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  • #461
  • Jul 21, 2010 11:00am Jul 21, 2010 11:00am
Quoting Ronald Raygun
Did you change the license string? This new version naturally has it set to "Reject".
Let me hide in shame. This has fixed it for me...
  • #462
  • Edited 12:06pm Jul 21, 2010 11:30am | Edited 12:06pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
Try the 1M timeframe, and use 5 times the number of bars.
OK, what I've done is imported M1 data from the source you listed earlier. It's about 3M bars going back to 2001. I started the EA about 30 minutes ago and I'll see how it goes this time (it's still optimizing).

***LATER***
For those interested on a 3GHz CPU, 3GB RAM it takes the self optimizing EA about 1 minute per 125000 M1 bars.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  • #463
  • Jul 21, 2010 12:44pm Jul 21, 2010 12:44pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
Did you change the license string? This new version naturally has it set to "Reject".
License string was changed. I will give it another go tonight.

Paul
  • #464
  • Jul 21, 2010 12:48pm Jul 21, 2010 12:48pm
Quoting stevegee58
OK, what I've done is imported M1 data from the source you listed earlier. It's about 3M bars going back to 2001. I started the EA about 30 minutes ago and I'll see how it goes this time (it's still optimizing).

***LATER***
For those interested on a 3GHz CPU, 3GB RAM it takes the self optimizing EA about 1 minute per 125000 M1 bars.

You can set the number of bars to use inside the EA as well. I bumped mine up from 10,000 bars to 20,000 bars and it started to take trades.
  • #465
  • Jul 21, 2010 12:53pm Jul 21, 2010 12:53pm
Quoting kneal
You can set the number of bars to use inside the EA as well. I bumped mine up from 10,000 bars to 20,000 bars and it started to take trades.
Yeah I saw that. I'm not sure optimizing over 10 years gets you much more than over 6 months. It could be that 50K or 100K bars is sufficient. In fact, one could argue that using more recent data optimizes for what's been "going on lately". That might be more useful.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  • #466
  • Jul 21, 2010 1:26pm Jul 21, 2010 1:26pm
When trying to set minsuccessscore to 50, could someone explain why I get the following after optimization? This is on every pair I have tried

Current TP -1
Current Win Rate -100%
Current Risk Reward -1
Current Success Score -100
Array Win -1
Array Lose 0

Thanks
  • #467
  • Jul 21, 2010 1:36pm Jul 21, 2010 1:36pm
Quoting faze
When trying to set minsuccessscore to 50, could someone explain why I get the following after optimization? This is on every pair I have tried

Current TP -1
Current Win Rate -100%
Current Risk Reward -1
Current Success Score -100
Array Win -1
Array Lose 0

Thanks
I noticed that this happens when you enable more than one of the optimization or more than one parameter starting with "Minimum" is >0.
  • #468
  • Jul 21, 2010 2:21pm Jul 21, 2010 2:21pm
I should probably explain the minimum filters.


If you set more than one minimum filter, any qualifying strategy needs to meet all the criteria. That's not always the case, so when I use those minimum, I just set one of them.
  • #469
  • Edited 2:40pm Jul 21, 2010 2:28pm | Edited 2:40pm
Well, the beginning of the day was bad but the EA has recovered the morning loses . Very interesting EA!!!! See today statement. Some positions were stopped out due to the trailing stop and this happened in the morning. I removed it. let see what happen from now on.
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  • #470
  • Jul 21, 2010 5:04pm Jul 21, 2010 5:04pm
at the risk of being a pain in the ass....i am still getting these results even when changing all minsuccess to 0 on some pairs

Current TP -1
Current Win Rate -100%
Current Risk Reward -1
Current Success Score -100
Array Win -1
Array Lose 0


now my question is this...does the EA calculate entries once the above has been reached? in other words can it recover from the above state or once it sees those negative values will it be stuck in a constant loop never finding a valid entry?

i apologize in advance if i am sounding like a broken record, just trying to fully understand what is going on. this EA is really interesting to me otherwise I would have given up long ago.

thanks again.
  • #471
  • Jul 21, 2010 5:10pm Jul 21, 2010 5:10pm
Quoting faze
at the risk of being a pain in the ass....i am still getting these results even when changing all minsuccess to...
how many bars do you have on the chart for optimizing? I would have no less than 25,000 to 30,000 bars. Maybe that is the problem...
  • #472
  • Jul 21, 2010 5:19pm Jul 21, 2010 5:19pm
50,000
  • #473
  • Jul 21, 2010 6:23pm Jul 21, 2010 6:23pm
@faze, what about trying default settings?
  • #474
  • Jul 21, 2010 7:00pm Jul 21, 2010 7:00pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
@faze, what about trying default settings?
RR,

I am probably sounding like a lazy boobhead, but I loaded this up on 22 currencies, 2 different brokers and I get nada, zilch, nothing... Except a big happy smiley face looking back at me. Oh, expert logs say, "initialized"...

Without being asked to read the entire thread, may I ask for a shortcut to get this thing to show me something on the screen?

Oh, Running the latest HILO OPTIMIZED...
We are our own best indicator.
  • #475
  • Jul 21, 2010 7:20pm Jul 21, 2010 7:20pm
Quoting bluemele
RR,

I am probably sounding like a lazy boobhead, but I loaded this up on 22 currencies, 2 different brokers and I get nada, zilch, nothing... Except a big happy smiley face looking back at me. Oh, expert logs say, "initialized"...

Without being asked to read the entire thread, may I ask for a shortcut to get this thing to show me something on the screen?

Oh, Running the latest HILO OPTIMIZED...
Did you read the source code? There are instructions on activating the EA.
  • #476
  • Jul 21, 2010 7:37pm Jul 21, 2010 7:37pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
Did you read the source code? There are instructions on activating the EA.
Of course I did(n't).
We are our own best indicator.
  • #477
  • Jul 21, 2010 7:46pm Jul 21, 2010 7:46pm
I have definitely got the EA activated, but am trying a different optimization and have the same screen showing. What I am wondering is whether it simply means that for this current hour there are no good optimizations that meet my current standards.

(When I first ran it I had it on the basic settings. Then I ran again but changed the minimum R:R ratio to 1.0. In the previous optimization run - without the R:R of 1 - it showed R:R ratios of less than 1, which I did not like. This is probably because it was at the end of the US session and in the start of the Asian session.)

Ronald, can you confirm that if the EA does not have a good optimization for this particular hour it will show a screen like faze and I are seeing?
  • #478
  • Jul 21, 2010 7:46pm Jul 21, 2010 7:46pm
RR
I have been playing with the EA since last week. Today I downloaded the new one and finally got it to work after loading, deleting, closing and opening and so on.
I just got the message "not enough bars to optimize the EUR/USD.....".
I found the "Reject" thing in four different places. Do all of them have to be changed or only the first one?.
In my chart "Trade Style" is blank. Is that supposed to be that way?
No trades have been triggered so far.
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I appreciate any help you can give.
Regards,
bcarbon
  • #479
  • Jul 21, 2010 8:15pm Jul 21, 2010 8:15pm
Quoting bcarbon
RR
I have been playing with the EA since last week. Today I downloaded the new one and finally got it to work after loading, deleting, closing and opening and so on.
I just got the message "not enough bars to optimize the EUR/USD.....".
I found the "Reject" thing in four different places. Do all of them have to be changed or only the first one?.
In my chart "Trade Style" is blank. Is that supposed to be that way?
No trades have been triggered so far.
Attachment
I appreciate any help you can give.
Regards,
bcarbon
You probably don't have enough bars on the chart? As for the "Reject" thing, just change the one line I told you to change.

Quoting Invisible
I have definitely got the EA activated, but am...
If the EA doesn't see a set of settings that meet the criteria then yes that's what you're supposed to see.
  • #480
  • Jul 21, 2010 8:21pm Jul 21, 2010 8:21pm
Thanks, Ronald. Got it!
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