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  • #1,561
  • Nov 5, 2010 8:59am Nov 5, 2010 8:59am
I can't remember now but is the Master EA really needed? What does it do again?
Thanks
24 hours in a day – 24 bottles of beer in a case – Coincidence? I think not
  • #1,562
  • Nov 5, 2010 9:04am Nov 5, 2010 9:04am
Yes, you need, it looks at the daily profit and close all open positions if equity have increase enough, depends the DD suffered.
Moreover it set global variables that are used in the EAs, without Master EA, Maxx Ea is orphan

Here guys is the 213, that is the same that 212, I move the params and deleted not necessary one, so you can play to optimise and tweak these params.
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  • #1,563
  • Nov 5, 2010 9:10am Nov 5, 2010 9:10am
Quoting maxou888
Yes, you need, it looks at the daily profit and close all open positions if equity have increase enough, depends the DD suffered.
Moreover it set global variables that are used in the EAs, without Master EA, Maxx Ea is orphan

Here guys is the 213, that is the same that 212, I move the params and deleted not necessary one, so you can play to optimise and tweak these params.
Ok, thanks and did you include a user option to select my own value for Global DD closure since the last one I used closed all my trades when I didn't want it to at -DD.
24 hours in a day – 24 bottles of beer in a case – Coincidence? I think not
  • #1,564
  • Nov 5, 2010 9:51am Nov 5, 2010 9:51am
No, but look at the Master Ea code in this part:
if (UseProfitcontrol)
you can change the values TodayNet>=xxxxx
  • #1,565
  • Nov 5, 2010 9:54am Nov 5, 2010 9:54am
thanks for the detailed instructions max! will test this beginning next week.
  • #1,566
  • Nov 5, 2010 9:58am Nov 5, 2010 9:58am
Quoting maxou888
No, but look at the Master Ea code in this part:
if (UseProfitcontrol)
you can change the values TodayNet>=xxxxx
Ok, thanks Max
24 hours in a day – 24 bottles of beer in a case – Coincidence? I think not
  • #1,567
  • Nov 5, 2010 11:03am Nov 5, 2010 11:03am
here are 3 demos results (v133, v150 and v202)
Master Ea done his job rather well, except on the #3 it didn't close all today because equity is not in profit
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  • #1,568
  • Nov 5, 2010 3:32pm Nov 5, 2010 3:32pm
Once again you deliver. Many, many thanks Max.

This will keep me busy next week.

Cheers, Beastie.
  • #1,569
  • Nov 5, 2010 6:41pm Nov 5, 2010 6:41pm
Quoting maxou888
here are 3 demos results (v133, v150 and v202)
Master Ea done his job rather well, except on the #3 it didn't close all today because equity is not in profit
Seems like v150 is the way to go? I don't know about you guys but I would die on a live account if all my profits could be gone on a DD.
  • #1,570
  • Nov 10, 2010 12:26am Nov 10, 2010 12:26am
Hi Max,

I am testing v.213 and receiving this error.

The things I changed are the default lot size, from 0.15 down to 0.01 and profit target fromo 600 to 40 (I took 1/15 here due to my lower lot size. I don't know if my logic was correct).

Please see the attached picture for the error.


and sometimes I am receiving an error like this =>
BE error(Normal) - EURCHF T# 834008 err (146): trade context is busy SL=1.3445 TP=0


I wonder if you are going to write a brief "how to" document on the bot, because there are plenty of settings one can choose from and not all of them are easy to decipher for a newcomer like me.


PS: Even though I am using v.213, on the screen, it claims to be v.213

best regards and many thanks for letting us having this NB style EA.
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  • #1,571
  • Nov 11, 2010 4:45am Nov 11, 2010 4:45am
hey maxou888,

nice work what you've done! but please check trix ob and os settings:

Inserted Code
if (Period() == PERIOD_M30)HLLLDist = 0.008;
must be 0.0008 and
Inserted Code
if (Period() == PERIOD_W1) HLLLDist = 0.08;
must be 0.008

can you tell me the difference between "THV4 Trix Called" and bar0? do you have the mq4? only divergence? thanks and

have a nice day, derox
  • #1,572
  • Nov 11, 2010 4:45pm Nov 11, 2010 4:45pm
1st week with maxou's version. Pretty impressed with the default out of the box settings. I just wish there was a way we could optimize the entries.
  • #1,573
  • Nov 12, 2010 3:36am Nov 12, 2010 3:36am
I think the entries are good enough. My point of view is that Markets are globally ramdom and it's a waste of time to try to improve entries. It's well hnowed that "best" forecasters are not better than a dart player.
So we should concentrate now on MM, ie how to deal with good trades and how to deal with bad trades, how to reduce the risk of failure ect...
  • #1,574
  • Nov 12, 2010 7:03am Nov 12, 2010 7:03am
Maxx

I started testing V213 yesterday and since then I have had a repetitive error, strangely only on EurAud.

From the attached you can see there is a Sell and Buy trades but this is not the only pair so not sure why only this is producing the error.

Earlier I actualy closed the trades after getting the error repeatedly. Later the trades reopened and the error started again.
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  • #1,575
  • Nov 12, 2010 7:23am Nov 12, 2010 7:23am
strange....
  • #1,576
  • Nov 12, 2010 8:05am Nov 12, 2010 8:05am
Quoting maxou888
strange....

Same issue here with v213
  • #1,577
  • Nov 12, 2010 5:21pm Nov 12, 2010 5:21pm
Quoting Zr-fx
Maxx

I started testing V213 yesterday and since then I have had a repetitive error, strangely only on EurAud.

From the attached you can see there is a Sell and Buy trades but this is not the only pair so not sure why only this is producing the error.

Earlier I actualy closed the trades after getting the error repeatedly. Later the trades reopened and the error started again.
Zr, From your screen shot, it looks like some of the trades are buys with a TP & SL both higher than the buy price. Or sells with TP & SL both lower than the sell price.
The numbers just dont appear logical.
Do they look similarly 1 sided, when there is no error being reported?

cheers scalpz
Target 2 : Stoploss in the green
  • #1,578
  • Nov 13, 2010 5:59am Nov 13, 2010 5:59am
Quoting scalpz
Zr, From your screen shot, it looks like some of the trades are buys with a TP & SL both higher than the buy price. Or sells with TP & SL both lower than the sell price.
The numbers just dont appear logical.
Do they look similarly 1 sided, when there is no error being reported?

cheers scalpz
Yes I think was trying to set some strange SL/TP hence the error.

Unfortunately I do not have any open trades as the the EA closed all open trades automatically. I will keep an eye on it and will report back.
  • #1,579
  • Nov 15, 2010 3:32am Nov 15, 2010 3:32am
Guys. I've been running Maxx (through many versions) in Demo for 36 days now so I thought I'd look at which pairs were most profitable. The results are interesting.

The most profitable is EURUSD. Contributing 39.45% of all profits. The worst is EURCHF with -33%.

Of a total of 21 pairs, 12 showed profit ranging from just over BE to the EURUSD above. Adding up the profit % of those top 12 gives 171% of the profit. So the other 9 pairs actually made a 71% loss. You can see all of this here: http://www.mt4i.com/users/zr-fx-max/stats

The top pairs are:
Symbol % Of total profit
EURUSD 39.45%
GBPCHF 25.54%
GBPJPY 24.64%
EURAUD 20.45%
NZDJPY 17.48%
CADJPY 12.88%
GBPUSD 9.20%
USDCHF 6.86%
USDJPY 5.61%
CADCHF 4.59%
EURJPY 4.15%
AUDCHF 0.34%

Now my question is this: How about I let the EA trade only the top profitable pairs? I understand this is the a blunt assumption but does it not make sense? The difference in results between the best and worst is so big that I think it seems reasonable.

What do you think?

By the way, I have used Maxx live for a while, but because of so many trades I felt I could not control it. When things went south after the USD QE I closed all open trades at a loss just to clear the slate. So the idea of deploying less pairs is even more tempting.
  • #1,580
  • Nov 15, 2010 4:20am Nov 15, 2010 4:20am
Nice to see you follow the bot.
I am not sure that selecting pairs is relevant at this stage, since it should be only luck (or no luck) that seems to show good/bad pairs.
When we will have 100 trades for each pair, then we will be able to build some conclusion about which one are the best performer, but still carefully, analyse deeper is important, may be the worst pair is due to only 1 or 2 bad trades that occurs, may be they will not accur any more for this pair and they will occur in the future for another pair that showed very good profits so far.
Always be cautious when optimising....
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