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  • #701
  • Aug 5, 2010 3:36pm Aug 5, 2010 3:36pm
Quoting goldsurfer
Grief from others or giving others grief? When you ask the Skyzer a question, just be glad your not in same room with him with Samurai Sword in his hand!

Cheers all

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  • #702
  • Aug 5, 2010 3:45pm Aug 5, 2010 3:45pm
Quoting Offshore
Nothing wrong with being bi-polar especially in a small room


I had pending buy orders on the Cable going into current Dead Zone, so I went ahead and canceled those orders. My take on it anyways..... EA current reading is NO TRADES EXPECTED. Usually won't expect anything till around Tokyo.

Looking at the SMAs, still gotta expect Longs....
  • #703
  • Aug 5, 2010 5:52pm Aug 5, 2010 5:52pm
Sky
I am interested in your results which bear little resemblance to mine over the past 24 hours. Your chart is quite different also.

I am using the tpl suggested with the sma settings etc but the plot of your sma looks quite different. What settings are you using? The chart settings presumably make no difference to the bot so it doesn't matter. What is of concern is that you have had nice results when I have been in the doldrums with trades being carried along for extended times sitting in losing positions.

Its difficult yo read the chart detail, but is the chart posted a M15 TF?

I too appreciate your comments and your sometimes cutting wit. Keep it up.

Karl
  • #704
  • Aug 5, 2010 6:43pm Aug 5, 2010 6:43pm
Here try these , the indi sky has I think is a ALF with a shift, set shift to
-5, or-6 , and another is the fx closing candle time
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  • #705
  • Aug 5, 2010 6:46pm Aug 5, 2010 6:46pm
We must be looking at a trend down soon the dow is having trouble breaking 10700 and ranging, unemployment looks likley to be bad and the sheep will flow back to the dollar.

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  • #706
  • Aug 5, 2010 6:55pm Aug 5, 2010 6:55pm
Thanks Fishman - will try them. I still don't think they affect the EA though - do they?
Karl
  • #707
  • Edited 7:27pm Aug 5, 2010 7:15pm | Edited 7:27pm
Quoting Offshore
We must be looking at a trend down soon t

There is no trend down.. Could be some retrace from highs,

but Dollar on the way down, nothing has been changed..

Looking for swing possibility to fill out both Buy limit and

Take profit.. For those who ask, yes I have EA placed on M15 TF:

And don't pay much attention to Indies on my chart, I have about gazillion

Templates and just happens to load this one, nothing special..

P.S.

Also, I do running original Tokyo V16 and it says "No Trade" for today, have no Idea

why this one displayed: "Enter Trade Now". Maybe cause Original one looking at 23 GMT fractals only,

and Sasha's modification comparing those fractals every hour, - good enough for me..

Looking at that setup below, - I do have valid shot for tonight
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  • #708
  • Aug 5, 2010 8:25pm Aug 5, 2010 8:25pm
Quoting SkyzerFX
There is no trend down.. Could be some retrace from highs,

but Dollar on the way down, nothing has been changed..

Looking for swing possibility to fill out both Buy limit and

Take profit.. For those who ask, yes I have EA placed on M15 TF:

And don't pay much attention to Indies on my chart, I have about gazillion

Templates and just happens to load this one, nothing special..

P.S.

Also, I do running original Tokyo V16 and it says "No Trade" for today, have no Idea

why this one displayed: "Enter Trade Now". Maybe cause Original...

COOL I am trying the buy limit way I have three trades set to go at

1.58381 on Alpari and
1.5842 on Fxdd and that is something I was going to say diffreent brokers slightly different entery .

Will be interested to see how it goes.

SkyzerFZ do you also place a buy stop trade? or just stick to limits as I am getting enter trade alerts coming up?

No visable sharp instruments in the room I hope.

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  • #709
  • Aug 5, 2010 8:57pm Aug 5, 2010 8:57pm
Quoting Offshore
SkyzerFZ do you also place a buy stop trade? or just stick to limits
Buy Stop Needs a Trend (strong trend) , in the range there is more use

for Buy Limit.
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  • #710
  • Aug 5, 2010 9:22pm Aug 5, 2010 9:22pm
Quoting SkyzerFX
Buy Stop Needs a Trend (strong trend) , in the range there is more use

for Buy Limit.
Yep and thats where we are just now Why are you so Bullish on the Cable when there is still alot of hurt out in the market.

I mean I hope you are right but HMmmm

If it breaks 10700 would be great as you say the NFP may help to retrace again then off

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  • #711
  • Aug 5, 2010 9:27pm Aug 5, 2010 9:27pm
I just entered my first live trade and have problem/question with TP.
Pending order showed them correctly: 18,55,200.
When trade was entered the trade window shows all tp's at 200?
And when I try to adjust each one manually, it adjusts all 3 orders and will not let me adjust each one to a diferent price...
I will include shot.
Thanks

You can se blue ticks where orders were supposed to go, but they are all up at +200
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  • #712
  • Edited 10:40pm Aug 5, 2010 10:25pm | Edited 10:40pm
Missed a limit order by about three pips

Miss print ignore this message
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  • #713
  • Aug 6, 2010 12:08am Aug 6, 2010 12:08am
I used trailing buy limit. Better not to use trailing. Got me in too high. Now I am in the trade forever and little underwater... If I had taken the original buy limit no trailing, then I would be in 1st take profit and stop above break even.
Let's see if we get a bounce at some point...
Close and yet so far away...
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  • #714
  • Aug 6, 2010 1:21am Aug 6, 2010 1:21am
Buy limit opened at 1.58698 a couple hours after Tokyo open, TP1, 2, and 3 hit for 72 pips.

I didn't follow the EA protocol to the T. Late during New York session with Buy Limit orders pending, + getting the No Trades Expected message, I canceled the pending orders. Not sure what the Skyzer would have to say about that

I am also adjusting my SL and PendingOpenStep slightly different for Tokyo vs. London, NY session.

Cheers
  • #715
  • Aug 6, 2010 1:27am Aug 6, 2010 1:27am
Quoting goldsurfer
Buy limit opened at 1.58698 a couple hours after Tokyo open, TP1, 2, and 3 hit for 72 pips.

I didn't follow the EA protocol to the T. Late during New York session with Buy Limit orders pending, + getting the No Trades Expected message, I canceled the pending orders. Not sure what the Skyzer would have to say about that

I am also adjusting my SL and PendingOpenStep slightly different for Tokyo vs. London, NY session.

Cheers

Hmm mine are still pending set at 1.58411 almost 30 pips below your what are your settings??
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  • #716
  • Aug 6, 2010 1:34am Aug 6, 2010 1:34am
Quoting Offshore
Hmm mine are still pending set at 1.58411 almost 30 pips below your what are your settings??
Mine was about that too.....like I said i canceled those orders and let the EA do it's thing after Tokyo open....how long are you holding those pending orders?

And I'm not saying one way is better than other.....still playing with this.


Cheers
  • #717
  • Aug 6, 2010 1:39am Aug 6, 2010 1:39am
Quoting goldsurfer
Mine was about that too.....like I said i canceled those orders and let the EA do it's thing after Tokyo open....how long are you holding those pending orders?

And I'm not saying one way is better than other.....still playing with this.


Cheers

Ahhh I have gone back to buy stop as we seem to be going back to a bullish trend missed two sets of trades today with limits.

I hope
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  • #718
  • Aug 6, 2010 1:43am Aug 6, 2010 1:43am
Quoting Offshore
Ahhh I have gone back to buy stop as we seem to be going back to a bullish trend missed two sets of trades today with limits.

I hope
Maybe the EA could be fixed to calculate the best setting based on what the market is doing....

Better to miss a trade than lose one, with limit you are getting great value.
  • #719
  • Aug 6, 2010 1:56am Aug 6, 2010 1:56am
Quoting goldsurfer
Mine was about that too.....like I said i canceled those orders and let the EA do it's thing after Tokyo open....how long are you holding those pending orders?

And I'm not saying one way is better than other.....still playing with this.


Cheers
I could be mistaken, but doesn't using "MovePendingOrder=True" move the Buy/Sell Limit entry? It certainly appears to on my IBFX demo. If so there "should" be no reason to delete pending orders.

Quoting goldsurfer
Maybe the EA could be fixed to calculate the best setting based on what the market is doing....

Better to miss a trade than lose one, with limit you are getting great value.
Yeah, Ronald Raygun is working on a similar concept in his Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks Thread. He's attempting to design an EA that auto backtest's itself with every new bar to determine the best of two strategies to use at the moment; Its not a bad concept.
  • #720
  • Aug 6, 2010 1:58am Aug 6, 2010 1:58am
Quoting goldsurfer
Maybe the EA could be fixed to calculate the best setting based on what the market is doing....

Better to miss a trade than lose one, with limit you are getting great value.

YEP what I have done is save the settings for limit orders and pretty much the original buy stop orders..
Tonight before I go to bed I will load the limit order EA as I think NFP will be bad and Cable will drop and then rebound as there is some strength in it still and hopefully catch the rebound then see what happens.

I am pretty strong on following the Dow (see earlier post) as the pound follows it very closely so if dow ternds load buy stop EA if it ranges load limit Ea

hope this makes sense on my third wine and everything looks great about now anyway
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