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  • #261
  • Aug 29, 2011 4:30pm Aug 29, 2011 4:30pm
Latest update in post 1:

 

  1. Added the individual trade comments thingy; each inputs section has its own comment. Remember to blank these out when we go live.
  2. Fixed the missing UseZeljko code in the Carolco grid trading function.


I also updated the user guide. All I did was rearrange the bloop that astral spotted, added a bit about grid and caterpillar trading to the Summary, and a comment about trade comments. If you already understand all this, you do not need the new guide.

  • #262
  • Aug 29, 2011 4:33pm Aug 29, 2011 4:33pm
Yes, that's logic, it uses probably volatility values and BB signals, I noticed that. But, once a signal is on, I see only Cat trade, nothing else, and I'm forward testing it. That's why I assumed Cat is disabling normal BB trade.
In fact, there's only 1 trade open.
Ohh, I think I got it, then it's a trend trade from BB, and Cat will add trades as per rules?
Was confused as it displays "none" as trade origin...
I don't say
  • #263
  • Aug 29, 2011 5:48pm Aug 29, 2011 5:48pm
One more update, as I am in the mood.

This one is for the Carolco grid traders. I have added the option to set a different lot size for the pending trades, and to send them with or without a stop loss.

Update in post 1. If you do not trade the grid, then you do not need the update.

  • #264
  • Aug 29, 2011 6:35pm Aug 29, 2011 6:35pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
One more update, as I am in the mood.

This one is for the Carolco grid traders. I have added the option to set a different lot size for the pending trades, and to send them with or without a stop loss.

Update in post 1. If you do not trade the grid, then you do not need the update.

Hi Steve,
Glad to see your update for the grid traders...Will make BB run even better.....Put the Cat off by itself at lunch today and added The Scoobs Special RSI indi to it and your new Vol indi.....makes a really nice package.....

Have a great week

whip
  • #265
  • Aug 29, 2011 6:46pm Aug 29, 2011 6:46pm
Quoting SteveHopwood
One more update, as I am in the mood.

This one is for the Carolco grid traders. I have added the option to set a different lot size for the pending trades, and to send them with or without a stop loss.

Update in post 1. If you do not trade the grid, then you do not need the update.

Yesterday when BB filled a pair of USDCHF trades I manually doubled the SL on the 5 grid trades, result was 3 wins out of 5, but lost money overall due to the larger SL, will try with no SL.

Thanks Steve

Paul
  • #266
  • Aug 30, 2011 2:22am Aug 30, 2011 2:22am
Quoting SteveHopwood
I am enjoying trading V10 manually - all I do is check the charts once a day, so it leaves me plenty of time to indulge my occd.

I wrote a little indi to display the D1 volatility as calculated by BB, then added swap to it, so the Daily Volatility Indicatordisplays:

 

  1. the average daily movement of a pair, calculated by adding together the distance between the highs and lows of the most recent 20 days trading, then dividing by 20.
  2. the pairs long swap.
  3. the pairs short swap.

Download it from post 1 if you think it will help...


very usefull indi, would it be possible to include a spread?
  • #267
  • Aug 30, 2011 4:30am Aug 30, 2011 4:30am
Quoting peje
very usefull indi, would it be possible to include a spread?
Done. Post 1.

  • #268
  • Aug 30, 2011 4:32am Aug 30, 2011 4:32am
Quoting pathumracled
Thanks Sir Hopwood,
could you make it so that it monitors all open/specified pairs at a glance?

Bless!
Not without a huge amount of work. Sorry.

  • #269
  • Aug 30, 2011 5:31am Aug 30, 2011 5:31am
Hi Steve

I've found a small typo, which confused the hell out of me for a while

ScreenMessage = StringConcatenate(ScreenMessage,Gap, tab, "Band upper extreme: ", Var4, NL);

change to: -

ScreenMessage = StringConcatenate(ScreenMessage,Gap, tab, "Band lower extreme: ", Var4, NL);

But, you are very busy, so if people want to change this open BigBob find the first code extract change the upper to lower hit F5, easy.

Cheers

Paul

P.S. I've not tried the Cat are you getting good results? To be honest with this market I don't think we need to worry about the grid trades, but they may be useful later.
  • #270
  • Aug 30, 2011 5:34am Aug 30, 2011 5:34am
Guys, on your charts, the one of you that are not using Carolco pendings SL,
if price retraces out of the grid, is BB closing both open positions and delete orders?
Asking that cause mine is not....
I don't say
  • #271
  • Aug 30, 2011 6:23am Aug 30, 2011 6:23am
Quoting dragosd1
Guys, on your charts, the one of you that are not using Carolco pendings SL,
if price retraces out of the grid, is BB closing both open positions and delete orders?
Asking that cause mine is not....

As far as I can see, it's not in the code:

In the part:

 

  1. if (OpenTrades == 1).... there should be one for 2 (or >=1) OpenTrades

then also the

 

  1. if (TradeOrigin == trendorigin) LookForTradeClosure();

looks for the trade closure - which then sets:

 

  1. TradeOrigin = none;

so the next open trade can not be closed, because TradeOrigin is not trendorigin anymore....

(?)

  • #272
  • Aug 30, 2011 6:34am Aug 30, 2011 6:34am
Quoting batemap
Hi Steve

I've found a small typo, which confused the hell out of me for a while

ScreenMessage = StringConcatenate(ScreenMessage,Gap, tab, "Band upper extreme: ", Var4, NL);

change to: -

ScreenMessage = StringConcatenate(ScreenMessage,Gap, tab, "Band lower extreme: ", Var4, NL);

But, you are very busy, so if people want to change this open BigBob find the first code extract change the upper to lower hit F5, easy.

Cheers

Paul

P.S. I've not tried the Cat are you getting good results? To be honest with this...
Thanks Paul. Most people have my eye for detail, and so do not notice these thingys. I have corrected this and is will show up in the next update.

I am using Cat on my manual demo with a lot of success - not used it on my live account yet.

Strange world at the moment. On one hand, we have the Euro hurtling up and down like an acid tablet in a non-stop high speed lift, whilst GJ is fast asleep and has been for weeks.

Great for trend-trading though.

  • #273
  • Aug 30, 2011 6:43am Aug 30, 2011 6:43am
Quoting osthafen
As far as I can see, it's not in the code:

In the part:

 

  1. if (OpenTrades == 1).... there should be one for 2 (or >=1) OpenTrades

then also the

 

  1. if (TradeOrigin == trendorigin) LookForTradeClosure();

looks for the trade closure - which then sets:

 

  1. TradeOrigin = none;

so the next open trade can not be closed, because TradeOrigin is not trendorigin anymore....

(?)

Fantastic again Martin. Thanks.

This is a bug that needs fixing, so update from post 1; this also has the fix for the display thingy that Paul spotted.

  • #274
  • Aug 30, 2011 7:50am Aug 30, 2011 7:50am
Quoting SteveHopwood
Fantastic again Martin. Thanks.

This is a bug that needs fixing, so update from post 1; this also has the fix for the display thingy that Paul spotted.

Cool, thanks Steve

The grid spread thingy looks to be working well, order closing and the new one been opened at the same time!

No SL - three grid trades closed and all at TP, trust in the trend the trend is your friend, did somebody say that once???

Paul
  • #275
  • Edited 9:28am Aug 30, 2011 9:18am | Edited 9:28am
Hi Steve,
I'm running one of my copies of BB on my usual 4 digit crook and the other on a 5 digit crook......The copy on the 4 digit crook still is only range trading and I think it is because the bot is picking up the one and 2 digit Vol readings and thinks they are low....Any chance this could be the problem because the bot running on the 5 digit crook is running perfectly........Thanks in advance if you get a chance to look...

Have a great week

whip

P.S.====My BT's were done on the 4 digit crook Steve and all were just Range trades...
  • #276
  • Aug 30, 2011 9:42am Aug 30, 2011 9:42am
Quoting hiredwhip
Hi Steve,
I'm running one of my copies of BB on my usual 4 digit crook and the other on a 5 digit crook......The copy on the 4 digit crook still is only range trading and I think it is because the bot is picking up the one and 2 digit Vol readings and thinks they are low....Any chance this could be the problem because the bot running on the 5 digit crook is running perfectly........Thanks in advance if you get a chance to look...

Have a great week

whip

P.S.====My BT's were done on the 4 digit crook Steve and all were just Range trades...
I did wonder when you wrote that all your vol readings were under 30 recently; I figured that was probably just a misprint.

There must be a fault in the logic that translates the result of the volatility calculation from a decimal to a more easily recognisable whole number. I will take a look: double CalculateVolatility(int period, int LookBack) osthaven.

  • #277
  • Aug 30, 2011 9:42am Aug 30, 2011 9:42am
Hello BB-Traders,

for those who use Recovery-Mode and want to use a fractional multiplier you have to change in the routine
Inserted Code
void LookForRangeTradingOpps()

the line:

Inserted Code
int mult = StrToDouble(RecoveryLevel[OpenTrades - 1] );

into:


Inserted Code
int Fraction;
if ( MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_LOTSTEP) == 0.01) Fraction = 2;
if ( MarketInfo(Symbol(), MODE_LOTSTEP) == 0.1) Fraction = 1;
double mult = StrToDouble( RecoveryLevel[OpenTrades - 1] );
SendLots = NormalizeDouble(Lot * mult, Fraction);

now you could for example put in the variable RecoveryLevels = "1.6,2.56"

i use a multiplier of 1.6 with all my recoverytrades.

Cheers

Mediator
  • #278
  • Aug 30, 2011 9:45am Aug 30, 2011 9:45am
Quoting SteveHopwood
I did wonder when you wrote that all your vol readings were under 30 recently; I figured that was probably just a misprint.

There must be a fault in the logic that translates the result of the volatility calculation from a decimal to a more easily recognisable whole number. I will take a look: double CalculateVolatility(int period, int LookBack) osthaven.

Thanks Steve,
The 5 digit bot is smooth...
  • #279
  • Edited 10:11am Aug 30, 2011 9:58am | Edited 10:11am
Quoting hiredwhip
Hi Steve,
I'm running one of my copies of BB on my usual 4 digit crook and the other on a 5 digit crook......The copy on the 4 digit crook still is only range trading and I think it is because the bot is picking up the one and 2 digit Vol readings and thinks they are low....Any chance this could be the problem because the bot running on the 5 digit crook is running perfectly........Thanks in advance if you get a chance to look...

Have a great week

whip

P.S.====My BT's were done on the 4 digit crook Steve and all were just Range trades...




i think you have to set the variables for the MinimumTrendTradingVolatility and MaximumRangeTradingVolatility in the Expert without the last 0.

Cheeers

Mediator
  • #280
  • Aug 30, 2011 10:12am Aug 30, 2011 10:12am
Quoting hiredwhip
Thanks Steve,
The 5 digit bot is smooth...
It is one of my logic thingy's. Do me a favour, whip, and add the code snippet into the function on your 4 digit crim and recompile, to see if the display is correct now - I have highlighted the bit.

Cheers

Inserted Code
double CalculateVolatility(int period, int LookBack)
{
   //Calculates the volatility of a pair based on an average of their movement over LookBack periods
   
   double pips;
   for (int cc = 1; cc < LookBack; cc++)
   {
      pips+= iHigh(NULL, period, cc) - iLow(NULL, period, cc);      
   }//for (int cc = 1; cc < LookBack; cc++)
   
   pips/= LookBack;//Average pips movement per day
   //Alert(pips);

   //Convert to pips
   int multiplier;
   if (Digits == 2) multiplier = 10;
   if (Digits == 3) multiplier = 100;
   if (Digits == 4) multiplier = 1000;
   if (Digits == 5) multiplier = 10000;

[color=Red]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////   
   //Whip, try adding this
   if (Digits == 2) multiplier = 100;
   if (Digits == 3) multiplier = 100;
   if (Digits == 4) multiplier = 10000;
   if (Digits == 5) multiplier = 10000;
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////   
[/color]
   
   pips*= multiplier;
   int rpips = pips;//Convert to a simple integer - all we need
   
   
   return(rpips);
   
}//End double CalculateVolatility(int period, int LookBack)
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