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  • #401
  • Jul 20, 2010 1:06am Jul 20, 2010 1:06am
Oh Ronald, your EA's look's they got a testosterone shot today. The just keep opening positions as soon as TP is reached. Is this normal?
  • #402
  • Jul 20, 2010 1:18am Jul 20, 2010 1:18am
Quoting Forexaccount
Oh Ronald, your EA's look's they got a testosterone shot today. The just keep opening positions as soon as TP is reached. Is this normal?
i encountered the same thing last week with the previous EA, even if MaxSimultaneousTrades=1. An answer will be good to clear our minds
Today I BUY, tomorrow I SELL!
  • #403
  • Jul 20, 2010 1:35am Jul 20, 2010 1:35am
Thanks! I've noticed that if you keep the maxorders at 10 it will just keep opening orders (up to 10 I guess) as long as the conditions are met.
  • #404
  • Jul 20, 2010 2:09am Jul 20, 2010 2:09am
These are the results for the massive position openings. Looks great and this happened with the trailing stop option set to "false"
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  • #405
  • Jul 20, 2010 4:44am Jul 20, 2010 4:44am
i just set up the HiLo Optimizing and took 3 winning trades...
seems good to me i'll post later after some more time with it...
thx btw!
  • #406
  • Jul 20, 2010 5:41am Jul 20, 2010 5:41am
Quoting Zurathustra
Quick question, has anyone been able to get these (or any) EA to actually make trades using IBFX since they did their change over this weekend?

I busted out some of my older EA's and tested them but for some reason I'm getting no trades and no error messages... I even made an EA that trades if close > open or close < open just so I knew that it would be sending trades.. nothing.

May be time for a new broker

EDIT: Well, apparently IBFX is using some kinda shitty ECN esque system now.. Explains why "most" of my EA's aren't working.
IBFX added a true market order type (it was all limit orders before). The catch is that you have to add the SL and TP after the market order fills. Maybe this is the problem.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  • #407
  • Jul 20, 2010 6:13am Jul 20, 2010 6:13am
Quoting kneal
First off, I'd like to say that I love the potential of the EA.

My question is this... if it is to be truly a self optimizing EA then why not have the EA to automatically set the the TP and SL itself from the data it is using to optimize itself?
As I explained earlier, this self-optimizing EA isn't 'true' optimization, it's a more efficient form of optimization.
  • #408
  • Jul 20, 2010 6:13am Jul 20, 2010 6:13am
Quoting Forexaccount
Ok Ronald, I just reloaded the other time frames. Now I have BreakOut for Hilo Trader[TD] and nothing for Hilo Trader Optimizing. See pictures
How many H1 bars do you have in your history center? (F2). And why for that matter is the HiLo SO EA on H1?
  • #409
  • Jul 20, 2010 6:15am Jul 20, 2010 6:15am
Quoting zoogle
But only the two around the price at each point in time would be of importance for backtesting

Inserted Code
   int mult=1
   if (Digits == 4 || Digits == 5) mult = 100;
   double RNabove = MathRound( ( (Bid+Ask)/2 + MathPow(mult,-1)/2) * mult)/mult;
   double RNbelow = RNabove - MathPow(mult,-1);
PM me, seems there may be another system coming.
  • #410
  • Jul 20, 2010 6:17am Jul 20, 2010 6:17am
Quoting getting
anyone tinker with "MaximumBarShift = 1440;" ?
I knock it down to 30 with ReverseTrades = True, not bad last night, but no trade today.
putting up another instance, but now with BarShift=60
MaximumBarShift is basically how many bars a trade should last in the backtester.

I originally didn't have any maximum bar shift included, but what ended up happening is there were some trades which were at the absolute highest point of a trend and the price just kept going, and going, and going, which in turn skewed the trade stats.
  • #411
  • Jul 20, 2010 6:24am Jul 20, 2010 6:24am
Quoting Forexaccount
Ronald,

it is 12:42AM ET and both EA's have triggered buy positions with 3 previous resistance tops. Why would I be interested in opening a buy position with three previous tops. Is this a logical approach? Is this included into the EA? We have already (5) 30 Minutes resistance bars on this level. I am not criticizing but trying to make it better. If we have a "BreakOut" style I would check (before opening any buy position) how strong is the level and a good way to do that is looking for previous highs. If I see more than 2 tops I would diminish...
It's good to see you finally have the EA working.

Remember, both EAs use the past to try and predict the future. Based on the stats generated by that EA when you ran it, trades are more likely to be profitable in breakouts. To us, of course this sort of trading isn't logical. However, the EA doesn't look at bar formations. The EA looks for every instance of a higher daily high, or a lower daily low, and uses those 'events' to calculate its stats.

You're probably thinking along the lines of how you trade, there's nothing wrong with the way you trade and I actually encourage that method. I wasn't able to code that sort of logic into the EA, (how could you?)
  • #412
  • Jul 20, 2010 6:25am Jul 20, 2010 6:25am
Quoting Forexaccount
I download new data from the link Ronald provided and imported it to MT4. After that you have to click on all time frames to create new data for every time frame. After this you can load the EA.
Use the period converter script next time. Simply clicking on other timeframes downloads data from MetaQuotes.
  • #413
  • Jul 20, 2010 6:28am Jul 20, 2010 6:28am
Quoting Forexaccount
These are the results for the massive position openings. Looks great and this happened with the trailing stop option set to "false"
Can you post a chart corresponding to the open times of those trades?

My guess is each new bar was a new daily high, and thus a new signal.
  • #414
  • Jul 20, 2010 6:33am Jul 20, 2010 6:33am
Funny thing is RR, you're not an old dog, far from it!
  • #415
  • Edited 7:28am Jul 20, 2010 7:05am | Edited 7:28am
Something really odd is happening. The EA is setting it's own TP. I have the SL and TP set to 200 but the EA took trades and set TP at both 40 and 102 on several trades. At first it was at 40 and then the TP changed on the chart to 102 and it took trades at 102 then.
  • #416
  • Jul 20, 2010 7:41am Jul 20, 2010 7:41am
Quoting kneal
Something really odd is happening. The EA is setting it's own TP. I have the SL and TP set to 200 but the EA took trades and set TP at both 40 and 102 on several trades. At first it was at 40 and then the TP changed on the chart to 102 and it took trades at 102 then.
That's expected.

ReverseTrades was set to false, right? The SL is fixed and the TP is being optimized
  • #417
  • Jul 20, 2010 8:00am Jul 20, 2010 8:00am
Hi All

Sorry to ask such a nooby question but How do you import pip data? I've never done it before so I need to learn how to do it.

Thanks in advance.
Jim (MrChips)
  • #418
  • Jul 20, 2010 8:05am Jul 20, 2010 8:05am
Quoting MrChips
Hi All

Sorry to ask such a nooby question but How do you import pip data? I've never done it before so I need to learn how to do it.

Thanks in advance.
Tools -> History Center -> Import
  • #419
  • Jul 20, 2010 8:09am Jul 20, 2010 8:09am
Quoting Ronald Raygun
That's expected.

ReverseTrades was set to false, right? The SL is fixed and the TP is being optimized
That's right Ronald... this is very cool indeed.
  • #420
  • Jul 20, 2010 11:06am Jul 20, 2010 11:06am
Ok Ronal, I Woke up this morning and these are the trades for today. The statement reflects both EA's but I shut down HiloTrader[TD] at 2:00 AM ET and left Hilo Trader Optimizing so the statement is a little mixed. I also turned on the default Trailing Stop. See Statement.
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