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  • #841
  • Aug 18, 2010 7:44am Aug 18, 2010 7:44am
Managed to get success scores of 105 and 125 on EU using 500,000 last night. Settings are SL 190, min win rate 50 and min success score 0.8.

It only occurs in two trading hours, however, RR mentioned earlier in the thread that his settings may not trade often and he aim for at least a SS of 100.

Paul
  • #842
  • Aug 18, 2010 8:21am Aug 18, 2010 8:21am
Quoting paulbt38
Managed to get success scores of 105 and 125 on EU using 500,000 last night. Settings are SL 190, min win rate 50 and min success score 0.8.

It only occurs in two trading hours, however, RR mentioned earlier in the thread that his settings may not trade often and he aim for at least a SS of 100.

Paul
Hi, I don't understand how do you get success scores so high, with the same setting I have none trade.
May you help me to understand better?
  • #843
  • Aug 18, 2010 8:38am Aug 18, 2010 8:38am
Quoting eracle
Hi, I don't understand how do you get success scores so high, with the same setting I have none trade.
May you help me to understand better?
eracle

I am in work at the moment with no access to my vps. If I get a chnace I will post the set file tonight so you can try it.

Paul
  • #844
  • Aug 18, 2010 8:39am Aug 18, 2010 8:39am
Quoting paulbt38
eracle

I am in work at the moment with no access to my vps. If I get a chnace I will post the set file tonight so you can try it.

Paul
OK Thank you
  • #845
  • Aug 19, 2010 1:24pm Aug 19, 2010 1:24pm
Sorry for the delay, here is the set file

Paul
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  • #846
  • Aug 20, 2010 5:26pm Aug 20, 2010 5:26pm
I am posting my results for my first week on a demo account. I am quite satisfied from the results even if my profit factor is 1.43. What is good with the system is that it worked like I've set its parameters except for EU.
For the next week, I will keep the same settings but I will just disable the trading for certain hours by filling -1 values in the optimized settings file.

If you want to know my settings, all you have to do is to look at the results!

http://www.mt4i.com/users/jupiter/stats
  • #847
  • Aug 20, 2010 6:20pm Aug 20, 2010 6:20pm
Quoting networker75
I am posting my results for my first week on a demo account. I am quite satisfied from the results even if my profit factor is 1.43. What is good with the system is that it worked like I've set its parameters except for EU.
For the next week, I will keep the same settings but I will just disable the trading for certain hours by filling -1 values in the optimized settings file.

If you want to know my settings, all you have to do is to look at the results!

http://www.mt4i.com/users/jupiter/stats
So your min win rate was set to 72%?
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  • #848
  • Aug 20, 2010 6:36pm Aug 20, 2010 6:36pm
75% but I had bad results on EU.
I believe that the win rate is more reliable than R/W and Success Score when working with a HiLo strategy. The strategy can predict statistically what will be the type of the trade better than what will be the TP. So I set the SS not too high.

Quoting stevegee58
So your min win rate was set to 72%?
  • #849
  • Aug 20, 2010 7:08pm Aug 20, 2010 7:08pm
Quoting networker75
75% but I had bad results on EU.
I believe that the win rate is more reliable than R/W and Success Score when working with a HiLo strategy. The strategy can predict statistically what will be the type of the trade better than what will be the TP. So I set the SS not too high.
I stopped the EA earlier this week after having an abysmal couple of weeks. My setting was like 60% with a RR of 0.9. Should've worked better than it did but it was just loss after loss.

Surprisingly my first experiment was just default settings with the win% at 50% and the EA was moderately profitable. Maybe this week I'll have another go and just up the win% to 55% or 60% and leave everything at default like the first time. I think I adjusted too many variables at once.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  • #850
  • Aug 20, 2010 7:55pm Aug 20, 2010 7:55pm
Quoting networker75
75% but I had bad results on EU.
I believe that the win rate is more reliable than R/W and Success Score when working with a HiLo strategy. The strategy can predict statistically what will be the type of the trade better than what will be the TP. So I set the SS not too high.
How many bars were you using? Did you select optimize based on win rate? What did you set the SS to. What did you use for stop and what pairs did you trade? Thanks.
  • #851
  • Aug 20, 2010 8:57pm Aug 20, 2010 8:57pm
Quoting stevegee58
I stopped the EA earlier this week after having an abysmal couple of weeks. My setting was like 60% with a RR of 0.9. Should've worked better than it did but it was just loss after loss.

Surprisingly my first experiment was just default settings with the win% at 50% and the EA was moderately profitable. Maybe this week I'll have another go and just up the win% to 55% or 60% and leave everything at default like the first time. I think I adjusted too many variables at once.
yeapp same here, lots of losses last week winrate 60% Risk/reward 0.9. At one point I was even thinking just to go the opposite of the signal, I would have had lots of winners... I have 100,000 bars, stoploss 30 pips,15 pairs.
  • #852
  • Aug 20, 2010 11:56pm Aug 20, 2010 11:56pm
125,000 bars
optimized based on SS
different SL for each pair, you can check the results

Quoting fxshadow
How many bars were you using? Did you select optimize based on win rate? What did you set the SS to. What did you use for stop and what pairs did you trade? Thanks.
  • #853
  • Aug 21, 2010 5:42am Aug 21, 2010 5:42am
Quoting networker75
125,000 bars
optimized based on SS
different SL for each pair, you can check the results
Thanks! I can see now on the excel sheet all the trades. Interesting to see that the E/U didn't perform.
  • #854
  • Aug 21, 2010 8:33am Aug 21, 2010 8:33am
Taking into account that I was using 125,000 bars on EU, I think it's logical that the pair didn't perform well, it's the first week in this bar range where the market was acting like this.

Quoting fxshadow
Thanks! I can see now on the excel sheet all the trades. Interesting to see that the E/U didn't perform.
  • #855
  • Aug 21, 2010 9:06am Aug 21, 2010 9:06am
Quoting networker75
Taking into account that I was using 125,000 bars on EU, I think it's logical that the pair didn't perform well, it's the first week in this bar range where the market was acting like this.
using win rate 60% and success score 0.8 and 500,000 bars on EU kept me out of the bad week, Just shows what RR has said that with larger number of bars the ea should be more reliable

Paul
  • #856
  • Aug 21, 2010 9:13am Aug 21, 2010 9:13am
Can you post your results for EU?
Quoting paulbt38
using win rate 60% and success score 0.8 and 500,000 bars on EU kept me out of the bad week, Just shows what RR has said that with larger number of bars the ea should be more reliable

Paul
  • #857
  • Aug 21, 2010 9:33am Aug 21, 2010 9:33am
Quoting networker75
Can you post your results for EU?
I have read some people are using R/R 0.9 instead of 1.10!!!!! May be I am wrong.
  • #858
  • Aug 21, 2010 9:50am Aug 21, 2010 9:50am
Quoting networker75
Can you post your results for EU?
I have been constantly changing my settings until I find something I am comfortable with. Last week my settings only allowed trading for 2 hours a day and we never hit a hi or low during these times therefore no EU trades. I am using the same settings on UJ and this managed 7 trades on MOnday. I let these trades run and run. They were open for just over 48 hours before closing at a loss. Hence my question to RR earlier in the week about ideal times to close a trade rather than letting it run its course. The EA in backtesting closes after 1440 bars but doesn't do this live. I am thinking that I will certainly not let trades run any longer than this but we will see.

Paul
  • #859
  • Aug 21, 2010 2:23pm Aug 21, 2010 2:23pm
Quoting networker75
75% but I had bad results on EU.
I believe that the win rate is more reliable than R/W and Success Score when working with a HiLo strategy. The strategy can predict statistically what will be the type of the trade better than what will be the TP. So I set the SS not too high.
Hi Networkr75,

your MinimumSuccessScore=0.8 correct?
  • #860
  • Aug 22, 2010 4:36am Aug 22, 2010 4:36am
Hi Ron,

Your EA doesn't work correctly on IBFX broker. It opens 10 trades during one bar against one trade on each bar.
I'm using last version on M1 chart

Regards,
LeW
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