I have long term (10yrs) data for the following pairs AUDJPY, AUDUSD, EURUSD, GBPCHF, GBPUSD and NZDUSD.
I did some preliminary testing on using v1.0 and results were not good but I think the main problem was entries with daily high/low as SL. And significant losses at trend changes.
I'll let you know how I go. And try to remember were I got the data from so I can go out and seek some more for the cross pairs that you are more interested in.
please if you can..
you might want to test it on much more accurate data than what i have used and see how you feel...
for some reason my tester with 90% data is not letting the EA run.
It's very strange that you are seeing a trailing stoploss because there is absolutely no code to modify orders once they are opened. There is nothing to trail. The only code that closes orders, closes them on a ShortEMA cross LongEMA.
At a glance yesterday, all my orders during testing were closing fine, however I just tested briefly. I'll look into these issues in more detail this weekend, try to replicate them, and hopefully get something new out.
Hello brigadier,
first, thanks for the work.
I would just clarify that the orders are not modified in the trade window they are closed by Ea itself. but this does happen precisely on the change of the long TF candle and only applies to trades that are currently negative.
If you want to post me a copy that doesn't include the code to close orders on the ema recross i can run the same set of tests on it to see if thats where the glitch is coming in.
also if anyone else out there wants to run a copy on the 1 and 15 min TF's we should be able to see quite quickly if its a built in problem or just something that affects my setup.
Carlitodog:
Thanks man..
you are the "elite tester"..with 10yr data..wow!
please, I would love to get my hands on that data!!
yes, i understand that..i saw that with ver1.0..hence the evolution of ver1.1,
please..try the ver1.1
it has varying SL options so that you could reduce your losses.
I used fixed stop losses(option 0) for most currencies that i tested..
what i used..
For the majors and yen crosses; approx... 10-25 pips.
eurnzd, i tried with 30-40 pips....because of the high spread.
you could also try other sl options, 1 or 2 whichever you feel like.
Brigadier has done an excellent job in providing this!!
I know, 10 year testing would be A TASK..
I would be very happy just to see 1 year or 2 years of backtests performed on select few pairs just to see gross losses..
I have long term (10yrs) data for the following pairs AUDJPY, AUDUSD, EURUSD, GBPCHF, GBPUSD and NZDUSD.
I did some preliminary testing on using v1.0 and results were not good but I think the main problem was entries with daily high/low as SL. And significant losses at trend changes.
I'll let you know how I go. And try to remember were I got the data from so I can go out and seek some more for the cross pairs that you are more interested in.
Cheers,
Carlitodog
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The easiest way to use it is to setup a separate install of MT4 dedicated to backtesting, import the data and use the EA's in MT4's inbuilt strategy tester.... you need to have the relevant symbols imported from a demo account in order to import the data, but then you can delete the demo account.
Carlitodog:
Thanks man..
you are the "elite tester"..with 10yr data..wow!
please, I would love to get my hands on that data!!
yes, i understand that..i saw that with ver1.0..hence the evolution of ver1.1,
please..try the ver1.1
it has varying SL options so that you could reduce your losses.
I used fixed stop losses(option 0) for most currencies that i tested..
what i used..
For the majors and yen crosses; approx... 10-25 pips.
eurnzd, i tried with 30-40 pips....because of the high spread.
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Hi for all Tiger followers
This is my 1st post in this FF thread because impressed by this Tiger Trading System,before any further sorry for my english because english is not my mother's tongue.
I keep observing the progress of this Tiger since it was 'born',it's seems one of the promising long term term trading strategy (good for swinger and intra day trader).For scalpers out there,I dont think this tiger is your friend,so dont waste your time look at this tiger unless for those who want to change trading style.The miracle about this system is how it let the tiger running with positive pips until the tiger really exhausted.
Since I'm a bit slow learner (too old already..he he..my cpu cannot be loaded with everything at one time)..I will try to follow this tiger step by step,looking for the strength,limitation,loop hole or whatsoever because I really get impressed by this tiger....great job to Supercat.....credit should be given to you.
Hope to benefited from this tiger...
I'm going to Boston for the week. Here's something to play with in the meantime.
I'm curious to see whether the mechanism I used for partial closes works for you guys. The EA will open 2 trades of half the lot size if you choose to have CloseOnBreakEven on. This will close one trade at the violation of the daily high or low. It keeps track of the extra order by using a phony limit on the trade of 9900. It worked for me. If you're on a 4 digit broker and are getting errors you may have to change this variable. If anyone knows a better way of implementing this, please share.
Hi all
correct me if I'm wrong
from my understanding, the strategy can be summarized as below:
BUY
1. Daily chart must be uptrend (20/3,10/5 or 5/3)
2. Entry point whenever M15 chart gives second consecutive BUY signal (cross of ma (20/9,10/5 or 5/3)
3. Enter with 2 units
4.Stop loss will be the valley of the ma cross
EXIT
2 options
Option 1
1.Unit 1 TP=SL
2.Unit 2=open TP,let the tiger running,exit whenever there is a signal changes on daily chart
Option 2
1.Unit 1 exit whenever the lowest of the daily chart violated and
2.Unit 2 exit at the changes of the daily trend
I have finally gotten around to testing Brigdier's EA on some of my long term data.
I started with EURUSD because I always do in these situations.... I do note that supercat has already found this to be less profitable than some of the cross pairs which tend to trend for longer periods.
Attached are two sets of results both using 3ema and 5ema cross on daily bars (for trend) and 15min for entry.
After running the first scenario it was clear to me (comparing the equity curve to balance curve) that the exists were too sloppy and that all those precious pips were escaping.
Hence the second scenario in which I added a "trailing stop" where the stop loss is modified to be the low/high of the previous day.
I believe the next refinement could be to get rid of some of the sloppy entries, you can see from the attached chart that the EA makes many loosing entries in each set.... maybe we should limit the next entry until the previous one is in profit... or something like that; just ideas.
Anyway, I'll try to find a pair in my data that has longer trends and see if we can get some better results.
did you make this user name especially for this thread.... if so well done.
I think you have mostly got it right....
I believe that most recently people have been discussing use of the 5/3 ema. and setting the initial SL to the low/high of the previous day.
Most if not all here consider that the strategy is still in testing. but you can be the judge of that.
Cheers and good luck on your pip hunt.
Carlitodog.
Hi all
correct me if I'm wrong
from my understanding, the strategy can be summarized as below:
BUY
1. Daily chart must be uptrend (20/3,10/5 or 5/3)
2. Entry point whenever M15 chart gives second consecutive BUY signal (cross of ma (20/9,10/5 or 5/3)
3. Enter with 2 units
4.Stop loss will be the valley of the ma cross
EXIT
2 options
Option 1
1.Unit 1 TP=SL
2.Unit 2=open TP,let the tiger running,exit whenever there is a signal changes on daily chart
Option 2
1.Unit 1 exit whenever the lowest of the daily chart violated and
2.Unit...
did you make this user name especially for this thread.... if so well done.
I think you have mostly got it right....
I believe that most recently people have been discussing use of the 5/3 ema. and setting the initial SL to the low/high of the previous day.
Most if not all here consider that the strategy is still in testing. but you can be the judge of that.
Cheers and good luck on your pip hunt.
Carlitodog.
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carlitodog,you got it right, Lion King purposely for tiger trend..
Has anyone tried the EA on pairs that have the add on's for the currency pairs such as EURUSDif, the letters after the pair. I added it on a demo and it worked fine, then I tried putting it on another demo that had the letters after the pair and it didn't do nothing. It's with ILQ broker. Had it running on that broker all day and did nothing.
I think the most likely problem is that the broker might not accept a pending and market order at the same time. I have this problem with my broker on my live account.
The way that the EA is currently programmed it tries to place the market order (buy/sell at market) and apply stop loss and take profit pending orders at the same time.
The work around for this is to do these things as two separate steps. No problem, just a little more code.
Brigdier - if you want help with this then let me know.
Has anyone tried the EA on pairs that have the add on's for the currency pairs such as EURUSDif, the letters after the pair. I added it on a demo and it worked fine, then I tried putting it on another demo that had the letters after the pair and it didn't do nothing. It's with ILQ broker. Had it running on that broker all day and did nothing.
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