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  • #181
  • May 23, 2011 8:08pm May 23, 2011 8:08pm
Quoting batemap
So, I'm lucky that the boss is away today

Three things: -

1. I've added a check to make sure that EVERYTHING is synchronised! Code for synching the local and server time was already present, but this debug version now ensures that the sever time and the current bar are correct.

2. After looking into fxozgirl's order issue, I think I've discovered the problems in the code. Only stop or limit orders could be sent I've modified this so Buy and Sell orders can also be sent, extract below.

3. Steve/coders, I've mentioned previously...
And, drum roll please, the box has been drawn and trades sent correctly today
I have three demos and they all reacted according to plan, but I need to wait on your results, especially on the trading side, before I get the champagne out

Thanks

Paul
  • #182
  • May 23, 2011 9:00pm May 23, 2011 9:00pm
Quoting batemap
And, drum roll please, the box has been drawn and trades sent correctly today
I have three demos and they all reacted according to plan, but I need to wait on your results, especially on the trading side, before I get the champagne out

Thanks

Paul
I have some trades open on the same platform as this EA for GJ

When I load the EA it draws the boxes but does not place the orders.

Is this because of other open trades which suggests that the EA will need to run on another MT4 if one wishes to trade GJ outside of this strategy

Am I right?

  • #183
  • May 23, 2011 9:11pm May 23, 2011 9:11pm
Quoting Dixpat
I have some trades open on the same platform as this EA for GJ

When I load the EA it draws the boxes but does not place the orders.

Is this because of other open trades which suggests that the EA will need to run on another MT4 if one wishes to trade GJ outside of this strategy

Am I right?

So, technically speaking, if you've selected a unique magic number for the EA then the 'other' trades should have been ignored and 2 new pending trades should have been opened by Nico.

However, can you post the log from just before 2 a.m. British time to 2:05 a.m. and I can see if there's a problem.

Thanks

Paul
  • #184
  • May 23, 2011 9:53pm May 23, 2011 9:53pm
Quoting batemap
So, technically speaking, if you've selected a unique magic number for the EA then the 'other' trades should have been ignored and 2 new pending trades should have been opened by Nico.

However, can you post the log from just before 2 a.m. British time to 2:05 a.m. and I can see if there's a problem.

Thanks

Paul
Sorry Paul I forgot to set the Magic Number

Did so and it is now sweet - it sent the pendings

Now to watch to see how it trades

I believe you are in Australia - as I am in NZ our time settings should be 2 hours different assuming you are on the Eastern seaboard

May I ask what your settings are for RangeCalculationHour, CloseHour & PendingExpiryTime

Cheers & Thanks for your work
Dave
  • #185
  • May 23, 2011 10:01pm May 23, 2011 10:01pm
Quoting Dixpat
Sorry Paul I forgot to set the Magic Number

Did so and it is now sweet - it sent the pendings

Now to watch to see how it trades

I believe you are in Australia - as I am in NZ our time settings should be 2 hours different assuming you are on the Eastern seaboard

May I ask what your settings are for RangeCalculationHour, CloseHour & PendingExpiryTime

Cheers & Thanks for your work
Dave
Hi Dave

I'm in Melbourne where it is currently 1:01p.m., but I have a Virtual Private Sever (VPS) and this is set to British Summer Time (BST), so my variables are set to 2, 18 and 18, which doesn't help you much.

Currently, I'm 9 hours ahead of BST, so my redraw occurs at 11 a.m. so if you add your time difference to this then you should be good.

Thanks

Paul
  • #186
  • May 24, 2011 1:37am May 24, 2011 1:37am
Nicotina successfully redrew the box for me, set new pending orders, and a short has triggered this morning. It then deleted the other pending trade. All seems to be working ok.

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The best trade I ever made was my SIN for Jesus' RIGHTEOUSNESS.
  • #187
  • May 24, 2011 1:51am May 24, 2011 1:51am
Quoting batemap
And, drum roll please, the box has been drawn and trades sent correctly today
I have three demos and they all reacted according to plan, but I need to wait on your results, especially on the trading side, before I get the champagne out

Thanks

Paul

Hi Paul,

No champagne on this end just yet...
running your updated de-bug ea from yesterday, box drawn correctly, still no trades.
Checked the logs and it's a bit weird as there's nothing in there, but on checking the experts tab on the platform it is constantly scrolling through with comments.

I have taken a screen shot to try and give you an idea of what it's doing.
Hopefully it will provide some help??

Shelley
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  • #188
  • May 24, 2011 3:52am May 24, 2011 3:52am
Anybody daft enough still to be using my original version, please read the end of post 1 and swap Paul's for mine.

Paul, I missed your enquiry about Ecn. Sorry. Yes, this is correct. Unless there is a possible scenario where Nico might send an immediate market order, remove the extern and make the input false by default; this saves any need to muck around with the code any further.

Thanks Paul. You are a star.

  • #189
  • May 24, 2011 4:50am May 24, 2011 4:50am
Quoting fxozgirl
Hi Paul,

No champagne on this end just yet...
running your updated de-bug ea from yesterday, box drawn correctly, still no trades.
Checked the logs and it's a bit weird as there's nothing in there, but on checking the experts tab on the platform it is constantly scrolling through with comments.

I have taken a screen shot to try and give you an idea of what it's doing.
Hopefully it will provide some help??

Shelley
Hi Shelley

So, I can tell you aren't getting any trades, but you know that already

The code that seems to be causing you problems isn't for other people and so I've not put any debug data in, but I've made a special debug version for you to try out, others can use this too, but yet more data to fill up your logs.

If you still can't post logs then I'm looking for the output SH1, SH2, etc.

I'm worried that your MT4 doesn't seem to be producing logs, disk full/read only?, reinstall MT4.

On another note my first trade hit SL, but I didn't get further pending trades, additional debug data added to attached EA, removed and reattached Nico, all good. Have any of you seen this?

Thanks

Paul
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File Type: mq4 Shelley.mq4   60 KB | 289 downloads
  • #190
  • May 24, 2011 6:31am May 24, 2011 6:31am
Quoting jimmynoodles
Nicotina successfully redrew the box for me, set new pending orders, and a short has triggered this morning. It then deleted the other pending trade. All seems to be working ok.

Attachment
This trade was stopped for -50. The EA then entered long @ 132.25 which, as far as my understanding of the strategy goes, is correct behavoir.
The best trade I ever made was my SIN for Jesus' RIGHTEOUSNESS.
  • #191
  • May 24, 2011 7:10am May 24, 2011 7:10am
Quoting jimmynoodles
This trade was stopped for -50. The EA then entered long @ 132.25 which, as far as my understanding of the strategy goes, is correct behavoir.
Looks good Jimmy can you keep the demo going for another week or so?

Thanks

Paul
  • #192
  • May 24, 2011 7:15am May 24, 2011 7:15am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Anybody daft enough still to be using my original version, please read the end of post 1 and swap Paul's for mine.

Paul, I missed your enquiry about Ecn. Sorry. Yes, this is correct. Unless there is a possible scenario where Nico might send an immediate market order, remove the extern and make the input false by default; this saves any need to muck around with the code any further.

Thanks Paul. You are a star.

Hi Steve

I'll leave the ECN stuff for now, because although I've never seen I can see that immediate trades are a (rare) possibility.

Thanks for your words in post 1.

Paul
  • #193
  • May 24, 2011 7:32am May 24, 2011 7:32am
Quoting batemap
Hi Shelley

So, I can tell you aren't getting any trades, but you know that already

The code that seems to be causing you problems isn't for other people and so I've not put any debug data in, but I've made a special debug version for you to try out, others can use this too, but yet more data to fill up your logs.

If you still can't post logs then I'm looking for the output SH1, SH2, etc.

I'm worried that your MT4 doesn't seem to be producing logs, disk full/read only?, reinstall MT4.

On another note my first trade hit SL, but I didn't get...
Hi Paul,

Sorry to be a nuisance

I have checked all the logs of all the platforms I am running (8 demos on my pc & 1 live, 1 demo on my vps) and noticed that none of the demos on the pc are creating logs, however the 2 platforms on my vps are creating logs.
Very strange, however after giving it some thought, I'm wondering if the problem (with the logs) is that I am running windows 7 and probably something to do with Administrator access or some such.

Anyway, I have set up a brand new demo on my vps, with the special ea you created and hopefully we will be able to see something in the logs tomorrow that will help resolve the issue.

It's definitely very weird why other people don't appear to be having the problem with the trades, however I would also say to please not waste too much time on it (if I'm the only one with the problem)...it would be much too unreasonable for me to expect that and I feel bad that you've already spent so much time on 'my' problem.

I will leave it to you
  • #194
  • May 24, 2011 7:53am May 24, 2011 7:53am
Quoting batemap
Looks good Jimmy can you keep the demo going for another week or so?

Thanks

Paul
Yep no probs.

As it seems to be working ok could you possibly tell me which part of the code to alter to stop the journal comments now, or possibly post a version without the journal debug comments?

Jimmy
The best trade I ever made was my SIN for Jesus' RIGHTEOUSNESS.
  • #195
  • May 24, 2011 7:59am May 24, 2011 7:59am
Quoting fxozgirl
Hi Paul,

Sorry to be a nuisance

I have checked all the logs of all the platforms I am running (8 demos on my pc & 1 live, 1 demo on my vps) and noticed that none of the demos on the pc are creating logs, however the 2 platforms on my vps are creating logs.
Very strange, however after giving it some thought, I'm wondering if the problem (with the logs) is that I am running windows 7 and probably something to do with Administrator access or some such.

Anyway, I have set up a brand new demo on my vps, with the special ea you created and...
Shelley

Windows perhaps, let's see what tomorrow brings.

'Your' problem is interesting and I generally take a view that if it's somebody else problem today I'd prefer to find and fix it before it becomes my problem tomorrow on a live account

Don't worry we are nearly there, baby steps! I did't expect the babies to be so small, but...
  • #196
  • May 24, 2011 8:02am May 24, 2011 8:02am
Quoting jimmynoodles
Yep no probs.

As it seems to be working ok could you possibly tell me which part of the code to alter to stop the journal comments now, or possibly post a version without the journal debug comments?

Jimmy
Hit F7 and then inputs tab, scroll to the bottom where you'll find a variable named 'debug'. It should be set to true, set it to false and the debug will (should go away), you'll still get some 'important' log entries though.

Cheers

Paul
  • #197
  • May 24, 2011 8:14am May 24, 2011 8:14am
Quoting batemap
Hit F7 and then inputs tab, scroll to the bottom where you'll find a variable named 'debug'. It should be set to true, set it to false and the debug will (should go away), you'll still get some 'important' log entries though.

Cheers

Paul
Oh yeah I remember now. Just changed it in the source code to default as false now anyway. Cheers.
The best trade I ever made was my SIN for Jesus' RIGHTEOUSNESS.
  • #198
  • May 24, 2011 9:02am May 24, 2011 9:02am
Quoting batemap
Hi Shelley


On another note my first trade hit SL, but I didn't get further pending trades, additional debug data added to attached EA, removed and reattached Nico, all good. Have any of you seen this?

Thanks

Paul
I am also not getting the second daily set of trades
  • #199
  • May 24, 2011 12:47pm May 24, 2011 12:47pm
I had the sell stop out, and then there should have been a profitable buy triggered that then did not occur. Strange.
  • #200
  • May 24, 2011 6:01pm May 24, 2011 6:01pm
Quoting batemap
Hi Shelley

So, I can tell you aren't getting any trades, but you know that already

The code that seems to be causing you problems isn't for other people and so I've not put any debug data in, but I've made a special debug version for you to try out, others can use this too, but yet more data to fill up your logs.

If you still can't post logs then I'm looking for the output SH1, SH2, etc.

I'm worried that your MT4 doesn't seem to be producing logs, disk full/read only?, reinstall MT4.

On another note my first trade hit SL, but I...
Hi All

I added some debug statements into this EA, for Shelley, to try and track down the problem of no second trades, please try this for me.

Thanks

Paul
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