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  • #561
  • Jul 28, 2010 12:38am Jul 28, 2010 12:38am
Quoting DareXau
... have a good time and enjoy your holidays, after that count me in yours Q&A webinar
(the EA still doesn't wont to open any trades for me ... and I'm starting to suspect it has something to do with my broker-GoMarkets)

Darek
I'm interested in the webinar too, depending on timing obviously.

I had some issues with my broker too, it turned out that I only had past data for about 2 weeks, so even with the link RR provided I still had a 2-3 week gap in my data. I fixed it by exporting some data from another broker and importing that into this broker.

To see if this is the case for you, go into your history (F2) and scroll down to scan for any gaps.

p.s. Once in a while I do get the -100% win rate etc. It's only at certain hours so I assume a lack of data there.
  • #562
  • Jul 28, 2010 3:46am Jul 28, 2010 3:46am
count me in for the webinar - subject to timing
  • #563
  • Jul 28, 2010 4:04am Jul 28, 2010 4:04am
Some tips for those running into resource issues:

In MT4 set Max bars in chart to the value you have in BarsToOptimize anything more is just a waste.
Set SleepTime to 400 or 500 (this is milliseconds), when testing scanning through each pair 10 times a second is overkill, twice a second should be more than enough.

I currently have 3 different HiLo's running on 13 pairs each with an additional 10 variants of HiLo running on 13 pairs on a Phenom x6 with 8gb ram.
  • #564
  • Jul 28, 2010 4:59am Jul 28, 2010 4:59am
Zoogle

How many bars are you using as I know RR said he uses 1.5M yet others seem to be getting good results with just 50000.

Paul
  • #565
  • Jul 28, 2010 5:23am Jul 28, 2010 5:23am
Quoting paulbt38
Zoogle

How many bars are you using as I know RR said he uses 1.5M yet others seem to be getting good results with just 50000.

Paul
~3 months or 125000. Seems statistically significant enough for me.
  • #566
  • Jul 28, 2010 6:16am Jul 28, 2010 6:16am
I'd also be interested in the Webinar.

  • #567
  • Jul 28, 2010 7:21am Jul 28, 2010 7:21am
Quoting DareXau
... have a good time and enjoy your holidays, after that count me in yours Q&A webinar
(the EA still doesn't wont to open any trades for me ... and I'm starting to suspect it has something to do with my broker-GoMarkets)

Darek
I trade with go markets, the ea worked ok until the last update - no trade since

rgds
Peter
  • #568
  • Jul 28, 2010 7:22am Jul 28, 2010 7:22am
Quoting Jay Allen
Hi Ronald,

Thank You for creating this EA. I have installed the "HiLo Self Optimizing [TD]" version (found on Post #494, in Section 33 of this thread) on five pairs in FXDD.

The EA doesn't seem to be working. Can you tell me why? Here are my settings:

MagicNumber 1234
SignalsOnly false
Alerts true
SignalMail false
PlaySounds false
ECNBroker false
SleepTime 100
EachTickMode true
AnimateOptimization true
MaxSimultaneousTrades 10
Lots 0.1
MoneyManagement false
Risk 1
Slippage 5
UseStopLoss true
StopLoss 200
UseTakeProfit true
TakeProfit 200
UseTrailingStop...

When you attach the EA to the chart, what do you see in the upper left corner?
  • #569
  • Jul 28, 2010 7:22am Jul 28, 2010 7:22am
Quoting DareXau
... have a good time and enjoy your holidays, after that count me in yours Q&A webinar
(the EA still doesn't wont to open any trades for me ... and I'm starting to suspect it has something to do with my broker-GoMarkets)

Darek
This also includes setting ECNBroker to True?
  • #570
  • Jul 28, 2010 7:31am Jul 28, 2010 7:31am
Hi Peter,

I am testing 2 demos with the above EA this week on the 4 majors. They each have the very same settings except for Max Bars in History and Max Bars on Chart.

One I have set at 1,500,000 and it has taken many, many trades.

The other, I have set at 300,000 and it has taken no trades.

Both were engaged about 11:15 am eastern time.

These were both set up on FXDD.

Carol

Quoting peterke
I trade with go markets, the ea worked ok until the last update - no trade since

rgds
Peter
  • #571
  • Jul 28, 2010 8:49am Jul 28, 2010 8:49am
Ron you can count me in for the webinar.

Have fun in Florida
  • #572
  • Jul 28, 2010 9:04am Jul 28, 2010 9:04am
"When you attach the EA to the chart, what do you see in the upper left corner?"
Hi Ronald,
I changed sourcode from "Reject" to "Accept." In the upper left corner I see the initials "RR" on one currency pair, and I see lines of data pertaining to the EA on the other currency pairs. Each pair has a frowny face, however.
Best Regards, Jay
  • #573
  • Jul 28, 2010 9:23am Jul 28, 2010 9:23am
is the Expert Advisors turned on from the toolbar?
  • #574
  • Jul 28, 2010 9:26am Jul 28, 2010 9:26am
Quoting Ronald Raygun
This also includes setting ECNBroker to True?
GoMarkets isn't ECN-broker yet (they going to be in some time to come) but I'll change the settings anyway to test that option
Quoting MorningMania
...To see if this is the case for you, go into your history (F2) and scroll down to scan for any gaps...
Quoting peterke
I trade with go markets, the ea worked ok until the last update - no trade since
Thank you guys, I'll try all those options too ...

Darek
  • #575
  • Jul 28, 2010 9:33am Jul 28, 2010 9:33am
"is the Expert Advisors turned on from the toolbar?"


Hi Faze,

Yes, the EA is turned on at the toolbar (=green, no X on the screen).

Thanks, Jay
  • #576
  • Jul 28, 2010 9:35am Jul 28, 2010 9:35am
When you drag the EA to the chart, there are 2 tabs. One is 'Comments' and the other is 'Inputs'.

On the 'Comments' tab, you need to select 'Allow Live Trading' and for this particular EA you also need to select 'Allow DLL Imports'.

If you have done that and still have a frowny face, then you need to go to the tool bar and there is a button called Expert Advisors. You need to click it to make it green.

Hope this helps.

Carol

Quoting Jay Allen
"When you attach the EA to the chart, what do you see in the upper left corner?"
Hi Ronald,
I changed sourcode from "Reject" to "Accept." In the upper left corner I see the initials "RR" on one currency pair, and I see lines of data pertaining to the EA on the other currency pairs. Each pair has a frowny face, however.
Best Regards, Jay
  • #577
  • Jul 28, 2010 10:24am Jul 28, 2010 10:24am
Hi all,

I'm new here but have been running this EA this week. It did great yesterday during the day, last night, not so much...but not complaining.

I'm running a new Pentium4 3.4ghz with 2gb ram. I have tried running it on 3 or 4 pairs and the computer slows down big time. If I bump up to 8 or 16gb or ram...should I see a big difference?
I'm also gonna try to change some settings others have suggested in other posts.

Also, I've tried importing history data from the site RR suggested. For some reason, sometimes it loads fine and other times I just get the blank screen forever. Even clicking "Download" on the data screen in MT4, that doesn't load any data. I'm guessing this is just MT4 acting up??

Another issue I had was each time I'd reboot MT4 any history data I imported was gone! I think I may have fixed this by increase the # in the "max bars in chart" area. Hope that was all it was b/c it has been a pain imputing the data over and over each time I open MT4.

Thanks for the thoughts and help.
  • #578
  • Jul 28, 2010 10:37am Jul 28, 2010 10:37am
I had the same problem with MT4 when importing data. I just closed the entire platform and opened it up again and it worked again.

Mine did great yesterday, too and mine also had a rough night. LOL

Carol

Quoting unknown2u
Hi all,

I'm new here but have been running this EA this week. It did great yesterday during the day, last night, not so much...but not complaining.

Also, I've tried importing history data from the site RR suggested. For some reason, sometimes it loads fine and other times I just get the blank screen forever. Even clicking "Download" on the data screen in MT4, that doesn't load any data. I'm guessing this is just MT4 acting up??

Thanks for the thoughts and help.
  • #579
  • Jul 28, 2010 10:50am Jul 28, 2010 10:50am
Folks having problems with performance when running multiple instances of this EA, check this post:

http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...&postcount=563

You should be specifying how many bars to optimize over using the BarsToOptimize setting. Make it 50,000 or 100,000 or whatever.

Make sure the "max bars in chart" setting under Tools->Options->Charts is slightly bigger than the BarsToOptimize setting. Just don't set this to the total number of bars you've imported. Storing 3 million bars on each chart is wasteful and unnecessary and will slow things down big-time.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  • #580
  • Jul 28, 2010 12:26pm Jul 28, 2010 12:26pm
Quoting stevegee58
Folks having problems with performance when running multiple instances of this EA, check this post:

http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...&postcount=563

You should be specifying how many bars to optimize over using the BarsToOptimize setting....
I followed some of the suggestions.
Am now running 6 pairs, with 100K bars for optimization.
Took about 5 mins for everything to optimize.
When in opto the CP usage was at 100% and PF was around 1.20gb.
When opto was done, CP usage dropped to 30-50%.

I'm running Pent4 3.4ghz and 2gb of ram.
If I bump ram up to 4 or 8gb...will this help speed and overall cpu usage?

THanks!
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