year? or this is due to a different market trend that is not possible to foresee?
I ask because i'm interesting how an ea work, and since your is the better that i have test up to now...
thanks...
Has anyone backtested version 8 for 2008. My results are very poor with a big loss using default settings. I'm not saying EA is not a winner but how would you get around a year like that? I tried running with different settings (TP 1-48,TP 2-94,SL-280, trailing SL-48) and got a nice profit (with some heavy DD). But then these settings did poorly in 2010. So I guess what we're after here are settings that will turn a profit no matter what year you're testing. Has anyone come up with the magic combination of settings? Or are we just curve fitting...
The EA is optimised based on the last 12 months and the settings will be checked regularly on this basis.
I have never seen the point in longer back tests, the EA would not have performed well in 1997, so what
the EA wasn't around in 1997!
We are using it in 2010 and, hopefully, in 2011 the past is interesting but
the future is much more interesting!
