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  • #901
  • Sep 6, 2011 9:45am Sep 6, 2011 9:45am
I dunno why i'm getting some text overlapping on the readout portion (the yellow text on the right) Anyone else having it ?

Am using V12 and set file H1 from seller9's post at #886. But i'm on Oanda demo, so i switched CriminalsECN to True and 24hr trading times in the settings. Also using the template provided from the earlier V10 posts , called #tms_db. I'm not running the dashboard as i'm kinda new to this, let me know if i'm doing anything wrong. Thanks in advance.

By the way, awesome work on the EA, cheers !!
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  • #902
  • Sep 6, 2011 9:51am Sep 6, 2011 9:51am
Quoting CodeMonster
fwoodley,

Yes that is correct, I'm using the set file from post #866 (h4set.txt) with V12 for the M15, H1 and H4 time frame.

Due to great riding weather I haven't had time to posted my trades from the M15 that took place on 9/1/2011 and 9/2/2011. On the M15 with the settings from post #866 the quality of trades taken were poor. And I did have losses.

Also since I'm a new member it looks like my ability to attach images has a limit. And it would seem I have reached that limit. Not sure if I need to make more posts to get more space or if I...
Hi CodeMonster, just wanna double check cos i'm on Oanda as well. Besides changing the CriminalEcn to True, u do change the TradePeriod setting to the respective timeframes of your charts as well right ? that is ,15,60,240 .. its the first setting on the V12 EA, "TradePeriod".
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  • #903
  • Edited 10:18am Sep 6, 2011 10:02am | Edited 10:18am
oops wrong thread.
  • #904
  • Sep 6, 2011 10:07am Sep 6, 2011 10:07am
What settings do I use to get the EA to enter a trade when the TDI crosses on first or second candle?
  • #905
  • Sep 6, 2011 10:56am Sep 6, 2011 10:56am
Quoting olegy
Janim , pictures say nothing without set file
It takes the trades too late.
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  • #906
  • Sep 6, 2011 1:00pm Sep 6, 2011 1:00pm
Quoting nitrate73
I dunno why i'm getting some text overlapping on the readout portion (the yellow text on the right) Anyone else having it ?
Also using the template provided from the earlier V10 posts , called #tms_db. I'm not running the dashboard as i'm kinda new to this, let me know if i'm doing anything wrong. Thanks in advance.
I got exactly the same issue. Using V10 template and V12 ... maybe something with screen resolution ? I'm in 1920x1200.
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  • #907
  • Sep 6, 2011 2:33pm Sep 6, 2011 2:33pm
Quoting nitrate73
I dunno why i'm getting some text overlapping on the readout portion (the yellow text on the right) Anyone else having it ?

Am using V12 and set file H1 from seller9's post at #886. But i'm on Oanda demo, so i switched CriminalsECN to True and 24hr trading times in the settings. Also using the template provided from the earlier V10 posts , called #tms_db. I'm not running the dashboard as i'm kinda new to this, let me know if i'm doing anything wrong. Thanks in advance.

By the way, awesome work on the EA, cheers !!
Try this: on the top toolbar, find the "chart shift" and "auto scroll" buttons and make sure they are turned on.
  • #908
  • Sep 6, 2011 2:40pm Sep 6, 2011 2:40pm
Quoting 4x AJIC
Try this: on the top toolbar, find the "chart shift" and "auto scroll" buttons and make sure they are turned on.
Yes they are. Magnification is full zoom minus 2 times (-)
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  • #909
  • Sep 6, 2011 4:38pm Sep 6, 2011 4:38pm
Hi Seller9
Would it be possible for you to provide a description of the logic for the following settings which were previously fixed but are now able to be turned on or off in your new versions?

1) Use5ema
2) UseCandleDirection

Regards,
crobbins
  • #910
  • Sep 6, 2011 5:35pm Sep 6, 2011 5:35pm
Quoting seller9
The thing is we are watching the TDI on the H4 for a cross and the candle to close it happens on. To use a candle close say on the H1 would be like trying to look into the future and see what the eventual outcome of the H4 cross will be. So close using the H1 close if we can see a H4 cross on close comming. The present C1, C2, and C3 settings now are used to pick or see if those time frames agree with the one you are watching for the TDI cross on. But they only pick that entry after the cross and close has happened on the time period being used...
Ive been trying to figure out why quite often it appears the EA is entering trades sometimes at the open of the 2nd and often the open of the 3rd candle after the tdi cross. If i am not mistaken, the technique that BigE uses is to enter trades is at the cross of the tdi on either the first or 2nd candle open. So it will not be possible to enter on the open of a 1st candle if this setting remains fixed this way. We already have the option to filter these trades by using the minimum tdi slope setting. Just a thought, any comments would be appreciated.

Regards,
crobbins
  • #911
  • Sep 6, 2011 6:51pm Sep 6, 2011 6:51pm
Quoting seller9
Candle direction is a candle pattern its looking for.
Yellow just means it does not meet one of the following.
Also it should not trade after the close of the third GREEN candle, it could take a trade on the third GREEN candle. If I change that to no trades after the second GREEN candle it may cut into good trades to much.
I am trying to cut down on the number of false triggers on the one or two candle swings, just trying to catch the long runs if possible.

Here are the patterns: Candle colors are:
Long = Red-Red-Red-Green-Present Bid above...
ok, this answers UseCandleDirection logic
  • #912
  • Sep 6, 2011 6:55pm Sep 6, 2011 6:55pm
Quoting seller9
No, this is just a safe guard. The TDI logic Cross will only let it trade on the 1st or second candle close. So it may take a trade on the third candle if TDI has crossed on the first or second candle and then all the other alerts are the same color when its on the third candle.
If TDI were to cross at the close of the third candle no trade should open, TDI needs to cross at close of first or second candle.
Since I am using static TDI Cross, it only changes at the close of the candle. So cross on close one or cross on close 2 for trade and possible...
I guess this is what is preventing EA from taking trade at OPEN of 1st or 2nd candle after a TDI cross

Regards,
crobbins
  • #913
  • Sep 6, 2011 7:09pm Sep 6, 2011 7:09pm
Quoting crobbins
Ive been trying to figure out why quite often it appears the EA is entering trades sometimes at the open of the 2nd and often the open of the 3rd candle after the tdi cross. If i am not mistaken, the technique that BigE uses is to enter trades is at the cross of the tdi on either the first or 2nd candle open. So it will not be possible to enter on the open of a 1st candle if this setting remains fixed this way. We already have the option to filter these trades by using the minimum tdi slope setting. Just a thought, any comments would be appreciated....
BigE states: I just glance at the TDI for set ups when the new candle opens...

Using "TDI Red Green" indicator you will not get the cross untill the candle closes and it redraws, unless you update the indicator before the candle closes, this is what I refer to as "Static". If you watch the TDI indicator you will notice it does not change untill the candle closes, if you are watching the "TDI Red Green" indicator. If you want the TDI Cross alert before the candle closes you have to use a different indicator such as "TMS-Osc Histo", which can give you many false alerts while the candle is building, this I call Dynamic. Attach this indicator to your chart and you can see it change back and forth.
So the first candle that closes and has the TDI Cross gives you the signal. Yes the cross happened on the 1st candle, but we are trying to eliminate those false triggesr before the 1st candle is completed. So at the beginning of the second candle if the other triggers you have selected are met you will get a trade signal.
Yes this sounds like your getting the signal late, but better safe than sorry.
Also its possible for all this to happen on the second "Blue" candle in which case you may get the Trade Signal at the beginning of the 3rd candle, but never durring the 3rd candle or after its close. If you look at the candle clock when you get a 3rd candle trade you will notice it happens right at the beginning within a few seconds, right after the second candle has closed.

One of the other versions of TMS was using Dynamic and I believe the majority of the traders thought they were getting too many false TDI signals taking a trade, only to see it reverse by the time the candle closed.

The "TDI Red Green" indicator is the one BigE uses, so to stick with his system that is the one the EA gets its signals from.
  • #914
  • Sep 6, 2011 7:25pm Sep 6, 2011 7:25pm
Quoting crobbins
Hi Seller9
Would it be possible for you to provide a description of the logic for the following settings which were previously fixed but are now able to be turned on or off in your new versions?

1) Use5ema
2) UseCandleDirection

Regards,
crobbins
1) The candle must close above 5ema for a Long Trade and below 5ema for a Short trade. If you set this to false it only has to be a closed Blue or Red candle for a Long or Short regardless where it is with respect to the 5ema.

2) Here is the logic for the "Candle Direction" candle "0" is the present candle and they count backwards from there 1-4: 1-4 are closed candles and "0" is the present open candle.

So in the first case you would have:
Red-Red-Red-Blue-Bid>Open = Long Trade

Which is three closed Red candles followed by a closed Blue candle and then the present candle to be in the process of forming a Blue candle as the Bid is greater than the Open.

if(HAcndOpen4>HAcndClose4 && HAcndOpen3>HAcndClose3 && HAcndOpen2>HAcndClose2 && HAcndOpen1<HAcndClose1 && HAcndOpen0<HAcndClose0)cnd60 = Long Trade;
if(HAcndOpen5>HAcndClose5 && HAcndOpen4>HAcndClose4 && HAcndOpen3>HAcndClose3 && HAcndOpen2<HAcndClose2 && HAcndOpen1<HAcndClose1 && HAcndOpen0<HAcndClose0)cnd60 = Long Trade;

if(HAcndOpen4<HAcndClose4 && HAcndOpen3<HAcndClose3 && HAcndOpen2<HAcndClose2 && HAcndOpen1>HAcndClose1 && HAcndOpen0>HAcndClose0)cnd60 = Short Trade;
if(HAcndOpen5<HAcndClose4 && HAcndOpen5<HAcndClose4 && HAcndOpen3<HAcndClose3 && HAcndOpen2>HAcndClose2 && HAcndOpen1>HAcndClose1 && HAcndOpen0>HAcndClose0)cnd60 = Short Trade;

The following would keep you out of a trade during the third candle.

if(HAcndOpen4>HAcndClose4 && HAcndOpen3<HAcndClose3 && HAcndOpen2<HAcndClose2 && HAcndOpen1<HAcndClose1)cnd60 = No Trade;
if(HAcndOpen4<HAcndClose4 && HAcndOpen3>HAcndClose3 && HAcndOpen2>HAcndClose2 && HAcndOpen1>HAcndClose1)cnd60 = No Trade;
  • #915
  • Sep 6, 2011 8:47pm Sep 6, 2011 8:47pm
Quoting seller9
BigE states: I just glance at the TDI for set ups when the new candle opens...

Using "TDI Red Green" indicator you will not get the cross untill the candle closes and it redraws, unless you update the indicator before the candle closes, this is what I refer to as "Static". If you watch the TDI indicator you will notice it does not change untill the candle closes, if you are watching the "TDI Red Green"...
Seller9,
Thank you for your response. As you pointed out, there are two different versions of the tdi... static(tdi red green) and dynamic(TMS-Osc). I clearly understand the difference between them. I agree that the static should be used for trade entry. My point is that often the momentum often is in the first two candles, so the better safe than sorry theory is debatable. For me I am often sorry when I enter late. As it stands now the EA will not only take the trade at the beginning(static) of the 2nd OR 3rd candles, but in between them. This happens when the conditions are not yet met at the beginning of the second candle because the slope may not have reached the minimum tdi slope setting. So the trade entry often comes in between candles anyway(dynamic), once the minimum tdi slope has been met. My suggestion is to have the option for the EA to take the trade even if it is between the 1st and 3rd candle openings as long as the minimum tdi slope condition is met. In addition to this, sometimes the first candle is so tiny it is often not counted. So maybe it is necessary to define tiny. This is a situation that if incorporated into your EA may allow a trade to be made during the 3rd candle which as it stands now will never happen since the tdi minimum slope condition may not be met until DURING the 3rd candle which follows a tiny 1st candle. Anyway, its a thought, and you can decide if its worth it to incorporate that into the EA.

Regards,
crobbins
  • #916
  • Sep 6, 2011 11:23pm Sep 6, 2011 11:23pm
nitrate73,

Yes that is correct I do change the TF's for each.

CM
  • #917
  • Sep 6, 2011 11:37pm Sep 6, 2011 11:37pm
My Trade with Eur/CHF from post #844

TF: H1
Broker: OANDA (Demo Account)
Pair: EUR/CHF
Date/Time Opened: 09/02/2011@10:06 (Central Time-USA)
Date/Time Closed: 09/06/2011
Lot Size: 1000 (.10)
Buy: 1.11415
Closed: 1.12215
Pips: +80

At one point I was at a negative 120 pips but it finally moved up and closed out.
  • #918
  • Sep 6, 2011 11:53pm Sep 6, 2011 11:53pm
I've been a little slow getting these posted due to the holiday.

TF: H1
EA Version: TMS_V12
Dash Board Version: TMS EA DB V11_MTF
Pair: GBP/USD
Date/Time Opened: 09/05/2011@03:01 (Central Time - USA)
Date/Time Closed: 09/05/2011@08:42 (Central Time - USA)
Lot Size: 1000 (.10)
Sell: 1.61388
Closed: 1.60948
Pips: +43.8
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  • #919
  • Sep 7, 2011 12:07am Sep 7, 2011 12:07am
TF: H1
EA Version: TMS_V12
Dash Board Version: TMS EA DB V11_MTF
Pair: EUR/GBP
Date/Time Opened: 09/06/2011@08:22 (Central Time - USA)
Date/Time Closed: Trade is still open
Lot Size: 1000 (.10)
Sell: 0.88248
EA set SL: 0.88248
EA set TP: 0.87318
PIPS: -30.7 at the time of this post. But the trade is still open.
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  • #920
  • Sep 7, 2011 12:23am Sep 7, 2011 12:23am
TF: H1
EA Version: TMS_V12
Dash Board Version: TMS EA DB V11_MTF
Set File from post #866
Pair: GBP/USD
Date/Time Opened: 09/06/2011@09:02 (Central Time - USA)
Date/Time Closed: 09/06/2011@09:41 (Central Time - USA)
Lot Size: 1000 (.10)
Sell: 123.967
Closed: 123.522
Pips: +44.5
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