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  • #581
  • Edited 11:05am Aug 4, 2011 10:27am | Edited 11:05am
Thank you Star178. Yes, I have installation doc from post #506. I now have both TMSDB_V8 and _V9 in the C:TMS folder.

I have followed the installation and have "run as administrator" turned on for both DB and MT4 platform (ECN).

I still do not have any files in the expert files folder even with running as administrator, so cannot set up the DB. Are these files used only for the DB or for the EA as well? Anything else to try here to get those files created? I have Windows 7 OS.

I have chart tpl loaded and TMS_V8 EA attached with happy face. I loaded settings from Caillou in post #544, and also set CriminallsECN to true. I got alerts and trade attempted to enter last night on gbpusd but got error message (131) invalid trade... and trade did not enter. However, have now entered trade on eurjpy at 12 noon EDT/4 pm GMT, so may be no issue with EA working.

More help needed. Thank you. Meanwhile I will start back at beginning of thread to be sure I haven't missed something that would help.
  • #582
  • Aug 4, 2011 11:36am Aug 4, 2011 11:36am
1st picture - TMA D1 reporting downtrend? - surely a bug?

2nd picture - Same chart but I've added the supertrend indicator set the D1 (none repainting version). I'm not saying supertrend is anything magical but its probably considered one of the better trend indicators on forex factory. It give us the heads up to the change in trend quite early on. I know nothing about coding so I have no idea how hard it would be to add this to the EA though.

In a way though I think with V10 we'll have the ability to confirm with a higher timeframe D1 or W1 - this will in my opinion be better than using a trend indicator and will stay more more true to the original spirit of TMS.
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  • #583
  • Aug 4, 2011 12:48pm Aug 4, 2011 12:48pm
I like that skeleton on your indicator. It's comedy. Does it smile if it's in profit?
Did you know the profiteers like their money green?
  • #584
  • Aug 4, 2011 3:00pm Aug 4, 2011 3:00pm
[quote... Does it smile if it's in profit?[/quote]


No it Spits fire when in profit!! hahaa lol!!
Born to rule my Economic World and Make a Difference!
  • #585
  • Aug 4, 2011 3:57pm Aug 4, 2011 3:57pm
Quoting 2scoops
1st picture - TMA D1 reporting downtrend? - surely a bug?

2nd picture - Same chart but I've added the supertrend indicator set the D1 (none repainting version). I'm not saying supertrend is anything magical but its probably considered one of the better trend indicators on forex factory. It give us the heads up to the change in trend quite early on. I know nothing about coding so I have no idea how hard it would be to add this to the EA though.

In a way though I think with V10 we'll have the ability to confirm with a higher timeframe D1 or W1...
I can't tell by looking at your H4 chart what the TMA is doing on the D1 chart. Did you look at the D1 to see what the TMA is doing? It compares todays middle line to the middle line 5 daus ago to see what the trend is on the D1 chart.
  • #586
  • Aug 4, 2011 4:03pm Aug 4, 2011 4:03pm
Quoting PaulaC
Thank you Star178. Yes, I have installation doc from post #506. I now have both TMSDB_V8 and _V9 in the C:TMS folder.

I have followed the installation and have "run as administrator" turned on for both DB and MT4 platform (ECN).

I still do not have any files in the expert files folder even with running as administrator, so cannot set up the DB. Are these files used only for the DB or for the EA as well? Anything else to try here to get those files created? I have Windows 7 OS.

I have chart tpl loaded and TMS_V8 EA attached with happy face....
These files are used only by the DB, maybe you don't have permission to write to the files folder. (Do you have Data base set to "true" in the EA settings). Also Check your permissions. Windows 7 does not like anybody writing to anything under Program files where MT4 is usually installed. The best way around a lot of Windows 7 problems is when you install MT4, install it someplace else. I usually create a folder called "Forex" under the C: drive and install all my MT4 platforms there.
  • #587
  • Aug 4, 2011 4:10pm Aug 4, 2011 4:10pm
Quoting 2scoops
Suggestion for V10 - exit option - close on confirmed cross, e.g. wait for the candle to close to confirm the cross before exiting.
There was a little discussion about this a few posts back and if we should use "Static TDI" or "Dynamic TDI".

It was thought Dynamic was good for exit and Static for entry.

We could also do it by consecuative alerts in a certain amount of time.

Do we really want to wait for the candle to close?

A Pair can move a long ways in 4 hours.

Your just counting on your SL to take you out then if it starts to run in the opposite direction.

I guess we need more input and maybe put it to a vote just how we want to handle this.

These are all changes that can be made to mimprove the EA if needed.
Probably best to wait for version 10 anyway because that could perform a little different than Version 8.
  • #588
  • Aug 4, 2011 4:13pm Aug 4, 2011 4:13pm
Quoting Star178
Coming back to analysis the trade on EURCHF earlier.

I consister this trade as a "lucky shot", because after the triggering bar had moved 309 pips, the EA is still able to bag another 80 pips before making a U turn.

Usually EA have two mode to trigger a trade.
1) Open a trade on the 'cross' of the TDI. Or
2) in this case open a trade after the close of the triggering bar. As you can see from my chart earlier, the trade opens at 8:00 broker time.

Under normal consideration (manual trade) as one single bar had moved over 300 pips (which is...
This could be another setting in the EA as I have used something similar to before. If the Pair has already moved a certain percentage of its daily range do not take the trade if triggered.

Maybe Version 11
  • #589
  • Aug 4, 2011 4:59pm Aug 4, 2011 4:59pm
Quoting seller9
There was a little discussion about this a few posts back and if we should use "Static TDI" or "Dynamic TDI".

It was thought Dynamic was good for exit and Static for entry.

We could also do it by consecuative alerts in a certain amount of time.

Do we really want to wait for the candle to close?

A Pair can move a long ways in 4 hours.

Your just counting on your SL to take you out then if it starts to run in the opposite direction.

I guess we need more input and maybe put it to a vote just how we want to handle this....
Seller,

Thanks for your quick response, sorry to bombard you with ideas like that. Like you say these are ideas are more for V11 or V12. The features your putting into V10 already sound great. Great work.
  • #590
  • Aug 4, 2011 6:54pm Aug 4, 2011 6:54pm
TMS Version 10 will be out this weekend, I have been running it on a live account on 23 Pairs and so far my account is still in tac. Here are the additions comming in V10.

1) AutoRestartRobot: I haven't tested this yet so its one for the group to test. It will restart the Robot if it is suspened and there are no trades open and there is no Buy or Sell alert present. It waits for a fresh alert before jumping back into a trade. This hasn't been tested yet.
2) Slippage: You can now set the number of pips you are willing to live with.
3) StopLoss5ma: Number of pips above or below the 5ma you want to use as a stop loss.
4) UseStochSlope: If you want to use the slope of the stochastics you now can.
5) MinStochSlope: The Minimum stochastics slope you want to use as the stochastics trigger for the slope, if you have it set to true.
6) UseTMAdailyTrend: If set to true the Daily TMA will be used as the trend indicator, if set to false the 2/8 will be used.
7) TradeLong: Set this to true to take Long Trades, if set to false no Long Trades will be taken.
8) TradeShort: Set this to true to take Short Trades, if set to false no Short Trades will be taken.
9) TdiConfirmationTimeFrameC1-C2-C3: There are now 3 TDI confirmation time frames that you can now use, each can be ON or OFF independant of each other and each has its own user selectable time period. These are in addition to the normal H4 TDI Cross which can not be turned off. You can also set these 3 so they need a cross on the present candle or just Green above or below Red for the signal.
10) AlertModeOnly: Set this to true if you only want to use the EA as an alert and not have it take any trades. Everything works the same, but no trades will be taken.
11) ScreenCapture: If set to true will take a screen capture of the screen at the moment of the trade and place it in the files folder under the eperts folder. If you are having problems writing the Data Base files, this may not work either.
12) Have added another input when you do your DB configuration, there is now a box where you can add a NOTE or COMMENT that will appear in the DB Title Bar to the Right of the "TMS EA DB V10". Originally there was also going to be the Brokers Name placed here also. But because some Brokers have "periods and commas" in there name I have left that out for now. The text files the EA writes to the files folder are "comma delimited" and these extra characters were screwing up the read back of those files, I may look into this at a later date. For now you can put the Brokers name in the extra comment box and it will appear in the title bar.
Because of this extra box you will need to redo your configuration settings and create new config files.

That about does it for this version, hopefully no bugs have been added.

I will post it this weekend.

Edit: Always use the EA and DB with the same version number.

Good Luck
  • #591
  • Aug 4, 2011 7:21pm Aug 4, 2011 7:21pm
how exciting! thanks so much seller, can you give us any indication as to how its performing on the live account?
  • #592
  • Aug 4, 2011 7:50pm Aug 4, 2011 7:50pm
Quoting blamshakk
how exciting! thanks so much seller, can you give us any indication as to how its performing on the live account?
I have found a few Bugs but it still is working good. It took 4 trades in the last 24 hours trading with the trend. 2 wins and 2 losses. Both losses were do to the SL being to tight as the trades would have both been winners. I am using the 2/8 Daily Trend.

I will post the new PDF so everyone can have a look and see if there are any questions or something I missed before this weekend.

Good Luck
  • #593
  • Aug 4, 2011 7:52pm Aug 4, 2011 7:52pm
Have a look and see if I missed something or if it looks like a change should be made to the EA or DB before this weekend.

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  • #594
  • Aug 4, 2011 7:59pm Aug 4, 2011 7:59pm
Quoting seller9
These files are used only by the DB, maybe you don't have permission to write to the files folder. (Do you have Data base set to "true" in the EA settings). Also Check your permissions. Windows 7 does not like anybody writing to anything under Program files where MT4 is usually installed. The best way around a lot of Windows 7 problems is when you install MT4, install it someplace else. I usually create a folder called "Forex" under the C: drive and install all my MT4 platforms there.
I do have the DB setting in the EA set to true. However, great suggestion to put my platform in a separate folder not in system files. (Maybe add that suggestion to the installation doc, or is it there and I missed it?) I bet that is the problem as whenever I copy a file into the MT4 folder in system files I have to confirm before it will copy, SO I am think this suggestion will fix my problem. I will let you know after I get it set up again.

Another technical question about MT4 files: I find that a lot of my templates and profiles that I have saved when my platform is open are there to use when I am in the platform, but if I go to find the files under the templates or profiles folders in order to copy them to a second platform, they are not visible. I have been told this is a quirk of Windows 7. Do you know how I can find the files to copy over to a second platform instead of having to recreate them all?

My first two trades with TMS_V8 EA were today and short on eur/jpy for +49 and +28 pips on a demo account. I did modify the stop on second trade because of impending support. I used settings from Caillou in post 544 only adding ECN set to true due to my platform.

I mistakenly turned the EA back on soon after exiting the first trade and it entered again. I realized that might not be a wise thing to do on a live account as I may catch the end of a run and not hit the target. When do you recommend turning on the EA? I am thinking at the rollover or beginning of a candle and not when you see that indicators are all the same color, so that it does not enter immediately when it is turned on.

Again, thanks for all your hard work and I am very busy trying to get up to speed with the EA to be ready for V10 when it comes out. I am extremely excited about this EA and all of its features.
  • #595
  • Aug 4, 2011 8:38pm Aug 4, 2011 8:38pm
Hi Paula C, sorry for the late reply, it's because of different time zone.
I re read your earlier posts and to my understanding, you are unable to see the file name eg. AUDUSDTMS in your "......MetaTraderexpertsfiles" .
This is shown on my 'Full Installation' manual page-5. Re do step 5) as shown.
I think your issue lies around there.
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  • #596
  • Aug 4, 2011 8:44pm Aug 4, 2011 8:44pm
Quoting seller9
Have a look and see if I missed something or if it looks like a change should be made to the EA or DB before this weekend.

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Great job!

I suggest adding page numbers to the document maybe bottom center or your choice.

Add the suggestion you gave me at bottom of page 3 or top of page 4, that if still having trouble creating files in files folder, to download your platform again and save it in a folder directly on the C:drive and not in the Program Files folder.

Thank you.
  • #597
  • Aug 4, 2011 9:07pm Aug 4, 2011 9:07pm
Quoting PaulaC

Another technical question about MT4 files: I find that a lot of my templates and profiles that I have saved when my platform is open are there to use when I am in the platform, but if I go to find the files under the templates or profiles folders in order to copy them to a second platform, they are not visible. I have been told this is a quirk of Windows 7. Do you know how I can find the files to copy over to a second platform instead of having to recreate them all?
Those templates that you saved directly from your MT4 are "locked and hidden".
Should you want that template, go through the same process, but instead of saving in the 'default' location, chose C drive your own folder eg: template.
From there on you can copy into other MT4 platform.
  • #598
  • Aug 4, 2011 9:39pm Aug 4, 2011 9:39pm
Quoting seller9
Have a look and see if I missed something or if it looks like a change should be made to the EA or DB before this weekend.

Attachment
Again great job on the manual. I have some very minor comments not meant to be critical only suggestions to improve format only. Your choice to decide if changes are acceptable.

Typo in Item #16, "browes" instead of "browse"

Spelling of multiplyer throughout. I am used to "multiplier". My spellcheck in Word flags multiplyer. But maybe that is an alternative spelling and is okay.

p.10 in "TdiCloseONflat: flat in the second line needs to be indented.

Bottom of p. 10 and top of p. 11: split page in middle of item TdiConfirmationTimeFrameC2.

p.11 Extra line spacing after UseConfirmCrossC2.

Thank you for all the effort put into this amazing EA!
  • #599
  • Aug 4, 2011 9:50pm Aug 4, 2011 9:50pm
Quoting seller9
I have found a few Bugs but it still is working good. It took 4 trades in the last 24 hours trading with the trend. 2 wins and 2 losses. Both losses were do to the SL being to tight as the trades would have both been winners. I am using the 2/8 Daily Trend.

I will post the new PDF so everyone can have a look and see if there are any questions or something I missed before this weekend.

Good Luck
Thanks for your efforts.

Can you please explain about the "2/8 Daily Trend" idea?

Best wishes.

Y.
  • #600
  • Aug 4, 2011 10:33pm Aug 4, 2011 10:33pm
[quote=PaulaC;4840641]I mistakenly turned the EA back on soon after exiting the first trade and it entered again. I realized that might not be a wise thing to do on a live account as I may catch the end of a run and not hit the target. When do you recommend turning on the EA? I am thinking at the rollover or beginning of a candle and not when you see that indicators are all the same color, so that it does not enter immediately when it is turned on.

At times I shut down MT4 and restart to get the latest bug fix, but before I answer yes to restart the Robot I look at the chart to make sure the Pair is not in the middle of an alert that would trigger a trade that maybe at the end. In version 10 you will have the option to do an auto restart if you wish, but it will not restart if a Buy or Sell alert is present. It will wait for the alert to go away and then it will restart and be ready for the next one, just like when you start it the first time.

Glad to see you are having success with V8, Windows 7 can be a real pain at times. I put V10 DB on a Windows 7 box that had been running V8 just fine and got the DLL error problem. I ended up unregistering the DLL and then reregistering it and that seem to fix it. It seems everytime you do a Windows upgrade everything has to be fixed or upgraded to work again.

Good Luck
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