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  • #921
  • Edited 3:48pm Sep 7, 2010 3:37pm | Edited 3:48pm
Oh... its suppose to me m1 chart..careless me.. did not expect it could make so much difference..
  • #922
  • Sep 8, 2010 12:33am Sep 8, 2010 12:33am
Ronald, I seem to have a couple of problems with the EA every now and then.

If the client gets disconnected and reconnects, the script appears to crash.

Sometimes when I restart the client the script gets stuck at the last calculation ("23:00") and does not actually load the final screen.

Any tips for how to resolve these issues?

Oh and any chance of a news avoidance filter any time soon? (although this may skew the optimized results) Thanks!
  • #923
  • Sep 8, 2010 7:36am Sep 8, 2010 7:36am
Quoting Mindsphere
Ronald, I seem to have a couple of problems with the EA every now and then.

If the client gets disconnected and reconnects, the script appears to crash.

Sometimes when I restart the client the script gets stuck at the last calculation ("23:00") and does not actually load the final screen.

Any tips for how to resolve these issues?

Oh and any chance of a news avoidance filter any time soon? (although this may skew the optimized results) Thanks!
Adding in news is easier said then done. It would add a lot of permutations and would infact skew the results. Its difficult to quantify because the market doesn't move right when the news officially breaks, a lot of times the news is already built into the price by then. And trying to tell the bot how to even read the data would be another issue. Using unemployment as relative example. It would be logical to assume that if unemployment goes up that the market would weaken. But if the rate of change was slightly less then the last report the market could actualy stregthen. Not quite as simple as hilos. If you have any ideas, I am all ears.
  • #924
  • Sep 8, 2010 8:09am Sep 8, 2010 8:09am
Quoting rfking2
Adding in news is easier said then done. It would add a lot of permutations and would infact skew the results. Its difficult to quantify because the market doesn't move right when the news officially breaks, a lot of times the news is already built into the price by then. And trying to tell the bot how to even read the data would be another issue. Using unemployment as relative example. It would be logical to assume that if unemployment goes up that the market would weaken. But if the rate of change was slightly less then the last report the market...
I think Mindsphere meant something which disables the EA during news.

I still know that's a bad idea and here's my explanation. The spikes that occur during the news do show up in the backtest that the EA puts itself through. This EA in a roundabout way, has already taken into account the effects of the news.
  • #925
  • Sep 8, 2010 9:44am Sep 8, 2010 9:44am
Ronald,

I don't know if this was already covered, but do you reapply the EA to the chart on a periodic basis (perhaps weekly) so the system will recalibrate or do you just do that once?

I guess what I'm asking is does the EA automatically optimize every day without having to be loaded again? It was my understanding that the EA just optimizes when you first load it.

Thanks,
Pipper
  • #926
  • Sep 8, 2010 10:48am Sep 8, 2010 10:48am
Quoting PiedPipper
Ronald,

I don't know if this was already covered, but do you reapply the EA to the chart on a periodic basis (perhaps weekly) so the system will recalibrate or do you just do that once?

I guess what I'm asking is does the EA automatically optimize every day without having to be loaded again? It was my understanding that the EA just optimizes when you first load it.

Thanks,
Pipper
In theory, the EA will continue to reoptimize itself every week starting on the first tick sunday / monday.

I always have my servers do a hard restart over the weekend to clear the cache, apply updates to metatrader, the OS, occasionally my EAs and keep the memory leak in check.
  • #927
  • Sep 8, 2010 10:52am Sep 8, 2010 10:52am
Ronald

You mentioned the EA optimizes on first tick sunday/monday each week. I was under the impression it optimized each night at the start hour.

Paul
  • #928
  • Sep 8, 2010 11:12am Sep 8, 2010 11:12am
Quoting paulbt38
Ronald

You mentioned the EA optimizes on first tick sunday/monday each week. I was under the impression it optimized each night at the start hour.

Paul
Weekly.
  • #929
  • Sep 8, 2010 12:45pm Sep 8, 2010 12:45pm
Thanks for the response, Ronald.
  • #930
  • Sep 8, 2010 6:00pm Sep 8, 2010 6:00pm
Hello Ronald.

About the optimization, I have 10 EAs running and they optmizes every day at the same time, like paulbt38 says...
Anything wrong?
  • #931
  • Sep 8, 2010 6:47pm Sep 8, 2010 6:47pm
Nope, nothing wrong. I had a second look and I mistook a different EA for the one I posted here.

It should reoptimize daily.
  • #932
  • Sep 8, 2010 7:24pm Sep 8, 2010 7:24pm
Quoting LeW
Hi Ron

Why the expert current hour is different then my computer local time?
Please look at my attached screenshot.
Is it a bug?

Regards
uhhh...24hr time...
17 = 5
  • #933
  • Sep 8, 2010 7:54pm Sep 8, 2010 7:54pm
Quoting iamboston
uhhh...24hr time...
17 = 5
If you look closer at the EA's current hour, it was 15. That doesn't match obviously. My guess is the EA got hung somehow.
  • #934
  • Sep 8, 2010 8:44pm Sep 8, 2010 8:44pm
Quoting Ronald Raygun
If you look closer at the EA's current hour, it was 15. That doesn't match obviously. My guess is the EA got hung somehow.
BLAST! i thought i deleted that comment when i learnt how to read

Cheers Ron
  • #935
  • Sep 9, 2010 2:29pm Sep 9, 2010 2:29pm
@Ron

On how many currency pairs you haven't got any tradeable hour?(currently)

Yours win rate is set to 50 or higher?
  • #936
  • Sep 9, 2010 3:44pm Sep 9, 2010 3:44pm
7 of 20.

Yes
  • #937
  • Sep 10, 2010 12:55am Sep 10, 2010 12:55am
Been Long since I posted on FF, Hello everyone...

Great thing we have here though I don't trade off EA as such I am actually impressed by this EA and what Ron has done.

Thank you for bringing back the dream of realizing Autotrading Potentials...

Noted today was that I made over 450cts(live cents account) night and morning session +3GMT but these stupid spikes sometime kills the joy. Maybe a CloseAll() incase someone wants to run with the money... hehe

Anyway Happy Eid to all muslim friends

Regards

Sabore
  • #938
  • Sep 10, 2010 3:18am Sep 10, 2010 3:18am
Ron

Thanks for your reply!

Can you post a weekly optimization version or write a version which make optimizing at custom date?
(e.g I want to start optimizing on EURUSD at every Saturday on 1 a.m; on GBPUSD at Sat 2 p.m, etc.), because when it start optimizing every currency pairs at the same time, it cause crash the terminal and I should to restart it!
  • #939
  • Sep 10, 2010 7:44pm Sep 10, 2010 7:44pm
This is what the EA did for me this week. The EA only traded on Tuesday (9/7) of this week but it did very well, making 305 pips ($305) in that time period. It took the rest of the week off. I kept the settings the same as last week except for increasing the lot size from 0.1 to 1.0.
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File Type: zip DetailedStatement HiLo 9.10.10.zip   7 KB | 1,134 downloads
  • #940
  • Sep 11, 2010 10:27am Sep 11, 2010 10:27am
@Ron

Is it possible to modify your's EA as I suggested in the #938 post?
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