Progress - The System

Just to finish about velocity, look at the actual market and what happens last night. We had a very calm day yesterday, and very boring and see how it jumps at 3.25 timezone in my picture. The Velocity indicator reaches 15, we had a run of 40 pips in a very short time.





Actually the acceleration is 5 and the velocity 9.
The volume is 277 which is above our average of 175.

Progress - thank you very much for sharing your system and the individual steps / logic behind it...

I would very much appreciate if you could share some more details on the aspect of velocity / acceleration - I am referring to your posts #21, 60 & 61.

In post 21 you stated that the underlying calculation for velocity is based on the J-TOP-velocity indicator but I can not find any explanation on how you would measure / calculate acceleration...

Do you normalize or otherwise change the output values of J-TOP-velocity as my values of this indicator are much different / higher than your stated values in the screenshots.

Thanks a lot in advance

Mop

Hi mobthehop and thanks to you.

I was searching for a velocity algorithm on the net and I just found J_TPO_Velocity indicator. You have it in the package of PROGRESS. If you don't find exactly the same number , it is just because I use it with the Extern parameter Len = 10. I didn't go in details to explain to you the algorithm but I think the idea is to go back and look for the Highest High and the lowest low and see the variation in a time interval.
As for the acceleration I just substract the current value to the previous one. If I refer to the post 20 I just put in the panel window for the period P_M5 the value : SValue (VELOCITY, S_CUURENT, P_M5) / SValue (VELOCITY, S_CURRENT, P_M5) - SValue (VELOCITY, S_PREVIOUS, P_M5).

 

1. The variation of the velocity gives me simply the acceleration.

Personnaly I only use it for P_M5.

I hope I answered your question.

Isn't acceleration rate of change of velocity ? and velocity rate of change of distance ?

Hi RaptorUK

Yes acceleration is the variation in velocity divided by variation in time : As I substract the current value from the previous one , which is the bar before and it is one unity of time before, It's dividing by 1 in our case. As for the velocity it is the rate of change in price.

8 - 1 Recovery Mode and discussion

Actually working on the orientation design , I will talk about the recovery modes that exist in Progress. What is a recovery mode ?

Guys when you are trading , you have two kind of traders , the one that wait for a strong signal and once this signal occurs they just buy or sell depending on the signal. They put their Stop Loss to let's say 30 pips and they fix the take profit and if they see the market still strong they just add a trailing stop. Ususally these traders are considered Pro because they accept the loss and they are considered as safe traders.
The other kind of traders are those who wait for a signal, do a move and if their position is loosing they just react by adding another trade in the same direction or another but they don't exit till they have a profit. These what we call a recovery trading. Now when you do a recovery you can do it in a smart way or stupidly (sorry for the term) . An example of a stupid recovery mode is the one they keep buying while the market is turning down every let's say 10 pips and some double their positions each time (using the martingale) thinking that this they can beat the market in this way. I am not criticizing the martingale technique, but to use it you should look at a lot of parmaters every time you add a position and if it is the only exit technique that leads to a winning position you should do it in a smart way. I'll explain later what is the smart way.


From these two types of traders, I can classify the first one (THE PRO) as if he is playing chess and he did a first move thinking of HIS strategy and the one in front just do something that make him loose so he stops everything and he resigns, thinking that he will win the next game .... When he did his move he was not prepared to try to reastablish the situation, but only to win in a fast way not willing to break his head neither waste his time. Why not ? It is a way of thinking. The other trader are the one who thinks that he is smart enough and can reastablish the situation because he has other strategies in head that will let him win at the end. Here also if he has one or two strategies , he may loose so thinking he is smart he may end up with a loosing end, but at least he tried.

My point of view is that the two of them may be wrong and they may be right, the first one gains in time and never being on the defensive the other can gain confidence (if he stay in the game till he win) as his account will never regress.

So what is the answer to the way of trading ? My point of view and (it is personal) is that when you enter a position you should see it as a game and not a move, but sometines and rarely you should accept a loss and exit. (you resign when you see that there is no way with the tools and strategies in head that you have can let you win)

I don't think that people having one strategy in head can beat the market, except that if you are powerful enough to add positions as it needed to finish by a gain. So you need many strategies in head and be able to react to the market in a proper way every time you add a position. When you do the first move in a chess game you should except the other to make any move not exactly what you were thinking even if you did a well know ouverture. Machines can win the champion in chess so why a trader with an Automated system that can study all the answer possibilites and a luggage of Strategies to react in a proper way every time can not ?

So the first Rule to win is not by thinking that you made the first good move, but by having all the strategies that will let you finish winner in the shortest time.


When I presented The Engine concept , I explained the two fields that were the recovery mode and the recovery parameter, and one of the recovery mode was "M" which is a multiplier and I used it with 2 a parameter which is in this case a Maringale. I did it just to give an example, but if we should use a martingale I am more for a three times try and every time I use a different multiplier. I explain : Let's suppose I did a buy and than the market shows a reversal and I need to recover, I will wait for a stronger signal that the one I started with and I use a multiplier that is proportional to the distance from the last trade and the time ellapse between the two trades. The multiplier can be 4 the second time , if the market reacted let's say 3 points and I know that my average will be much lower, if I failed the next time I try one more time ... It should be allright this time ... if not I should change my profession So during this time , I should follow the market with other strategies, the ones that follow the market while I suspend the other strategy waiting for the signal I just spoke about. OK I'll explain the recovery modes in Progress and after I continue my discussion :

Recovey Modes :

"C" : Lots have the same size, and the Recovery Value is not used (1, 1, 1, 1, 1 , ...)

"I" : Every time I increment with the initial Lot size (1, 2, 3, 4, ...)

"M" : Every time I multiply the last lot size with the Recovery Value, if recovery value is 3, than I have (1, 3, 9, 18,...) , Recovery value of 2 is martingale

"P" : If my last lot is a lost , I multiply my next lot with the recovery value and change type : If my last lot was a buy , I do a sell. Here you can wonder how can I have a last lot if I don't close the lot ?

When you start a session , you can close a trade but you don't close the session . A session is seen as single trade in a sense you can do whatever you want till the exit and this the resut of your trade. This is the difference between OP_CLOSE and OP_EXIT, if you see the examples before. When we say the Last lot it is the last lot of my session and i can close all my buy trades of the session but I can still buy, or when we do an exit buy it means we can't buy anymore. So the recovery mode is for my session and not for every trade.

"D" : I double the initial lot by 2 when I reache the recovery value : for instance I had a recovery value of 4 , it means (1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, ...)

"P" : If my last lot is a profit , I increment the biggest lot of my session with my initial lot, else I start with my initial lot.

"F" : I use Fibonacci numbers

"H" : (1,1,2,4)

"S" : (1, 1, 3, 3)

"N" : (1, 2, 6)

"O" : (1, 2, 6, 24)

"J" : Only for mode HEDGE (you do buy /sell at the beginning) so it is a like "M" obnce you exit the buy trades or the sell trades and you have only one kind of trades and market is reversing.


(to be continued)

Jurex - thanks for your reply - to be honest, I didnt even see the archive in Post 1 (it gets somewhat lost in the text...)

Will play with the information provided by you - appreciated!

Mop

Hi Guys
I have a quick question regarding the installation process. All files I have been copied to my trading root folder as instructed. When I try to run PG_expert advisor the system rejects the command error “Can't open broker c:<subfolder-path> PG_Broker.csv. The installation procedures says that I should create one. Is any chance to have a look on an example. So far I couldn't find any clue.

Hi duniek


Check if you can create files in the folder <brokertroot>/experts/files , normally this file is created automatically, now another way to solve the problem is to take the example of the file attached and fill an entry with the Terminal Name and a port. The terminal Name you have it in the trace of the experts Tab of the Terminal Window (the one where you look at your orders). When you launch PG_Expert you have a trace saying TERMINAL NAME : xxxxxx, you copy paste the xxxxx and you replace the first field in PG_Brokers.csv with this one, the other field is the port , leave it as it is.

OK I can't upload attachment so what you do is to create an empty file that you call PG_Brokers.csv in experts/files in notepad and you write the line : xxxxxx, 2010

let me know if it doesn't work.

Jurex - need to ask again for your help - I am trying to make an indicator out of this but failed so far - based on my rather limited coding knowledge, there are several un-defined variables in the code provided (eg vol1u, vol1d and Threshold) .... Your time permitting, would you please be so kind and share the corresponding mq4 with me / us....

I modded the velocity indicator to show
- acceleration as as histogram
- pure acceleration as oscillator
to help me visualize this concept over time.

Much appreciated and have a great weekend

Mop

Mob, sorry I just put the code trying to take out everything related to PROGRESS. I attach a clean one with some comments. AS you can notice I calculate all my previous bars except for the current bar and this on a 1 minute basis.

If you want to do an indicator out of this , just look at this :

let's say

volu is the current volume on up bars
vold is the current volume on down bars

pvolu is the previous volume on up bars
pvold is the previous volume on down bars.


One important variable is (volu - pvolu) - (vold - pvold), this gives you the variation of the up volume and down volume in time. if the result is negative and the total volume up is positive that we are maybe reversing. look at it this parameter for bigger periods.

Here for all periods we will have the same basis for volume which is P_M5.
Thanks for the indicators you just attached, I will check them now.

Jurex, thanks a lot but there are no buffers defined, so no output on chart.... which variables should be the output? I probably can do the rest with that information...

Sorry for all trouble on a weekend

Mop

Mob, No trouble at all but I just put the squelette of the file , I mean just the function , it is up to you to write how you want to do your indicator. If you want it as a histogram or as a graph, as for the output you can use the total volume (but this you have it in the MT4 indicator) , or maybe you can do an histogram with down volume red down oriented and the up volume green up oriented , and you can add on top of it a graph indicating the variation I just spoke about in my previous comment. Maybe I'll write a complete indicator file this way when I will have time and I deliver it.

8-2 Recovery Mode and Orientation (continued)


I talked about how to determine an orientation by combining the periods signals and I talked about the momentum for entry points and the recovery mode. OK here let's see a real example of how we can know determine that an orientation is UP or down and we do a example working on the orientation and the recovery mode. I will go step by step slowly to let you understand the idea. What I am going to do is not part of the next version but a introduction to the orientation concept as I will mix the MidTerm orientation and the ShortTerm Orientation without taking in account the D1 period.

The example that I will talk about contains the orientation concept and the recovery mode idea that I talked about.

OK Let's determine first when and how I say my orientation is UP or DOWN. When I talked about Orientation, I introduced the Direction of a trend, the movement and the momentum, and I said that all indicators that are based on moving average are good candidates for the orientation and movement and the volume and velocity are the one used for tne momentum which gives us a sign for entering a trade or not.

The moving averages I will consider here are from the most sensible to the less sensible : MA_7 (which is the moving average 7 periods), Fast Trix , Slow trix, Slope Indicator, Coral and MA_200 (the moving average 200 periods)

TO understand the picture below, I will take the example of the slope indicator and tells you how I determine the orientation.

I say that my Orientation is UP if I have the Slope Indicator up for the periods P_M15 , P_M30, P_H1, P_H4. It is calculated with the function :

All (OBJECT, SIGNAL) which gives me the decimal result.


if All (SLOPE, S_UP) >= h4_h1_m30_m15 === > My orientation is UP

Now See the picture below :





Let's stick here with the direction and the momentum. As you see in the picture, whenever I have a current market with a row verified , it means green my orientation is UP and whenever one of the row is verified and it is red my orientation is DOWN.

So as long as my orientation is UP we don't do a SELL trade , and as long my orientation is DOWN I don't do a BUY Trade.

To do an opposite trade my orientation should be neither UP and neither DOWN. So in a Sharp orientation market we should be careful in entering a trade if it is not in the same direction.

Now how can we combine this with the recovery mode ? As I mentioned previously , when we want to recover a trade we should wait for a strong signal in the same direction as my trade to succeed my recover, so as long as my orientation is UP it is dangerous to take the risk and try to recover, we should wait that the orientation either gives me a DOWN way or at least not an UP Direction.

So here how I determine my example orientation in PROGRESS :

the variables that I defined :

ftrix_above = All (FTRIX, S_ABOVE);
ftrix_below = All (FTRIX, S_BELOW);
ftrix_up = All (FTRIX, S_UP);
ftrix_down = All (FTRIX, S_DOWN);
ftrix_exitbuy = All (FTRIX, S_EXIT_BUY);
ftrix_exitsell = All (FTRIX, S_EXIT_SELL);
ftrix_cross_up = All (FTRIX, S_CROSS_UP);
ftrix_cross_down = All (FTRIX, S_CROSS_DOWN);

strix_up = All (STRIX, S_UP);
strix_down = All (STRIX, S_DOWN);
strix_above = All (STRIX, S_ABOVE);
strix_below = All (STRIX, S_BELOW);

slope_up = All (SLOPE, S_UP);
slope_down = All (SLOPE, S_DOWN);
slope_above = All (SLOPE, S_ABOVE);
slope_below = All (SLOPE, S_BELOW);
coral_up = All (CORAL, S_UP);
coral_down = All (CORAL, S_DOWN);
coral_above = All (CORAL, S_ABOVE);
coral_below = All (CORAL, S_BELOW);
coral_cross_up = All (CORAL, S_CROSS_UP);
coral_cross_down = All (CORAL, S_CROSS_DOWN);
ichi_above = All (ICHIMOKU, S_ABOVE);
ichi_below = All (ICHIMOKU, S_BELOW);
ichi_touched = All (ICHIMOKU, S_TOUCHED);

upfractal_above = All (UPFRACTAL, S_ABOVE);
downfractal_below = All (DOWNFRACTAL, S_BELOW);
res_above = All (RESISTANCE, S_ABOVE);
sup_below = All (SUPPORT, S_BELOW);
upfractal_alert = All (UPFRACTAL, S_ALERT);
downfractal_alert = All (DOWNFRACTAL, S_ALERT);

upfractal_changed = All (UPFRACTAL, S_CHANGED);
downfractal_changed = All (DOWNFRACTAL, S_CHANGED);
res_changed = All (RESISTANCE, S_CHANGED);
sup_changed = All (SUPPORT, S_CHANGED);

etc.......

and how I verify my orientation :

if (res_above >= h4_h1_m30_m15) {Orientation = UP; return;}}
if (sup_below >= h4_h1_m30_m15) {Orientation =DOWN; return;}}
if (upfractal_above >= h4_h1_m30_m15) {Orientation = UP; return;}}
if (downfractal_below >= h4_h1_m30_m15) {Orientation = DOWN; return;}}

if (slope_up >= h4_h1_m30_m15) {Orientation = UP; return;}}
etc ...

if you look at Progress Panel on the right you can see a box containing the decimal representation of the objects I choose for determinig the orientation. Look at the picture below :




If you look on Coral you can see 12/51 which means that my decimal periods for S_UP signal is 12 and the decimal periods for S_DOWN signal is 51.
This is not enough to say that my orientation is DOWN , as for the down decimal I should have h4_h1_m30_m15 which is equal to 60.

Now that I fixed the orientation , on every tick I can know the state of my orientation so let's see together an engine that works on this.

8-3 Recovery Mode and Orientation (Example)

I will call my engine J and here how I want it to work , but before look at the picture below, which is PROGRESS under the simulator, you can see the Green rectangle on the screen corresponding to an UP Orientation and the pink to a down ORIENTATION ... the down orientation is because my Coral S_SDOWN signal is below 60. THe gray rectangles corresponds to the extreme zone of TMA Extreme system that is giving a SELL or BUY Signal for the period H1. Look how the I avoid to Sell on the extreme Zone Up left in the screen because my orientation was UP. When I didn't have anymore the UP Orientation the SELL signal of TMA was good. Anyway this is not the purpose of what I want to talk here, but others rectangle are also on the screen I will talk later. Here just look at the Green rectangles which correspond to an UP Orientation and the Pink to a DOWN.




The idea is to take profit on my buy trades and after take the sell trades or vice versa. As I don't know in which way the market is heading I will do a buy/sell every 10 pips , now as long as the market is heading up or down not important, I'll do a buy/sell and after let's say 4 buy/trades I double my lots number. Why I do so ? It is just in case I am approaching the Buy exit or the sell exit of my trades the average of my opposite trades get's closer. Now as long as my Orientation is UP or DOWN I don't exit my by trades neither my sell trades, I keep on in a BUY/SELL mode. This is done with KeepBuySell set to true in my session property.


Now as long as I am doing a combined Buy/Sell , I don't look at the momentum as all what I am doing is hedging every trade. My engine J is :

Operation : BUYSELL
OrderType : HEDGE
Direction : BACKWARDS (here my backwards parameter is taken into account when I exit my sell trades or buy trades as I am doing a buy/sell at the beginning, this is not important)
InitialLot :0.2
PipStep : 10
TimeStep : -1
RecoveryMode : D (double after 4 trades)
RecoveryValue : 4 (4 trades)
MaxCount : 12


ok we will see how once we exit the buy trades or sell trades I will fix my recovery Mode in the rule J. We will see also how I keep buy/Sell operations as long as I am in a Orientation UP or DOWN.

So let's write our J RULE , my start rule is not important as I don't care in which way the market is going.

Start Rule :

Set_Rule (OP_BUYSELL, T_START, R_J, P_SIGNAL);


Initialisation Rules :

Set_Rule (OP_BUYSELL, T_ILOT, R_J, P_SIGNAL, 0.2);
Set_Rule (OP_BUYSELL, T_PIPSTEP, R_J, P_SIGNAL, 10);
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_SELL, T_MINPROFIT, R_J, P_SIGNAL, 100);
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_BUY, T_MINPROFIT, R_J, P_SIGNAL, 100);
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_SELL, T_RULE, R_J, P_SIGNAL, R_J);
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_BUY, T_RULE, R_J, P_SIGNAL, R_J);

Ok here I just write again some initialisation that exists already in my engine but it is ok , notice I put my minimum profit to 100 $ for my buy trades and 100 for my sell trades.

To exit I need to have a the exit buy rule and exit sell rule valid which is J. (I explained already)

(to be continued)

8-3 Recovery Mode and Orientation (Example continued)

I took a picture of a session J :



The rectangle corresponds to the beginning till the end of the session. You see how we take profit on Sell after combined Buy/sell and again profit on the Buy trades. As I explained before the way we do the buy/sell by doubling it let us have the average buy level under the middle of the rectangle. If we had choosen a Multiplier the average will be much more down for our buy trades.

Now let's continue writing our rule :

To prevent from exiting my buy trades or sell trades in case I have a Sharp Orientation I write this :


KeepBuySell Rule :

if (Orientation == UP || Orientation == DOWN)
if (RValue (OP_BUYSELL, T_EXITBUY, R_J) == false && RValue (OP_BUYSELL, T_EXITSELL, R_J) == false)
Set_Rule (OP_BUYSELL, T_KEEPBUYSELL, R_J, P_SIGNAL, 1); // here I set my keepbuysell flag

Exit Rules :

Here I should have a minimum profit of 100 as defined in my engine to exit and my keepbuysell flag should be set to 0.


if (AndS (FTRIX, S_EXIT_BUY, P_M15))
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_BUY, T_STATUS, R_J, P_SIGNAL);

if (AndS (FTRIX, S_EXIT_SELL, P_M15))
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_SELL, T_STATUS, R_J, P_SIGNAL);


Now I can refine my Exit Rules in a sense that if my buy profit is > 0 and I have a Sharp Orientation Down I exit my buy trades :

if (RValue (OP_BUYSELL, T_PROFITBUY, R_J) > 0 && Orientation == DOWN)
{
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_BUY, T_MINPROFIT, R_J, P_SIGNAL, 0); // I change my minimum profit to 0
Set_Rule (OP_BUYSELL, T_KEEPBUYSELL, R_J, P_SIGNAL, 0); // I put flag to 0 to exit
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_BUY, T_STATUS, R_J, P_SIGNAL); // and exit
}

if (RValue (OP_BUYSELL, T_PROFITSELL, R_J) > 0 && Orientation == UP)
{
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_SELL, T_MINPROFIT, R_J, P_SIGNAL, 0); // I change my minimum profit to 0
Set_Rule (OP_BUYSELL, T_KEEPBUYSELL, R_J, P_SIGNAL, 0); // I put flag to 0 to exit
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_SELL, T_STATUS, R_J, P_SIGNAL); // and exit
}

Now just a word on my exit rule I just choosen the FTRIX, P_M15 signal which doesn't take in consideration the momentum, to be more sure of my exit point let's add this to it :

if (AndS (FTRIX, S_EXIT_BUY, P_M15) &&
AndS(VELOCITY, S_OVERBOUGHT, P_M5) && // I don't like the term Overbought I will change it in the next version , but it means > 15
AndS (VOLUME, S_STRONG, P_M5)) // bigger than 175
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_BUY, T_STATUS, R_J, P_SIGNAL);



if (AndS (FTRIX, S_EXIT_SELL, P_M15)
AndS(VELOCITY, S_OVERSOLD, P_M5) && // < -15
AndS (VOLUME, S_STRONG, P_M5)) // > 174
Set_Rule (OP_EXIT_SELL, T_STATUS, R_J, P_SIGNAL);


Everything looks perfect for the moment , but what happens the session exit its buy or sell trades and we keep going down in a Sell case for instance ?

If you notice that once I exit my Buy Trades or Sell Trades My total profit is 0 (in theory) as I am not counting the spread margin , so that means any recovery mode even a Multiplier can be used as long I am in my rectangle with a BuyTrade Mode, so the more down my opposite trade average is the best is for me as we need a little reverse of the market to make a profit. But here we need a profit for the 2 tye of trades as we want a minimum of 200 for the session.

(To be continued)

8-3 Recovery Mode and Orientation (Example continued)

Just a brief word for people that doesn't want to have a automated exit. They just want to manually exit the buy and sell by visualising or inspecting their prefered indicators. Look at the pictures below :

 

1. 1 you go to the menu and you pick the KeepBuySell item.
2. 2 you go to ExitAutomatic column of your session and you put the exit mode to manual.
3. 3 Once you see that the market is reversing you go to the menu again and you pick the Exit Buy or Exit Sell .
4. 4 Once the market has reversed you are satisfied of your profit you pick the Exit Sell or Exit Buy or the End item.

You go out of your session and automatically the StartAutomatic is set to manual for your engine as you exit manually. If you want it to restart automatically again you go to the engines list and set it to Automatic. (we saw this already)

8-4 Recovery Mode and Orientation (Example continued & end)


Just to finish my example, the question wa what if I exit my sell trades and the market keep going down ? As my engine is BACWARD It will continue to do buy trades every 10 pipstep down and this till my Maxcount which is 12 in my example. Did I really want so ? It is not a good move so let's see what we can do. As I said wnen I exit my sell trades my total profit of my session is 0. So here it is just as if I am starting a new session with Bacward direction that do a 0.4 buy lots every 10 pipstep backwards. Now if I exit my sell trades let's suppose with 9 number of sell trades so I did in my example (0.2 * 4 + 0.4 * 5) which is 2.8 lots. 2.8 buy lots and 2.8 sell lots and I exit my 2.8 sell lots. For small accounts this may be too much as I know when I exit my sell trades and the market keep going down my loss will be that of 2.8 lots. To recall on my discussion on the RecoveryMode and when I said we should not recover in a (stupid way) here I come to explain how I analyse things :


Let's see the average for my remaining buy trades.

Average(buy) = SUM(buynbrlot(i) * OrderOpenPrice(i)) / buytotalnbrlots

I know it is somewhere between the max point of my session and the min point of my session but in the lower half of it and above my exit point.

To know the exact amount of buying that I should do we should fix two things , the distance upwards that I want the market to go and the number of recovery trades I want to do to reach my average.

OK to make it easier , suppose I want to recover my buy trades in only one Buy Trade when the market go upward 10 pips . My distance here is 10 pips backwards the current price level , so it is -10;

the amount of lot I should buy is :

LottoBuy = ((Average(buy) - Ask - distance) * buytotalnbrlots) / distance;

where distance = -10;
Ask = Current market Ask;

here if I am sure that market will go backwards 10 pips I can Apply my Next Buy Trade lot to LotToBuy. So here we wait for a strong signal to do this in one time.

Here we do this in a way we are not in a Sharp down trend. Now suppose we are in a Sharp down trend ?

I change my Session direction to Forward with pipstep to -1 and I Sell the same amount of buytotalnbrlots. It is just like we are hedging so we need to add sell positions on the way to exit with a profit.


This is very easy to say but let's see how we add all this in my J Rule code.

(to be continued)

Hi Jurex
Thank you for early reply.
I have tried your suggestions, but it doesn't seems to be working for me. In terminal, experts tab I couldn't find does details, also I tried to locate it in the log files under logs folder, but no luck. Finally I have got broker IP address that's all. Is any chance if you could post an example file that allow me to replace broker details hopefully that will work.

Hi duniek

Ok , right I just did a modification that you can see the trace in the file.

so Upload the version attached : PG_Expert.exe

When you launch it go to properties of the expert , at the end you have FileTrace , put it to true.

Now once PG_Expert is launched just remove it and go to Experts/files to see the trace file with the name PG_Expert_Trace_<your currency>.txt.

(If you don't remove it you can't see the file because it is accessed already by PG_Expert).


Open it and you should see at the beginning of the file something like this with your broker information :

- - - - - - - - - - - Expert initialized - - - - - - - - - -
TERMINAL NAME IS FXCM MT4 powered by BT
TERMINAL PATH IS Crogram Files (x86)FXCM MT4 powered by BT

I attach also an example of PG_Brokers.csv , just take the first entry and replace the existant with your terminal name.

It should work,
Don't hesitate to tell me if it still doesn't work