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  • #101
  • Feb 18, 2011 4:05am Feb 18, 2011 4:05am
I have added the trailing stop as a percentage of the Square the Brian wants. From the updated post 1:

One feature that is new and not found in mptm is the trailing stop based on a percentage of the size of the Square. This is a feature the Brian requested. To use it, scroll down the inputs to the trailing stop section:

  1. set TrailingStop to true
  2. set UsePercentageOfSquare to true
  3. set SquarePercentToUse to your percentage of the square to use. The default is pure blind guesswork.

Leave the other trailing stop inputs alone unless you are familiar with mptm.
Brian, I know that you have not used ea's much in the past. Are you familiar with editing inputs in the source code? Being able to do this makes life so much easier; you save an update to your Expert's folder, load it into the code editor, quickly edit the inputs you need to change each time and re-compile. Hey presto; all the instances of the EA running on your charts are updated with both the new features that triggered the update, and your choice of input values.

If you have not learned to edit yet, then go to my mptm and download the 'How to edit a script code' pdf; what you learn from that applies to EA's and scripts as well. An hour invested now will save hours in the future; there are going to be a lot of updates.

Also, feel free to carpet bomb anyone who asks moronic questions of you in this thread. I will deal with the most recent, but do feel free to weigh in as well.

Cheers

  • #102
  • Feb 18, 2011 4:06am Feb 18, 2011 4:06am
Quoting fxforever
Brijon!Great results! What TF you used and what the parameters for EA?
Thanks
Do not post here asking bone-basic questions that demonstrate conclusively that you have not bothered even to learn the fundamentals of the trading system. Do so again and I shall ban you.
  • #103
  • Feb 18, 2011 4:37am Feb 18, 2011 4:37am
Hello Steve,

thanks for all your work

When i use the EA to send alerts only, it keeps sending the alert every second. Can you check this please ?

cheers,
tex
  • #104
  • Feb 18, 2011 4:43am Feb 18, 2011 4:43am
Quoting tex
Hello Steve,

thanks for all your work

When i use the EA to send alerts only, it keeps sending the alert every second. Can you check this please ?

cheers,
tex
Sure will. It is not supposed to do that - it is intended to sound once then turn off until the next candle.

  • #105
  • Feb 18, 2011 4:52am Feb 18, 2011 4:52am
Quoting tex
Hello Steve,

thanks for all your work

When i use the EA to send alerts only, it keeps sending the alert every second. Can you check this please ?

cheers,
tex
Yep. Typical Steve bloop. I included the variable to tell B not to send any more alerts, and the code to cancel this at the start of a new candle, but not the code to actually stop sending alerts after the first one.

Fix in post 1. Yell if this doesn't work; as I am not using this feature, I have not tested it.

  • #106
  • Feb 18, 2011 4:59am Feb 18, 2011 4:59am
Hi Steve,

Wonderfull strategy and wonderfull EA. I´m testing it only 1 hour ago, EU, EJ, GU, UC, 15M TF, OOTB, account up 2%....

I´m using as you suggested MPTM for exit at 1% profit.

Early days but looks really promising.

Thank you.
  • #107
  • Feb 18, 2011 5:59am Feb 18, 2011 5:59am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Do not post here asking bone-basic questions that demonstrate conclusively that you have not bothered even to learn the fundamentals of the trading system. Do so again and I shall ban you.
Steve! First of all I would like to thank you for your workings out here on FF. your last thread I have started to read exactly in one hour after you have published post 1. Concerning TF I simply wanted to specify, as in PDF from post 1 you didn't deny possibility of use not only TF-15, but also others TF.I wish you successes in all your undertakings!
  • #108
  • Feb 18, 2011 6:24am Feb 18, 2011 6:24am
Quoting fxforever
Steve! First of all I would like to thank you ...TF-15, but also others TF.I wish you successes in all your undertakings!
HI

Steve developed the EA with 15m TF in mind. However, having said that I have noticed Brian using m15 as well as 4h TF. People can experiment with other TFs as well and see if they have better results.

Kind Regards
  • #109
  • Feb 18, 2011 6:33am Feb 18, 2011 6:33am
Good Morning Steve
I have added your last update and have turned on Trailing Stop/percent of the box....I'm on my usual 4-digit crook and with the percent of the box to use set at 100% IMHO on a 100 pip box I should have a trailing stop of 100 unless my old scotch soaked mind has finally dropped a gear. I think I'm a 0 short......If you get a chance could you check this please

Thanks

whip
  • #110
  • Feb 18, 2011 6:54am Feb 18, 2011 6:54am
All seems good here as my first manual trade with the alert of the EA was a winner. Looking forward to more observing and posting as time goes on. Great job Steve and great idea Brian.
K.I.S.S.
  • #111
  • Feb 18, 2011 7:08am Feb 18, 2011 7:08am
Quoting hiredwhip
Good Morning Steve
I have added your last update and have turned on Trailing Stop/percent of the box....I'm on my usual 4-digit crook and with the percent of the box to use set at 100% IMHO on a 100 pip box I should have a trailing stop of 100 unless my old scotch soaked mind has finally dropped a gear. I think I'm a 0 short......If you get a chance could you check this please

Thanks

whip
Cheers whip. I forgot to adapt the result of the calculation to x digit crims. Fix in post 1.

  • #112
  • Feb 18, 2011 7:11am Feb 18, 2011 7:11am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Cheers whip. I forgot to adapt the result of the calculation to x digit crims. Fix in post 1.

Thanks Steve,
Have a great day

whip
  • #113
  • Feb 18, 2011 7:11am Feb 18, 2011 7:11am
Squalou, I have a favour to ask.

Attached is the decompiled code for Brian and Dollar index. Could you isolate the guts to go into functions in B that return values I can use, please?

Cheers

Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 BrianIndex-MOD-TSidki-2b.mq4   11 KB | 320 downloads
File Type: mq4 Dollar_Index.mq4   2 KB | 290 downloads
  • #114
  • Feb 18, 2011 7:22am Feb 18, 2011 7:22am
4% up (3 trading hours) without SL and closing baskets at 1% profit.......

With SL at previous H/L candle results would be extremely differents, maybe like Brian said, if the long term trend is correct, just let the natural cycle work......
  • #115
  • Feb 18, 2011 7:24am Feb 18, 2011 7:24am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Cheers whip. I forgot to adapt the result of the calculation to x digit crims. Fix in post 1.

Sorry Steve,
Still short a 0.....Anything I could possibly have set wrong?

whip

EDIT==== 4-digit crook.....All pairs
  • #116
  • Feb 18, 2011 7:27am Feb 18, 2011 7:27am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Squalou, I have a favour to ask.

Attached is the decompiled code for Brian and Dollar index. Could you isolate the guts to go into functions in B that return values I can use, please?

Cheers

i'll sure give it a try ASAP!


sq
  • #117
  • Feb 18, 2011 7:28am Feb 18, 2011 7:28am
Quoting squalou
i'll sure give it a try ASAP!


sq
Cheers.

  • #118
  • Feb 18, 2011 7:36am Feb 18, 2011 7:36am
Aye, same experience here. Without SL this EA is a winner. But its very dangerous to trade without SL. This will work until the big evil black swan bites you in your nuts



Quoting Caillou
4% up (3 trading hours) without SL and closing baskets at 1% profit.......

With SL at previous H/L candle results would be extremely differents, maybe like Brian said, if the long term trend is correct, just let the natural cycle work......
  • #119
  • Feb 18, 2011 7:40am Feb 18, 2011 7:40am
Steve,

i had another "true" mq4 version of Dollar Index with me, probably from Scoobs BOJ thread long time ago (not sure though... doesn't matter anyway!)

I have attached it here for you.
The overall idea is the same, the index calc is the same, mine only has 2 additional SMAs on top of the Index line, so you can ignore it.

"My" code however can be taken out into the EA much more easily

Here is what you really need:
-- you might want to take care of the pairnames "exotic extensions" (like "EURUSDm")


Inserted Code
 
// "i" is the bar shift you want the DXY value; 
// 0=current bar
double GetDollarIndex (int i)
{       
     double dxy = 50.14348112 * MathPow(iClose("EURUSD",0,i),-0.576) 
                                     * MathPow(iClose("USDJPY",0,i),0.136) 
                                     * MathPow(iClose("GBPUSD",0,i),-0.119) 
                                     * MathPow(iClose("USDCAD",0,i),0.091) 
                                     * MathPow(iClose("USDSEK",0,i),0.042) 
                                     * MathPow(iClose("USDCHF",0,i),0.036);
  return (dxy);
}

EDIT:

i see a small difference: "mine" uses USDSEK, while "yours" uses USDNOK.
But they only account for power 0.042 in the equation, so the difference will be nanometric...

sq
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Dollar Index.mq4   4 KB | 301 downloads
  • #120
  • Feb 18, 2011 8:13am Feb 18, 2011 8:13am
Steve,
I just adjusted the percentage up to 1000% and now the display reads correctly........If that helps......It changed all pairs......4-digit crook

whip
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