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  • #3,701
  • Feb 3, 2011 10:29am Feb 3, 2011 10:29am
Quoting Vitaliy
What time frame are you aiming at ?? for M1 or M5 your SL and TP seems too high for me...more look like 15-30M
I run it on the M1 time frame but i am really looking at the H1 and H4 timeframes, I am trying to ride the strong upper and lower trends when they both are trending in the same direction.

Quoting Vitaliy
that explains why my PC with quad core 3.4 gHz, 4GB DDR3, runs a little bit slow
Are you peole out to make me envious or what
  • #3,702
  • Feb 3, 2011 1:44pm Feb 3, 2011 1:44pm
Quoting Tread
1.) Reduce the Max Bars in hsitory and
2.) Reduce the Max bars on charts.
3.) Remove Trix indicators from the charts on live accounts.
4.) Run Backtest on blank charts

The Trix are triple ex emas. this is the "heaviest indicator" in the EA, for each time frame specified, the ea calculates the trix continously on a tick by tick.

Calculations on closed candles reduce CPU Load

Also when you place the indicator themselves on the chart you are also ineffect doubling the cpu load on the machines.

Now all the above being said, I only use backtest...
Hi Tread, glad to see you here,
I did what you said and still not working, even I can't test the 1 month ago that I could before. I'm going crazy.
  • #3,703
  • Feb 3, 2011 2:09pm Feb 3, 2011 2:09pm
Quoting neild1971
Exking i am soooo envious, I would love that set-up on my laptop. i would have to pay another $30 a month to get that amount of RAM on my VPS
Sorry Neild, I didn't mean to show off my pc and I don't think my pc is that perfect, in our country pc's are cheap, with 30$ I can add another 2gig of RAM, but we are poor of many other things.
  • #3,704
  • Feb 3, 2011 2:25pm Feb 3, 2011 2:25pm
Quoting exking
Hi Tread, glad to see you here,
I did what you said and still not working, even I can't test the 1 month ago that I could before. I'm going crazy.
What means you cant ? Whats the error message ?

What kind of data do you use ? Metaquotes or tick Data from your broker ?
How to opt out annoying user signatures ??
  • #3,705
  • Feb 3, 2011 2:41pm Feb 3, 2011 2:41pm
Quoting Toranaga
What means you cant ? Whats the error message ?

What kind of data do you use ? Metaquotes or tick Data from your broker ?
The error is: TestGenerator: No history data 'EUR/USD1'
metaquotes
I think this problem comes with Windows7, before this I didn't have such problem.
  • #3,706
  • Feb 3, 2011 2:41pm Feb 3, 2011 2:41pm
Quoting exking
Sorry Neild, I didn't mean to show off my pc and I don't think my pc is that perfect, in our country pc's are cheap, with 30$ I can add another 2gig of RAM, but we are poor of many other things.


1.) Close of every chart in metatrader, then close metatrader
2.) Go to the history folder (use window explorer it should be like
Crogram Files (x86)||FXCM MT4 powered by BT||history
You should see 2 folder (one called download and the other called FXCM-Demo or something like that)
3.) Delete all the files in both folders
4.) restart metatrader
5.) DO NOT open any charts, use F2 like Neild suggested above, down all chart data you need

You should then be able to start testing
  • #3,707
  • Feb 3, 2011 2:50pm Feb 3, 2011 2:50pm
Quoting Tread
1.) Close of every chart in metatrader, then close metatrader
2.) Go to the history folder (use window explorer it should be like
Crogram Files (x86)||FXCM MT4 powered by BT||history
You should see 2 folder (one called download and the other called FXCM-Demo or something like that)
3.) Delete all the files in both folders
4.) restart metatrader
5.) DO NOT open any charts, use F2 like Neild suggested above, down all chart data you need

You should then be able to start testing
Thank you, I'm impressed, you always have something to say Tread, It's downloading now.
  • #3,708
  • Feb 3, 2011 2:52pm Feb 3, 2011 2:52pm
I think it will work if you do it like read sugested it,
but if you do a lot of backtesting i would not use the metaquotes data.

Read this thread

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=6002

and this link explains it also very well how to do it

http://thetrademachine.com/blog/2009...sting-quality/

with a link to Alpari data set, but only till 2009.
How to opt out annoying user signatures ??
  • #3,709
  • Feb 3, 2011 2:55pm Feb 3, 2011 2:55pm
Quoting Toranaga
I think it will work if you do it like read sugested it,
but if you do a lot of backtesting i would not use the metaquotes data.

Read this thread

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=6002

and this link explains it also very well how to do it

http://thetrademachine.com/blog/2009...sting-quality/

with a link to Alpari data set, but only till 2009.
Thank you for your concern,
I've never tried tick data, I should have a look, Thanks again.
  • #3,710
  • Edited 4:21pm Feb 3, 2011 3:00pm | Edited 4:21pm
Quoting exking
Thank you, I'm impressed, you always have something to say Tread, It's downloading now.
It's working all fine, thank you, I'm happy you are all here and helping
I wish someday I can do something for this thread.
And thank you Nelly1966, I didn't get what you meant at that point.
  • #3,711
  • Feb 3, 2011 3:04pm Feb 3, 2011 3:04pm
Quoting exking
Thank you for your concern,
I've never tried tick data, I should have a look, Thanks again.
The second link seems to be dead, but the first link seems to be interesting, I should spend some time on it, thanks.
  • #3,712
  • Feb 3, 2011 3:20pm Feb 3, 2011 3:20pm
Quoting exking
The second link seems to be dead, but the first link seems to be interesting, I should spend some time on it, thanks.
no it works, but here again

http://thetrademachine.com/blog/2009...sting-quality/


No problem glad i can help a little.
How to opt out annoying user signatures ??
  • #3,713
  • Feb 3, 2011 8:45pm Feb 3, 2011 8:45pm
Quoting exking
The error is: TestGenerator: No history data 'EUR/USD1'
metaquotes
I think this problem comes with Windows7, before this I didn't have such problem.
I have heard other people have had issues with windows 7 and MT4 that is why i never upgraded from Xp, but if i did my laptop would most probally have a nervous breakdown.

exking, could you run a dual system, one partition has xp and the other has windows 7. If I was to get a new laptop that is what I would set-up, but i would also throw Ubuntu Linux on there also.
  • #3,714
  • Feb 3, 2011 8:56pm Feb 3, 2011 8:56pm
Did I miss something or PriceCrossCoral setting exists only in manual and doesn't exist anymore in EA ?
  • #3,715
  • Feb 3, 2011 9:28pm Feb 3, 2011 9:28pm
Sorry... Can anyone take a spare time look on it.. Really thx!!!!!!

Quoting shakeyiu
I have the only problem encountered recently... Can anyone help?

(1) My trading hour setting is probably for the EA set (GMT 07001700). But the news filter setting 1 hour faster than my hour. How can I resolve it without affecting my trading hour setting? (I am using FxPro and live in GMT+8 area)

(2) How can I test the EA for whole year with M1 set (e.g. testing 2009 whole year, only 2010/10/24-2011/2/3 available in the MT4 history center)?

(3) When I use the Live demo for testing, I found that many loss trades are open in Day High/Low...
  • #3,716
  • Edited 10:06pm Feb 3, 2011 9:48pm | Edited 10:06pm
Quoting shakeyiu
Sorry... Can anyone take a spare time look on it.. Really thx!!!!!!
regarding 2. Did you tried this ?

http://www.forexfactory.com/showpost...30&postcount=2

and Treads 3706 post..

And before you ask, max bars in history = /tools/options
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  • #3,717
  • Feb 4, 2011 3:59am Feb 4, 2011 3:59am
Quoting shakeyiu
I have the only problem encountered recently... Can anyone help?
(1) My trading hour setting is probably for the EA set (GMT 07001700). But the news filter setting 1 hour faster than my hour. How can I resolve it without affecting my trading hour setting? (I am using FxPro and live in GMT+8 area)

AutoGMTOffset=1
ManualGMTOffset=1
DSTOffset=1


Try :-

AutoGMTOffset=False
ManualGMTOffset=8/7/9??
DSTOffset=False

You may have to turn on/off the DST, but this would you need to test. Also try shifting the ManualGMT up/down

(2) How can I test the EA for whole year with M1 set (e.g. testing 2009 whole year, only 2010/10/24-2011/2/3 available in the MT4 history center)?

See Toranga Post above, additional you can google Birt Tick Data for back testing on long periods

(3) When I use the Live demo for testing, I found that many loss trades are open in Day High/Low (Resistance/Support) or Yesterday Day High/Low... Can any suggestion to filter these trades?

SRDistance=0.00000000
DailyPivotDistance=0.00000000
PsychLevelDistance=0.00000000
PriceTouchSRLevel=0
MidPivots=0
PriceTouchDailyPivot=0
DailyPivotTouchPips=0.00000000
PriceTouchPsychLevel=0
MinLevelDistance=0.00000000
MinCloseDistance=0.00000000

Local__HrsServerTZFromGMT=2
Destination__HrsNewTzfromGMT=8
Show_1Daily_2FibonacciPivots=2

These setting allow you to specify if to open a trade when close to a pivot line. You would need to check the manual on how to setup.
Note, this is not backtestable, yo would need to forwardtest only

(4) Please simply have a look on my set and see any problem... THX!!!

Your Trailing stop is set to 1.8 Pips.... I do not think this is practical as you will get stopped out quickly

You slippage is set to 2 pips, this should be higher 3 - 5 pips. At the current 2pip, this could lead to your order not being closed.
  • #3,718
  • Feb 4, 2011 6:19am Feb 4, 2011 6:19am
Quoting Vitaliy
Did I miss something or PriceCrossCoral setting exists only in manual and doesn't exist anymore in EA ?
The PriceCrossCoral exists in v1.132, in v1.134 it's replaced with PriceCrossMA and since v1.134 doesn't have a user guide yet, you don't have a manual about it.
v1.134 seems to have some bugs so if you want to activate PriceCrossCoral, put your setting in front of PriceCrossMA in v1.134, but you should do these as well:
MA_Trend=False
MA_Setting_Current_Period:
MA1Period1=60
  • #3,719
  • Feb 4, 2011 6:32am Feb 4, 2011 6:32am
Quoting Tread
(1) My trading hour setting is probably for the EA set (GMT 07001700)....
Thx Tread and others!!!! I promise i will post the optimal setting once i find it's profitable!!! Thx!!!! Actually, what trading hour do you guys suggest to trade?


Thx all again!!!
  • #3,720
  • Feb 4, 2011 6:50am Feb 4, 2011 6:50am
Quoting shakeyiu
Thx Tread and others!!!! I promise i will post the optimal setting once i find it's profitable!!! Thx!!!! Actually, what trading hour do you guys suggest to trade?


Thx all again!!!
Sorry Shakeyiu, I didn't say anything because I don't know much about the hours setting and so on, maybe in the future when I want to test it more precisely on demo, I need to know these things and you can help me out.
For best trading hours I recommend to run it all day long and in a long run see your result and decide what's best for your setting, I even recommend not to turn on the news filter, at first run the EA with your best setting then based on the results see where are your losses, if they are when the news are, then filter them with the minutes you were affected. If they are in a specific time of the day then filter those, I think this way would be better, because different setting may work differently, one's setting might not get affected by news and so on.
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