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  • #121
  • May 11, 2011 12:57pm May 11, 2011 12:57pm
hi,
i am also trying gspe`s version of the expert.
you can have a look at it here:
http://www.myfxbook.com/members/sgtforex/caillou/111229

lotsize is 0.1 and profittarget is 10€
  • #122
  • May 11, 2011 1:11pm May 11, 2011 1:11pm
Quoting Sgt.forex
hi,
i am also trying gspe`s version of the expert.
you can have a look at it here:
http://www.myfxbook.com/members/sgtforex/caillou/111229

lotsize is 0.1 and profittarget is 10€

Yes, me too, account up 10% in 24h, but DD went to 12%, with 1 Sell Trade and 45 Buy trades, so a bit scary, let´s see .....
  • #123
  • May 11, 2011 1:17pm May 11, 2011 1:17pm
it looks very extreme... nearly 30% up in 22hours with 600 trades xD
  • #124
  • May 11, 2011 1:19pm May 11, 2011 1:19pm
Hi guys,

I don't understand how you can test the invert caillou cause, it didn't work well, il make only ordres in one side.
Need to wait the correction for any comments about it. imho

Greg
  • #125
  • May 11, 2011 2:51pm May 11, 2011 2:51pm
Quoting gregart
Hi guys,

I don't understand how you can test the invert caillou cause, it didn't work well, il make only ordres in one side.
Need to wait the correction for any comments about it. imho

Greg
Just in one direction? Not for me......
  • #126
  • May 11, 2011 3:37pm May 11, 2011 3:37pm
in forward testing is doing buy and sells for me
i choosed the best 7 pairs in backtesting since 1-1-2009
timeframe 1h, as is the best relation between win and drawdown
lower timeframes blow mostly every account
pairs:eu,gu,uj,chfcad,chfusd,eurgbp
lot size 0.01
average winning per year and pair 1000-1500 usd
average MAX dd:1000-2000

today won:70 usd
current DD 50USD (EURGBP)

my first post ever on steve thread
man i love you

I will keep it updated
roboforex demo forward testing
  • #127
  • May 11, 2011 3:48pm May 11, 2011 3:48pm
I will try to explain my observations on my deep and long backtesting, and some ideas to control drawdown.
very high drawdown are very punctually.3-4 times in 2 years. Usually because sudden movements of the market 1000 2000 pips en 2 3 days. this are the dangeros days.
1. limit the number on orders. Its OK, but get out of the drawdown can take VERY long time. but drawdon will be keeped under control (mostly)
2. This is a tricky one. Insert oposite order after a sucession of one direction orders. Like today I have around 11 buy orders (1 per hour) on eurgbp. Maybe every 5 orders one oposite order can be introduced (with no take profit, just dependant of the growing sells in this case). Hard to figure out mentally the consecuences, and i need to see it on my mind. it Needs to be coded and tested.
3.Slowly, increase the time frame of the orders. First, in my case, 1 every hour, after 10, 1 every 2 hours after 10 1 every 3 hours...and so on. Again, come back from drawdown will take longer, but lesser than option 1.

i am a tired man now

keep going this, it is promising

we can defeat the criminals
  • #128
  • May 11, 2011 4:22pm May 11, 2011 4:22pm
I forgot to tell
I think my phosohy is different of what i already readed. In my case single trade profit is 2, and basket 1. I dont see any sense on increase the basket close profit. We want to close the drawdown asap. we win money with single trades. If we increase single trades profit, drawdowns will ocur more often, we dance over the blade more often. If we increase basket profit, gets harder to close the the drawdon.
this is only my point of view after analyze the backtestin results. single trade profit of 2 was the best results. But i didnt optimize it deeply. This could be improved probably.

regards from spain
  • #129
  • May 12, 2011 2:10am May 12, 2011 2:10am
Hello,

Could someone explain me in detail the operation of "caillou v1.01" EA, because I would like to do for jforex platform(Dukascopy).

Thanks
  • #130
  • May 12, 2011 6:00am May 12, 2011 6:00am
I have had a play around with this as it looks promising.

I have takes gspe's version and modified to use RSI or ADX (also envelope is there but commented out for now) to determine if there is a trend or if ranging. If in a trend then use Caillou's version, if ranging then countertrend and use gspe's version.

I have added MaxTradesAllowed and also a margin check (taken from Rinse and Repeat), these stop any more trades being taken to protect account.

I may have made a mistake in the logic so if someone could have a look and make sure then we can run this and play with different filters to see what can be done.

Have a play and let me know your thoughts.
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Caillou v1.02.mq4   20 KB | 369 downloads
  • #131
  • May 12, 2011 6:39am May 12, 2011 6:39am
Hi, have other people discovered this ea stops trading at certain times. I have the times in the EA set to 24 hours and the rsi filter should allow trading but it doesn't seem to enter trades, I have no open trades at the moment.

any thoughts anyone?

tks
Peter
  • #132
  • May 12, 2011 6:48am May 12, 2011 6:48am
Quoting magft
I have had a play around with this as it looks promising.

I have takes gspe's version and modified to use RSI or ADX (also envelope is there but commented out for now) to determine if there is a trend or if ranging. If in a trend then use Caillou's version, if ranging then countertrend and use gspe's version.

I have added MaxTradesAllowed and also a margin check (taken from Rinse and Repeat), these stop any more trades being taken to protect account.

I may have made a mistake in the logic so if someone could have a look and make sure then...
I noticed arrows wrong colours and display messages need updating.
Attached File(s)
File Type: mq4 Caillou v1.02.mq4   21 KB | 550 downloads
  • #133
  • May 12, 2011 7:53am May 12, 2011 7:53am
Quoting peterke
Hi, have other people discovered this ea stops trading at certain times. I have the times in the EA set to 24 hours and the rsi filter should allow trading but it doesn't seem to enter trades, I have no open trades at the moment.

any thoughts anyone?

tks
Peter
i FEEL I haVE SSOMETHING LIKE THAT
NO IDEA WHY....
  • #134
  • May 12, 2011 8:32am May 12, 2011 8:32am
Quoting magft
I noticed arrows wrong colours and display messages need updating.
Cheers. I have added a link to this in post 1.

Give it a try guys. If magft's version proves more consistently profitable, I shall simply replace the post 1 version then latecomers can benefit from the best available.

  • #135
  • May 12, 2011 9:14am May 12, 2011 9:14am
Hi,

Countertrend version recovered DD: 27% yesterday, actually account 19,6% up, less than 2 days....

Maybe better to load this version only during quiet markets ........
  • #136
  • May 12, 2011 10:15am May 12, 2011 10:15am
Quoting peterke
Hi, have other people discovered this ea stops trading at certain times. I have the times in the EA set to 24 hours and the rsi filter should allow trading but it doesn't seem to enter trades, I have no open trades at the moment.

any thoughts anyone?

tks
Peter
Sometimes it doesnt close trades correctly either?

And i still dont know what 'ProfitTarget' is...the default being '1'

Is it 1pip, 10? 100?

or $1, $10, $100 etc?

doesnt it need to be mulitplied for 5 digit platform????????

Anyone?
  • #137
  • May 12, 2011 10:21am May 12, 2011 10:21am
Quoting piptastic7
Sometimes it doesnt close ...
Hi,
ProfitTarget is $. 1 = 1$ , 10 = 10$, ...
And no you don`t need to multiply.
  • #138
  • May 12, 2011 5:40pm May 12, 2011 5:40pm
I am not sure Caillou, I think we need volatility for recovery, have to trade during big sessions, today I made hours: 6 to 11 and 13 to 18, made 1261 $ profit 2.68 % DD; 0.1 lot target 5 $

Quoting Caillou
Hi,

Countertrend version recovered DD: 27% yesterday, actually account 19,6% up, less than 2 days....

Maybe better to load this version only during quiet markets ........
  • #139
  • May 12, 2011 8:35pm May 12, 2011 8:35pm
Quoting Cbh123
Caillou, I was looking at this and think it's a really interesting idea. Basically price is going to pick a direction eventually, and this puts you in that direction (net).

It seems like a huge bar in either direction would make it hard, because the rules wouldn't allow you to open orders between that bar and your original price.

Maybe putting pending orders on each pip away from the center line would work just as well but give you consistent entries no matter how price moves. Just an idea, what do you think?

[b]Also for anyone interested,...
with oanda subaccounts you could have long in one account and short in another. but how could we close when the combined profit exceeds target. is it manual process ?
  • #140
  • May 12, 2011 10:34pm May 12, 2011 10:34pm
Hi,

I found there is a rule in this EA.

If the Lot is 0.01 pt is 1

So why not set them with following code:

SingleTradeProfitTarget = Lot*100;
ProfitTarget = Lot*100;

With the Lot and pt linked together I can add MM for it.



here is Caillou with MM, 0.1 Lot for 10000 USD

Thanks to magft!

EA now has lower DD
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