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  • #101
  • Jan 17, 2012 8:23pm Jan 17, 2012 8:23pm
hey jacob

nice to know you're still tweaking away! well im using it on about 13 pairs (my crappy intertrader demo has limited number of pairs) and ive only been running it one day last week and all of this week so far so i've incomplete results. am hoping to post results at the end of this week

but on the other hand i will set up the post #78 set on another broker and run 23 pairs similar to you, so we have a more like for like comparison...cant do it right now as ive just come home from a late bar shift its 4:25 am and i've got work again somewhere else at 9am!

will try tomorrow... keep us posted with everything you're doing as your settings are really really putting the fire back into this EA
  • #102
  • Jan 17, 2012 8:35pm Jan 17, 2012 8:35pm
Quoting seller9
Attachment

It seems if you have "HideBreakEvenStop" set to true it uses the "PipsAwayFromVisualBE" to close the trade.

void BreakEvenStopLoss()
{
if (HideBreakEvenStop)
{
bool TradeClosed = CheckForHiddenStopLossHit(OrderType(), PipsAwayFromVisualBE, OrderStopLoss() );
if (TradeClosed) return;
}

This is part of the original EA.

I got a lot of very small winning trades as it would close a trade and then open it again as the signal was still present.

14 winning trades and no losses....

Nice , see you found the problem, i was close but at least i pointed you in the right direction
Don't forget Practice + Patience + Persistence = Profits
  • #103
  • Jan 17, 2012 8:37pm Jan 17, 2012 8:37pm
Quoting seller9
Was playing around with some of the new settings under test in v1.04 and came across something that may turn out to be interesting when used on the M15 chart. I was using Candle pattern #1, which is a very laggy pattern, R-R-R-Cross-B-B-B all confirmed candles, and you would take the trade on the 4th Blue candle for a Long, a short would be the oppostie colors. With the settings shown below in the charts I got 1 winner and 6 losers. So I thought if I would just reverse the type of trade and take the opposite trade I would have had 6 winners and...
i remember you having "CounterTrend" in the previous TMS version this seems similar but better.

can't wait to test the new version.

keep up the good work
Don't forget Practice + Patience + Persistence = Profits
  • #104
  • Jan 18, 2012 12:32am Jan 18, 2012 12:32am
With your 1 hour settings how many trades are you in at the same time using 23 pairs?
It looks to me that with a risk of 1% your gain would have been 20%, I plan to start testing with your settings upon release of next version.
  • #105
  • Jan 18, 2012 6:27am Jan 18, 2012 6:27am
[quote=seller9;5302890]
Quoting Jacob-

Demo account = +2
I am attaching a link posted by Steve Hopwood in his forum on historical data. "Someties iBars() forces a read, someties it doesn't work. Why? CrapT4". "We start a new platform; the new platform initialises with missing bars in itshisotry; an EA is trying to send a trade at the same time the platform is downloading the missing history; the platform becomes confused and goes into an endless loop that continues sending trades until the account is blown".

http://http://www.stevehopwoodforex....iew&f=0&p=1671

This is essential to read especially those who are developing the EA.

Edd
  • #106
  • Jan 18, 2012 8:29am Jan 18, 2012 8:29am
Quoting fwoodley
With your 1 hour settings how many trades are you in at the same time using 23 pairs?
It looks to me that with a risk of 1% your gain would have been 20%, I plan to start testing with your settings upon release of next version.
Hi,

Until today I didn't have the limit for nr of global trades - today I changed it to 3 - from the beginning of the week I have a biiig drawdown - its usual but lets see where would we finish - so far from beginning of the week - 12 loses in a row (5 during asian session)...

From today I also stopped trading during night 8.00 pm - 8.00 a.m (gmt+1) - why? too small wins and too big looses.
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” - Vincent Lombardi
  • #107
  • Jan 18, 2012 11:05am Jan 18, 2012 11:05am
Quoting Jacob-
Hi,

Until today I didn't have the limit for nr of global trades - today I changed it to 3 - from the beginning of the week I have a biiig drawdown - its usual but lets see where would we finish - so far from beginning of the week - 12 loses in a row (5 during asian session)...

From today I also stopped trading during night 8.00 pm - 8.00 a.m (gmt+1) - why? too small wins and too big looses.
i have set all my settings from London Open to London Close and some till US Close, but on the Daily im leaving it 24/hrs.

Don't forget Practice + Patience + Persistence = Profits
  • #108
  • Jan 18, 2012 11:50am Jan 18, 2012 11:50am
Quoting maxzeus
i have set all my settings from London Open to London Close and some till US Close, but on the Daily im leaving it 24/hrs.

Yeah, If I would be smart enough to learn from the experience of others -> I would probably be the king of my private Island already ...but I'm not saying last word yet

After analysis of the H4 and H1 drawdowns from this week I grew up to set ETB 1.03 full at H4 and half (half pars) at H1.

What would help me at H4 is the fractals additions.

What would help me at H1 is probably the same - those drawdowns are baaaad mothe........ckers
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” - Vincent Lombardi
  • #109
  • Jan 18, 2012 12:35pm Jan 18, 2012 12:35pm
Ok, I discover another failure in my settings - Hannover ranges were not set correctly - were not set at all ! strong treshold and weak treshold were both 0...

I will change it to 55 and 45 and will see,

Question - that could be stupid - please be forgiving:

What does this option stand for?

RNG=- - - - - - - - 5 Period Average Range - - - - - - -
UseRange=0
MinRange=10.00000000
MaxRange=60.00000000

thanks
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” - Vincent Lombardi
  • #110
  • Jan 18, 2012 1:00pm Jan 18, 2012 1:00pm
Quoting Jacob-
Ok, I discover another failure in my settings - Hannover ranges were not set correctly - were not set at all ! strong treshold and weak treshold were both 0...

I will change it to 55 and 45 and will see,

Question - that could be stupid - please be forgiving:

What does this option stand for?

RNG=- - - - - - - - 5 Period Average Range - - - - - - -
UseRange=0
MinRange=10.00000000
MaxRange=60.00000000

thanks
i don't use it but as i recall it's a PIP range setting read the TMS Doc TMS_V19_Manual.pdf lots of info inside, im sure selle9 will update it soon with the other options added.

Don't forget Practice + Patience + Persistence = Profits
  • #111
  • Jan 18, 2012 2:04pm Jan 18, 2012 2:04pm
Quoting maxzeus
i don't use it but as i recall it's a PIP range setting read the TMS Doc TMS_V19_Manual.pdf lots of info inside, im sure selle9 will update it soon with the other options added.

Thanks Max!

This Manual is already my bible but I missed the range explanation...
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” - Vincent Lombardi
  • #112
  • Jan 19, 2012 9:12am Jan 19, 2012 9:12am
[quote=seller9;5300362]Attachment

It seems if you have "HideBreakEvenStop" set to true it uses the "PipsAwayFromVisualBE" to close the trade.

void BreakEvenStopLoss()
{
if (HideBreakEvenStop)
{
bool TradeClosed = CheckForHiddenStopLossHit(OrderType(), PipsAwayFromVisualBE, OrderStopLoss() );
if (TradeClosed) return;
}

Seller,Anyone?

Please advise whats wrong with the following, the problem looks similar, I change the "HideBreakEvenStop"to false but its still the same and the EA close the trade.

My setting are :

Use break even 20
Break even profit 5

thanks
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“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” - Vincent Lombardi
  • #113
  • Jan 19, 2012 12:46pm Jan 19, 2012 12:46pm
[quote=Jacob-;5310178]
Quoting seller9
Attachment

It seems if you have "HideBreakEvenStop" set to true it uses the "PipsAwayFromVisualBE" to close the trade.

void BreakEvenStopLoss()
{
if (HideBreakEvenStop)
{
bool TradeClosed = CheckForHiddenStopLossHit(OrderType(), PipsAwayFromVisualBE, OrderStopLoss() );
if (TradeClosed) return;
}

Seller,Anyone?

Please advise whats wrong with the following, the problem looks similar, I change the "HideBreakEvenStop"to false but its still the same and the EA close the trade.

My...
This is part of the original EA and I am doing some testing to see what is going on with the H1 and H4. With my demo account I keep getting the error of invalid stops when trying to set the BE at 20 pips. As can be seen below the Broker requires a 40 pip minimum. The EA keeps sending the Modify Order and sometimes eventually the 40 pip minimum will be reached and the BE is then set, but not until the 40 pips is reached.
In the H4 example below it kept trying until the 40 pips was reached, even though I wanted 20, which the Broker would not allow.

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  • #114
  • Jan 19, 2012 1:18pm Jan 19, 2012 1:18pm
[quote=seller9;5310783]
Quoting Jacob-

This is part of the original EA and I am doing some testing to see what is going on with the H1 and H4. With my demo account I keep getting the error of invalid stops when trying to set the BE at 20 pips. As can be seen below the Broker requires a 40 pip minimum. The EA keeps sending the Modify Order and sometimes eventually the 40 pip minimum will be reached and the BE is then set, but not until the 40 pips is reached.
In the H4 example below it kept trying until the 40 pips was reached, even though I wanted 20, which the...

OMG...SL must be at least 40 pips ?

i took 2 screenshots 1 from USD/CAD & the other is AUD/JPY

but i still get those 130 errors with my CandleTrailStop
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  • #115
  • Jan 19, 2012 1:29pm Jan 19, 2012 1:29pm
Quoting seller9
Here is the updated Hanover Display Indy with the Period Display correction.

If anyone else is using it the problem is just a display problem where the Period display right after Hanover was being truncated to just 2 places, so if you were using M15 it would show up as M1, here is the corrected version. It did not affect how it worked.

Remember to set everything up just like you would for the EA with Hanover but use the Indy instead of the EA.

Attachment
hello

thanks for this indy
why does all the other information disappear when i load this indi on any chart, some of info comes back i refresh the chart but not all
thanks again
A good trader follows his rules, but great trader knows when to break them
  • #116
  • Jan 19, 2012 8:40pm Jan 19, 2012 8:40pm
Seller9, you might want to have a look at this article, freezelevel check should take care of this issue

http://forum.mql4.com/43812

Cheers & keep up the good work
  • #117
  • Jan 20, 2012 7:13am Jan 20, 2012 7:13am
Seller,

Have you been thinking about adding the MAs cross signal to EA set ups?

I think it might be useful besides having the possibility to candle close above/below the MA.

I have an idea inspired by Lawgirl21 MA strategy (EMA 5 and 10 cross at H4), please advise if thats possible

thank you

Jacob
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” - Vincent Lombardi
  • #118
  • Jan 20, 2012 1:04pm Jan 20, 2012 1:04pm
Quoting Jacob-
Seller,

Have you been thinking about adding the MAs cross signal to EA set ups?

I think it might be useful besides having the possibility to candle close above/below the MA.

I have an idea inspired by Lawgirl21 MA strategy (EMA 5 and 10 cross at H4), please advise if thats possible

thank you

Jacob
Post your idea, after all its a tool box so can contain many ideas if they have shown that they work. Just don't want to duplicate another EA, but all proven ideas are welcome.
  • #119
  • Jan 20, 2012 2:23pm Jan 20, 2012 2:23pm
Quoting seller9
Post your idea, after all its a tool box so can contain many ideas if they have shown that they work. Just don't want to duplicate another EA, but all proven ideas are welcome.
Great!! thanks, here it is:

We can have any 2 MA type (EMA, SMA,SMMA, etc) cross signal (my idea was 5 and 10 EMA), just look at the below screens how nice it looks at H4 - at three first pairs.

The rules would be simple:
1. EMA 5 (dark blue) cross the EMA 10(dark green) from the bottom - Buy signal

2. EMA 5 cross the EMA 10 from the top - Sell signal.

The Lawgirl proposal was totally different (she proposed 3 and 8 SMMA), after all one can choose what fits him best.

Summing it up - it could be another very good filter to your almost perfect EA

take care!
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“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” - Vincent Lombardi
  • #120
  • Jan 20, 2012 2:44pm Jan 20, 2012 2:44pm
This is how the BE Stop Loss should be working. (Open Buy Order)

If the (Bid >= OrderOpenPrice + BreakEvenPips) AND OrderStopLoss < OrderOpenPrice

Then the Stop Loss should move to (Break Even + BreakEvenProfit)

If you have the (HideBreakEvenStop = true) then it checks to see if the HiddenStopLoss is Hit. (Open Buy order)

HiddenStopLoss = Present Stop Loss + PipsAwayFromVisualBE
If Bid <= HiddenStopLoss, Trade will close.
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