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  • #221
  • Nov 22, 2010 11:55am Nov 22, 2010 11:55am
Todays been a good day for The Beast. It's accumulated approx 300 pips for me today. The DD is slowly reducing.
I've had this on demo from day one and the account is currently up $1100 with DD at $250.

PeeJay
  • #222
  • Nov 22, 2010 11:56am Nov 22, 2010 11:56am
sure. give me a few mins - i'll post one across - bear in mind - it had its fair share of ups and downs AND there has been some manual intervention AND over the past few days i am only switching the EA on when price action is above the gold line and when RWB are agreeing AND i have been using another EA on eurusd....
  • #223
  • Nov 22, 2010 11:57am Nov 22, 2010 11:57am
Quoting hiredwhip
Astral.......When can you come by the house???

whip
Sir

With a name such as WHIP I am too chicken to come to your house!!!

Joke aside, I had the impression that you were putting this EA through its paces on demo (same as TFLR EA). Please find attached my set file and the latest results (which were from 14th october not 9th as mentioned before). You can see FXDD has opened shop in MALTA of all places.

Kind regards

P.s. Just seen your latest post, statement in xls attached
Quoting hiredwhip
I'd like to see an Original Beast Statement......Please......I'm getting tired of reading my own statements
whip
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File Type: zip Astral The Beast Set file and results.zip   23 KB | 435 downloads
  • #224
  • Nov 22, 2010 11:59am Nov 22, 2010 11:59am
Quoting astral77
Sir

With a name such as WHIP I am too chicken to come to your house!!!

Joke aside, I had the impression that you were putting this EA through its paces on demo (same as TFLR EA). Please find attached my set file and the latest results (which were from 14th october not 9th as mentioned before). You can see FXDD has opened shop in MALTA of all places.

Kind regards
Thanks Astral.....You and I have read alot of each others statements........Have a great day

whip
  • #225
  • Nov 22, 2010 12:05pm Nov 22, 2010 12:05pm
ok.. my statement is on my VPS.. but for some reason, the internet is not working on it.. although metatrader works. i am confused. anyway, i have managed a JPEG - the trades are from 18th october

max DD was about 6K - this is what i would like us to concentrate on reducing - limiting the number of recovery trades.
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  • #226
  • Nov 22, 2010 4:18pm Nov 22, 2010 4:18pm
Quoting hiredwhip
I'd like to see an Original Beast Statement......Please......I'm getting tired of reading my own statements
whip
The Original Beast (default settings) started on Friday 19th: http://www.mt4i.com/users/thebeast
:-anything
  • #227
  • Nov 22, 2010 4:46pm Nov 22, 2010 4:46pm
Quoting tritom
The Original Beast (default settings) started on Friday 19th: http://www.mt4i.com/users/thebeast
Thanks Tritom.......That's a great looking report.

whip
  • #228
  • Edited Nov 23, 2010 10:50am Nov 22, 2010 5:39pm | Edited Nov 23, 2010 10:50am
Quoting hiredwhip
Thanks Tritom.......That's a great looking report.

whip
hah, let's see in a week or two ;-) ..these two days were good for the Beast. I'll probably leave it unattended until it blows the (demo) account and then select the most reliable pairs. I'm sure a 5K acc is way too small for 23 pairs using defaults.

EDIT: few hours of internet outage => +100 pips for The Beast (CHFJPY primary trade) Up 1600+ pips atm, there was NO considerable floating dd yet.
:-anything
  • #229
  • Edited 3:03pm Nov 23, 2010 2:43pm | Edited 3:03pm
Steve or anyone using the original beast,
I've noticed the beast isn't updating the pending orders when the yellow line changes position. I have to manually delete the old pending order, reattach the beast to the chart and then the new pending order opens at the yellow line as it should. Other than that it's placing trades and functioning properly. Anyone else having this problem or know what could be causing it? thanks

Edit: I just checked my journal and the EA is attempting to delete the old pending order when the yellow line moves but it fails and says "Trade context is busy". Any ideas on how to remedy this? Could this just be my broker (IBFX) screwing with me?

Edit: I spoke to IBFX and they said this only happens when you or an expert advisor tries to place two trades at the same time. So the EA is trying to delete the old pending order and open another at the same time(or too close to the same time) ,giving you a trade context is busy message. Can't figure out why this never happened until today. It's happened twice today on different pairs.
  • #230
  • Nov 23, 2010 4:00pm Nov 23, 2010 4:00pm
Quoting Toothman
Steve or anyone using the original beast,
I've noticed the beast isn't updating the pending orders when the yellow line changes position. I have to manually delete the old pending order, reattach the beast to the chart and then the new pending order opens at the yellow line as it should. Other than that it's placing trades and functioning properly. Anyone else having this problem or know what could be causing it? thanks

Edit: I just checked my journal and the EA is attempting to delete the old pending order when the yellow line moves but it fails...
IBFX is not lying. The trade context busy problem is a flaw of MT4. You have to program your EA correctly to take care of these problems.

Personally I (wrote) and use LibOrderReliable4 which is a wrapper of MT4 order execution to handle this. But you could write the EA to not have the issue. The code logic has to assume that any possible order might fail temporarily.
  • #231
  • Nov 23, 2010 4:13pm Nov 23, 2010 4:13pm
Quoting Toothman
Steve or anyone using the original beast,
I've noticed the beast isn't updating the pending orders when the yellow line changes position...I spoke to IBFX and they said this only happens when you or an expert advisor tries to place two trades at the same time. So the EA is trying to delete the old pending order and open another at the same time(or too close to the same time) ,giving you a trade context is busy message. Can't figure out why this never happened until today. It's happened twice today on different pairs.
Hi

If you look at my previous post and results you can see that FXDD Malta is deleting pending orders without any problems. Therefore, the problem lies with ibfx. As you know as soon as they went 5 digit they also became some sort of ECN. It is a shame that these boys are not satisfied in making money honestly and employ all sort of weired tricks to grab more of our hard earned money. I do not know what happened with FSA and they were turned down for a permit in UK and had to go to Australia but they are in FAS`s warning list. Others are not much better, we all know the tricks of fxsol and few weeks ago forex.com paid just under half a million dollars to NFA in an out of court settlement for using underhand tactics with the mt4 plug in and these are the big reputable criminals. No wonder we find it hard making money with mt4 and forex.

Kind Regards
  • #232
  • Nov 23, 2010 4:13pm Nov 23, 2010 4:13pm
Quoting Toothman
Steve or anyone using the original beast,
I've noticed the beast isn't updating the pending orders when the yellow line changes position. I have to manually delete the old pending order, reattach the beast to the chart and then the new pending order opens at the yellow line as it should. Other than that it's placing trades and functioning properly. Anyone else having this problem or know what could be causing it? thanks

Edit: I just checked my journal and the EA is attempting to delete the old pending order when the yellow line moves but it fails...
My imperfect understanding is that mt4 cannot cope with two things being demanded at the same time. As I gradually get better at coding, these instances happen less and less.

They still happen and will continue to do so until I have the skill to avoid them altogether. This will take this pianist some time.

Mind, it is still ibfx screwing around with their customers, and not just ibfx. The imbecilities included with mt4 are probably coded precisely to allow the crims to screw the punters at every possible opportunity.

Doesn't stop TB clicking in the profits.

  • #233
  • Nov 23, 2010 5:23pm Nov 23, 2010 5:23pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
My imperfect understanding is that mt4 cannot cope with two things being demanded at the same time. As I gradually get better at coding, these instances happen less and less.

They still happen and will continue to do so until I have the skill to avoid them altogether. This will take this pianist some time.

Mind, it is still ibfx screwing around with their customers, and not just ibfx. The imbecilities included with mt4 are probably coded precisely to allow the crims to screw the punters at every possible opportunity.

Doesn't stop TB clicking...
Steve,
TB is doing quite well I agree. DD has melted away last two days and I've banked almost $1400 over the last month trading nickles.
  • #234
  • Nov 23, 2010 5:42pm Nov 23, 2010 5:42pm
Quoting Toothman
Steve,
TB is doing quite well I agree. DD has melted away last two days and I've banked almost $1400 over the last month trading nickles.
My dd comes and goes. It is normally steady at about 8%, but has never been higher than 15%. Granted, 15% dd would have some traders crying, but I have the requisite BOS to trade the marketplace.

The latest experimental version is at http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...&postcount=197

I post this in case people have missed it. I am very hopeful that this will become The Beast of the future. Trades are far fewer but the more stringent trade requirements also lower dd hugely. I am enjoying what I am seeing on demo.

  • #235
  • Nov 23, 2010 6:12pm Nov 23, 2010 6:12pm
Quoting Toothman
Edit: I just checked my journal and the EA is attempting to delete the old pending order when the yellow line moves but it fails and says "Trade context is busy". Any ideas on how to remedy this? Could this just be my broker (IBFX) screwing with me?
Hi, no it's not just IBFX try adding this code before the Send/Close functions in the EA;

while(IsTradeContextBusy()) Sleep(100);
RefreshRates();

Should remedy the problem.
24 hours in a day – 24 bottles of beer in a case – Coincidence? I think not
  • #236
  • Nov 23, 2010 6:39pm Nov 23, 2010 6:39pm
Quoting matrixebiz
Hi, no it's not just IBFX try adding this code before the Send/Close functions in the EA;

while(IsTradeContextBusy()) Sleep(100);
RefreshRates();

Should remedy the problem.
Neat idea.

I have added the while(IsTradeContextBusy()) Sleep(100); code to every trade send/close/modify line in TB. Should cut out a few error messages. I have also deleted some stuff from the SendSingleTrade() function to cut out error messages that bother users so much - coders can see what I have done and amend to suit themselves.

Post 1, as usual.

  • #237
  • Nov 23, 2010 7:25pm Nov 23, 2010 7:25pm
Thanks Steve, thanks matrix.
  • #238
  • Nov 23, 2010 8:03pm Nov 23, 2010 8:03pm
Steve, could you update that to the experimental version as well?

thanks.

Quoting SteveHopwood
My dd comes and goes. It is normally steady at about 8%, but has never been higher than 15%. Granted, 15% dd would have some traders crying, but I have the requisite BOS to trade the marketplace.

The latest experimental version is at http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...&postcount=197

I post this in case people have missed it. I am very hopeful that this will become The Beast of the future. Trades are far fewer but the more stringent trade requirements also lower dd hugely. I am enjoying what I am seeing...
  • #239
  • Nov 23, 2010 8:15pm Nov 23, 2010 8:15pm
Quoting obnoxious2
Steve, could you update that to the experimental version as well?

thanks.
I'll second this Steve....I read this thread pretty well and I missed this one...It's now on demo and underway...

whip
  • #240
  • Nov 23, 2010 9:21pm Nov 23, 2010 9:21pm
Hi Folks!

I have been testing The Beast with pretty good success. However, I am in the US and cannot take advantage of the hedging function. Can anyone recommend a reliable broker that allows hedging and accepts US customers? Thank you!

SirWolf
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