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DislikedEA did an excellent job of saving a good trade gone bad this morning. Took a long at 07.10 bst and although it went well into profit, price fell hard before it got there. The TS feature prevented a loss. Obviously it's a bit gutting to see a big profit fail to materialise, but preventing a big loss is far more important imo.
I have started collating some comparitive data between trades taken ootb using MinCandleSize of 9 and those trades which would have been taken using a CCI filter. Interesting comparison so far, but i'll report back at the...Ignored
DislikedEA did an excellent job of saving a good trade gone bad this morning. Took a long at 07.10 bst and although it went well into profit, price fell hard before it got there. The TS feature prevented a loss. Obviously it's a bit gutting to see a big profit fail to materialise, but preventing a big loss is far more important imo.
I have started collating some comparitive data between trades taken ootb using MinCandleSize of 9 and those trades which would have been taken using a CCI filter. Interesting comparison so far, but i'll report back at the...Ignored
DislikedYes, I saw that too - automatically closed at BE on my Oanda account but interestingly on Alpari UK (demo) it let it run and I took profit manually. As far as I can see the settings are identical. HmmIgnored
DislikedHi,
thanks for the input. My data is tick and it is 90%. To trade you have to have the odds on your side. I don't trade without some form of testing. How do you know it will work long term?
RonIgnored
DislikedBacktesting does not give accurate results for a scalper. Actually, it does not give accurate results for anything, but it murders scalpers.
John is clearly a professional programmer. I am a highly experienced coder. We both have a lot of experience using ST. It is useless for anything other than basic code debugging, and I suspect deliberately so. You can take notice of what we say, or you can waste your time with ST. 'tis up to you.
The only way to start to test an EA/strategy is by forward testing on demo. Even that has...Ignored
DislikedCould be wrong but I think the round number filter only applies if entry price and TP straddle the round number. In this case both are below.Ignored