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  • #521
  • Edited 2:02pm Jul 23, 2010 1:14pm | Edited 2:02pm
Today EA performed really bad. only testing E/U here. Is there anyway to reduce the memory usage. Two instances of the EA eats almost 2 GB so I think for 10 pairs I would need more than 8 GB RAM.
  • #522
  • Jul 23, 2010 3:02pm Jul 23, 2010 3:02pm
Thats strange, here are two shots from mine. 14 pairs only using up 100mb on win7 64bit, and not much on CPU usage. How many bars are you using? I have 50k.

http://probotic.net/images/hilo.jpg

http://probotic.net/images/tm.jpg
  • #523
  • Jul 23, 2010 3:09pm Jul 23, 2010 3:09pm
I was running this on about 4 pairs, no trades on usd/jpy for some reason. Anyway, I just dropped it on the 1m chart without importing data. Am I wrong to think that the most recent data matters most??

No trailing stop, however I move stop to break even after a set amount. I adjust the sl and tp per pair based on volatility.

This is my demo that I play with. Remember that fxdd is adding a digit on Aug 1st for demo and the 15th for live accounts.
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  • #524
  • Jul 23, 2010 3:14pm Jul 23, 2010 3:14pm
Seems like this bot has a mind of it's own. Does it even turn off when the expert advisor button is pushed?? lol

I also closed some manually when it moved my tp way up. lol

Seriously, it would be nice if I could see the properties after it has been on the chart, and to also know that it is turned off when I hit the button. It may very well be off but it keeps crunching numbers and scares the crap out of me.
  • #525
  • Edited 4:02pm Jul 23, 2010 3:50pm | Edited 4:02pm
seems like this EA has a preference for a 4 digits brokers; FXDD, FOREX.com
Forex.com is GMT time

will test on InstraTrader 4digits next week, better spread than forex.com,
but GMT +3hr
  • #526
  • Jul 23, 2010 3:51pm Jul 23, 2010 3:51pm
Quoting getting
seems like this EA has a preference for a 4 digits brokers; FXDD, FOREX.com
I dunno, seems like there are too many variables with the individuals using the bot. Let's hold off on that.
  • #527
  • Jul 23, 2010 4:03pm Jul 23, 2010 4:03pm
Quoting getting
Bluemele,

here's my test for the past 12hrs
http://www.mt4i.com/users/getting
adjustment: for 4digits Forex.com five pairs: EU GU UC UJ AU
16 closed trades; total profit = $91.66
HiLo Self Optimizing [TD].mq4 (53.5 KB)
-magicNumber 1,2,3,4,5
-maxsimultaneousTrade from 10 to 2
-StopLoss from 200 to 20
-TakeProfit from 200 to 20
-useTrailingStop = true
-TrailingStop from 30 to 3

Total bars used and total bars is about 2000 when started the test...
Varies. I've seen institutional trades going 10 digits. Granted, these were 3-4 billion dollar deals.

Quoting Forexaccount
Today EA performed really bad. only testing E/U here. Is there anyway to reduce the memory usage. Two instances of the EA eats almost 2 GB so I think for 10 pairs I would need more than 8 GB RAM.
How many bars?

Quoting calderone
Seems like this bot has a mind of it's own. Does it even turn off when the expert advisor button is pushed?? lol

I also closed some manually when it moved my tp way up. lol

Seriously, it would be nice if I could see the properties after it has been on the chart, and to also know that it is turned off when I hit the button. It may very well be off but it keeps crunching numbers and scares the crap out of me.
Technically, the EA is infinitely initializing itself, so no, if you want to disable the EA, you need to remove it.
  • #528
  • Jul 23, 2010 4:22pm Jul 23, 2010 4:22pm
I am using 80 000 bars. Now I loaded 4 pairs and removed some garbage from memory. I have now 4 instances running at 1.98 GB RAM. So I am fine now.


Ronald, Do you use currency correlation or you have all pairs running at the same time?
  • #529
  • Jul 23, 2010 5:52pm Jul 23, 2010 5:52pm
Quoting Forexaccount
I am using 80 000 bars. Now I loaded 4 pairs and removed some garbage from memory. I have now 4 instances running at 1.98 GB RAM. So I am fine now.


Ronald, Do you use currency correlation or you have all pairs running at the same time?
I have 30 pairs running simultaneously with this EA.
  • #530
  • Jul 23, 2010 7:55pm Jul 23, 2010 7:55pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
I have 30 pairs running simultaneously with this EA.
30 Pairs
  • #531
  • Jul 24, 2010 11:09am Jul 24, 2010 11:09am
I got a mail from my vps saying that my platform may run slow or freeze because one of my ea's "must have gone mad", could I please remove it....

So I turned the ea off on 2 charts, out of 4 and now they're happy again.

Ron, I've been looking into NEAT and also found that there is HyperNeat, which seems to specialize in patterns. I don't know if that's more useful or not. I've been playing a bit with SharpNeat2 which supports both Neat and HyperNeat and though it looks impressive I haven't gotten my head around it's workings yet. I already get lost in this step by step tutorial on how to set up your own tic tac toe experiment (http://www.nashcoding.com/?p=90). If anyone does get it, perhaps it's a good starting point to get the ball rolling on this.
  • #532
  • Jul 24, 2010 11:23am Jul 24, 2010 11:23am
Quoting Ronald Raygun
I have 30 pairs running simultaneously with this EA.

Hey Ron, are you running them on separate boxes? Or are they all on one system.
  • #533
  • Jul 24, 2010 12:05pm Jul 24, 2010 12:05pm
Quoting SeanBG
Hey Ron, are you running them on separate boxes? Or are they all on one system.
One box.
  • #534
  • Jul 24, 2010 3:08pm Jul 24, 2010 3:08pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
One box.

Ronald, Do you use the default settings on every pair or do you apply specific parameters to each pair?
  • #535
  • Jul 24, 2010 5:40pm Jul 24, 2010 5:40pm
Quoting SeanBG
Hey Ron, are you running them on separate boxes? Or are they all on one system.
Ron disclosed the specs on his box somewhere, maybe in this thread.
It's quite manly.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  • #536
  • Jul 24, 2010 6:19pm Jul 24, 2010 6:19pm
Quoting Forexaccount
Ronald, Do you use the default settings on every pair or do you apply specific parameters to each pair?
I generally do 10x spread TP/SL.

There are some exceptions, (GJ *cough* *cough*).
  • #537
  • Jul 24, 2010 6:21pm Jul 24, 2010 6:21pm
Quoting stevegee58
Ron disclosed the specs on his box somewhere, maybe in this thread.
It's quite manly.

From previous post don't know if this is still true...Ron?

Those of you having trouble with the EA, what system specs do you have?

I'm running Intel Core i7 2.8 Ghz, 8GB DDR3 ram.

The main problem with this EA is that it is resource-intensive. I'm trying to streamline the code for version 2.

regards

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  • #538
  • Jul 24, 2010 6:24pm Jul 24, 2010 6:24pm
Quoting lionsden
From previous post don't know if this is still true...Ron?

Those of you having trouble with the EA, what system specs do you have?

I'm running Intel Core i7 2.8 Ghz, 8GB DDR3 ram.

The main problem with this EA is that it is resource-intensive. I'm trying to streamline the code for version 2.

regards

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This EA is running on Intel Xeon x3440 with 16GB ram. I fully agree that this is resource-intensive. As for streamlining the code, I'd love to hear your tips lionsden
  • #539
  • Jul 24, 2010 6:30pm Jul 24, 2010 6:30pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
This EA is running on Intel Xeon x3440 with 16GB ram. I fully agree that this is resource-intensive. As for streamlining the code, I'd love to hear your tips lionsden
Sorry Ron,

I was just replying with one of your previous quotes earlier in the thread....Next time I'll use a link or quote....LOL!

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  • #540
  • Jul 24, 2010 8:31pm Jul 24, 2010 8:31pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
I generally do 10x spread TP/SL.

There are some exceptions, (GJ *cough* *cough*).
Maybe my stop was too tight on dragon. It was a winner for me anyway....
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