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  • #141
  • Jan 9, 2011 7:18pm Jan 9, 2011 7:18pm
Hi Peterporter,
thanks for sharing your test of m15, can you advice how should i modify the EA to trade m15?
thank you
juz
Quoting peterporter
Just to let you know and to keep you all happy
I have been running Steves Trend EA but changed it to M15
ReadIndicatorValues() routine to suit M15, starting this week
See attached Stmt
It is very very promising
I will continue running this on M15 and let you know if the future proves good or if we get bad streaks
I only started on the 5th Wednesday , I started on 0.01 lots but have changed it to 0.1 lots (which we can afford to do on this system due to little drawdown )
People will say that its been designed for 1H and to leave...
  • #142
  • Jan 9, 2011 7:43pm Jan 9, 2011 7:43pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
Have a guess. Or read the mptm user guide.

Aaahh, but I have read the mptm user guide. In fact I keep a copy of at my bedside for when I'm having trouble sleeping.
No mention of it.

So I guess I'll have a guess. Don't trade 10 lots with a $500 balance? Don't call Customer Service and ask why their spreads are so much higher than advertised? Don't run 10 demo accounts, all running The Beast and 28 pairs? Am I getting warm?

Mike
  • #143
  • Jan 9, 2011 10:51pm Jan 9, 2011 10:51pm
Hi, Steve. I'm a little confused with the EA. I put the auto trader on the USDJPY several hours ago and when I checked back the trading status was "not looking for a trade trigger" although it seems it should have been. The price moved within four pips of the low TMA (with a TouchBufferPips of 10) and then moved back two bars later and crossed the 5MA, so I'm not sure why the EA was not looking for a trade. I then removed the auto trader and put on the manual trader with price one pip below the 5MA and it took the trade a few minutes later, but now the status of that EA says "looking for a Buy trigger". Thanks.
  • #144
  • Jan 10, 2011 12:58am Jan 10, 2011 12:58am
Quoting juzgood1978
Hi Peterporter,
thanks for sharing your test of m15, can you advice how should i modify the EA to trade m15?
thank you
juz
Yes quite simple
in the function ReadIndicatorValues() there is reference to the period to be used , presently 1 Hour , just change this to 15M as below wherever it is referenced
i.e

//amr Ma5Val = GetMa(PERIOD_H1, 5, 5, MODE_SMMA, PRICE_MEDIAN, 0); changed to
Ma5Val = GetMa(PERIOD_M15, 5, 5, MODE_SMMA, PRICE_MEDIAN, 0);
I do not want to post my modified program cos that could open a can of worms (Big yellow Program ready to download which shows up to everybody) and that normally just confuses everybody and also probably annoy steve
Some would say I should change the period of the 240MA to 960MA but I am happy to keep as is for the moment until my testing tells me otherwise.
JUST FOR TESTING OK and remember to recompile
  • #145
  • Jan 10, 2011 1:12am Jan 10, 2011 1:12am
Quoting ericjschroed
Hi, Steve....

Steve is away till Wednesday..
  • #146
  • Jan 10, 2011 1:19am Jan 10, 2011 1:19am
Quoting Pinhead
Aaahh, but I have read the mptm user guide. In fact I keep a copy of at my bedside for when I'm having trouble sleeping.
No mention of it.

So I guess I'll have a guess. Don't trade 10 lots with a $500 balance? Don't call Customer Service and ask why their spreads are so much higher than advertised? Don't run 10 demo accounts, all running The Beast and 28 pairs? Am I getting warm?

Mike
It tells the robot only to send stop loss modifications every 10 ticks if the crim is a 5 digit crim, to avoid them whingeing about having their servers overloaded.

I added this input to mptm for someone whose crim had done exactly that. In my head, I had updated the guide, but in my head is as far as the update went.

  • #147
  • Jan 10, 2011 1:21am Jan 10, 2011 1:21am
Quoting ericjschroed
Hi, Steve....
Don't know why.

  • #148
  • Jan 10, 2011 1:22am Jan 10, 2011 1:22am
Quoting freddi
Steve is away till Wednesday..
Still here for now - going in a few hours.

  • #149
  • Jan 10, 2011 1:32am Jan 10, 2011 1:32am
Quoting SteveHopwood
It tells the robot only to send stop loss modifications every 10 ticks if the crim is a 5 digit crim, to avoid them whingeing about having their servers overloaded.

I added this input to mptm for someone whose crim had done exactly that. In my head, I had updated the guide, but in my head is as far as the update went.

Thanks.
  • #150
  • Jan 10, 2011 1:44am Jan 10, 2011 1:44am
Quoting peterporter
Yes quite simple
in the function ReadIndicatorValues() there is reference to the period to be used , presently 1 Hour , just change this to 15M as below wherever it is referenced
i.e

//amr Ma5Val = GetMa(PERIOD_H1, 5, 5, MODE_SMMA, PRICE_MEDIAN, 0); changed to
Ma5Val = GetMa(PERIOD_M15, 5, 5, MODE_SMMA, PRICE_MEDIAN, 0);
I do not want to post my modified program cos that could open a can of worms (Big yellow Program ready to download which shows up to everybody) and that normally just confuses everybody...
You might want to change this setting in GetHigh() & GetLow() if you are using the swing for your stop.

If you do not multiply your 240MA then you are no longer looking at the weekly to determine the trend. This is moving away from the strategy that this robot is designed to trade.

No harm in this; if it works then we can all benefit. If people want, I can amend the code in an experimental version that will offer flexible inputs later this week.

  • #151
  • Jan 10, 2011 1:55am Jan 10, 2011 1:55am
Quoting ericjschroed
Hi, Steve....
I found the same.
Have the EA OOTB on 20 pairs since last Friday.
Took 7 trades all of which ended up at BE.
Since Friday arvo all 20 pairs have had the status "Not looking for a trade triger"
Is anyone experiencing the same?
PipBear
  • #152
  • Jan 10, 2011 2:01am Jan 10, 2011 2:01am
Maybe adding a bit more screen display would help troubleshoot this along the way (as bot develops). Instead of just saying 'not looking for a trade' it could say what conditions are false causing it not to look for a trade?
Just a thought.
  • #153
  • Jan 10, 2011 2:15am Jan 10, 2011 2:15am
Quoting SteveHopwood
You might want to change this setting in GetHigh() & GetLow() if you are using the swing for your stop.

If you do not multiply your 240MA then you are no longer looking at the weekly to determine the trend. This is moving away from the strategy that this robot is designed to trade.

No harm in this; if it works then we can all benefit. If people want, I can amend the code in an experimental version that will offer flexible inputs later this week.

Yeh Steve, I realize the issue re 240 / 960 but i figure that the Whole strategy is being shifted when moving to M15 so the overall trend could be lower aswell rather than weekly we can base the overall trend on a lower timeframe ie 1 Hour, hence i left it
I am not sure re this cos the oscillations are based on 1H so maybe I will be proved wrong , anyway time will tell
But as we say we are all here to experiment test and share any ideas so if it does prove to be good or not , I will let you know
Yes your right about the swing stops , I am not using that but maybe juzgood1978
juzgood1978 you may want to change the reference to H1 to M15 in the routines GetHigh and GetLow if you are using those stops
  • #154
  • Jan 10, 2011 2:22am Jan 10, 2011 2:22am
I have the same on all pairs ie NOT LOOKING FOR TRADE TRIGGER


Quoting PipBear
I found the same.
Have the EA OOTB on 20 pairs since last Friday.
Took 7 trades all of which ended up at BE.
Since Friday arvo all 20 pairs have had the status "Not looking for a trade triger"
Is anyone experiencing the same?
PipBear
  • #155
  • Jan 10, 2011 2:25am Jan 10, 2011 2:25am
Quoting SteveHopwood
You might want to change this setting in GetHigh() & GetLow() if you are using the swing for your stop.

If you do not multiply your 240MA then you are no longer looking at the weekly to determine the trend. This is moving away from the strategy that this robot is designed to trade.

No harm in this; if it works then we can all benefit. If people want, I can amend the code in an experimental version that will offer flexible inputs later this week.

Yes steve changing the code to be more experimental would be a great idea, if you have time that is , dont bust a gut
  • #156
  • Jan 10, 2011 2:57am Jan 10, 2011 2:57am
Thanks i will give a try.
Quoting peterporter
Yeh Steve, I realize the issue re 240 / 960 but i figure that the Whole strategy is being shifted when moving to M15 so the overall trend could be lower aswell rather than weekly we can base the overall trend on a lower timeframe ie 1 Hour, hence i left it
I am not sure re this cos the oscillations are based on 1H so maybe I will be proved wrong , anyway time will tell
But as we say we are all here to experiment test and share any ideas so if it does prove to be good or not , I will let you know
Yes your right about the swing stops , I am not...
  • #157
  • Jan 10, 2011 3:05am Jan 10, 2011 3:05am
I found a couple of holes in the logic. One caused the bot to delete globals that it relies on at restart to know where it is. The other caused a re-setting of the trading status when there are no trades open.

I do no know for sure that this fixes everything, so we shall see.

I am signing off now. I am away today and tomorrow; back tomorrow night.

Have fun.

  • #158
  • Jan 10, 2011 8:50am Jan 10, 2011 8:50am
Quoting SteveHopwood
I found a couple of holes in the logic. One caused the bot to delete globals that it relies on at restart to know where it is. The other caused a re-setting of the trading status when there are no trades open.

I do no know for sure that this fixes everything, so we shall see.

I am signing off now. I am away today and tomorrow; back tomorrow night.

Have fun.

Hi Steve,

I think there may still be issues, mind you I am over tired and could be getting things completely wrong! I've downloaded the latest bot, deleted prior global variables and then placed the auto bot on the charts below. As you can see on the GBPCHF chart the bot was seeing an uptrend which is correct (just) however it is looking for a buy trigger when price is near the upper tma when the qualifying factor should be a near touch of the lower tma.
The GBPAUD has done the same thing.

The NZDJPY is also not a qualified trade in my eyes, as it hasn't been within 10 pips of the lower TMA, unless spread is taken into account and then maybe? Also the 5MA is not below the mid TMA line.

Lastly I placed the bot on the USDCHF and it immediately opened a buy trade at 0.96958, without price being anywhere near the lower TMA line to qualify a potential trade. This may be just my fault for placing it on the chart, but I still don't see why it was looking for a trade at all.

Anyone else having these problems or am i doing something wrong?

Regards,

Murray.

Edit: Sorry about the size of the post, i'll try to scale down the charts next time.
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  • #159
  • Edited 11:31am Jan 10, 2011 9:26am | Edited 11:31am
Yes, without digging through all the logic, which I will try today, it would appear that the global variable may be the key. I just had a perfect setup on the GBPUSD and the autotrader is still "not looking". Hopefully I can find it or we'll wait for Steve's return.

I was finally able to get back to the charts and the GBPUSD is now saying "looking for a sell trigger" but I don't know when it changed.
  • #160
  • Jan 10, 2011 11:36am Jan 10, 2011 11:36am
USDJPY = buy = +7 pips
NZDUSD = sell = +2 pips
CHFJPY = sell = -1 pips
GBPUSD = buy = +3 pips
EURGBP = sell = +3 pips
CHFJPY = sell = +19 pips
GBPUSD = buy = +46 pips
EURGBP = sell = + 3 pips
USDCAD = sell = +21 pips
CADJPY = buy = +3pips

Total closed trades = 106 pips

floating = -9 pips (total of sell euraud, sell audchf, sell eurchf, buy cadjpy)
currently active

I am not sure to turn of the autotrader until tomorrow CET 7.00am again or just to leave it running , what do people reckon ?
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