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  • #781
  • Aug 8, 2010 10:16pm Aug 8, 2010 10:16pm
Quoting cuddlebum
Sashasan,
Could you post a pdf file explaining each of the input settings on post #1. It's getting a bit difficult to follow. That way when you add something new it could be all in one place.
Thanks for your support!
Cuddlebum that is a good idea.
I am sill not sure what some of the setting do.
i have mine set on market order true, ut not sure if that doesnt let limit order work ?
I am running it on auto also (manual trade = false).
kepp up the good work everyone.
I havent lost any money so far
  • #782
  • Aug 8, 2010 10:18pm Aug 8, 2010 10:18pm
Quoting SkyzerFX
Thank you, Sasha I'll start testing as soon my current order

gets closed..
Skyzer thankyou for all your testing and great input.
I'm tying to follow what you have to say, but it gets confusing at times.
More trading and learning a little more everyday.
happy trading
  • #783
  • Aug 8, 2010 10:22pm Aug 8, 2010 10:22pm
Quoting sashasan
that would be great
i would but dont know that much about EAs and dont want to make a mistake
sorry
  • #784
  • Aug 8, 2010 11:01pm Aug 8, 2010 11:01pm
I know what it is a Portable Document Format, but that's about all I know. I will try and look into it.
  • #785
  • Aug 9, 2010 1:47am Aug 9, 2010 1:47am
Viva Sashasan!!!

v4.6 - added option to allow enter a market only once during 1 hour candle (there are many cases in backtest when second or third enter is ends up with loss after a first which is in profit)
This`s a very nice parameter! Big THX!
  • #786
  • Aug 9, 2010 2:14am Aug 9, 2010 2:14am
Big thanks, Master of MQL!

1) v4.6 - added option to allow enter a market only once during 1 hour candle (there are many cases in backtest when second or third enter is ends up with loss after a first which is in profit)

With the yielded function results it is much better!

Whether it is possible to make a choice? (...only once during 1 hour candle ...)
Not only one hour, for example, parameter in EA:

AllowOnlyOneEnterPerXHours = X (X=1 or 2 or 3 etc.)

2)Also it would be interesting to add new function.
Time module.
Time, when ЕА can establish orders.
Base time=Terminal time.
for example, parameter in EA:

TradeHour0-1=true/false
TradeHour1-2=true/false
TradeHour2-3=true/false and etc. till 24 o'clock.

The given function it is possible to filter an installation time of orders.
It will give the chance to us to work only at certain o'clock.
Very important function.

Sorry for my bad english.

Once again I want to thank SASHASAN!
  • #787
  • Edited 1:14pm Aug 9, 2010 4:42am | Edited 1:14pm
Hi guys!
Sashasan!Good day `n trade!
Can you make new changes?

Now:

If a signal Enter Trade Now, the EA puts market orders. - ok!
These market orders seeking their TP or SL. - ok!

While the market orders in the process(seeking their TP or SL), the EA does not set new market orders, although the new signal Enter Trade Now received - NOT ok!, because they miss the deals, until the market orders seeking their TP or SL.

This can be seen when the SL and TP will exhibit a large.

The EA supports only one full trade operation
  • #788
  • Aug 9, 2010 6:16am Aug 9, 2010 6:16am
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Sashasan: yes, because this option changes take profit of the existing orders and those orders will be closed only if a new take profit level will be reached http://cdn.forexfactory.com/images/s.../yim/happy.gif

what you are talking about is my next idea to add - it will be a pips counter which will close all opened orders when summary amount of pips is reached

Do I understand this correctly to mean? - example:

Long market order triggered at 1.5900 (easy round number)
Market moves lower to 1.5860 (-40)
- First limit order triggered at 1.5880
- Second limit order triggered at 1.5860
(Sky's recommendation of buying at -20 pips and -40 pips when market moves against us)

Now suppose we had set the pips counter at 36.

When market goes back up to 1.5892 (+32 from the low point) all three trades are closed out giving a net +36 pips (-8, +12 and +32) and we are done for the trade.

I think this is an exceptionally good idea. Many thanks to Geoff, Sash, Sky and all others for your hard work on this.

Once this is incorporated into the ea we could go back and optimize for the best increment (20 pips in the example above) to use for the limit orders.
  • #789
  • Aug 9, 2010 7:07am Aug 9, 2010 7:07am
Hi everyone,
Was not monitoring the thread fro last 2 days and found already 4 versions have been released.

Shashan you are an excellent and thanks a lot fro sharing your hard work...
Much appreciated...

Regards
Velli
  • #790
  • Edited 8:49am Aug 9, 2010 8:37am | Edited 8:49am
Quoting CUtiger95
Has anyone backtested to see what the appropriate amount of time should be on the change, 5 hrs, 8 hrs, 2 hrs (:-).
I'm still trying to figure out why we need this at all..?????

Orders must either hit TP or SL, - That' it.. NO timeout BS..

There always going to be risk if you want make a profit, we already limit risk

by placing orders in spread so total number of pips at SL will be lower than 3 * 140, nothing

else needed. I believe that timeout "idea" was picked up from original Geo thread?
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  • #791
  • Aug 9, 2010 9:30am Aug 9, 2010 9:30am
Here is a beginning PDF. It will need to be edited, updated by someone
Attached File(s)
File Type: pdf MTFSM EA.pdf   81 KB | 345 downloads
  • #792
  • Aug 9, 2010 10:10am Aug 9, 2010 10:10am
Thanks for your efforts , I will pass along any good backtest results.
  • #793
  • Aug 9, 2010 10:15am Aug 9, 2010 10:15am
Quoting TradeRunner
Here is a beginning PDF. It will need to be edited, updated by someone
Beautiful start to the PDF, TradeRunner.
  • #794
  • Aug 9, 2010 10:36am Aug 9, 2010 10:36am
Quoting TradeRunner
Here is a beginning PDF. It will need to be edited, updated by someone
Looking good, Traderunner. Thanks so much. What a help this is!
  • #795
  • Aug 9, 2010 11:10am Aug 9, 2010 11:10am
Quoting TradeRunner
Here is a beginning PDF. It will need to be edited, updated by someone
Your effort is appreciated, TradeRunner.
  • #796
  • Aug 9, 2010 11:46am Aug 9, 2010 11:46am
Quoting D.i.m.l.
Big thanks, Master of MQL!

1) v4.6 - added option to allow enter a market only once during 1 hour...

well, i can do that, as well as many other interesting stuff, but if you will do backtest you will see that there is not a big difference if you will change hour enter allowance to one or more hours. see the example of jan 4 2010 - even if you will create enter market = once per 3 hours you will get this huge loss.

dont really understand about the second option you described...
  • #797
  • Aug 9, 2010 11:58am Aug 9, 2010 11:58am
Quoting paws
Do I understand this correctly to mean? - example:

Long market order triggered at 1.5900 (easy round number)
Market moves lower to 1.5860 (-40)
- First limit order triggered at 1.5880
- Second limit order triggered at 1.5860
(Sky's recommendation of buying at -20 pips and -40 pips when market moves against us)

Now suppose we had set the pips counter at 36.

When market goes back up to 1.5892 (+32 from the low point)...
yes, this is absolutely correct, but here you will have to set up pips amount and hours after which this mode will be activated, otherwise it will close any trade right away and open another one.

i see it as follows (as i used it in one other ea) : you have opened set of orders, lets say 1 market and 2 limits, after a while limits got triggered, market goes opposite and at some period of time returned back to profit, so here this mode will be activated. but how to give the ea decide when this mode will be turned on???
  • #798
  • Aug 9, 2010 12:02pm Aug 9, 2010 12:02pm
Quoting SkyzerFX
I'm still trying to figure out why we need this at all..?????

Orders must either hit TP or SL, - That' it.. NO timeout BS..

There always going to be risk if you want make a profit, we already limit risk

by placing orders in spread so total number of pips at SL will be lower than 3 * 140, nothing

else needed. I believe that timeout "idea" was picked up from original Geo thread?
no, i did not visit the original thread for a long time, this idea was taken from my another robot
  • #799
  • Aug 9, 2010 12:04pm Aug 9, 2010 12:04pm
Quoting TradeRunner
Here is a beginning PDF. It will need to be edited, updated by someone
TradeRunner thanks!

will post it to the first page
  • #800
  • Aug 9, 2010 12:08pm Aug 9, 2010 12:08pm
Quoting sashasan
well, i can do that, as well as many other interesting stuff, but if you will do backtest you will see that there is not a big difference if you will change hour enter allowance to one or more hours. see the example of jan 4 2010 - even if you will create enter market = once per 3 hours you will get this huge loss.

dont really understand about the second option you described...
Thx for you response!
The second option:
Now, EA work 24 hours, every hour.
I want to choose when EA was working (In what period of time).

for example, parameter in EA:

TradeHour 0am-1am=true/false (if true, EA sets market orders from 0am to 1am)
TradeHour 1am-2am=true/false
TradeHour 2am-3am=true/false and etc. till 24 o'clock.

As a result, you can configure EA to work (sets market orders) only in specified intervals.
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