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  • #21
  • Oct 5, 2010 7:54am Oct 5, 2010 7:54am
Congratz Steve,
On the road for 4 days...Logged in once on my laptop, not much going on...Just got back and I'm 3 weeks behind...
You're not only a gentleman and a scholar, your now up to legend status...
I guess I better get some sleep and start reading....Looks like another great one....

whip
  • #22
  • Oct 5, 2010 7:56am Oct 5, 2010 7:56am
Steve,

You could automate the BarCount optimization using.........

BarCount = NormalizeDouble((iATR("GBPUSD",1440,200,0)/MarketInfo("GBPUSD",MODE_POINT))/10,0)

Scoobs.
  • #23
  • Oct 5, 2010 8:32am Oct 5, 2010 8:32am
Ok guys; gobsmack overload at the ready. The update in post 1 contains:

 

  1. PipsBufferFromTradeLine tells it to wait until the market is this many pips away from the gold/green lines before sending the pending, to try to avoid sending a pending whilst so close to the line that it fills almost immediately and then the price runs away from the trade.
  2. Brought the sixths line calculation in house, to facilitate backtesting/optimising. Leave BarCount set to zero to take advantage of macman's optimising. If you have the indi on your chart, you have to make sure its BarCount is the same as that of TB in order to see the same readings.
  3. Brought the basic mptm stuff in house.
  4. Added trading hours.

Backtesters, you will be in hog's heaven.

Have fun.

  • #24
  • Oct 5, 2010 8:42am Oct 5, 2010 8:42am
I just put the latest on my always-on demo and am getting a few invalid stops errors as the management functions try to set premature breakeven stops, so I shall look at this now.

  • #25
  • Oct 5, 2010 8:49am Oct 5, 2010 8:49am
Hehe. Forgot to include the x digit adaptation for the imported mptm inputs. Fixed in post 1 now.

  • #26
  • Edited 10:08am Oct 5, 2010 9:40am | Edited 10:08am
Hi All

I am currently running TB test across 20 currencys plus futures looking to find customised sixths for Steve.

Plan of action: Run TB on 1 ccy across 5 terminals using different sixths and applying TB to test resulst. Will post results.

Have a look at todays results using broker Activ Trade.

Astonishing results considering i only switched it at 11am UK time.

http://www.mt4i.com/users/bl888tb

From results ignore anything with size 0.02s and 1.0 as i was mucking about with this account testing AND anything before 10.48am.

Steve, macman, Bob just want to say many thanks for such a great system.. On Euro bund futures it shorted and hit target. Excellent road to victory

This will be left constantly on.
The Kamakazi
  • #27
  • Oct 5, 2010 9:55am Oct 5, 2010 9:55am
Quoting scooby-doo
Steve,

You could automate the BarCount optimization using.........

BarCount = NormalizeDouble((iATR("GBPUSD",1440,200,0)/MarketInfo("GBPUSD",MODE_POINT))/10,0)

Scoobs.
Cheers Scoobs. I tried this and it looks as good as anything else.

So, the latest and final update for now is in post 1. I added the same code to the Sixths indi, so redownload them both. Leave BarCount of both TB and the indi set to zero:

 

  1. both TB and the indi will auto-calculate the BarCount using scoobs' formula.
  2. macman has optimised profitability by calculating the best BarCount for GU, GJ and UC. TB and the indi use macman's calculation for the BarCount for these pairs.
  3. setting a non-zero input will override all auto-calculation. Only do this if you know what you are doing.

  • #28
  • Oct 5, 2010 10:15am Oct 5, 2010 10:15am
Quoting SteveHopwood

  1. Brought the basic mptm stuff in house.

So no need for mptm on a seperate chart??
  • #29
  • Oct 5, 2010 10:33am Oct 5, 2010 10:33am
anyone else getting really crazy pending orders when you first apply to chart?

for some reason when i put the indi on the chart then the ea i have to go back and reload the indi and reload the ea, then they match up. but if i save it as a template and then load that template on another chart, everything is all out of whack and it might open a pending sell at the very bottom of the chart - who knows. then i go in and reload the indi and the ea and everything goes back to the way i think it should

im using ibfx: btw

anyone else with any issues like this?
  • #30
  • Oct 5, 2010 10:36am Oct 5, 2010 10:36am
Steve, the last version is not sending any pending orders at all.
Deleted all at the hour and stopped working!
"The only successful substitute for brains is silence."
  • #31
  • Oct 5, 2010 10:52am Oct 5, 2010 10:52am
I got a few zero bar counts when I applied scoobs' calculation formula, so I have gone back to plan A.

So, the latest and definitely final update for now is in post 1 - both the bot and the indi. I have not the energy to sort out what the problem was.

Also, I had managed to copy the line of code that adapts PipsBufferFromTradeLine to x digit crims twice, so the bot was unlikely to send any trades.

All is fixed again; I am not making any more changes today - even I can get coded out sometimes.

Run the latest through some backtests and enjoy watching the profits mount.

  • #32
  • Oct 5, 2010 11:01am Oct 5, 2010 11:01am
Quoting SteveHopwood
I got a few zero bar counts when I applied scoobs' calculation formula, so I have gone back to plan A.

So, the latest and definitely final update for now is in post 1 - both the bot and the indi. I have not the energy to sort out what the problem was.

Also, I had managed to copy the line of code that adapts PipsBufferFromTradeLine to x digit crims twice, so the bot was unlikely to send any trades.

All is fixed again; I am not making any more changes today - even I can get coded out sometimes.

Run the latest through some...
i give you 30 min. you will return
  • #33
  • Oct 5, 2010 11:09am Oct 5, 2010 11:09am
Ok Steve, everything looking better now. i guess you can take a break for a min. just don't go getting lazy on us now!!!


thanks man
you r the best
  • #34
  • Oct 5, 2010 11:37am Oct 5, 2010 11:37am
Steve,
I see you lurking. I bet you're coding another change as I speak.
  • #35
  • Oct 5, 2010 11:50am Oct 5, 2010 11:50am
Dream Team??? COOOOOL. How awesome.


Quick question here - I have back tested GU from 2007 but results are not super. Am i right in assuming that I should be ignoring this as MPTM has been built into the EA and obviously not considered in the back test?
  • #36
  • Oct 5, 2010 1:34pm Oct 5, 2010 1:34pm
Steve,

I have tested the following code on all pairs with Alpari UK and it returns the correct number of bars.

The minimum it will return is 120.

Scoobs.

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert BarCount function |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int BarCount(string symbol)
{
int o = NormalizeDouble((iATR(symbol,1440,14,0)/MarketInfo(symbol,MODE_POINT))/10,0);
int p = MathMod(o,10);
return(MathMax(120,(o-p)));
}
  • #37
  • Oct 5, 2010 4:19pm Oct 5, 2010 4:19pm
Quoting scooby-doo
Steve,

I have tested the following code on all pairs with Alpari UK and it returns the correct number of bars.

The minimum it will return is 120.

Scoobs.

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert BarCount function...
Cheers scoobs. I have more chance of winning Miss World than I do of coming up with a formula like this.

  • #38
  • Oct 5, 2010 4:26pm Oct 5, 2010 4:26pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
Cheers scoobs. I have more chance of winning Miss World than I do of coming up with a formula like this.

I think it should be close to what MacMan came up with. Hope it helps.

Man I feel sorry for that french trader sentenced to 3 years in prison.

But i did laugh when the judge said that he also had to pay back all the money he lost ????????????????????

How the fcuk is he going todo that ?

Scoobs
  • #39
  • Oct 5, 2010 4:44pm Oct 5, 2010 4:44pm
Quoting scooby-doo
Man I feel sorry for that french trader sentenced to 3 years in prison...But i did laugh when the judge said that he also had to pay back all the money he lost ????????????????????
How the fcuk is he going todo that ?
Scoobs
Quite right, I agree totally. As you know how it works in UK is you fill in a questionnaire given to you by the court and you put all your income and living expenses on that sheet, whatever is left (i.e. income-living costs = disposable income) that is your weekly payment. I would say it would be around 10 Euros a week for the next Billion weeks!!! All the credit to French legal system.

Kind Regards
  • #40
  • Oct 5, 2010 4:45pm Oct 5, 2010 4:45pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
Cheers scoobs. I have more chance of winning Miss World than I do of coming up with a formula like this.

You can count on my vote Steve -
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