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  • #101
  • Aug 21, 2011 3:53pm Aug 21, 2011 3:53pm
A little toy for you guys to play with - http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...04#post4888004

whip, put a mat under the fun-o-meter.

  • #102
  • Aug 21, 2011 4:52pm Aug 21, 2011 4:52pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
A little toy for you guys to play with - http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...04#post4888004

whip, put a mat under the fun-o-meter.

YIKES.....Thanks for heads up.....To far from the house though and won't be back for at least another hour......I'll just have to sweep it up and replace it......I'll check out the new thread now....Thanks for all your hard work that generates all this fun.....

Have a great week

whip
  • #103
  • Aug 21, 2011 5:43pm Aug 21, 2011 5:43pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
This is an intriguing idea. Any thoughts, guys?

i made the following EA a few weeks ago. maybe part of the code is useful (or not... ) if you plan to insert this idea in BigBob. have a great week

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  • #104
  • Aug 21, 2011 5:51pm Aug 21, 2011 5:51pm
Quoting ido370
i made the following EA a few weeks ago. maybe part of the code is useful (or not... ) if you plan to insert this idea in BigBob. have a great week

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Thanks.

Cheers.

  • #105
  • Aug 21, 2011 8:18pm Aug 21, 2011 8:18pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
This is an intriguing idea. Any thoughts, guys?

Looks like a good idea to me.

Paul
  • #106
  • Edited 9:40pm Aug 21, 2011 9:01pm | Edited 9:40pm
Greetings,

First, thanks to all involved, Steve, NB and other contributors. I am a new follower of NB and just setting up Big Bob. I am not a coder, just a user, so please forgive if this question is too basic. I have been studying documents and posts like crazy for NB and BB trying to assimilate all the great information.

I have demo charts set up with latest (08.21) version of BigBob using default values and a trade just triggered (on 08.21 at 21:39:24, GMT -4) for GBPJPY to buy, my first trade to trigger with BB. My Broker is MB Trading in US and it is an ECN (default value used has Criminals ECN set to true).

I got multiple Off Quotes #136 errors. I kept getting the error and was afraid it was going to disable my demo account, so I disabled the EA. When I looked at the 1H chart, I could see a spike in price and I know the BB EA is written to avoid getting in on a spike. (Thank you, that is a good thing!) I was probably too quick to disable the EA and should have let it go to see if it would take care of itself. Can you comment further as to how this works in actuality...i.e. ignore the alerts and the trade will trigger when it comes back in range? Will it alert so many times that it might disable the account? (I have had that happen with other EAs.) Perhaps the off quotes 136 error is the expected outcome when there is a price spike and the EA is filtering it out. Please advise.

Thanks for your help.

I just turned BB back on at 22:37:42 after the price has settled back down, and I still got a single Off Quotes #136 error, so buy still did not go through.....
  • #107
  • Aug 21, 2011 10:26pm Aug 21, 2011 10:26pm
Quoting carolco
I use a concept which worked for me on EU from the beginning of 2011 and I think this might be the solution of the last problem of fantastic NBs system: Exits.

an example for sell trend trade.

-BB sends two sell orders. one with no TP (a recorvery trade) and one with TP 10 pips
-in this moment BB sends also about 20-100 (user preference) sell stop pending orders
-all pendings have 10 pips distance between them and all have 10 pips TP
-Tp of the first sell trade is opening price of the next pending sell stop
-Tp of the sell stop pending order is...

Just wanted to know, what would be the SL in the above example...
  • #108
  • Aug 22, 2011 2:34am Aug 22, 2011 2:34am
Well that could be a question regarding to BB ea respectively NB 10 Trend system. I use no SL at all and when I go wrong by very beginnig of its entry (the price goes not far then 50 pips from entry) I use NB recorvery 1.2.6 modified rules according to my trading style.

In case of BB I suggest to use closure conditions according to NB 10 Trend trade rules if we get into a wrong train and the ability to set SL on recorvery trade after x pips movement in our direction (that would be our BE). The value could be something between 50-100 pips in 4H TF)
  • #109
  • Aug 22, 2011 2:36am Aug 22, 2011 2:36am
Quoting reachjj
Just wanted to know, what would be the SL in the above example...
Well, in this case SL should be below 8MA...That for the 1st order and the 2nd one. BB should handle them in the normal mode, user defined in the last version, close at median MA touch/candle close, or close at median price(Ost solution). In any case, ideea is interesting one, no matter how far the price travels, you got only 2 positions to take care of...
I don't say
  • #110
  • Aug 22, 2011 2:44am Aug 22, 2011 2:44am
I must post one little weakness of this concept with which we must count on.

It rarely happend that there were opened 2 trades at once in the top of the trend (the TP of the next to last trade were not filled while the last trade of the trand were filled). I do not know what is the reason but I also noticed that that my 10 cents profits were not always 10 cents. sometimes it was 8-12 cents but generaly I gained all the pips from the trend.

I think its caused by news stories when my criminal wasnt able to fill my pending order precisely on my price.

I just want to let you know..
  • #111
  • Aug 22, 2011 2:48am Aug 22, 2011 2:48am
Quoting dragosd1
Well, in this case SL should be below 8MA...That for the 1st order and the 2nd one. BB should handle them in the normal mode, user defined in the last version, close at median MA touch/candle close, or close at median price(Ost solution). In any case, ideea is interesting one, no matter how far the price travels, you got only 2 positions to take care of...

Exactly thats how I imagine it should work on BB.
From certain amount of pips gained on equity by filled TP of pendings (say 50pips) we can place a SL to a recorvery and the last pending. That way we setup BE if somethings goes wrong with the trend.. and thats the way i trade this concept..
  • #112
  • Aug 22, 2011 3:16am Aug 22, 2011 3:16am
Quoting carolco
Exactly thats how I imagine it should work on BB.
From certain amount of pips gained on equity by filled TP of pendings (say 50pips) we can place a SL to a recorvery and the last pending. That way we setup BE if somethings goes wrong with the trend.. and thats the way i trade this concept..
That can be done by the recovery module of BB, it can take care of the 1st market order and last pending order filled,but not reached at TP, presuming market has done the job for "X" pending orders placed in-between...seems a nice ideea to implement, what do you think, Steve?
As a result, might be a ideea to implement a jumping "BE+5/10 pips" for the both positions...meaning last order that not hit TP and the original 1st market order.(pls don't kill me,Steve )
I don't say
  • #113
  • Aug 22, 2011 5:09am Aug 22, 2011 5:09am
Everybody interested in carolco's grid idea, please visit my new thread at http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...08#post4889708. Everything is explained there.

  • #114
  • Aug 22, 2011 6:04am Aug 22, 2011 6:04am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Everybody interested in carolco's grid idea, please visit my new thread at http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...08#post4889708. Everything is explained there.

Man, you're fast!
I don't say
  • #115
  • Aug 22, 2011 1:34pm Aug 22, 2011 1:34pm
Hi chaps and chapesses...

anyone got BigBob on demo?

How is it doing so far? I have done a few back tests on the daily TF but nothing so far has made me go wow... yet. I am still playing with settings.

Has anyone managed to find some decent settings yet?
  • #116
  • Aug 22, 2011 2:07pm Aug 22, 2011 2:07pm
Not yet, playing with settings too...
I don't say
  • #117
  • Aug 22, 2011 2:34pm Aug 22, 2011 2:34pm
Quoting Viv108
Hi chaps and chapesses...

anyone got BigBob on demo?

How is it doing so far? I have done a few back tests on the daily TF but nothing so far has made me go wow... yet. I am still playing with settings.

Has anyone managed to find some decent settings yet?
I have but somewhat irrelevantly. No idea how many versions old the one is that I have on demo.

  • #118
  • Aug 22, 2011 2:53pm Aug 22, 2011 2:53pm
Greetings,

Thanks for all your work on BigBob. I am trying my best to get it set up, but am a user, not a coder. I have the inputs for overall Experts set up properly and am using default settings in Big Bob. I sent previous email (which you may or may not have gotten), but now have a little more information. I keep getting Off Quotes error 136. and have now gotten the error for several pairs. When I look at the journal entries, for example, I see "order buy market 0.10 GBPJPY sl:0.000 tp:0.000" then "request was accepted by server" then "order buy 0.10 opening at 0.000 sl:0.000 tp:0.000 failed [Off quotes]". I am on an active demo account. Can you help me to understand why I am getting the "opening at 0.000" and what I might do to correct this? Thank you for your assistance.

I am getting same error with all 10.0 NB EAs. I even tried the SH versions. The only difference in the error is that is says opening at 0.0000 (one more decimal), which I think is correct for my broker, but still does not give me a price for the pair. So I am getting this kind of error for BigBob and all NB EAs. I really want to get this thing to trade. Any help would be appreciated. My broker is ECN in US with 5 decimals.
  • #119
  • Aug 22, 2011 5:40pm Aug 22, 2011 5:40pm
Quoting PaulaC
Greetings,

Thanks for all your work on BigBob. I am trying my best to get it set up, but am a user, not a coder. I have the inputs for overall Experts set up properly and am using default settings in Big Bob. I sent previous email (which you may or may not have gotten), but now have a little more information. I keep getting Off Quotes error 136. and have now gotten the error for several pairs. When I look at the journal entries, for example, I see "order buy market 0.10 GBPJPY sl:0.000 tp:0.000" then "request was accepted by server"...
Would somebody deal with this dimwit, please, before I lose my temper and stop him posting altogether?

Thanks

  • #120
  • Aug 22, 2011 5:49pm Aug 22, 2011 5:49pm
Latest update in post 1.

 

  1. Added the ability to close trend trades on the appearance of an opposite direction signal i.e. a trend change.
  2. Added a first draft of carolco grid trades for trend trading. What should happen is this:

    1. BB detects a trend and trend trading is allowed and any other relevant filters are ok so:

      1. send two market orders, one with a take profit
      2. send TradesInGrid pending trades. Details in the user guide.

    2. eventually, the grid trades should stop filling and mptm features will close the non-tp trade. At this point, all the remaining pendings should be deleted.

I leave contributors to guess what chance there is of all this actually working properly. We could be waiting for the third coming here. We shall see.

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