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  • #2,221
  • Jun 7, 2010 4:18pm Jun 7, 2010 4:18pm
Don,

another quick question, what does this EA use to determine daily or weekly trend ?

Quoting disbellj
spark,

Let me look at the EA again. It should have today's date. I hope I didn't "update" an older one.

Edit: Look back two posts and get the EA from there. I did upload the wrong EA.

What is Kos' 4th condition? On M15 and H1, check Daily trend for confirmation. On H4, check Weekly trend for confirmation. So since Daily trend is still Long Strong, no short will be taken although other conditions are met. Why? This is Kos' strategy and is meant to trade exactly like Kos would.

Edit: I put it on IBFX like you're using, and trend is Short...
  • #2,222
  • Jun 7, 2010 4:26pm Jun 7, 2010 4:26pm
trade4fun,

First, thank you.

Second, it's not taking trades first because you're still using the old EA version.

See the name of the EA in top-right of picture? At this point, the latest revision is 06-07-10_2. PLEASE use the latest version. I will not answer any questions when the user is using an older version.

Also, I have explained the FOUR conditions for a BuyAll or SellAll. So NOT three, but FOUR conditions must be true for a basket trade to be taken.

Regards,

Don


Quoting trade4fun
why did the EA did not start a sell?

all first 3 indicators pointed to a sell. but the EA didnt take it. any idea why?
because it looks a like a great point for sell.

tnx
  • #2,223
  • Jun 7, 2010 4:31pm Jun 7, 2010 4:31pm
sparktrade,

As soon as a trade closes, on next tick, EA should see no trades are open, and reset profit-locking variables. Conditions and alerts for entry are reset on trades' exit. Alerts for exit are reset on trades' entry.

So looking at the above, I would say if it lines up again, since trades were closed, all conditions and entry alerts should have been reset on trades' exit, so entry should be done if/when all align again. If not, I don't know why, and this is where another coder will be needed.

Regards,

Don


Quoting sparktrade
Hi Don,

yes you are right, it did take the SHORT trade, and took me out with 175pips. Guess there was some sort of retracement. This works great I think!

Question - the trade is closed now but EA still showing conditions to enter a SHORT trade. What happens now? Does the EA "reset" itself and re-enter or what?

Thanks alot for you work on this EA

Spark
  • #2,224
  • Jun 7, 2010 4:39pm Jun 7, 2010 4:39pm
Weekly trend: If put on actual IA trades at start of broker's week, what would Buys (sum_blue) and Sells (sum_red) be?

Daily trend: If put on actual IA trades at start of broker's day, what would Buys (sum_blue) and Sells (sum_red) be?

Whichever one is above 0 is in control. If the other is below 0 (so one above 0, and one below 0) then we have a Strong trend.

This could be changed to use GMT time instead of each broker's week or day start, to make them common for all brokers as close as possible.

TO ALL:
However, before we go off making changes to a perfectly good strategy that Kos has given, why don't we test out HIS strategy FIRST? Then we can make changes MAYBE? I would hate for this to go by the wayside because we change Kos' strategy and him not participating any longer. Let's try and stick to his strategy.

Think about it like this: If ONE good EA is made that has everything in it like I'm attempting to do, then wouldn't it be relatively easy to put ANY strategy in there and easily make a new EA? Yes. So let's work on getting ONE being consistent, and THEN we can make so many EAs from this one that it's not funny (actually it would be hilarious to have many EA's to show people that they can't be stopped if on a good strategy).

Regards,

Don


Quoting sparktrade
Don,

another quick question, what does this EA use to determine daily or weekly trend ?
  • #2,225
  • Jun 7, 2010 5:37pm Jun 7, 2010 5:37pm
So let's work together on getting this ONE being consistent
instead of littering the thread with 10 of them that get nowhere, at least I have demonstrated that doing it this way has some potentials.

kos
John 3:16 - From THIS love no power on earth can me sever.
  • #2,226
  • Jun 7, 2010 5:42pm Jun 7, 2010 5:42pm
my 1st Basket, thank you Don!

my adjustment is that i set "usetftoconfirmtrend" = false.

this is against Kos' original idea. However, i think none can deny that daily IA or weekly IA are both lagging indicator for 15 min trading (in fact, i felt that T101 has misguided us from very beginning.....)
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  • #2,227
  • Edited 10:25pm Jun 7, 2010 8:58pm | Edited 10:25pm
Following the basket above

after the basket got out due to profit-locking, and then 1 hour later, Don, please see the comments in the attached image.

1. the basket profit/locked profit/stoploss etc were not updated.
i'm not sure if it is these variables are not updated or just displayed info are not updated.

2. this is more concerning:
you see all 4 buy conditions = 1, and i used "usetfconfirmtrend"=false; therefore, the EA should enter now, shouldn't it? Or this is also failure to refresh displayed info or failure to update those buy/sellconditions variables? but looks to me, the entry should've been valid, though i didn't show MACD chart.

thanks a lot in advance, dude!

Edit: i know why it didn't enter. the "TotalOrders" var is = orderstotal() instead of = total orders with the magicnumber. so when my MT4 has some other position opened, your EA stop entering.
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  • #2,228
  • Jun 7, 2010 10:14pm Jun 7, 2010 10:14pm
A Suggestion :

Steve Hopwood always advices people in his thread to use unique magic numbers. This stops the brokers from knowing that there is a specific bot that is profitable out there(Don_Kos's). The worst thing for us would be if the brokers kept faking us out only for the trade to return to our direction.

Just a thought.

Cheers.

Happy trading.
  • #2,229
  • Jun 8, 2010 12:48am Jun 8, 2010 12:48am
Hi Charvo,

I observed the same thing, the EA is not "reset" after taking a basket trade and exiting. I have manually removed the EA from the chart and put it on again to get all the variables reset and EA ready to take trades if conditions are met again.

This is something that needs to be corrected I think.

Spark

Quoting charvo
Following the basket above

after the basket got out due to profit-locking, and then 1 hour later, Don, please see the comments in the attached image.

1. the basket profit/locked profit/stoploss etc were not updated....
  • #2,230
  • Jun 8, 2010 2:49am Jun 8, 2010 2:49am
Hi,

I have experienced the very same thing.
The EA does not "reset" after taking a basket trade and exiting.
I removed the EA from the chart and attached it again to get the EA to reset the variables. And when the conditions are met again it opens the trades.

This has happened 3 times today.

Bruce
  • #2,231
  • Jun 8, 2010 7:51am Jun 8, 2010 7:51am
today i used the "good one"

i add it on the 15 minute chart. waited till snow started to melt. no trades at all.

at the moment i clicked on the 1 hour time slot it would enter all sells, since all 4 criterias were met. ofcourse this happened much to late, so it went to the stoploss.

also i got the same problem as everybody else. after a trade has been done, the basket will not reset. so need to start the Ea again. however this is risky.

because when adding and the signal is still there. it will start direct another pair of buys or sells.
  • #2,232
  • Jun 8, 2010 8:27am Jun 8, 2010 8:27am
Is there ANYBODY out there that knows how to code? I obviously need help. It seems I can get 95% of the way there, but haven't been able to tackle the other 5%.

I will go and look at the code everyone, but I can't see why things aren't resetting. I have the same problem here. Got one trade that was good and closed with profit-locking. Every opportunity since then doesn't trade. I don't know why. I'm sure it's something simple I have done wrong or missed, yet I can't seem to find it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Don
  • #2,233
  • Jun 8, 2010 8:34am Jun 8, 2010 8:34am
Kos,

Sorry for littering the thread with so many versions, but things get fixed in steps. I've done about all I can do, and need help myself to finish it looks like. But if this EA were to get fixed, it would really benefit us all, and I'm pretty positive on that, or I wouldn't have used your strategy and added all I had to it to get it this far. This thing will ROCK if fixed.

Regards,

Don


Quoting Kosomolate
So let's work together on getting this ONE being consistent
instead of littering the thread with 10 of them that get nowhere, at least I have demonstrated that doing it this way has some potentials.

kos
  • #2,234
  • Edited 10:10am Jun 8, 2010 9:12am | Edited 10:10am
Don,

I forwarded your email to a private group of EA developers and testers to get their comments. Are there any indicators that it requires?

I finally caved in and started testing it. My manual trading of t101 is only so-so, but I'm up almost $300 since yesterday and I'm on my third EA basket. So far, so good.

EDIT: Locked $554, float $750 profit.
EDIT2: Out at $607 profit after third EA basket this week.
  • #2,235
  • Jun 8, 2010 9:21am Jun 8, 2010 9:21am
Hi Don,

It looks to me like it's getting stuck in your subroutines.
You should "Return" all your functions even the voids.

Great work.

Regards, Ari
  • #2,236
  • Jun 8, 2010 9:40am Jun 8, 2010 9:40am
Hi Don,

Here is a list of programmers at FF in no particular order. (My apologies if I forget anyone, feel free to add yourself to the list). Perhaps it would be a good idea to contact them.

Zen_Leow
FerruFx
Ronald Raygun - This was posted by Ronald - I am reproducing it..
Codersguru
DGC
Tesla
Nealc99

Perhaps we can get in touch with them ...

Ganesh
The One Who Makes The Thunder Roar Also Hears A Butterfly Sigh - Ruzbeh
  • #2,237
  • Jun 8, 2010 9:41am Jun 8, 2010 9:41am
Don,

dont sweat it mate. you Don and Kos have done awesome work. i am sure someone will be able fix it.

there is a guy on this forum called SangMane. he helped me before with some coding. and he is a very nice and helpfull guy.

i could PM and ask him , or you or kos could do it. you can add me in the pm as reference. just let me know what you want.
  • #2,238
  • Jun 8, 2010 9:51am Jun 8, 2010 9:51am
Quoting disbellj
Kos,

Sorry for littering the thread with so many versions, but things get fixed in steps. I've done about all I can do, and need help myself to finish it looks like. But if this EA were to get fixed, it would really benefit us all, and I'm pretty positive on that, or I wouldn't have used your strategy and added all I had to it to get it this far. This thing will ROCK if fixed.

Regards,

Don
Don,

there is no need to be sorry for anything, iwhat you have done so far is promising, you have put the proper framework in place, all we need is someone who can put the finishing touches and we would all laugh.

yesterday 2 basket on 15min all good.
today 1 basket and very fine now, though the EA entered late because it was waiting for SAMIR daily trend to line up and by the time it did so, about 2 bars late. but now the sell basket is in deep profit.

lets say for now the EA is semi-automated, or hand driven.

My appeal goes to everyone who can code very well, pls lets pick this EA up and make it fully automated. I am a coder too but my skill is not as cute as don's

kos
John 3:16 - From THIS love no power on earth can me sever.
  • #2,239
  • Jun 8, 2010 10:43am Jun 8, 2010 10:43am
What about this:

In T101_CloseAll() OpenOrders is being set however it is never reset and consequently you get stuck forever in the while loop.



void T101_CloseAll() {
int myOrderType;
bool CloseOrder;
int OpenOrders = OrdersTotal();
while(OpenOrders > 0) {
for (int i = 0; i < OpenOrders; i++) {
OrderSelect(i, SELECT_BY_POS);
if (OrderMagicNumber()==Magicnumber) {
myOrderType = OrderType();
CloseOrder = FALSE;
switch (myOrderType) {
case OP_BUY:
CloseOrder = OrderClose(OrderTicket(), OrderLots(), MarketInfo(OrderSymbol(), MODE_BID), 5, Red);
break;
case OP_SELL:
CloseOrder = OrderClose(OrderTicket(), OrderLots(), MarketInfo(OrderSymbol(), MODE_ASK), 5, Red);
break;
case OP_BUYLIMIT:
case OP_BUYSTOP:
case OP_SELLLIMIT:
case OP_SELLSTOP:
CloseOrder = OrderDelete(OrderTicket());
}
}
}
}
ObjectsDeleteAll();
Trade = "None";
BuyCondition1 = False;
SellCondition1 = False;
BuyCondition2 = False;
SellCondition2 = False;
BuyCondition3 = False;
SellCondition3 = False;
BuyCondition4 = False;
SellCondition4 = False;
BuyAlertDone = False;
SellAlertDone = False;

return;
}
  • #2,240
  • Jun 8, 2010 10:46am Jun 8, 2010 10:46am
don't worry, don, i think it is just a hidden bug or lack of one line. we just take some time to figure it out.


Quoting disbellj
Is there ANYBODY out there that knows how to code?

Don
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