Geoff's Manual and Semi Automatic Trading Setup

Hi Sashasan

Don't close the thread, you're a good programmer and can do great things with your support.

I did backtesting and the best results was for parameter OrderPlacementCode=2 and another parameters default.

Regards,
Mr. Juliusss

We have to focus on how to get the ea to change buy and sell signals in the 15 min tf, maybe its in the coding between the 5 min and 15 min tf?
Would the ea preform different if it was coded from the 30 min , or H1 ,to the 15 min tf? Just a idea. Maybe by adding another ma to confirm ea direction, from my earlyer screen shot , there should have been all sell signals from the 560 ma cross , and we would have had two more wins.
"Take a break", catch your breath, then come back, but don't give up.

fishman356

I also agree with yurijap, Order Placement code # 2, was the best results, also I notice once in a while when an order was triggered and the price reversed with in the first to candles , if we had a sell all open orders feature after a -40 to 50 pip drop on 1- 15 min candle, maybe we could stay out of the big dd. I have not back tested this much but, the price seems to keep going down. Just another thought.

Hi Sashasan

how do I send a private message?

Regards,
Mr. Juliusss

please send again, i just cleaned it up a little

Please don't close this thread! As I said before, this is one of the best EAs that I have known and tried. As matter of fact, I'm still a 100% v3.8 trader and a very happy one! Anyhow, I can not and will not rely on any EA to trade 100% for me until an almost perfect filtering system is developed, and until then, I believe that human brain is still better in making discretional & critical judgments on the timing of entry (that is the name of the game). But, once the trades are entered, this EA is much much better and more efficient to manage them for us. You have done a fantastic work so far which we all appreciate and admire. Please go on.

It appears that everyone is having the same problems. GU has been behaving like my dog - not doing anything its told and running in the opposite direction when called!! Perhaps we could be totally contrarian and take the opposite position to that suggested by the EA. It seems that as soon as a trade is taken, the position moves into loss even for trades that finish up winners. Maybe a quick scalp of 10-20 pips at the outset might prove profitable. http://cdn.forexfactory.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Just joking - I haven't even looked at this idea!! But Sash, hang in there. With the talented people contributing to this thread, there is an answer. No system can be 100% successful and losses are part of the game. The trick is to minimise the losses so that the end result is a worthwhile profit.

Sasha and all,

Maybe I am trying to make this too simplistic, but the problem to me is that whenever the market changes from trending to ranging, ranging to trending or just retraces for a bit, (140 pips minimum) we take a loss. Since it takes 4 -5 -6 -7 or more profitable trades to make up for the one loss, the account balance is going to go up and down like a yo yo. Even worse, the market reacts differently in different times of the year, different days of the week even different hours of the day. People have been trying for years to create an EA that you can set and forget - without success.

Here is a thought, can we make the moving averages, along with the period variable so that they are input variables? Currently the moving averages are fixed at 197 and 10, one hour time frame, which work great when the market is trending, but when the market trend ends and it goes into a ranging or retracing phase, the EA takes a loss.

What if we were able to change them to different numbers for different market conditions? Maybe ranging on a 1 hour time frame currently means a loss or no trades. But the same set of characteristics on a 5 minute might still be profitable. It would take a lot of testing, but I believe we would have enough people testing that we would be able to identify the optimum combination of moving averages, time frame and SL/TP that would work for any particular market condition. Then the idea would be to identify the market for that particular day - week - month or whatever.

Maybe we could even focus less on the "exotic" options trying to make everything work with the "holy" 10 - 197 MA in a one hour time frame and focus on a combination that will work with whatever is happening in the market right now.

Input everyone please...

T...

I like your thinking but it will take some time and effort, to optimize this ea, we need a group effort and to be able to share settings and results.
Sash has put to much into this effort to quit now. He as the knowledge to make this work.

Hi Everyone,
I have attached V5.1 on GU,UC, GJ with different magic number
Not sure what is wrong no orders opened. checked the Journal and found the following error message spit out every second.
Can you please help me to fix it and resolve this issues?

2010.08.13 20:43:52 GEOFFs MTFSM Setup v5.1 USDCHF,M5: unknown ticket 487978 for OrderDelete function
2010.08.13 20:43:52 GEOFFs MTFSM Setup v5.1 USDCHF,M5: unknown ticket 487977 for OrderDelete function
2010.08.13 20:43:51 GEOFFs MTFSM Setup v5.1 USDCHF,M5: unknown ticket 487978 for OrderDelete function
2010.08.13 20:43:51 GEOFFs MTFSM Setup v5.1 USDCHF,M5: unknown ticket 487977 for OrderDelete function
2010.08.13 20:43:50 GEOFFs MTFSM Setup v5.1 USDCHF,M5: unknown ticket 487978 for OrderDelete function
2010.08.13 20:43:50 GEOFFs MTFSM Setup v5.1 USDCHF,M5: unknown ticket 487977 for OrderDelete function
2010.08.13 20:43:50 GEOFFs MTFSM Setup v5.1 USDCHF,M5: unknown ticket 487978 for OrderDelete function
2010.08.13 20:43:50 GEOFFs MTFSM Setup v5.1 USDCHF,M5: unknown ticket 487977 for OrderDelete function


Regards
Velli

I set it to Manual mode and even though there is

Entry Point Expected and Enter now messages I don't see any pop-ups..

Just switched back to Auto, will see what's up..

I set trails for Positions 2 and 3 as maybe you can see. Trail 10 in Pos 2 which it has hit and trail not moved down.

Above it says Trailing Type N/A

So, are the trail or not trail based on order entry type or what setting am i missing here? Thanks

also, all my tp's are`all still being set at same price. weird. oh well. got +18 and +38, but too many bugs it seems in this for my system. Like the entries, but everything else not working properly.

stifland, did you look at the table at the page 1?
it's clearly said - TRAILING STOP LOSS IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR OPTION 4!!!
sky told about this in some post here, there is no need trailing stop if we open 1 market and 2 limit orders...

i am being tired of a permanent explanation of how this works...

[quote=sashasan;3946747]stifland, did you look at the table at the page 1?
it's clearly said - TRAILING STOP LOSS IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR OPTION 4!!!
sky told about this in some post here, there is no need trailing stop if we open 1 market and 2 limit orders...

i am being tired of a permanent explanation of how this works.

Alex,
You're doing a wonderful job. Don't let anyone throw you! You're tired and it's been a hectic week. But it's an excellent EA! You've done things no one else has done and it's a powerful piece. There are some who have made good money with it and are happy.
So don't lets these others put a damper on the party.
Have a good weekend.
sandra

Sahasan;

One of the benefits of a PDF is being able to have a "frequently asked questions" section. Answer "FAQ" questions only once in the PDF and
if no one wants to read the PDF, then "screw 'em."

On the other hand, I for one, could not blame you for abandoning the
thread entirely. You have done an amazing job regardless of the outcome
and you must be one of the most patient people that I could imagine.

Man. Thanks. you guys have a good weekend. Sneaking off gently now......won't trouble you again. I'm sure those questions are tiresome and I shan't be responsible for tiring anyone.

Beers on me.

Dear All,

what happen to this thread? no activity?

I don't know. Strange to me too.

The Robot has had a wee melton down.

A good system when trending and a lot of work gone into it.

but personally I think it was getting too complicated.

be carefull about trading with EA's the market always wins

Maybe they all take 5 ... go for commercial break....