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  • #1,101
  • Jun 6, 2014 11:33am Jun 6, 2014 11:33am
Quoting Bernhard
the Ea seems to work for me. Just a question can I use only 1 EA with mt4 or can I use multiple? I tried this EA on 2 currencies simultaneously in 2 windows but only one is active
This good EA usually worked well on different currencies in different windows. Never put 2 EAs on the same windows. I always used UJ and GU on different windows particularly on NFP. But this afternoon on NFP all pending orders (UJ and GU) were cancelled by the EA because STWAN expired without significant move on price.
On AUD GDP q/q this Amazing EA made a good profit, Close position = TP at the top of spike (perfect!!). This is for the first time my guess of TP is correct (30 pip).

Here is the setting:2014.06.04, 8.30 WIB, AmazingEA 4-2-0.NonNFP 3 AUDUSDpro,M1 inputs: PointsAway=50; PointsGap=2000; ModifyGap=10; TP=300; SL=100; NYear=2014; NMonth=6; NDay=4; NHour=8; NMin=30; NSec=0; CTCBN=0; SecBPO=20; SecBAO=5; SecBMO=1; STWAN=65; OCO=true; BEPoints=20; BEOffset=10; TrailPoints=50; TrailOffset=150; TrailImmediate=false; MM=false; RiskPercent=2.5; Lots=2.0; MaxSpread=0; AddSpreadToSL=true; SlipCheck=false; MaxSlippage=200; AllowBuys=true; AllowSells=true; UseBrokerTime=false; TradeLog=AmazingEA; Spread = 0, P/L = 600 USD
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  • #1,102
  • Jun 6, 2014 11:53am Jun 6, 2014 11:53am
[Spread = 0, P/L = 600 USD {image}[/quote]
correction: slippage = o , spread widen (I forgot to record the spread)
  • #1,103
  • Jun 7, 2014 9:52am Jun 7, 2014 9:52am
yes I put 2 EA on different currencies in different windows. But only one worked. It was Oanda demo.
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  • #1,104
  • Jun 14, 2014 1:36pm Jun 14, 2014 1:36pm
drBBMM just wondering what is that watch on top of your window
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  • #1,105
  • Jun 14, 2014 6:32pm Jun 14, 2014 6:32pm
Hi Guys

From reading the posts from the last month or so, I can see some new users struggling with a couple of things.

1) MaxSpread. Your pending orders will be deleted if the spread exceeds this level set in points. So if you are OK with 15 pips spread set it to 150 on a 5 digit account. The orders are replaced after 5 seconds if the spread comes down and it is still before news time but that hardly ever happens ! Most new users don't know how much the spread can go up. I would suggest settin the chart to show the Ask line as well as Bid (in Chart properties) and search this thread for info about the Spread and Sessions indicator which records a file with prices and spreads in it. Using it you can also check whether the ticks froze.

2) PointsGap. The orders are created far away from current price and moved into position at SecBAO seconds before News Time. There are 3 reasons for this.
a) With the old EA, the time that orders are being created is when the EA is most vulnerable because the MT4 servers are usually busy and running slow so price can move suddenly and activate one of the trades. b) Just prior to news to protect against sudden price spikes. c) Also, sometimes MT4 servers freeze (price ticks stop which freezes the EA) just prior to news and in this case hopefully the trade is left far away from current price. That is why you should set the SecBAO to 10 seconds or less but 5 is probably fine.

And by the way, drBBMM is definitely using a Live account.....
  • #1,106
  • Jun 18, 2014 7:18pm Jun 18, 2014 7:18pm
Quoting drbbmm
{quote} это хорошо ea обычно работал на различных валют в разных окнах. Никогда не кладите 2 эксперта на...
Вот она реальность, скользит на 94 очка.
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  • #1,107
  • Jun 20, 2014 12:10pm Jun 20, 2014 12:10pm
Quoting Bernhard
drBBMM just wondering what is that watch on top of your window
Just download the clock from www.clocx.net and you can put it anywhere you like. BTW Thanks Alan for the explanation.
GDP NZD on 19-6-2014 didn't move much but ths good EA gave small profit = BEOffset pip.
AmazingEA 4-3-0.NonNFP2 NZDUSDpro,M1 inputs: PointsAway=60; PointsGap=2000; ModifyGap=10; TP=700; SL=100; NYear=2014; NMonth=6; NDay=19; NHour=5; NMin=45; NSec=0; CTCBN=0; SecBPO=20; SecBAO=5; SecBMO=1; STWAN=70; OCO=true; BEPoints=20; BEOffset=10; TrailPoints=50; TrailOffset=150; TrailImmediate=false; MM=false; RiskPercent=2.5; Lots=4.0; MaxSpread=0; AddSpreadToSL=false; SlipCheck=false; MaxSlippage=200; AllowBuys=true; AllowSells=true; UseBrokerTime=false; TradeLog=AmazingEA
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  • #1,108
  • Jun 20, 2014 12:38pm Jun 20, 2014 12:38pm
Retail Sales GBP did'n move much, profit = BEOffset pip
Retail sales CAD/ CPI CAD gave good profit = 20 pip
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  • #1,109
  • Jun 24, 2014 5:06am Jun 24, 2014 5:06am
Hi,

this is really very helpful EA but I think it could be much better with FFCal indicator included. Is here somebody able to code it? It's very time consuming to constantly monitor the news time and adjust settings of EA for each news when there is FFCal to do it for you.

FFCal: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=16364

David
  • #1,110
  • Jun 26, 2014 9:26am Jun 26, 2014 9:26am
Quoting dafa
Hi, this is really very helpful EA but I think it could be much better with FFCal indicator included. Is here somebody able to code it? It's very time consuming to constantly monitor the news time and adjust settings of EA for each news when there is FFCal to do it for you. FFCal: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=16364 David
I were looking at this FFCal indi but the version is old, will it work with build 611 ?
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  • #1,111
  • Jun 26, 2014 2:37pm Jun 26, 2014 2:37pm
It works for me in newest version of MT4 without problems. I use version which is in attachment.

David
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File Type: ex4 FFCal.ex4   35 KB | 569 downloads
File Type: mq4 FFCal.mq4   49 KB | 734 downloads
  • #1,112
  • Jun 27, 2014 5:50pm Jun 27, 2014 5:50pm
Quoting drBBMM
{quote} Just download the clock from www.clocx.net and you can put it anywhere you like. BTW Thanks Alan for the explanation. GDP NZD on 19-6-2014 didn't move much but ths good EA gave small profit = BEOffset pip. AmazingEA 4-3-0.NonNFP2 NZDUSDpro,M1 inputs: PointsAway=60; PointsGap=2000; ModifyGap=10; TP=700; SL=100; NYear=2014; NMonth=6; NDay=19; NHour=5; NMin=45; NSec=0; CTCBN=0; SecBPO=20; SecBAO=5; SecBMO=1; STWAN=70; OCO=true; BEPoints=20; BEOffset=10; TrailPoints=50; TrailOffset=150; TrailImmediate=false;...
drBBMM

Why you don't use Broker time?

Regards
  • #1,113
  • Jun 30, 2014 11:14am Jun 30, 2014 11:14am
Quoting flias
{quote} drBBMM Why you don't use Broker time? Regards
Sometimes my broker time differs 5 to 15 secs with timessync tool, so I use local time and sync my PC time with free timessync tool http://www.timesynctool.com/
  • #1,114
  • Jul 1, 2014 1:09am Jul 1, 2014 1:09am
Quoting dafa
Hi, this is really very helpful EA but I think it could be much better with FFCal indicator included. Is here somebody able to code it? It's very time consuming to constantly monitor the news time and adjust settings of EA for each news when there is FFCal to do it for you. FFCal: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=16364 David
If you like that kind of straddle EA that trades on every news event , you can use free CNT EA by Henry Liu.
I 've tried CNT EA but I prefer this Amazing EA because the feature is more complete and I can choose which pair on the event is more likely to give profit.

AUD Cash rate this morning 1-7-'14 gave a not bad result.
2014.07.01 ,11.30 WIB. AmazingEA 4-3-0.NonNFP4 AUDUSDpro,M1 inputs: PointsAway=50; PointsGap=2000; ModifyGap=10; TP=300; SL=100; NYear=2014; NMonth=7; NDay=1; NHour=11; NMin=30; NSec=0; CTCBN=0; SecBPO=20; SecBAO=5; SecBMO=1; STWAN=70; OCO=true; BEPoints=20; BEOffset=10; TrailPoints=50; TrailOffset=150; TrailImmediate=false; MM=false; RiskPercent=2.5; Lots=0.5; MaxSpread=0; AddSpreadToSL=true; SlipCheck=false; MaxSlippage=200; AllowBuys=true; AllowSells=true; UseBrokerTime=false; TradeLog=AmazingEA;
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  • #1,115
  • Jul 1, 2014 5:55pm Jul 1, 2014 5:55pm
Quoting Alan111S
Hi Guys From reading the posts from the last month or so, I can see some new users struggling with a couple of things. ....
Hi Alan,
Great EA.

I have a couple of questions.

What does slip check do?
How does the maximum slippage function work?

Thanks
Big Pippin'
  • #1,116
  • Jul 2, 2014 8:58pm Jul 2, 2014 8:58pm
Quoting bigsambsc
{quote} Hi Alan, Great EA. I have a couple of questions. What does slip check do? How does the maximum slippage function work? Thanks
Hi bigsambsc, I appreciate the question because I accidentally deleted the explanation out of the ReadMe Instructions file. To be honest I took this function out then re-instated it later and forgot the explanation. So here goes with what used to be in the file:-

SlipCheck - Whether to perform Stop Loss Reset and Slippage Check
If you set SlipCheck to true, the EA will check for Slippage and reset Stop Losses and Take Profit levels. If you set it to false, the EA will behave more like the original (around v1.2.2) and only run the Break Even and Trailing Stop routines, not the Slippage Check or Stop Loss Reset routines.

MaxSlippage - The maximum slippage in points you wish to allow for your orders.
Unfortunately, this value cannot prevent orders going live and being slipped in the first place. But if the slippage on an 'opened' order exceeds the value set here, the trade will have it's stop loss set to the minimum distance allowed by the broker. If the trade goes against you, it will be closed quickly. If it doesn't, then there is a chance to recoup some losses.
This parameter requires Take Profit to be set. If you don't want to use Take Profit, then set TP to a very high value.

The reason I took these out is they take a little while to work so depending on how fast your broker is, they may not help. I also had this idea that if you are suffering bad slippage, then nothing will save you !

Alan
  • #1,117
  • Jul 3, 2014 11:26am Jul 3, 2014 11:26am
I would like to ask if I use the EA on the same MT4, same news event, but different pairs, would it work? For example NFP, expert on E/U, A/U, G/U and if E/U makes a huge gap and misses my stop-order but A/U succeeds to go without the gap, would it have a Magic Number problem or something that would cause bad interference between the different charts? I read somewhere in the thread that somebody has used it on 2 charts and only one got executed trades on.
  • #1,118
  • Jul 3, 2014 12:23pm Jul 3, 2014 12:23pm
Hi Ksofty, yes, I use it as you wrote. Same news, for example NFP, and EA listen at the same time on EURUSD, USDJPY, USDCAD, GBPUSD, AUDUSD etc. It works for me. Today I made by this system more than 60 pips..
  • #1,119
  • Jul 3, 2014 2:42pm Jul 3, 2014 2:42pm
Yeah I did the same too. But something very strange happened - 50-60 pips move on aussie in 4am (gmt+2) and it was just some speech. The news 30min later got me only 1-2 pips profit. Are these speeches really so important that the market moved so much in less than a minute?
  • #1,120
  • Jul 3, 2014 6:32pm Jul 3, 2014 6:32pm
Quoting ksofty
Yeah I did the same too. But something very strange happened - 50-60 pips move on aussie in 4am (gmt+2) and it was just some speech. The news 30min later got me only 1-2 pips profit. Are these speeches really so important that the market moved so much in less than a minute?
Hi ksofty

AmazingEA will work better on speeches.....The issue here is that the big banks (liquidity providers) have very fast news feeds and software that will interpret the figures quickly and can change their quotes almost instantaneously. Which results in slippage on stop orders. Speeches on the other hand need to be interpreted by a human (or maybe a computer) but it still takes longer so instead of price gapping you get a more gradual move. With the result you get minimal slippage.

Another thing to remember though is to only trade speeches where the text is released at the start. For example, I would never trade Draghi's press conference, it's just too wild !Try it on demo and you'll see what I mean......
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