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Nanningbob V5: Steve Hopwood's auto-trading robot

  • #81
  • Aug 14, 2010 1:02pm Aug 14, 2010 1:02pm
I have done some major work on the robot today, adding:

 

  1. the re entry line
  2. white-line closure when the line moves to the opposite end of the chart
  3. breakeven
  4. jumping stop

The last two are lifted straight from mptm and include the hidden stop features.

I have some more work to do on it tomorrow, including adding the divergence thingy. In the meantime, backtesters might like to have a play with what is already there.

Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Nanningbob V5 auto-trader by Steve Hopwood.mq4   55 KB | 478 downloads
  • #82
  • Aug 14, 2010 2:12pm Aug 14, 2010 2:12pm
Thanks Steve, will check it out ....dude where do you find the time?????????
  • #83
  • Aug 14, 2010 7:26pm Aug 14, 2010 7:26pm
Quoting Tread
Thanks Steve, will check it out ....dude where do you find the time?????????
I AM A ROBOT. TAKING OVER THE WORLD. YOU WILL SOON ALL BE MY SLAVES.

Oops. Sorry. Must have slurped some bad oil just then. Where were we?
  • #84
  • Aug 14, 2010 7:42pm Aug 14, 2010 7:42pm
I've been experimenting with setting the middle bollinger band as my profit target in my manual (demo) trading. This seems to be doing very very well - I'm getting more take profits hit than any system I've ever used before, and a lot of them at price touches before a retrace.

If other people want to give this a go and if the consensus is worthwhile then I could knock up some code for using the middle BB as a profit target which can be added to the NB v5 EA. I pretty much have this already by it's not integrated into Steve's code.

On a complete different topic, I have been forward demoing a variant which takes trades in the direction of the trend before a NB entry for the reversal. This theoretically should eliminate the big draw downs from large trends.

Some examples - made quite a few pips on EURCHF and USDCAD running with the original trend before the EA entered the reversal. Now the reversal on EURCHF is down a lot right now... so there probably a bit that can be done to tighten up the entry points, and there are definitely some bugs, but the system seems sound in principle.

Probably a few more weeks before I can release it here.

cheers
f451
  • #85
  • Aug 14, 2010 7:54pm Aug 14, 2010 7:54pm
Hello F451,

That looks really good. I for one would like to give that a go.

Regards,
Jeff

Quoting f451
I've been experimenting with setting the middle bollinger band as my profit target in my manual (demo) trading. This seems to be doing very very well - I'm getting more take profits hit than any system I've ever used before, and a lot of them at price touches before a retrace.

If other people want to give this a go and if the consensus is worthwhile then...
  • #86
  • Aug 14, 2010 7:58pm Aug 14, 2010 7:58pm
Quoting f451
I've been experimenting with setting the middle bollinger band as my profit target in my manual (demo) trading. This seems to be doing very very well - I'm getting more take profits hit than any system I've ever used before, and a lot of them at price touches before a retrace.

If other people want to give this a go and if the consensus is worthwhile then I could knock up some code for using the middle BB as a profit target which can be added to the NB v5 EA. I pretty much have this already by it's not integrated into Steve's code.

On a complete...
That sounds very nice. Would love to test that out.

I was testing this on the H1 this week since I stupidity got this bot confused with the Tiger bot. However I noticed that alot of the retrace hit the green line from the gold line. So I was going to ask you guys if using the green line from the gold line retrace as the profit with a box for manual adjustment like say green line +/- a # of pips you specify would be a good idea or not.
  • #87
  • Edited 9:34pm Aug 14, 2010 8:49pm | Edited 9:34pm
Here it is. Now integrated into Steve latest.

Options around take profits are as follows

you can use the sixths, middle bollinger band, or Atr by setting the appropriate true false flag in the EA inputs.

You should set MinimumTakeProfitinPips to something sensible (default is 50 pips). This value prevents setting silly targets with the Sixths or Bollinger bands - if the current price is within MinimumTakeProfitTarget of the middle bollinger band, or the next sixth line, the EA will automatically put in either the minimum value, or the next sixth.

Steve - I've consolidated the buy and sell functionality from each mode function into two functions within the code to prevent duplication and make future edits easier.

If you approve of the target profit options and the cleanup take it and use it into the main EA code

I haven't tried all the take profit options so there may be potential bugs.

enjoy ON DEMO only!
f451
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Nanningbob V5 auto-trader by Steve Hopwood mod f451.mq4   63 KB | 447 downloads
  • #88
  • Aug 15, 2010 4:31am Aug 15, 2010 4:31am
Simon, that is fantastic. Thanks a lot; it saved me a shed-load of work. Removing the redundant code was a good touch. Apart from re-ordering the inputs a bit so I can add some headings, I have adopted all this. Cheers.

Just for now, backtesters remember to multiply MinimumTargetinPips appropriately for 5/6 digit criminals. Adapting the setting is the only thing Simon forgot to do.

I am adding a trailing stop feature, then I am going to look at trading the divergence thingy. I will have all this in place later today.

  • #89
  • Aug 15, 2010 5:56am Aug 15, 2010 5:56am
fixed the multiplier for MinimumTragetinPips - if you use this one it will automatically compensate for your criminals digits

Steve - my mod includes some bonus code in GetTheTrend()

if (UseStochMacd)
{
GetStoch();
MacdVal = GetStochMACD(FastEMA, SlowEMA, SignalSMA, StochasticPeriod , 0);
if (StochBlue > MacdVal) { trend = up; }
if (StochBlue < MacdVal) { trend = down; }
oldtrend = trend;
}//if (UseStochMacd)

trend detection based on Marshy's NB summary document. I liked the approach so much I bought the detection.


cheers
f451
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Nanningbob V5 auto-trader by Steve Hopwood mod f451.mq4   63 KB | 412 downloads
  • #90
  • Aug 15, 2010 6:06am Aug 15, 2010 6:06am
Quoting f451
fixed the multiplier for MinimumTragetinPips - if you use this one it will automatically compensate for your criminals digits

Steve - my mod includes some bonus code in GetTheTrend()

if (UseStochMacd)...
Hehe. I hadn't noticed. Nice one.

I have finished my updates. I am going to re-do post 1 and put up the latest.

  • #91
  • Aug 15, 2010 6:47am Aug 15, 2010 6:47am
Ok guys, the latest version is up and running and ready for testing. It is a monster revision. Details in the 15th Aug update in post 1.

  • #92
  • Aug 15, 2010 6:54am Aug 15, 2010 6:54am
If anone knows how to bring the FX5 indi code in-house, this will cut down hugely on the robot's processor use.

  • #93
  • Edited 7:21am Aug 15, 2010 7:18am | Edited 7:21am
Not sure if it can be done easily but the way I would do it monitor the Bullish/Bearish Buffers for "!=EMPTY_VALUE"

Then it comes like any other indicator value to be called.

Also my only problem with FX code is that is shifted by 2 bars, means we are looking at a minimum of 5 -8 hours for that to show. But im young in the programming, maybe someone has it solved

My 2 cents for ya .... an idea and a problem ....
  • #94
  • Aug 15, 2010 7:47am Aug 15, 2010 7:47am
Also, since most will probably have the indi on the chart, it might save resources over all to just pull the buffer value rather than have the EA calculate internally and have the indicator calculate and display on the chart
  • #95
  • Aug 15, 2010 8:41am Aug 15, 2010 8:41am
Quoting Tread
Also, since most will probably have the indi on the chart, it might save resources over all to just pull the buffer value rather than have the EA calculate internally and have the indicator calculate and display on the chart
That's a good point, plus I just realised this: with a little extra code I can tell NB to check only on the opening of a new candle, so it only loads and unloads the indi once every 4 hours.

  • #96
  • Aug 15, 2010 9:22am Aug 15, 2010 9:22am
I have added the code to make NB wait for the start of a new candle before checking FX5.

I forgot earlier to add FX5 to the indi zip and to the template. I have corrected this, so newcomers might like to re-download everything to make sure it is all in place.

  • #97
  • Aug 15, 2010 10:44am Aug 15, 2010 10:44am
Thanks Steve, much appreciated, I will give it a wirl.
  • #98
  • Aug 15, 2010 11:13pm Aug 15, 2010 11:13pm
Hi Steve

there's a bug in the DoesTradeExist code of the latest version - the number 4 needs to be a number 7 so the EA is aware of open #7 EA trades

bool DoesTradeExist()
{

TicketNo = 0;

if (OrdersTotal() == 0) return(false);

for (int cc = OrdersTotal() - 1; cc >= 0 ; cc--)
{
if (!OrderSelect(cc,SELECT_BY_POS)) continue;

if ( (OrderMagicNumber() > 0 && OrderMagicNumber() <= 4) && OrderSymbol() == Symbol() )
{
TicketNo = OrderTicket();
return(true);
}//if (OrderMagicNumber()==MagicNumber && OrderSymbol() == Symbol() )
}//for (int cc = OrdersTotal() - 1; cc >= 0 ; cc--)

return(false);

}//End bool DoesTradeExist()

cheers
f451
  • #99
  • Aug 15, 2010 11:21pm Aug 15, 2010 11:21pm
Steve et al

I've fixed the no 7 trades bug and also another one that would have prevented the setting of take profit targets (in SetTarget() ).

Essential update attached.

cheers
f451
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Nanningbob V5 auto-trader by Steve and Simon.mq4   62 KB | 358 downloads
  • #100
  • Aug 15, 2010 11:48pm Aug 15, 2010 11:48pm
Another slight bug in the SetTargets fixed - fixes BUY trade targets
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Nanningbob V5 auto-trader by Steve and Simon.mq4   62 KB | 470 downloads
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