002097's PwR scalping auto trading robot by Steve Hopwood

Quoting Beshakey

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left on overnight. 2 winners, no losers.

Dead market today (US Bank holiday). Might tell us about functionality, but probably won't reveal much about profitability.

Aurora (great name, dude) just opened a pending order that should expire. We'll see.

Thanks, 002097 and Steve

Shake

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Quoting jmw1970

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I would of thought that a "dead" market would be a good thing

most true scalping bots are usually designed for Asian markets (when asian markets used to be much quieter)

it might be interesting to see how the bot works in a supposedly more controlled market.

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         if (InvalidStopError)
         {
            Sleep(SleepSeconds * 1000);
            tries++;
            if (tries > MaxNoOfRetries)

            {
               Alert("Aurora tried to send a trade ", tries, " times and failed. She has given up in disgust.");
               return;
            }//if (tries > MaxNoOfRetries)
            RefreshRates();
         }//if (InvalidStopError)

Quoting jmw1970

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Hi Steve

you missed a line of code, in the loop when it is retrying it needs to refresh the rates otherwise it will always use the same bid

like so

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         if (InvalidStopError)
         {
            Sleep(SleepSeconds * 1000);
            tries++;
            if (tries > MaxNoOfRetries)

            {
               Alert("Aurora tried to send a trade ", tries, " times and failed. She has given up in disgust.");
               return;
            }//if (tries > MaxNoOfRetries)
            [color=Red]RefreshRates();[/color]
         }//if (InvalidStopError)

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Quoting jmw1970

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I would of thought that a "dead" market would be a good thing

most true scalping bots are usually designed for Asian markets (when asian markets used to be much quieter)

it might be interesting to see how the bot works in a supposedly more controlled market.

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   [color=Red]double OldBid;//For comparison when making multiple tries at sending a trade, to avoid merely trying once a second without a quote[/color]
   if (SendTrade)
   {
      //The loop functions to keep trying for a while if the market is too close to the pending price for the trade
      //to be sent. The number of retries is limited to MaxNoOfRetries. SendSingleTrade will set InvalidStopError to
      //true if a trade-send fails because of the invalid stop (130) error. Newbie coders, remember that an impossible
      //pending price also generates this error.
      InvalidStopError=true;
      int tries=0;
      while (InvalidStopError)
      {
        [color=Red] if (OldBid != Bid)
         {[/color]
            //Deal with the situation where the market has reached the pending trade price, and so the trade could be
            //sent as a market order
            if (type == OP_BUYSTOP && Bid >= price)
            {
               price = Ask;
               type = OP_BUY;
            }//if (type == OP_BUYSTOP && Bid >= price)
         
            if (type == OP_SELLSTOP && Bid <= price)
            {
               price = Bid;
               type = OP_SELL;
            }//if (type == OP_SELLSTOP && Bid <= price)
         
            InvalidStopError = false;
            bool result = SendSingleTrade(type, TradeComment, SendLot, price, stop, take);
            if (InvalidStopError)
            {
               Sleep(SleepSeconds * 1000);
               tries++;
               if (tries > MaxNoOfRetries)
               {
                  Alert("Aurora tried to send a trade ", tries, " times and failed. She has given up in disgust.");
                  return;
               }//if (tries > MaxNoOfRetries)
               RefreshRates();
         
            }//if (InvalidStopError)
            [color=Red]OldBid = Bid;[/color]
         }//while (InvalidStopError)
     [color=Red] }//if (OldBid != Bid)[/color]
         
   }//if (SendTrade)
   
   //Actions when trade send succeeds
   if (SendTrade && result)
   {
   
   }//if (result)
   
   //Actions when trade send fails
   if (SendTrade && !result)
   {
      
   }//if (!result)
   
   

}//void LookForTradingOpportunities()

Quoting hinnavaru

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Steve

I have just started using the EA and the bot quickly entered me on a trade in EU at 40617 and stopped out at 40740. I used h4 as automatedirection. Did I do something wrong or is just occupational hazard?

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Quoting jmw1970

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the bot can't win always!!! (now it would be great if it could)

I also had the same trade and lost - but in the grand scheme of things I am still up

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Quoting tarrini65

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can't solve the error 130 problem...

any help or setting?

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Quoting jmw1970

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the bot can't win always!!! (now it would be great if it could)

I also had the same trade and lost - but in the grand scheme of things I am still up

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Quoting jmw1970

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the 130 problem is expected, this is when the candle closes close to it's high/low

as long as you have the latest version from Steve no problems

though personally I commented out the Alert in the SendSingleTrade function as it was driving me crazy

regards, john

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Quoting cmac0351

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I was just watching the ea do its thing. It had a signal at the close of the 11:05 EST candle and set a pending sell order. It didn't trigger, but it also didn't expire the order. I looked at the order and it was set to expire at 11:40, 30 minutes after it was set. I have the default 15 in the settings

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