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  • #1,041
  • Sep 29, 2010 11:00pm Sep 29, 2010 11:00pm
Quoting odysseus11
Im running Max's EA v 66 and STILL getting tons of those blasted error 130s (invalid stops). Is there a fix?

Odysseus
130's usually get thrown if the new value proposed for your stop is too close to the old value, or below the bid or ask

Likely cause - using a trailing stop and the calculation has the wrong pip to point conversion making the new stop too small

I think this is still happening for some JPY pairs with NB v5 EA

add this code to the init() function

if ( (Digits == 4) && (StringFind(Symbol(), "JPY") != -1) ) multiplier = 100;

to fix
  • #1,042
  • Sep 30, 2010 3:17am Sep 30, 2010 3:17am
Quoting f451
Beastie,

That was very old code that must have made it's way back into the latest EAs.

I have: (1-BbSeparation) < MinSepFromBB for Sells
If the test is there to ensure that the current market price is within 10% of the BB range from the upper BB for sells and the lower BB for buys (ie close to the top of the range for sells) then I think that we need:

For sells:

if ((1-BbSeparation) > MinSepFromBB) TradeDirection = none;

For buys:

if (BbSeparation > MinSepFromBB) TradeDirection = none;

That is greater than rather than less than.

Cheers, Beastie.
  • #1,043
  • Sep 30, 2010 8:05am Sep 30, 2010 8:05am
Hi guys

While waiting for things to settle down with the NB5 manual trading, I thought I would start testing the Autotrader on Demo.

I decided to start with Max's V071. I loaded it last night on the following pairs which I also trade live manually on NB5, all on H4:
AUDCAD, AUDCHF, AUDJPY, AUDUSD, CADCHF, CADJPY, CHFJPY, EURAUD, EURCAD, EURCHF, EURGBP, EURJPY, EURUSD, GBPCHF, GBPJPY, GBPUSD, NZDJPY, NZDUSD, USDCAD, USDCHF, USDJPY

Attached is the results since last night. Very interesting. I should point out that it is using 0.5 lots on a £5K demo pot. I would never do this live. I should have kept it realistic but I start with this so I'll let it run.

Platform is Alpari UK Demo.

Everything is default apart from ECN=False, End time = 2300.

One thing to note is that I got a lot of 4107 errors. Constant in some cases. But the strange thing is that when I reload the EA they seem to stop. Not sure why. I have a feeling they were trying to use prices not accepted by the broker. Perhaps SL or pending order price too close? At the moment I have no errors poping up.

Will keep an eye on it for a few days and see how it goes. I will also run Steve's once this is going alright.

Thanks Steve for letting me post here and Max for the bot. I hope I can be useful.
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  • #1,044
  • Sep 30, 2010 8:24am Sep 30, 2010 8:24am
I have this spam on NBv5-19082010-mx071c and I have compiled the file but it does not help.
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  • #1,045
  • Sep 30, 2010 8:53am Sep 30, 2010 8:53am
Quoting E2u
I have this spam on NBv5-19082010-mx071c and I have compiled the file but it does not help.
Please forgive me for asking the obvious. Have you saved the THVtrix4 in your indicators folder?

Kind regards
  • #1,046
  • Sep 30, 2010 9:26am Sep 30, 2010 9:26am
Quoting astral77
Please forgive me for asking the obvious. Have you saved the THVtrix4 in your indicators folder?

Kind regards
Shit I was working with wrong indicator. I had to check the indicator folder one more time when you told me and found THV3 Not THV4. Thanks!
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  • #1,047
  • Sep 30, 2010 9:45am Sep 30, 2010 9:45am
Check here...if your have this, restart MT4.
Cheers
CanuckCT

http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost.php?p=4057883
  • #1,048
  • Sep 30, 2010 9:58am Sep 30, 2010 9:58am
Quoting CanuckCT
Check here...if your have this, restart MT4.
Cheers
CanuckCT

http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost.php?p=4057883
Yes I was checking there and I was thinking that it's strange. Ex4 file and I have mq4 file. I could not remember that I have hacked the file. Then I saw that it was number 4 and I had number 3. I missed to download it when I first got it as php file.
  • #1,049
  • Sep 30, 2010 10:00am Sep 30, 2010 10:00am
Quoting E2u
Shit I was working with wrong indicator. I had to check the indicator folder one more time when you told me and found THV3 Not THV4. Thanks!
You are welcome. It is always good idea to eliminate the obvious and as CanuckCT said you should try rebooting the computer and restarting mt4.
best of luck.
kind regards
  • #1,050
  • Sep 30, 2010 10:03am Sep 30, 2010 10:03am
Max

Sorry if this has been discussed but I did not find this topic covered.

V071 is frequently taking two trades in opposite directions, one with NB5 and the other with 4H. In some cases this can be a useful hedge but in others it means getting stuck in the middle.

Right now I have EurCad buy with 4H and sell with NB5 #7. The buy was several hours before the sell and was negative when sell was triggered so in this case it is a good hedge.

I also have USDJPY 4H sell and #4 buy. These were triggered at the same time when reloaded the EA after having many errors.

Is it intended to allow this?
  • #1,051
  • Sep 30, 2010 10:11am Sep 30, 2010 10:11am
Steve I will get millionaire on Louise. I'm close to 1000 pips profit this week now. What happen if you put the right code in it. Same as you did with Nanningbob V5 auto-trader. Then I can buy all the hotels here in Las Palmas. Maybe.
  • #1,052
  • Edited 11:54am Sep 30, 2010 10:47am | Edited 11:54am
Can this be added to Max's latest version....those alerts are annoying and setting of stops is not being performed properly without.
Cheers
CanuckCT

Quoting f451
130's usually get thrown if the new value proposed for your stop is too close to the old value, or below the bid or ask

Likely cause - using a trailing stop and the calculation has the wrong pip to point conversion making the new stop too small

I think this is still happening for some JPY pairs with NB v5 EA

add this code to the init() function

if ( (Digits == 4) && (StringFind(Symbol(), "JPY") != -1) ) multiplier = 100;

to fix
  • #1,053
  • Sep 30, 2010 11:55am Sep 30, 2010 11:55am
Quoting E2u
Steve I will get millionaire on Louise. I'm close to 1000 pips profit this week now. What happen if you put the right code in it. Same as you did with Nanningbob V5 auto-trader. Then I can buy all the hotels here in Las Palmas. Maybe.
Steve

I have recently gone back to play with Louise. She is very nice indeed. HOwever I noticed that she seems to be placing all the recovery trades at the same time. What ever she is doing is working but I imagine they aren't all meant to placed at the same time.

I know you are really busy with more to follow by the sounds of it but could you at some point check Louise out

Many thanks for all your hard work

Paul
  • #1,054
  • Sep 30, 2010 2:12pm Sep 30, 2010 2:12pm
End of September and I have my issues sorted with Max's bot. Results for 8 days of trading, trading 0.5 lot on a $10,000 account.

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Errors seem to have settled down and it's just trading now with the odd error re placing stops. It's persistent and does get stops updated.

Steve's EA has stopped trading. Guess I need to use a different broker, as that is what did it for Max's EA.

Cheers
CanuckCT
  • #1,055
  • Sep 30, 2010 4:27pm Sep 30, 2010 4:27pm
Nice to see your results
I will release soon a new version that correct some bugs and has some improvements
What is this tool for your report? Is it free ?
  • #1,056
  • Sep 30, 2010 5:52pm Sep 30, 2010 5:52pm
Quoting maxou888
here ar ethe correct mod for buy sell mode I think :
[code]
void Mode1Buy()
{...
Hi Max, did you get confirmation if this is correct yet?
Also notice that your using the Bid price for your Buys and Sells
24 hours in a day – 24 bottles of beer in a case – Coincidence? I think not
  • #1,057
  • Sep 30, 2010 6:56pm Sep 30, 2010 6:56pm
Same here...
Steve's bot stopped trading all this week...
"The only successful substitute for brains is silence."
  • #1,058
  • Edited 10:15pm Sep 30, 2010 7:46pm | Edited 10:15pm
Quoting Beastie Boy
If the test is there to ensure that the current market price is within 10% of the BB range from the upper BB for sells and the lower BB for buys (ie close to the top of the range for sells) then I think that we need:

For sells:

if ((1-BbSeparation) > MinSepFromBB) TradeDirection = none;

For buys:

if (BbSeparation > MinSepFromBB) TradeDirection = none;

That is greater than rather than less than.

Cheers, Beastie.
It should be less than not greater than.

Consider: if price is currently on the upper bollinger band, then
BbSeparation = 1,
(1-BbSeparation) = 0, which is less than MinSepFromBB, so we are in the correct range for a sell.

if price is currently on the lower band, then BbSeparation = 0, which is less than MinSepFromBB, and we are in the right range for a buy.

cheers
f451
  • #1,059
  • Sep 30, 2010 7:48pm Sep 30, 2010 7:48pm
Hi Max,

I do two things for analyzing results, in addition to the tools you recently provided.

I use this indicator
http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost.php?p=4016391

And I use
http://www.mt4i.com/

Looking forward to the new version.

Thanks for all your hard work.

Cheers
CanuckCT


Quoting maxou888
Nice to see your results
I will release soon a new version that correct some bugs and has some improvements
What is this tool for your report? Is it free ?
  • #1,060
  • Edited 2:33am Oct 1, 2010 1:56am | Edited 2:33am
Quoting f451
It should be less than not greater than.

Consider: if price is currently on the upper bollinger band, then
BbSeparation = 1,
(1-BbSeparation) = 0, which is less than MinSepFromBB, so we are in the correct range for a sell.

if price is currently on the lower band, then BbSeparation = 0, which is less than MinSepFromBB, and we are in the right range for a buy.

cheers
f451
Thanks for looking. In the current code, if the calculated values of BbSeparation or 1-BbSeparation = 0 (or are less than 0.1), then TradeDirection is set to none, ie we stop looking for a trade.

Please forgive me if I have this muddled up. I have read through it so many times I can no longer think straight!

Cheers, Beastie.
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