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  • #381
  • Jun 2, 2010 2:29am Jun 2, 2010 2:29am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Another seriously good idea is to disable that criminal resource thief Windows dumprep.exe

If you simply bought a machine with Windows installed, you don't even know this blasted 'utility' is running. Every time a Windows app crashes, this 'utility' sends a 'report' to Microsoft detailing the fault.

And takes bloody ages to do so.

To learn how to rid yourself of this horrendous 'utility', simply Google "disable dumprep" for instructions - very simple to do.

I am not saying this is always the cause of a slow-moving computer, but trust me to...
Also there is little point in allowing MT4 to store/update millions of charts/bars, so you can safely turn these numbers down to free up resources
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  • #382
  • Jun 2, 2010 3:08am Jun 2, 2010 3:08am
Thank you macman

valuable information

much appreciated

Quoting macman
Also there is little point in allowing MT4 to store/update millions of charts/bars, so you can safely turn these numbers down to free up resources
  • #383
  • Jun 2, 2010 3:23am Jun 2, 2010 3:23am
Quoting bluemele
I guess this would be due to a fast moving market? Maybe put in some retries or something?? I don't know.
There is a 'slippage' allowance built in to cater for fast-moving markets but it does not always work; sometimes a trade simply fails and there is nothing we can do about it.

The robot is programmed to keep on trying if a trade-send fails. This involves a re-check of market conditions, so a trade will be cancelled if these are no longer appropriate.

  • #384
  • Jun 2, 2010 3:42am Jun 2, 2010 3:42am
Latest version:

 

  1. fixed a bug that stopped the breech fib displaying properly following a trend flip. It is comical to watch whilst the market oscillates around the intraday pivot.
  2. added code to adjust the intraday following a move-and-retrace to the intraday T1 (134, -34). This happens however tiny the retrace, so continued adjustments will be made if the move continues.

Simone confirmed in a pm to me that she adjusts the tp of open trades if there is a new confirmed intraday hi-lo. This makes sense, as it takes a retrace to R1/S1 to confirm the new hi-lo, which suggests the market is taking a breather before continuing the move. I shall code this soon.

The Intraday hi-lo are always difficult to break through, so I will add code to allow half-close and stop move to be + BEP. For easy sl/tp manipulation, Click_And-Drag provides a quick solution. It is an ea and so needs to go on a separate chart to that of the trading robot; alternatively, now that Simone picks up where she left off you can drag CAD onto the chart, make your adjustments then re-drag Simone. You adjusts sl/tp by selecting the relevant line and moving it; the stops will follow at the next tick.

The bot is still experimental, which is why I am posting it here instead of its own thread. Most of the functions appear to be working correctly and there is not much code to add. I am not quite ready to go live with it, but it should not be long - beginning of next week at the latest. Thanks for your continued help and support, guys.

In case people have not noticed, there are inputs to allow you to control the direction in which the robot trades and to send alerts rather than trades when there is a setup. These are for the manual traders using the robot as an aid.

There is also a 5 digit input in the Breech fib section that offers a minimum acceptable pivot break distance; the robot already caters for 4 digit crims.

Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Simone Guy's Simple & Consistent Fibbing Method EA.mq4   30 KB | 366 downloads
File Type: mq4 Click-and-drag take profit and stop loss EA.mq4   12 KB | 369 downloads
  • #385
  • Jun 2, 2010 8:13am Jun 2, 2010 8:13am
Quoting pathumracled
Howdy y'all.. my 2 Pips worth:

S/He who plans to take more from t the market than the market is prepare to give MUST be prepared to lose more than initially risked/margined/planned.

I set me a reasonable target, 25%; 50%; 75%; 100% of margined amount... Like that.

[color=black][font=Verdana]So if any one of those is met in my pre defined trading session, then...
I have been thinking about this. Would you like a stop-trading-after-x%-profit-is-reached feature? It is not a priority as I have other things that need coding first, but it can easily be added soon.

  • #386
  • Jun 2, 2010 8:18am Jun 2, 2010 8:18am
Quoting SteveHopwood
I have been thinking about this. Would you like a stop-trading-after-x%-profit-is-reached feature? It is not a priority as I have other things that need coding first, but it can easily be added soon.

I think that would be a useful feature. Maybe others can chime in whether they agree.
  • #387
  • Jun 2, 2010 9:13am Jun 2, 2010 9:13am
Quoting octomanoak
I think that would be a useful feature. Maybe others can chime in whether they agree.
Howdy..octomanoak! & All,

This is a good feature but IMHO I would prefer the opening Balance being the reference, rather than the % Profit.

At worse case, could we have the option of ether or either? ?


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  • #388
  • Jun 2, 2010 9:29am Jun 2, 2010 9:29am
Quoting octomanoak
You are fortunate. I have only 12 pairs running and after running for awhile, it moves up to at least 50% of my 4-Core VPS CPU. And the usage creeps higher over time until 100% CPU is consumed.

Any ideas how to fix that?
Hey octoman, it's not how much processor capability you have. What really matters is if you have enough ram to handle it usually. I would say 8 gigs of ram is minimum these days.
  • #389
  • Jun 2, 2010 10:08am Jun 2, 2010 10:08am
Quoting obnoxious2
Hey octoman, it's not how much processor capability you have. What really matters is if you have enough ram to handle it usually. I would say 8 gigs of ram is minimum these days.
Hi obnoxious,

The problem I'm having is the CPU resource on a 4-core high-end server. I'm not seeing the use of even half the installed RAM.

BTW, I recompiled the EA. And now I'm seeing only consistent use of 50% CPU by the bot. At least re-compiling reduced it so that it does not creep up to 100% CPU usage.
  • #390
  • Jun 2, 2010 1:26pm Jun 2, 2010 1:26pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
Welcome back. Also go to my swing thread where an ea is enjoying unexpected success and where hiredwhip is having some fun with an ss and mptm combination to do some scalping - he will explain.

Hello Steve...
I went to the other thread and saw the method hiredwhip is using, and I like that type of comb0 The only drawback, in my case is, that I hate standing at the computer to place the trade when the signal goes off. I did read much of the threads to make sure I didn't ask the following question without making sure it wasn't already answered. I tried the SS EA as well as your recent Simone ea and they are as usual a piece of art. Is there a way, I know you are very busy and not able to perhaps do another ea. But in case you have a spare moment is there a way to code an ea just to trade when the super signal indicator gives an alert for a long or buy, and we can use the mtpm ea to manage the rest tp/sl,etc . I did see the SS EA but unless I am not doing something right I didn't see a buy when the indicator said strong buy so I placed on manually.
  • #391
  • Jun 2, 2010 4:51pm Jun 2, 2010 4:51pm
Hi Steve

My vote is YES a Percentage Profit Target as user defined option would increase the EAs felaxbilty to experiment with TP

Quoting SteveHopwood
I have been thinking about this. Would you like a stop-trading-after-x%-profit-is-reached feature? It is not a priority as I have other things that need coding first, but it can easily be added soon.

  • #392
  • Edited 5:37pm Jun 2, 2010 4:53pm | Edited 5:37pm
8 gig of Ram minimum !

I dream of 8 Gigs of Ram

Quoting obnoxious2
Hey octoman, it's not how much processor capability you have. What really matters is if you have enough ram to handle it usually. I would say 8 gigs of ram is minimum these days.
  • #393
  • Jun 2, 2010 5:03pm Jun 2, 2010 5:03pm
Quoting Burton
8 gig f Ram minimum !

I dream of 8 Gigs of Ram
Hehe. My trading machine has 0.5 gig ram - but trading is all it has to do.

My coding machine has 1 gig ram.Mind, it hangs up its hat and goes on strike from time to time.

  • #394
  • Jun 2, 2010 5:08pm Jun 2, 2010 5:08pm
Hi Steve,

I am using the EA that just plots the daily, monthly etc fibs. for manual trading.
But I dont get the yellow breach fib appearing on my chart. Its attached to my EurUsd chart since evening.
  • #395
  • Jun 2, 2010 5:20pm Jun 2, 2010 5:20pm
Quoting ukcool
Hi Steve,

I am using the EA that just plots the daily, monthly etc fibs. for manual trading.
But I dont get the yellow breach fib appearing on my chart. Its attached to my EurUsd chart since evening.
It is probably getting obscured by all the other fib levels. Call up your objects window and you will find it there. Doesn't help it display, mind.

You might need two charts side-by-side. One displaying the htf levels and one displaying intraday and breech fibs. You will just have to play around with stuff to find what works for you.

  • #396
  • Jun 2, 2010 5:27pm Jun 2, 2010 5:27pm
ah ok , thanks Steve
  • #397
  • Jun 2, 2010 5:45pm Jun 2, 2010 5:45pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
Hehe. My trading machine has 0.5 gig ram - but trading is all it has to do.

My coding machine has 1 gig ram.Mind, it hangs up its hat and goes on strike from time to time.

Wow I don't know how you guys do it. I have 2 gigs on this laptop (grant it that it has a 4 year old processor) and it was lagging my comp like crazy when I tried to run the swing break and swing continuation at the same time.
  • #398
  • Jun 2, 2010 6:35pm Jun 2, 2010 6:35pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
Hehe. My trading machine has 0.5 gig ram - but trading is all it has to do.

My coding machine has 1 gig ram.Mind, it hangs up its hat and goes on strike from time to time.

According to my VPS provider you can run 4 mt4 programs with 1gig of ram without any problem. However, they do not mention anything about how many charts and what indicators you can have with that amount of memory.

Some indicators do consume cpu resources like crazy. Swingman is the expert in this field, however, he does not seem to be around recently. For instance one of his dashboards was consuming so much CPU that he had to program it as an EA in order to rectify the situation.

Kind Regards
  • #399
  • Jun 2, 2010 8:17pm Jun 2, 2010 8:17pm
Another tip. Keep Task Manager running in the background (right click on the task bar and then Task Manager).

Whenever the icon is full of green, have a look to see what is using all the resources (Processes tab). You will quickly learn which ones can be shut down immediately - this is how I learned about dumprep.exe. Another good one to kill instantly is something like MpsEng.exe - can't remember exactly what this one is called, and no idea what it does apart from slowing my machine to a crawl.

It does no harm to remember that we traders are not only fighting the markets and the criminals, but we are also fighting Microsoft as well.

  • #400
  • Jun 3, 2010 4:12am Jun 3, 2010 4:12am

  1. squished a bug that prevented the intraday resizing after the markets get to T1.
  2. for the manual traders: added code to place an arrow on the candle that generates a trade setup alert.
  3. for the coders: void GetPosition() now stores all the ticket numbers of a sequence of trades in an array TicketNumbers[]. This is to facilitate later coding that manipulates stops and tp's. The digit showing on screen represents NoOfTrades + 1. It is there so I can check my array logic is correct; I have trouble with this.

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File Type: mq4 Simone Guy's Simple & Consistent Fibbing Method EA.mq4   32 KB | 311 downloads
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