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  • #1,401
  • Oct 27, 2010 2:56am Oct 27, 2010 2:56am
Report Ph14_WrongwayGravy_taz_01.mq4
today closed the longest tred started 21/10 at 21:00 Closed 27/10 10:15 am
my account +71.01% (Max Drawdown -1133.90 -83.49%)

now try with Ph14_WrongwayGravy_taz_01.mq4 ResetPhantoms to 8 hours
  • #1,402
  • Oct 27, 2010 7:46am Oct 27, 2010 7:46am
Hello all,

If you cannot run your system 24/7, given that the system resets every 8 hours, is it going to make a lot of difference switching off occasionally.
Also, I have seen some of you talk about running on VPS, what is that.

Regards.
  • #1,403
  • Oct 27, 2010 7:57am Oct 27, 2010 7:57am
Quoting aajduk
If you cannot run your system 24/7, given that the system resets every 8 hours, is it going to make a lot of difference switching off occasionally.
Also, I have seen some of you talk about running on VPS, what is that.
-If it resets, it only resets the values for the PHANTOM trades. Time will tell if this is a good implementation or not.
-VPS is a Virtual Private Server. You rent harddiskspace from a company with fast computers and a fast and reliable internet connection. You can run MT4 with EA's 24/7 there and you don't have to let your own home computer on all the time. You can access the VPS with MT4 trough the internet or with remote desktop I believe.
  • #1,404
  • Oct 27, 2010 8:39am Oct 27, 2010 8:39am
Thanks Jules,

If I do shut down it will be when there are no active trades open and will start at the beginning of the Asian session. VPS is an option, maybe once I am live with this EA.
Thanks.

Regards.
  • #1,405
  • Oct 27, 2010 8:41am Oct 27, 2010 8:41am
Quoting aajduk
Thanks Jules,

If I do shut down it will be when there are no active trades open and will start at the beginning of the Asian session. VPS is an option, maybe once I am live with this EA.
Thanks.
After you shut it down, make sure you delete all the Global Variables (press F3) before you attach and start the EA again.
  • #1,406
  • Oct 27, 2010 8:49am Oct 27, 2010 8:49am
Quoting JulesvH
After you shut it down, make sure you delete all the Global Variables (press F3) before you attach and start the EA again.
If I am running multiple EAs and shut it down(at night) and reopen later, will it create any conflict in global variables?
Even with single EA, does shutting down occasionally causes a problem when the trades are open?
I see performance go haywire when add few more EAs to the same platform though with different magic numbers. This has been bothering me.
Thanks.
"Put all your efforts in becoming effortless"
  • #1,407
  • Oct 27, 2010 9:20am Oct 27, 2010 9:20am
Quoting aajduk
Hello all,

If you cannot run your system 24/7, given that the system resets every 8 hours, is it going to make a lot of difference switching off occasionally.
Also, I have seen some of you talk about running on VPS, what is that.

Regards.
A month ago, I had no idea what a VPS was. Now, for 2 weeks, I have a VPS and it is the best money I have spent in forex EVER. I have my EA´s running 24/7, and I can access to my MT4 from any PC, any MAC and from my iPhone and iPad, and trade through them. Incredible ! If you want to trade with EA´s a VPS is indispensable....
  • #1,408
  • Oct 27, 2010 9:25am Oct 27, 2010 9:25am
vienna,

i like the way you are thinking. combining 2 EA to get diversification and correlation. we will see how it works

opening too many trades is the major concern for huge DD.

addsix_02 is the only EA that trades less . all others just keep sending orders every hour. even resetting 8 hrs thingy also sends many orders. so far i have seen let addsix_02 start and run for 5-6 hours and then if its already in some DD, now enter fresh , you have better chance to hit TP
  • #1,409
  • Oct 27, 2010 9:25am Oct 27, 2010 9:25am
AddSix_03 and 03a are the only ones that have closed since yesterdays report. Interestingly, those are the only 2 that I have not yet changed to the lower MaxMargin and ProfitPct settings.
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Frazer
  • #1,410
  • Oct 27, 2010 9:32am Oct 27, 2010 9:32am
Quoting roundrock
vienna,

i like the way you are thinking. combining 2 EA to get diversification and correlation. we will see how it works

opening too many trades is the major concern for huge DD.

addsix_02 is the only EA that trades less . all others just keep sending orders every hour. even resetting 8 hrs thingy also sends many orders. so far i have seen let addsix_02 start and run for 5-6 hours and then if its already in some DD, now enter fresh , you have better chance to hit TP
Not sure what you mean by "enter fresh" - if that means you are removing the EA and then reloading it with the old trades still there, all that does is reset the phantoms. You can also do that by opening the EA dialog box and then close it with the OK button.
Frazer
  • #1,411
  • Oct 27, 2010 9:38am Oct 27, 2010 9:38am
This one closed again for another 1% gain.
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Frazer
  • #1,412
  • Oct 27, 2010 10:27am Oct 27, 2010 10:27am
If traders want to run more than one EA on one account, just know I won't answer any queries regarding problems resulting therefrom. Having said that, for those who understand what they're doing and why, some good things could come of it. Just be careful and work hard to understand the platform, the strategies and the EAs.

I'm seeing good things on my latest demos, similar to the results Frazer is reporting. I'm not doing anything fancy, just running one EA per client app.
Open to new approaches.
  • #1,413
  • Edited 11:16am Oct 27, 2010 10:58am | Edited 11:16am
MC,
Just thought i'd let you know, so hopefully it can be fixed going forward.

I have 03b running all week on broco, which has no trade size limitations. 200:1, 5k account, default mmtu at .67 and its doing great, opening .07 size trades and chugging along nicely.
Yesterday I opened the exact same spec account on tadawulfx, which has the .05 minlot requirement, and the .05 minstep requirement. Same 200:1, 5k balance. No trades even attempted to open, which means the minlot code in the ea doesn't work right.
I had previously thought (without testing) that at least the minlot would work, and since it wants to open .07 trades, it would just open the minlot of .05 on tadawulfx. Apparently, that is not the case.
Is anyone else running ANY of these ea's on tadawulfx AND NOT using the manual lot size input?
Granted, this isn't a show stopper, but it might be something at some point to fix up, so that issues don't arise on other brokers with these requirements (ie, fxpro requires .10 lot min, and a few others).
It seems you've removed the input for entering the lotsize u want to use in 3b, so I'll fumble with it to see if I can get it to work with fixed lots like the older versions did.
edit: yeah, appears just need to add the 'extern bool Lots = ' back into the code, so its working when I add that and set it to .05.
Thanks, 3b is showing some pretty nice promise (with a slight taz tweak anyhow
  • #1,414
  • Oct 27, 2010 11:23am Oct 27, 2010 11:23am
tazmaan, thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. Fixing the issue is not super high on my list of priorities, but I do acknowledge it and intend to fix it when time allows.
Open to new approaches.
  • #1,415
  • Oct 27, 2010 11:24am Oct 27, 2010 11:24am
Quoting tazmaan
Is anyone else running ANY of these ea's on tadawulfx AND NOT using the manual lot size input?
See my statement above. I am using mmtu 0.1 and ppct 1.0 on a 500:1 demo and it's working great so far. Someone posted that when trading with the .05 brokers you need to use settings of 0.1, 0.05, etc. I don't know why that would matter, but maybe it will work.
Frazer
  • #1,416
  • Oct 27, 2010 11:25am Oct 27, 2010 11:25am
Not a problem MC, just wanted to make sure you knew it existed. As we know most ppl don't read posts in the thread before trying ea's usually, will save us a bunch of questions like 'my ea doesnt take any trades'.
For now maybe adding the issue to your faq, then we could just say GO READ THE FAQ
  • #1,417
  • Oct 27, 2010 11:27am Oct 27, 2010 11:27am
frazerd:
Yeah i guess what's happening is you've just adjusted your mmtu setting so the result = .05 lot size hehe.
That's another way to skin a cat i guess
  • #1,418
  • Oct 27, 2010 11:33am Oct 27, 2010 11:33am
Quoting tazmaan
frazerd:
Yeah i guess what's happening is you've just adjusted your mmtu setting to the result = .05 lot size hehe.
That's another way to skin a cat i guess
I didn't do it for that reason. I have found that mmtu 0.1 is the best setting at 500:1 leverage. That was the setting I was using with your Add_02-taz that did so well for so long. I'm still running that one BTW and it is in a big DD which it may not recover from, but I will keep it running just to see what finally happens.
Frazer
  • #1,419
  • Oct 27, 2010 11:43am Oct 27, 2010 11:43am
I have changed mine to .5 mmtu just to see if it will size and open trades automatically again. We'll see.
This is my 3b test, looking good thusfar
http://www.myfxbook.com/members/tazmaan/3btaz/59473
  • #1,420
  • Edited 12:45pm Oct 27, 2010 11:50am | Edited 12:45pm
Here is a solution to the lotstep issue we see with certain brökers. I think this will work but I haven't tested it for myself yet; please be sure to do so.

First, in the Internal Variables section of the EA, declare the variable LotStep as

double LotStep;

Then in the GetAccountInfo function we need the following statement:

LotStep = MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_LOTSTEP);

The SetLotSize function needs to have these lines in it:

UseLots = valLastFlatEq * Investment * (Leverage / MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_LOTSIZE));
UseLots = StrToDouble(DoubleToStr(UseLots/LotStep,0))*LotStep;
UseLots = StrToDouble(DoubleToStr(UseLots,2));

That last line may not be necessary, but we'll keep it if we need to change number of lot size digits for odd-duck brökers.

Here's a copy of Phantom_AddSix_03b that has the lotstep fix in it.
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