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  • #21
  • Feb 22, 2012 8:30pm Feb 22, 2012 8:30pm
I can't change the time in the strategy tester. Are the numbuys and numsells the buy or sell options?
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  • #22
  • Feb 22, 2012 8:32pm Feb 22, 2012 8:32pm
Quoting CapitalismPr
I can't change the time in the strategy tester. Are the numbuys and numsells the buy or sell options?
yes you can, and yes it is.

Strategy Tester section -> button on the right "Expert Properties" -> input tab.

oh i think you mean change it on the fly... well, yeah. i had envisioned that you would simply change the EA properties on a live chart by right clicking the chart and selecting the expert properties etc.
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  • #23
  • Feb 22, 2012 9:11pm Feb 22, 2012 9:11pm
The "Open Trade Time" check box is grayed in. I can't make any adjustments to it.
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  • #24
  • Feb 22, 2012 9:33pm Feb 22, 2012 9:33pm
mine is gray too.... just double click the date and edit the text. those are just non-numerical inputs, the same as down the bottom with the color setting.

dude :/
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  • #25
  • Feb 23, 2012 10:57am Feb 23, 2012 10:57am
I just finished an "Every Tick" simulation in the strategy tester mode. No trade was recorded.
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  • #26
  • Feb 23, 2012 11:26am Feb 23, 2012 11:26am
Quoting CapitalismPr
I just finished an "Every Tick" simulation in the strategy tester mode. No trade was recorded.
that doesn't tell me anything. i just ran it perfectly fine in every tick mode.

are you looking at the messages the 2 labels up in the top left corner are telling you? did you set the date right? did you set a numbuy or numsell to other than zero? did you watch the timer count down and then checked what the message in the label was as well as in the journal?

it works fine for me, so you are doing something wrong. the labels are there to tell you any issues detected, so tell me what they are saying and whatever is printed to the journal.

the code spits out plenty of hints, so what is it telling you?
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  • #27
  • Feb 23, 2012 12:07pm Feb 23, 2012 12:07pm
The top left labels were covered up my another indicator i had. I removed the other indicator and the label said i had no sell or buy orders open when I thought i did. I'm just going to test it out live on the minute time frame.
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  • #28
  • Feb 23, 2012 12:20pm Feb 23, 2012 12:20pm
Quoting CapitalismPr
The top left labels were covered up my another indicator i had. I removed the other indicator and the label said i had no sell or buy orders open when I thought i did. I'm just going to test it out live on the minute time frame.
oh no wonder you couldn't figure it out. you can move those labels wherever you want, but they initially start at the top left corner if you delete them. if you dig around in the code you'll see towards the bottom where i set those initial position values, so you can hard-code them to something else more convenient obviously.

wouldn't it be easier to just run it again in strategy tester, and just set your time to a really early time for the sake of seeing how it works? whatever floats yer boat i guess.
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  • #29
  • Feb 23, 2012 2:23pm Feb 23, 2012 2:23pm
It worked in strategy tester Every Tick mode. Now i have to see if it will work in reality mode but i have good feeling. Thx a lot for the help.
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  • #30
  • Feb 23, 2012 2:51pm Feb 23, 2012 2:51pm
Quoting CapitalismPr
It worked in strategy tester Every Tick mode. Now i have to see if it will work in reality mode but i have good feeling. Thx a lot for the help.
oh right. got it.

don't forget the time slippage setting in case you are setting it to run during thin volume times. if you give it a couple of bars slippage leeway then it should trigger at some point even during thin times.
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  • #31
  • Edited Feb 28, 2012 7:39pm Feb 27, 2012 10:41pm | Edited Feb 28, 2012 7:39pm
The EA was suppose to execute a buy trade at 1.3414 but gave me this error instead.
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  • #32
  • Feb 28, 2012 12:14am Feb 28, 2012 12:14am
Quoting CapitalismPr
The EA was suppose to execute a buy trade at 1.3414 but gave me this error instead.
all of those messages in the journal are not from my code. they are to do with some alert you have set up to notify you and mail you. nothing to do with me.

as for not executing any orders.... your own snapshot there shows that the EA is not even running, as signified by the lack of my labels as well as the X on the right of the chart where the ea name is, as well as the red expert advisor button on the toolbar.

pebkac
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  • #33
  • Feb 28, 2012 12:21am Feb 28, 2012 12:21am
aaah i c. My Bad. I will try again. Thx
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  • #34
  • Edited 7:39pm Feb 28, 2012 10:08am | Edited 7:39pm
I got another error with no trade again. Here is the error message.


2012.02.28 09:07:55Mail: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. va6sm13127987igc.4

It was suppose to execute a long at 1.3416.
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  • #35
  • Edited 6:02pm Feb 28, 2012 5:34pm | Edited 6:02pm
Quoting CapitalismPr
I got another error with no trade again. Here is the error message.


2012.02.28 09:07:55 Mail: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. va6sm13127987igc.4

It was suppose to execute a long at 1.3416.
again... this has nothing to do with my code!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

why don't you try looking for something that has the ea's name in it, instead of showing me all of these 'mail' errors you are getting that have nothing to do with me and everything to do with something else you are running or alerts you have set up that are broken!

why don't you try looking in the experts tab for a bit instead and look for something that is actually relevant!

also, you say it's supposed to execute at a certain price..... errr NO! you don't get to pick and choose where you open a market order. as per previous posts you wanted a dividing price value where it would only go long above or short below. the MARKET dictates where it's current price is. unless all of this time you have been intending to send limit or stop orders then your own posts do not concur with each other. do you even know how the market works?

edit : my support for this has officially ended. i said i would take an hour and pump out something that works, and instead it happened to take me 2 hours. it works as intended. it is now almost a week later and you still haven't figured out how to get your own mt4 platform to even work properly. if you could show that the ea itself was actually not working correctly that would be one thing, but so far you've shown that you just don't know what you are doing. you have the code, and it's all very simple to figure out.

i'm done with this. this nonsense is beneath me.
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  • #36
  • Feb 28, 2012 6:58pm Feb 28, 2012 6:58pm
I never said i was an expert and yes i know the EA is meant for market orders. When i said the EA was suppose to execute an order at a certain price, i meant it was suppose to execute an approximate market order at that price.

I'm learning as i go. You don't have to help me if you don't want to. I'm posting what i think is the relevant error message in case anyone else wants to jump in.

"
2012.02.28 17:49:48TimeBasedEA-1 EURUSDFXF,M1 inputs: MagicNumber=14953999; TakeProfit=250; StopLoss=180; Lots=0.01; OpenTradeTime='2012.02.28 08:34'; OpenTradeTimeSlippageMinutes=360; mPrice=1.34448; NumBuys=0; NumSells=1; Slippage=5; InfoColor=(255,255,255);
2012.02.28 17:49:48TimeBasedEA-1 EURUSDFXF,M1: initialized
2012.02.28 17:49:48TimeBasedEA-1 EURUSDFXF,M1: uninit reason 5
2012.02.28 17:49:48TimeBasedEA-1 EURUSDFXF,M1: deinitialized
"

At the end it says "deinitialized" which i'm assuming means the EA is turned off somehow? I checked and yes i do have the Expert Advisor buttons on green.
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  • #37
  • Edited 10:24pm Mar 1, 2012 10:10pm | Edited 10:24pm
Quoting CapitalismPr
I never said i was an expert and yes i know the EA is meant for market orders. When i said the EA was suppose to execute an order at a certain price, i meant it was suppose to execute an approximate market order at that price.

I'm learning as i go. You don't have to help me if you don't want to. I'm posting what i think is the relevant error message in case anyone else wants to jump in.

"
2012.02.28 17:49:48TimeBasedEA-1 EURUSDFXF,M1 inputs: MagicNumber=14953999; TakeProfit=250; StopLoss=180; Lots=0.01; OpenTradeTime='2012.02.28...
Those are not the type of errors that you are looking for.
First screen shot is an example.
Second is trades that it took and the settings I used. This was live trading not the Strategy Tester.

I don't understand why you are doing it this way.
It seems a Pending Order would be a better way to go executed at the specified time.
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  • #38
  • Mar 2, 2012 1:32am Mar 2, 2012 1:32am
Quoting cyber1
Those are not the type of errors that you are looking for.
First screen shot is an example.
Second is trades that it took and the settings I used. This was live trading not the Strategy Tester.

I don't understand why you are doing it this way.
It seems a Pending Order would be a better way to go executed at the specified time.
how did you manage to get a trade timeout error? did you set zero slippage or something?
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  • #39
  • Mar 2, 2012 3:35am Mar 2, 2012 3:35am
Hi i have a non repaint zigzag indicator i need converting into an ea, ideally sl at last zigzag low or high, tp, trailing stop, and reverse signal trade so it closes the trade out and opens a new one, if anyone can do this i would be very greatfull, also if anyone would like to test the indicator i use it on EU m15 with a setting of 20, thanx
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  • #40
  • Edited 6:29am Mar 2, 2012 5:54am | Edited 6:29am
Quoting nubcake
how did you manage to get a trade timeout error? did you set zero slippage or something?
It was on AlpariUK which is notoriously slow when trading manually which might explain it.
I used the settings as shown. I set Slippage high on both Time and Price.
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