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Trading Made Simple EA by Guess Whom

#1,841
Oct 26, 2011 4:29pm Oct 26, 2011 4:29pm

snowyHH
| Joined Sep 2011 | Status: Trader | 142 Posts

Quoting seller9

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Was looking at some numbers comparing the HA to regular candles. Since I am only interested in the High and Low from a past perspective they are the same. I also watched the numbers on the present candle and they were also the same. The open and close are some times a few pips different but those are not used in the CSTS, only the high and the low.

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hmmm. maybe it's not present in your example. sadly i don't have screenshots of my trades from yesterday. and i have so many trades on my account, i don't remember at which trades this happened.

a heiken ashi candle has always the open at 50% of the former HA candle-body. always. so sometimes the wicks of the "real" candles are "inside" the HA candles and not shown. pls see the screenshots. you see an eurusd M15 candle of today, 15:45 p.m. (gmt + 2).

on the first screen you see the HA candle, the high (and also the HA open) is at 1.39333:

http://hmso.hmja.de/trading/ha_high.png

on the second screenshot you see the same candle as "normal" candle, it has a wick with the high at 1.39259:

http://hmso.hmja.de/trading/normalcandle_high.png

in this case, the trailing stop would have been moved to 1.39259 -> inside the HA candle and not at the high (or open).

it's only ~8pips, but sometimes in strong moves there are much more pips between normal and HA candles as these few pips and this makes the difference.

mostly these differences appear in strong moves when the PA makes a short countermove. this countermove you can only see with normal candles, the HA candles have all the same color, but the normal "countermove" candles are of a different color and with wicks.

i hope you understand what i mean. sometimes it's very frustrating to tell my thoughts with my poor english, when i have the feeling, i cannot make understandable what i want to explain...

but anyways, if it's too difficult to implement this into the EA... i don't want to waste your time with this little thing. i find another way to get a good working trailing stop.

#1,842
Oct 26, 2011 4:33pm Oct 26, 2011 4:33pm

snowyHH
| Joined Sep 2011 | Status: Trader | 142 Posts

Quoting caravan

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can you please see the attached graph, because I think I'm alone in this thread that does not work this arrangement. The way advisers are in place, I'm sure, I'm using the set file SnowyHH 15m zone pullbak .I read that it was appropriate to bring V19 with TMS TP Multipler to 260 and I'm using the EUR / USD - GBP / USD. I attach also the file set that I use to see if I messed up.
tank

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what happens? or: what doesn't happen? it doesn't open trades? if so, try to change CriminallsECN to false

#1,843
Oct 26, 2011 5:03pm Oct 26, 2011 5:03pm

maxzeus
Joined Oct 2008 | Status: Price Action, "TDI" & "HA" | 537 Posts

Quoting snowyHH

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hmmm. maybe it's not present in your example. sadly i don't have screenshots of my trades from yesterday. and i have so many trades on my account, i don't remember at which trades this happened.

a heiken ashi candle has always the open at 50% of the former HA candle-body. always. so sometimes the wicks of the "real" candles are "inside" the HA candles and not shown. pls see the screenshots. you see an eurusd M15 candle of today, 15:45 p.m. (gmt + 2).

on the first screen you see the HA candle, the high (and also the HA open) is at 1.39333:

http://hmso.hmja.de/trading/ha_high.png

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Just add 10-20 pips or more in the PipOffSet of the Candle TrailingStop settings

basically the Synergy is HA period 1 method 1 or 2 so they are almost similar in moves with the real candles from my perspective.

HA candles are better than regular candles and for this EA it's an extremely important tool IMO

Don't forget Practice + Patience + Persistence = Profits

#1,844
Oct 26, 2011 6:44pm Oct 26, 2011 6:44pm

ill_be_back
Joined Sep 2011 | Status: Trader | 6,363 Posts

hello
don't know if these makes any sense,
we have usezone for opening a trade can we not add a similar setting for closing a trade

A good trader follows his rules, but great trader knows when to break them

#1,845
Oct 26, 2011 7:08pm Oct 26, 2011 7:08pm

seller9
| Commercial User | Joined Jul 2009 | 5,727 Posts

Quoting snowyHH

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@seller:
yesterday i noticed that the candlestick trailingstop is not based on the heiken ashi candles, it moves according to the "normal" candles. this is why i was stopped out much too early in some trades.
if it would have moved to the high (or low, for a buy trade) of the heiken ashi candle, everything would have been fine.

is it possible and not too much work to change this? because this complete system is based on the heiken ashi candles and this would be better i think.

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This is what I use presently for the lowest low:

LowTrendVal= iLow(NULL, TradePeriod2, iLowest(NULL, TradePeriod2, MODE_LOW,CandleStickTrailingStopBarsBack,1));

Does anyone have an easy way to do it with HA candles????

I can change it if there is some code already out there in short order.

I have the code to find the High and Low of the HA Candles but need something simple like above to get the LL or HH. Here is what gets me HA info now.

HAcndOpen0 = iCustom(NULL,TradePeriod2,"Synergy_APB",2,0);

Googled around a bit but nothing poped up.
Will do some more digging if no one has a quick answer.

#1,846
Edited 9:29pm Oct 26, 2011 8:55pm | Edited 9:29pm

fivex
| Joined Sep 2011 | Status: This is the title that appears | 247 Posts

Quoting ill_be_back

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hello
don't know if these makes any sense,
we have usezone for opening a trade can we not add a similar setting for closing a trade

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I was thinking the same thing, but have no idea

if its possible. I do the the same thing while trading manually but use a SHI Channel true TRO modified indicator and use it the same way we are using the TMA but for exits. It re-writes and typically gives a great exit after a re-write. so my question is, is it possible to apply (out) zones to such a indi,or to TMA for closing ?

EDIT. OK this wasn't a great example, if you look at the current u/chf chart, but hope you get what I'm saying.

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#1,847
Oct 26, 2011 9:23pm Oct 26, 2011 9:23pm

seller9
| Commercial User | Joined Jul 2009 | 5,727 Posts

Quoting fivex

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I was thinking the same thing, but have no idea if its possible. I do the the same thing while trading manually but use a SHI Channel true TRO modified indicator and use it the same way we are using the TMA but for exits. It re-writes and typically gives a great exit after a re-write. so my question is, is it possible to apply (out) zones to such a indi,or to TMA for closing ?

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Any of the alerts can be programed to be used in the reverse. Lets wait and see how the present alerts work out before adding more.

#1,848
Oct 26, 2011 9:26pm Oct 26, 2011 9:26pm

seller9
| Commercial User | Joined Jul 2009 | 5,727 Posts

Quoting maxzeus

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thanks again selller9

is there a way to put the alert when it OPENS a Trades it shows us why it did ? like when it closes a trades it tells us example: closed trade on 5ema Candle Close

so if it opens it would be the last confirmation settings telling us why it opened the trade so we could tweak it more, the screencaptures helps but it does'nt show us pre-open trades, in return if it opens trades to late we could tweak or make changes etc...

or do you know if there is a log somewhere ?

Just an idea and suggestion

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That sounds like a good idea for initial testing to see what alert is the last to trigger. I will have to give it some thought after I get the HA High/Low fixed.

#1,849
Oct 27, 2011 12:03am Oct 27, 2011 12:03am

unimak
Joined Nov 2009 | Status: Trader | 709 Posts

ok are you using version 17 or 19 ? and what should be the zone set to instead of 130 % is it to be set to 260 % ???. So far i have not been able get this ea to trade .

regards

unimak

Quoting seller9

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Here is snowys settings results on M15, only change was TPMultiplier set to 1 and zone to 130% by mistake. Lots of trades, 38 trades, 32 winners, and 6 losers. The losers are to large need a better exit but all togther it was still profitable. Looks like from looking at the charts of the losers the LWMA5 and 5ema cross may have kept me out of all the bad trades. To many winners to go through to see how many of them would have been killed by the LWMA 5ema cross though, will try this next tonight with just adding the LWMA and 5ems cross with out touching...

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#1,850
Oct 27, 2011 12:49am Oct 27, 2011 12:49am

snowyHH
| Joined Sep 2011 | Status: Trader | 142 Posts

Quoting maxzeus

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Just add 10-20 pips or more in the PipOffSet of the Candle TrailingStop settings

basically the Synergy is HA period 1 method 1 or 2 so they are almost similar in moves with the real candles from my perspective.

HA candles are better than regular candles and for this EA it's an extremely important tool IMO

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yes, i thought about that, too. but how many pips? sometimes it's too much or less.. i don't know.

another example. my H1 strategy had the first H1 trade tonight, candlestick trailing was just set.

see the normal chart. trailing stop was set to the low of 2 bars back, at 1.05069:
http://hmso.hmja.de/trading/cs_trail...cad_normal.png

but in the HA candle chart the same stop is inside the candle only 1 bar back:

http://hmso.hmja.de/trading/cs_trailing_audcad_HA.png

at the low of 2 HA bars back it would have been 1.0463. more than 40 pips difference!

@seller: i don't have code for something like this, only code to calculate HA candles. but i will look around, maybe i find something...

#1,851
Oct 27, 2011 12:55am Oct 27, 2011 12:55am

Pbh
| Joined Aug 2011 | Status: Trader | 1,118 Posts

OK.. what's the picture now? These things were more than expected... what do I mean by these things:

Haircut:
Greece's current debt is approx €355 Billion which is approx 170% of GDP
50% haircut means that the debt falls to approx €178 Billion (85% of GDP)

Recap:
However, Greece may have to recap its own banks.
The Greek financial sector holds 18% (€64 Billion) of Greek debt
Now add that back to the remaining Greek debt
€178 Blln + €64 Blln = €242 Billion = 116% of GDP

Secondary Bonds buying:
€1.2T only

So... possibly we'll see a bit of buy on rumor, sell on news. A BIT OF... because we have not stopped recieving good financial data from the overall market... If you don't know what I'm talking about, just check the US GDP q/q expectation...

Now I wonder if we're going to be able to jump in any trade while using my settings because I only want to buy the dips today...

Yeap, you read me well. Bullish... completely bullish,

We had recent news coming out like "China has agreed to invest in Europe's bailout fund" and that Bank of Japan decided to increase the total size of the Asset Purchase Program by about 5 trillion yen.

We also will get the US advance GDP q/q number expected at 2.4%, 1.3% prior... So, that's it... Hope ya'll profit tonight

See ya

Pbh

#1,852
Oct 27, 2011 1:55am Oct 27, 2011 1:55am

snowyHH
| Joined Sep 2011 | Status: Trader | 142 Posts

like Pbh said.. completely bullish today. very dangerous to trade reversals, at the moment i don't see a reversal in eurusd. everyone in the market seems to celebrate with champagne..

so i turned off the EA on my live account for today, the demos are still running.

#1,853
Oct 27, 2011 1:59am Oct 27, 2011 1:59am

fivex
| Joined Sep 2011 | Status: This is the title that appears | 247 Posts

Quoting seller9

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Any of the alerts can be programed to be used in the reverse. Lets wait and see how the present alerts work out before adding more.

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please dont add anymore.
just saying, a clean "out" would be cool.
thanks for your hard work.

#1,854
Oct 27, 2011 2:03am Oct 27, 2011 2:03am

Pbh
| Joined Aug 2011 | Status: Trader | 1,118 Posts

Quoting snowyHH

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like Pbh said.. completely bullish today. very dangerous to trade reversals, at the moment i don't see a reversal in eurusd. everyone in the market seems to celebrate with champagne..

so i turned off the EA on my live account for today, the demos are still running.

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GBPJPY deserves a quick look. That pair has made a decent dip. You better check it out...

Well guys, I'm leaving to get some good sleep. It's a little bit over 2 am, and I got to sleep if I want to be awake to recieve the US advance GDP q/q data at time.

See ya

Pbh

#1,855
Oct 27, 2011 2:25am Oct 27, 2011 2:25am

fivex
| Joined Sep 2011 | Status: This is the title that appears | 247 Posts

Quoting snowyHH

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like Pbh said.. completely bullish today. very dangerous to trade reversals, at the moment i don't see a reversal in eurusd. everyone in the market seems to celebrate with champagne..

so i turned off the EA on my live account for today, the demos are still running.

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demos rule if i were playing golf i would be 8 under

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#1,856
Oct 27, 2011 2:27am Oct 27, 2011 2:27am

snowyHH
| Joined Sep 2011 | Status: Trader | 142 Posts

Quoting fivex

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demos rule.

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exactly. trend is too strong for this strategy. maybe we find some signals to avoid false-trades in such strong trends.

#1,857
Oct 27, 2011 2:28am Oct 27, 2011 2:28am

snowyHH
| Joined Sep 2011 | Status: Trader | 142 Posts

Quoting Pbh

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GBPJPY deserves a quick look. That pair has made a decent dip. You better check it out...

Well guys, I'm leaving to get some good sleep. It's a little bit over 2 am, and I got to sleep if I want to be awake to recieve the US advance GDP q/q data at time.

See ya

Pbh

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