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  • #61
  • Mar 29, 2011 11:39pm Mar 29, 2011 11:39pm
Quoting newark18
I don't know what it is but I am getting multiple entries (i.e., 3 GU buys all around the same price).
It's normal. The logic for adding on this EA is slightly different from 7Bit's logic. Combined with the newly improved CloseWorst function, this EA should keep the losing trades chopped down while allowing a buildup of positions on profitable pairs which should lead to equity pops. That's the theory and the testing will tell the tale. The next thing on my agenda is dealing with the trend component of the EA. I'm not convinced that it provides any kind of advantage. And it might introduce some disadvantages. I'll keep the version steady unless I/testers find more bugs. I am thinking of a better way to transition between long/short in a reactive type of way - allowing the market to determine this more directly. And there was also the idea of the semaphore.

In spite of all the abuse I've inflicted on this demo account due to many restarts and compilations, it is clawing its way back to breakeven. I just updated again and I'm off for bed. I tested it for a few hours this time so it should run. https://sites.google.com/site/marketformula
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  • #62
  • Mar 30, 2011 1:02am Mar 30, 2011 1:02am
And again, one last bug fix - updated to the link on my signature. Removing of worst trading pair's trade should now work correctly. This may have caused P&L to go haywire. It should work much better now. (I hope)
  • #63
  • Mar 30, 2011 1:26am Mar 30, 2011 1:26am
FXEZ, one request

is it possible to change the EA to work as a single source for the entire basket. If there are 10 pairs, i need to opn 10 charts and load the EA. instead can the EA take the symbols as user input and run for all symbols. with this we have more control on the EA as the settings are uniform for all symbols. i know its lot of rework, may be you can keep this in the back of mind for future

the way i am envisaging to run this system is have one EA. In asia i put asia piars like AUDUSD, USDJPY,AUDJPY. and before EU i put EU, GU, EJ, UC, EC. and before US i put UCAD, CADCHF

its like using trading hours concept. otherwise we may have some dull pairs in each session
  • #64
  • Mar 30, 2011 4:19am Mar 30, 2011 4:19am
Quoting FXEZ
Hey Nicastro,

Are you using the same MagicNumber in Basket_Stats as you are using in SnowRoller? The default for both should be zero. The MagicNumbers have to be the same in order for the basket_stats indicator to find the trades / symbols and report them.
Hi FXEZ

I have downloaded updated versions of EA and basket_stats indicator. I see in the source code that the indicator has a magic number of "0". As for the EA, it also has a "0" magic number.

Alas, indicator still not working.

Anything else I should be doing to get the indicator working?

Look to hear from you

Faithfully

Nicastro
  • #65
  • Mar 30, 2011 4:24am Mar 30, 2011 4:24am
Quoting Nicastro
Hi FXEZ

I have downloaded updated versions of EA and basket_stats indicator. I see in the source code that the indicator has a magic number of "0". As for the EA, it also has a "0" magic number.

Alas, indicator still not working.

Anything else I should be doing to get the indicator working?

Look to hear from you

Faithfully

Nicastro
I had this problem initially.

The indy should works once the EA fires the first bullet.

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  • #66
  • Mar 30, 2011 4:49am Mar 30, 2011 4:49am
Quoting camvcvoo
I had this problem initially.

The indy should works once the EA fires the first bullet.


Hi, thanks for your reply.

Sorry, I'm afraid that I am still without a solution. I closed all trades. Set the indicator on a new chart. New trades generated. Still no response from the indicator.

Faithfully

Nicastro
  • #67
  • Mar 30, 2011 5:33am Mar 30, 2011 5:33am
I believe money management needs to be added to this EA to increase or decrease the lot size while the equity going up or down. Since Take Profit or Stop Loss depends of the equity percentage the target will be different for different equity but with the same lot size. Lets say your equity has doubled but you still trading with the same lot size. It will take EA twice as long to close trades in profit. It means winning trades can easily turn to loser.
  • #68
  • Mar 30, 2011 8:32am Mar 30, 2011 8:32am
I was watching my basket and then all of a sudden all my orders closed. Is that something to be expected?

I was doing fine last night when I was managing the trades. If there was a build up of profit in a currency pair, I would watch for the next supply and demand zone and exit accordingly. And that worked out pretty well. But since overnight until today, the account has been sharply down. I think the basket reset at least twice.
  • #69
  • Mar 30, 2011 9:53am Mar 30, 2011 9:53am
Anyway to get your basket stats to work on the snowball EA? I like seeing the stats all in one place rather than seeing the equity curve of each pair.
  • #70
  • Mar 30, 2011 12:57pm Mar 30, 2011 12:57pm
Quoting Nicastro
Hi, thanks for your reply.

Sorry, I'm afraid that I am still without a solution. I closed all trades. Set the indicator on a new chart. New trades generated. Still no response from the indicator.

Faithfully

Nicastro
I re-uploaded a version of Basket Stats today. See if that fixes the problem.
  • #71
  • Mar 30, 2011 1:03pm Mar 30, 2011 1:03pm
I'm holding off on new features. I think the latest features sort of "broke" the EA so I'm trying to get it back to banking pips in black again. There were some bugs introduced by me that I think I've fixed for the most part. Some of the changes created unforseen consequences with how the various parts of the EA interact with each other. I'm testing, testing testing.

And the real doosy is the way that MT4 handles orders and order placement. It's really flaky. Some of those errors for order closure can't be helped as during live account trading you will get a certain # of requotes or unfilled orders. The filling logic has to take that into account, and thus the errors are kicked out when a request has been made to close but the orders haven't been cleared from the queue yet.
  • #72
  • Mar 30, 2011 2:05pm Mar 30, 2011 2:05pm
I've been testing a new version of SnowRoller. This new version only should initiate one trade per "buysellstep" amount of pips. This should make it more true to the anti-grid concept.

I also changed the way trades are opened. I eliminated the previous up/down trend qualifier and have now shifted the EA to using just up/down movement at the outset with the ability to close all positions out when the price crosses on the "wrong side" of the orders. For example, if SnowRoller is long and price crosses below the lowest order by "stoplevel" number of pips, the trades for that symbol are closed out and a new set of trades can then be opened in the next move direction.

I just started two new demos due to the fact that this version is significantly different. Please download the updated SnowRoller and Basket_Stats (for those having trouble with this indicator) here: https://sites.google.com/site/marketformula/
  • #73
  • Mar 30, 2011 2:11pm Mar 30, 2011 2:11pm
Quoting FXEZ
I've been testing a new version of SnowRoller. This new version only should initiate one trade per "buysellstep" amount of pips. This should make it more true to the anti-grid concept.

I also changed the way trades are opened. I eliminated the previous up/down trend qualifier and have now shifted the EA to using just up/down movement at the outset with the ability to close all positions out when the price crosses on the "wrong side" of the orders. For example, if SnowRoller is long and price crosses below the lowest order by "stoplevel"...
I will test this one.
  • #74
  • Mar 30, 2011 2:31pm Mar 30, 2011 2:31pm
Quoting newark18
Anyway to get your basket stats to work on the snowball EA? I like seeing the stats all in one place rather than seeing the equity curve of each pair.
I updated a version of Basket_Stats indicator with MagicNumber set to -1 as a default. This means that by default all orders on the given account will be counted by Basket Stats - this should include orders created by other EAs. Give it a try and let me know if it works for SnowBall.
  • #75
  • Mar 30, 2011 2:42pm Mar 30, 2011 2:42pm
Dude, you are awesome?
  • #76
  • Mar 30, 2011 3:21pm Mar 30, 2011 3:21pm
Quoting roundrock
FXEZ, one request

is it possible to change the EA to work as a single source for the entire basket. If there are 10 pairs, i need to opn 10 charts and load the EA. instead can the EA take the symbols as user input and run for all symbols. with this we have more control on the EA as the settings are uniform for all symbols. i know its lot of rework, may be you can keep this in the back of mind for future

the way i am envisaging to run this system is have one EA. In asia i put asia piars like AUDUSD, USDJPY,AUDJPY. and before EU i put EU,...
I'll think about that. This is the 2nd request I've seen for the ability to place one EA on one chart and have it place trades for many symbols. By doing it this way you lose the ability to change the buysellstep value for each symbol (some move more than others). But I understand the benefits of ease and flexibility / standardization. Let's see if the current version can produce profits.
  • #77
  • Mar 30, 2011 3:21pm Mar 30, 2011 3:21pm
Quoting FXEZ
I updated a version of Basket_Stats indicator with MagicNumber set to -1 as a default. This means that by default all orders on the given account will be counted by Basket Stats - this should include orders created by other EAs. Give it a try and let me know if it works for SnowBall.
Hi FXEZ
Thank for shering. I am examine the 3 ver of SnowRoller and it look very promising. I work with 2 diff brokers one ot them is 4 digits GMT+2

The Basket_Stats indi dose not work in 4 digits.

can you fix it?

thank you ANYWAY

Niki
  • #78
  • Mar 30, 2011 3:24pm Mar 30, 2011 3:24pm
Quoting kramlon
I believe money management needs to be added to this EA to increase or decrease the lot size while the equity going up or down. Since Take Profit or Stop Loss depends of the equity percentage the target will be different for different equity but with the same lot size. Lets say your equity has doubled but you still trading with the same lot size. It will take EA twice as long to close trades in profit. It means winning trades can easily turn to loser.
This is noted however you would effectively need to double your account in order to up your lot size on all symbols. It's possible to up them on individual symbols to add more weighting. I think when my account has doubled I can be bothered to change my lot size from 1 to 2. lol.
  • #79
  • Mar 30, 2011 3:27pm Mar 30, 2011 3:27pm
Quoting Jeheil
This looks interesting, I will have a look over the weekend and see how it works (and of course feedback).

I have been working on some EA's myself, just new to all this, but a programming background...albeit dim distant background thesedays.

I put together an EA to examine average pip size per bar (so timeslot) per pair and how deep this average persists.

So for example the USDCHF had a 55 point daily average bar, with 18 point H4 bar, this average would persist 6 or 7 continuous bars into a trend.

These figures in themselves cannot...
Good point regarding the ranges and also the spread of the pair plays into the calculation of the step size. I was toying with the idea of just having a variable step value at 3* spread amount, but I decided not to muck things up too much without testing.
  • #80
  • Mar 30, 2011 3:30pm Mar 30, 2011 3:30pm
Quoting newark18
Dude, you are awesome?
Was this ever in question? lol
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