set ecn to true see if it fixes
NanningBob V1 Trend auto trading robot by Steve Hopwood
- #43
- Jan 5, 2011 11:35pm Jan 5, 2011 11:35pm
Bug? :
2) the SL it seems to far away from the most recent high/low. Please see the picture.
It says: Min Stoploss: 500
By default, the minimum stoploss is 50 pips, like Steve mentioned.
For question 1 I have no explonation.
Hi Steve , thank you for your work as usual - I don't post often so dont shoot me down please- in a previous posting on bobs thread for this system some back testing was done using sl set to half of distance between previous hi/low and entry. This resulted in a drop in successful trades from 55% - 38% but a profit expectancy increase from .35 to .85. The equity curve was improved drastically - TP was opposite tma band. This was done on TMA so with the discussion around how this moves in time and its accuracy in backtesting being questioned i dont know how valid the results are. But it does conform to the maxim cut lossess quickly and let profits run. If you could add this as a option that would be great to test it or point me to the line in the code that sets stoploss and i will simply /2
The newer version using the moving average rather than tma is this more relable in back testing than tma ?
thank you
The newer version using the moving average rather than tma is this more relable in back testing than tma ?
thank you
I intended adding this to the bot - I just forgot.
I will do this tomorrow.
- #46
- Jan 6, 2011 1:45am Jan 6, 2011 1:45am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Thanks Steve, I have been following your Beast thread and am really looking forward to this one...I have two demos for the Beast and I am setting one up for this one now. I would love to be able to post some of my statements but I haven't been vouched for yet.
- #47
- Jan 6, 2011 1:52am Jan 6, 2011 1:52am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Hi Steve , thank you for your work as usual - I don't post often so dont shoot me down please- in a previous posting on bobs thread for this system some back testing was done using sl set to half of distance between previous hi/low and entry. This resulted in a drop in successful trades from 55% - 38% but a profit expectancy increase from .35 to .85. The equity curve was improved drastically - TP was opposite tma band. This was done on TMA so with the discussion around how this moves in time and its accuracy in backtesting being questioned i dont...
stop = GetLow();
stop = GetHigh();
- #48
- Edited 4:06am Jan 6, 2011 3:38am | Edited 4:06am
Anybody able to make the bot draw the different ma/tma lines is most welcome to post a version here that we can adopt as the post 1 version. Also, I can learn from how this is done.
On a positive note, I did find out to pause a visual backtest as soon as it starts, right click on the chart, apply the template then restart. A real Duh moment. Cheers.
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- #50
- Jan 6, 2011 4:43am Jan 6, 2011 4:43am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Ehup guys. I have done a lot of work on the bot this morning and the update is in post 1.
Please read the heavily-edited post 1 for details; I ask everyone here to read it with care.
Please read the heavily-edited post 1 for details; I ask everyone here to read it with care.
- #51
- Jan 6, 2011 4:48am Jan 6, 2011 4:48am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Steve, I'm somewhat behind the thread with this answer. As I understand it EAs are limited to drawing of straight lines, such as fibs, S/R etc. Reason being you can't define buffers as for done for indicators, indicators basically just being visual representations of buffers. I dug around trying to find how to do this a year ago and this is the answer I kept getting from the coders.
On a positive note, I did find out to pause a visual backtest as soon as it starts, right click on the chart, apply the template then restart. A real Duh moment. Cheers.
- #52
- Jan 6, 2011 4:48am Jan 6, 2011 4:48am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
I am running the manual system in conjunction with the bot for a comparison basis. I have had a couple of manual trades fire that when I look at the bot they are not taken and the trading status description says not looking for a trigger. The middle line of the tma and the weekly ma were touching at the time. I am wondering if you built in a buffer there or if there is another reason that is escaping me.
I know the feeling. You have no idea how many times I re-installed a demo simply to start a new account. Hey-ho.
ok steve here goes yet again another Steve Demo going up. my computers really hate you!!!
- #59
- Jan 6, 2011 9:32am Jan 6, 2011 9:32am
- | Commercial User | Joined Apr 2007 | 8,331 Posts
Looking at a backtest, there are a heck of a lot of tp mods with the moving TMA.
This is guaranteed to piss off the crims and get them whinging at traders, so it looks as though we need to cut down the frequency. I shall add an update every 10 ticks feature to cut down on this.
Or maybe every x minutes? Any particular requests? Apart from avoiding pissing of the crims to the point that our account gets closed, we need to avoid sending the platform too many update signals, or it will respond by going into trade context busy mode; this usually passes quickly but not always.
This is guaranteed to piss off the crims and get them whinging at traders, so it looks as though we need to cut down the frequency. I shall add an update every 10 ticks feature to cut down on this.
Or maybe every x minutes? Any particular requests? Apart from avoiding pissing of the crims to the point that our account gets closed, we need to avoid sending the platform too many update signals, or it will respond by going into trade context busy mode; this usually passes quickly but not always.
i used the following hoping this would work do you think it will do the job -
stop = NormalizeDouble(stop/2 - (PipsAddToStopLoss * Point), Digits);
to get half distance for stop value
stop = NormalizeDouble(stop/2 - (PipsAddToStopLoss * Point), Digits);
to get half distance for stop value
I can add this as an option. Until then, set PipsAddToStopLoss to 0, go to void LookForTradeTrigger() and find the two lines of code (1 for buy and 1 for sell):
stop = GetLow();
stop = GetHigh();