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  • #101
  • Nov 23, 2010 5:42am Nov 23, 2010 5:42am
Mine hasn`t traded yet either. It did before the weekend when I set the RSI filter to false, but not anymore. It opened nearly 10 trades in a couple of hours.
  • #102
  • Nov 23, 2010 7:26am Nov 23, 2010 7:26am
Quoting TallCoolOne
Verison 2 is what I'm using. Everything should be corrected and it seems to be working fine for me. What bugs are you encountering?

Thanks!
I think he's saying that you need to delete the original EA attachment and attach ver2. Cause looking at the source code, it is exactly the same?

Quoting the-game
i usually get Old Tick errors if I download history... just don't download history, or if you did, just install another MT4 in another folder.
I've had old ticker errors in the past. I usually delete my history in the history folder so it redownloads and its fine but not this time...
  • #103
  • Nov 23, 2010 7:31am Nov 23, 2010 7:31am
I must confess that I have never had much faith in EAs until I came across your thread TallCoolOne. Have you ever considered running your system via a PAMM or other places such as Zulutrade? Perhaps you could help others like myself while making a bit extra coin for yourself.
Incidentally the word "MARI" means money, in my Shona language. Wish you many more happy green pips.
  • #104
  • Nov 23, 2010 7:37am Nov 23, 2010 7:37am
Quoting Tsotsi
I must confess that I have never had much faith in EAs until I came across your thread TallCoolOne. Have you ever considered running your system via a PAMM or other places such as Zulutrade? Perhaps you could help others like myself while making a bit extra coin for yourself.
Incidentally the word "MARI" means money, in my Shona language. Wish you many more happy green pips.

Hi Tsotsi. Thanks! My wifes name is Mary - so it kinda a play on that. This EA will have trouble sometimes when you get a double dip on the MACD. I'm experiencing that now on EURGBP and AUDUSD. Currently I'm up $886 with a DD of -198. I could cut those trades loose and take a $60-70$ hit, but i may just let them go and see how it plays out. I think for this EA to be profitable, you have to let it trade as much as it wants. You have to let it up the lotsize(this acts as kind of a recovery element) and you need to trade a lot of pairs to spread the risk. So I think to go live with this you will need a good size account and keep your lot size small. We we will see how it plays out. I'm going to post my results everyday and I'm sure I will take some hits. Hopefully we can make it better and fine tune the setting some. I hope you guys share your results also.

Thanks!
  • #105
  • Nov 23, 2010 8:30am Nov 23, 2010 8:30am
Quoting TallCoolOne
Hi Tsotsi. Thanks! My wifes name is Mary - so it kinda a play on that. This EA will have trouble sometimes when you get a double dip on the MACD. I'm experiencing that now on EURGBP and AUDUSD. Currently I'm up $886 with a DD of -198. I could cut those trades loose and take a $60-70$ hit, but i may just let them go and see how it plays out. I think for this EA to be profitable, you have to let it trade as much as it wants. You have to let it up the lotsize(this acts as kind of a recovery element) and you need to trade a lot of pairs to spread the...
TCO could you just post version 2 on your next post? I'm not sure if I have ver 2 or not after messing around.

Before it stopped trading I'd been messing with a slightly higher trailing stop and seemed to still do pretty well. It would be nice if you could let all your trades run unattended just to see how the EA responds. Be interesting to see how the month of Dec. plays out since Bob notes that it usually goes into long trends.
  • #106
  • Nov 23, 2010 8:37am Nov 23, 2010 8:37am
Quoting obnoxious2
TCO could you just post version 2 on your next post? I'm not sure if I have ver 2 or not after messing around.

Before it stopped trading I'd been messing with a slightly higher trailing stop and seemed to still do pretty well. It would be nice if you could let all your trades run unattended just to see how the EA responds. Be interesting to see how the month of Dec. plays out since Bob notes that it usually goes into long trends.
Here is version 2. It should be error free (hopefully?) If you find some errors let me know. The only errors I seem to get are trailing stop errors when the EA is trying to set the TS for multiple trades - it seems to work it's way out. I will be interested to see how it plays out in demo over the next couple of months. If I get to 20,000 account bal, I will probably up my starting fixed lot size to 0.02.

Thanks!
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 MARI_EA V2.0.mq4   45 KB | 477 downloads
  • #107
  • Nov 23, 2010 9:33am Nov 23, 2010 9:33am
Hi all, so I have the set file from a few pages back. But not getting any trades.

Do I place the EA on the 1h or 5M TF?

Also, can you back test this in strategy tester or no?

Thanks!
  • #108
  • Nov 23, 2010 9:35am Nov 23, 2010 9:35am
Guys I've read the whole thread but still couldn't figure something out.

TCO mentions along the thread that the EA should be attached to the higher TF (H1)... though it has been said several times that the EA only gauges direction using the higher TF (H1 right?) and triggers entries using M5

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this be attached to the M5 to trigger entries then?

Also TCO, one question: I want to test the EA but without increasing any lot sizes (for now). Is there a way to set the parameter to not increase lot sizes at all after X trades (Or should I just set it to 0? or 781862812?)

Cheers

Diego
  • #109
  • Nov 23, 2010 9:51am Nov 23, 2010 9:51am
Quoting acostafulano
Guys I've read the whole thread but still couldn't figure something out.

TCO mentions along the thread that the EA should be attached to the higher TF (H1)... though it has been said several times that the EA only gauges direction using the higher TF (H1 right?) and triggers entries using M5

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this be attached to the M5 to trigger entries then?

Also TCO, one question: I want to test the EA but without increasing any lot sizes (for now). Is there a way to set the parameter to not increase lot sizes...
Probably setting the lot size mulitplier higher than max trades would keep lot size at initial lot size.
  • #110
  • Nov 23, 2010 10:01am Nov 23, 2010 10:01am
Quoting acostafulano
Guys I've read the whole thread but still couldn't figure something out.

TCO mentions along the thread that the EA should be attached to the higher TF (H1)... though it has been said several times that the EA only gauges direction using the higher TF (H1 right?) and triggers entries using M5

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this be attached to the M5 to trigger entries then?

Also TCO, one question: I want to test the EA but without increasing any lot sizes (for now). Is there a way to set the parameter to not increase lot sizes...
You probably could put it on the smaller time frame chart, and also put TMA indicator on the chart and watch it trade that way. You may want to multiple the parameters for MACD and RSI on the template by 12 if you are using 5 mins for your small time frame and 1 hour for your large time frame.
  • #111
  • Nov 23, 2010 10:38am Nov 23, 2010 10:38am
Quoting TallCoolOne
You probably could put it on the smaller time frame chart, and also put TMA indicator on the chart and watch it trade that way. You may want to multiple the parameters for MACD and RSI on the template by 12 if you are using 5 mins for your small time frame and 1 hour for your large time frame.
Yeah I figured I could also try this and see how it works, but is this the way you're trading it? I want to get similar results from the ones you're getting and start tweaking from there.

Thanks for sharing your work, I think it has great potential and if we all work together here we could get it working even better in no time
  • #112
  • Nov 23, 2010 1:01pm Nov 23, 2010 1:01pm
Hi TCO,
Are you using default true for conservative filter settings of Buy Above/sell below zero? Thank you.
  • #113
  • Nov 23, 2010 1:14pm Nov 23, 2010 1:14pm
Quoting yesbee1
Hi TCO,
Are you using default true for conservative filter settings of Buy Above/sell below zero? Thank you.

Yes and I have the RSI filter off. Thanks!
  • #114
  • Nov 23, 2010 1:59pm Nov 23, 2010 1:59pm
[quote=pilotui;4193579]Hi all, so I have the set file from a few pages back. But not getting any trades.

Do I place the EA on the 1h or 5M TF?

Also, can you back test this in strategy tester or no?

Thanks![/quot

Hi Pilotui, place the EA on the larger time frame chart. You really don't need the smaller time frame chart. How many pairs are you trading on? Do you have the smiley face in the right hand corner? Do you see any of the BuyReady1 or SellReady1 indicators displayed on the screen set to "1"?
This EA can be backtested. I would use tick data and set the CheckOncePerBar parameter to false.
  • #115
  • Nov 23, 2010 4:53pm Nov 23, 2010 4:53pm
Quoting TallCoolOne
Verison 2 is what I'm using. Everything should be corrected and it seems to be working fine for me. What bugs are you encountering?

Thanks!
No bugs.

I've just done a code compare with both v1.0 and v2.0 and they are exactly the same (from post 1 updates)
  • #116
  • Nov 23, 2010 4:59pm Nov 23, 2010 4:59pm
Quoting acostafulano
Guys I've read the whole thread but still couldn't figure something out.

TCO mentions along the thread that the EA should be attached to the higher TF (H1)... though it has been said several times that the EA only gauges direction using the higher TF (H1 right?) and triggers entries using M5

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this be attached to the M5 to trigger entries then?

Also TCO, one question: I want to test the EA but without increasing any lot sizes (for now). Is there a way to set the parameter to not increase lot...
As TCO mentioned on Post 1, if you think the Buy Ready 1 signal or Sell Ready 1 signal should be true, there is a setting in the EA to do so, then it will look for Buy Ready 2 or Sell Ready 2 conditions.
  • #117
  • Nov 23, 2010 5:01pm Nov 23, 2010 5:01pm
Hi Guys,

I created the small time frame template with the TMA, but you will have to use MARI V3.0 with it. I had the MACD code with a zero for the period, so it would the smaller time frame instead of the larger time frame. I changed it so it uses the LargerTimeFrame variable that we set at and external parm. Please let me know if you find any issues with it. I'm back testing it now on GBPJPY and my results look the same as they did with the old template and program. The are two MA on the template. The Dodger Blue is the Sell EMA and the Aqua is the Buy EMA. Your Large Time Frame and Small Time Frames would still be the same, you would attach the EA and the template to the smaller TF. Please let me know if you have any questions. This was suggested by Pilotui and I think it is a good idea.

Thanks!
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 MARI_EA V3.0.mq4   45 KB | 476 downloads
File Type: tpl mari stf.tpl   6 KB | 412 downloads
  • #118
  • Nov 23, 2010 5:05pm Nov 23, 2010 5:05pm
Quoting TallCoolOne
Hi Guys,

I created the small time frame template with the TMA, but you will have to use MARI V3.0 with it. I had the MACD code with a zero for the period, so it would the smaller time frame instead of the larger time frame. I changed it so it uses the LargerTimeFrame variable that we set at and external parm. Please let me know if you find any issues with it. I'm back testing it now on GBPJPY and my results look the same as they did with the old template and program. The are two MA on the template. The Dodger Blue is the Sell EMA and the Aqua...
Should this be attached to M5 or M15?

Thanks
Ian
  • #119
  • Nov 23, 2010 5:05pm Nov 23, 2010 5:05pm
TCO - great system. Involved in many EA developments and this is one of the best systems that wins and can be scaled easily to your account size. I just love what it can do with 0.01 lot sizes. That combined with high accuracy is are real winning system.

I have back tested this on nearly 20 pairs short term and out to a year and all produced positive results on default settings. Put it on a demo account this week and again positive results. I'm going to put it on one of my live penny accounts next week just to make sure it doesn't annoy the trade desk some way.

Due to fear of over exposure I have cut the numbers of trades back to 5. I also find myself moving the SL line down manually fairly soon after the trade goes positive. I can't stand to give the crims back any of the hard pips we've earned. I would rather take a zero and start again as I'm confident in this bots trade picking.

One thing I found with lot sizes. There is an optimum lot size and number of trades for each account size that provides the most pips. If you want to maximize your pips and run the lot size up, you margin out real quick and it actually reduces the number of total pips produced. For me the answer looks like a moderate lot size and moderate number of active trades produces a nice return. You could go with 0.01 lot size and allow 100 trades but when you have a loser, for me the phsycological effect of seeing 100 losers is totally depressing..I know the cup is half empty. Middle of the road works the best for me and gives me the staying power on the trades without feeling account balance challenged.

Pip On!

ej5
  • #120
  • Nov 23, 2010 5:07pm Nov 23, 2010 5:07pm
Quoting TallCoolOne
Here is version 2. It should be error free (hopefully?) If you find some errors let me know. The only errors I seem to get are trailing stop errors when the EA is trying to set the TS for multiple trades - it seems to work it's way out. I will be interested to see how it plays out in demo over the next couple of months. If I get to 20,000 account bal, I will probably up my starting fixed lot size to 0.02.

Thanks!
TCO, please don't hate me, but I did a code compare again with this attachment with V1.0 and they are still the same.

For example the fix I posted for the bug I found a couple of days ago is still not in the attachment, which you said was going to be when you posted in that very large font.

Here's the same coding but just with my proposed fix for handling the true/false settings on the Sells_Above_Zero_Only and Buys_Above_Zero_Only EA settings.
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 MARI_EA V2.1.mq4   45 KB | 361 downloads
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