Tools for forexhard's Stairstep Breakouts system

I have coded a very useful EA to trade the breakout from the box. Find it and a description of how it works at
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/php...p=16245#p16245

To be truthful, the SSBO method is not exactly that simple.

I have built an EA that trades FXhards SSBO breakouts. If anyone wants it you can have it for free.

I have just spent the Christmas and New Year period refining my SSBO EA and comprehensively testing the EA

If anyone wants a copy of the SSBO EA that I have built then you can contact me at the [email protected]

I have included some of the better backtesting results.

I have also optimised the best settings and parameters using the full three years of data showing a number of the best settings for 2010, 2011 and 2012 for each of the currency pairs.

It is free. There is NO cost.

The results may surprise you. Beware any form of Martingale system on this EA (though there is provision for Martingale systems built into the settings).

I am sorry for the delay but I like all my EAs to be perfect and with ZERO bugs.

John

I apologize if this has been answered somewhere before but does anyone know if Squalou's indicator re FH's staircase method can be used on Ninja Trader? I trade currency futures, not Forex. (Only up to p. 118 on FH's thread and have yet to see this question addressed.)

Hi! SteveHopwood. Can you help me? I use "sqDynamicBreakoutBox 1.7A" wrote an automated trading programs, however, call index output, sometimes is zero, is sometimes a very large data, I do not know why. The same program, other indicators call there is no such problem, that is likely to be the indicator of the problem. If with "MetaEditor" to compile the program, the problem is solved, but, for a while, repeat that mistake.

Thank you.

With "sqDynamicBreakoutBox1.7A":

09:33:35 NineHalf GBPCHF,M15: tHigh = 1.433
09:33:35 NineHalf GBPCHF,M15: tLow = 1.4306
09:33:35 NineHalf NZDCHF,M15: tHigh = 2147483647
09:33:35 NineHalf NZDCHF,M15: tLow = 2147483647
09:33:36 NineHalf AUDNZD,M15: tHigh = 1.2326
09:33:36 NineHalf AUDNZD,M15: tLow = 1.231
09:33:39 NineHalf EURCHF,M15: tHigh = 2147483647
09:33:39 NineHalf EURCHF,M15: tLow = 2147483647
09:33:40 NineHalf AUDCAD,M15: tHigh = 2147483647
09:33:40 NineHalf AUDCAD,M15: tLow = 2147483647
09:33:40 NineHalf AUDCHF,M15: tHigh = 2147483647
09:33:40 NineHalf AUDCHF,M15: tLow = 2147483647

With "sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld":

sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld EURNZD,M15: loaded successfully
sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld EURNZD,M15: ArrayInitialize function internal error
sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld EURNZD,M15: ArrayInitialize function internal error
sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld EURNZD,M15: ArrayInitialize function internal error
sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld EURNZD,M15: ArrayInitialize function internal error
sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld EURNZD,M15: initialized
NineHalf EURNZD,M15: tHigh = 2147483647
NineHalf EURNZD,M15: tLow = 2147483647
NineHalf EURGBP,M15: tHigh = 0.8524
NineHalf EURGBP,M15: tLow = 0.8509

sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld AUDCHF,M15: loaded successfully
sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld AUDCHF,M15: ArrayInitialize function internal error
sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld AUDCHF,M15: ArrayInitialize function internal error
sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld AUDCHF,M15: ArrayInitialize function internal error
sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld AUDCHF,M15: ArrayInitialize function internal error
sqDynamicBreakoutBoxOld AUDCHF,M15: initialized
NineHalf AUDCHF,M15: tHigh = 0.9818
NineHalf AUDCHF,M15: tLow = 0.9799

Hi Guys. We took the opportunity and implemented FH's stairstep indicator on the Algorithmic Trading Platform AlgoTrader which is based on Complex Event Processing (CEP) using the CEP Engine Esper. Using CEP it was actually very easy to implement the strategy. Compared to the existing MT4 based implementation by Xux99, which has done a great job by the way, this is alternative implementation approach reduces the amount of code lines needed quite a bit. I anyone is interested, I can paste the code here.

More information on the implementation of the stairstep indicator can be found in the AlgoTrader Documentation

We also implemented a small custom charting feature for the indicator which looks like this


The strategy can be back-tested using AlgoTrader and we are also trading it Live with the built-in interface to Interactive Brokers.

If anyone wants to have a look at the system, we have a running demo installation (with AlgoTrader, Interactive Brokers, Java, MySql & ActiveMQ). To have a look at the installation please visit AlgoTrader Demo Installation

AlgoTrader is a Java based Algorithmic Trading Platform. Besides trading FX AlgoTrader can handle Options, Futures, Stocks & Commodities. There is also an Open Source Version available from Google Code

Hi
In your opinion
What can be the best settings for currency pairs.
EURUSD
GBPUSD
USDCAD
AND ...............
ThankS

I can not speak English. I'm sorry

Hi Kodex (if you're still around),

I'm not the greatest trader ever to cross the earth (yet), but false breakouts like that happen a lot. One, easy fix is to NEVER open a trade on
the first breakout candle (that's common sense), but also to wait 'till the second candle breaks the high (or low, in case of a sell trade) of the
first one.

Safeguarding yourself like this won't keep you out of all the fake breakouts (the 'Big Boys' know this technique too, of course), but just might
keep you out of the select group of trapped traders more often than not.

Hope this helps (especially the newbies out there, who are still jumping on everything that moves outside their breakout boxes :-)

Cheers and good luck to all!