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  • #441
  • Jul 20, 2006 11:24am Jul 20, 2006 11:24am
Quoting AlphaPip
Pheonix_EA_v1_1 USDCHF, M15: Error Opening Sell Order: 4109
error 4109 is "trade not allowed". Is this the only pair you're getting the message on? Have other orders opened fine? And I notice your time filters are set. Change them to trade 24 hours and start there.
  • #442
  • Jul 20, 2006 11:32am Jul 20, 2006 11:32am
Alpha, what broker are you using?
  • #443
  • Jul 20, 2006 11:39am Jul 20, 2006 11:39am
It's a North Finance demo.
  • #444
  • Jul 20, 2006 11:40am Jul 20, 2006 11:40am
Quoting BenQ
error 4109 is "trade not allowed". Is this the only pair you're getting the message on? Have other orders opened fine? And I notice your time filters are set. Change them to trade 24 hours and start there.
How do I do that? Set them all to 0 or 24?
  • #445
  • Jul 20, 2006 11:44am Jul 20, 2006 11:44am
No, not all of them. Just set TradeFrom1 to 0 and TradeUntil1 to 24. All the rest get 0.

Quoting AlphaPip
How do I do that? Set them all to 0 or 24?
  • #446
  • Jul 20, 2006 11:53am Jul 20, 2006 11:53am
Quoting BenQ
No, not all of them. Just set TradeFrom1 to 0 and TradeUntil1 to 24. All the rest get 0.
THAT DID IT! THANKS!
  • #447
  • Jul 20, 2006 2:15pm Jul 20, 2006 2:15pm
SO you mean 17 x 60 pips and 3 x 55 pip loss? Or some of those 17 wins are actually trailing stop wins?

Quoting BenQ
The 60/55 produced the 17/3. CloseSignal is set to false on that version.
  • #448
  • Jul 20, 2006 2:31pm Jul 20, 2006 2:31pm
I am not sure how people are gettinc so many different results with version 2.1. I have been running from before Bernanke speech yesterday and I am looking at 11 wins (6 full at 50 pips and 5 partial) and hypotethically 6 losses. I said hypothetically because I am using a wide stop. But I I was using a 55 or 42 stop I would have been stopped out on them.
  • #449
  • Jul 20, 2006 2:38pm Jul 20, 2006 2:38pm
I'm similar Yardie, I've been running since after Bernanke's speech yesterday too, and still have it running. I'm trading it on the gbp/usd, eur/usd, usd/cad, and usd/chf. I'm 8-0 with one open trade, which is currently about -5 pips. I'm using the SL-55, TP-60, TS-18. All 8 winners have hit trailing stops for gains. At 2 mini lots per trade, profits have run from $2.80 to $58.00. I'm not looking for tremendous wins; i'm looking for consistent wins. Number of lots can always be increased later. (Still demo, by the way)



Quoting Yardie
I am not sure how people are gettinc so many different results with version 2.1. I have been running from before Bernanke speech yesterday and I am looking at 11 wins (6 full at 50 pips and 5 partial) and hypotethically 6 losses. I said hypothetically because I am using a wide stop. But I I was using a 55 or 42 stop I would have been stopped out on them.
  • #450
  • Jul 20, 2006 2:44pm Jul 20, 2006 2:44pm
The problem with the small trailing stop gains is that your gain can be quickly wiped out with one or two losses.



Quoting 4x4tx
I'm similar Yardie, I've been running since after Bernanke's speech yesterday too, and still have it running. I'm trading it on the gbp/usd, eur/usd, usd/cad, and usd/chf. I'm 8-0 with one open trade, which is currently about -5 pips. I'm using the SL-55, TP-60, TS-18. All 8 winners have hit trailing stops for gains. At 2 mini lots per trade, profits have run from $2.80 to $58.00. I'm not looking for tremendous wins; i'm looking for consistent wins. Number of lots can always be increased later. (Still demo, by the way)
  • #451
  • Jul 20, 2006 2:52pm Jul 20, 2006 2:52pm
What are your TP/SL/TS settings?

Quoting Yardie
The problem with the small trailing stop gains is that your gain can be quickly wiped out with one or two losses.
  • #452
  • Jul 20, 2006 2:55pm Jul 20, 2006 2:55pm
Most of the wins are trailing stop wins. In fact, only two of the wins went to full profit. The TS is working good and moving up nicely to lock in profit. My TS is set to 18, but I belive there's a few cases where it moved up more than once. In other words, some wins are 18, some are 36, etc. And without using UseCloseSignal, all 3 losses went to full stop of 55. Trading .50 lots, it's ahead by just under $900.

Quoting Yardie
SO you mean 17 x 60 pips and 3 x 55 pip loss? Or some of those 17 wins are actually trailing stop wins?
  • #453
  • Jul 20, 2006 2:57pm Jul 20, 2006 2:57pm
TP-50 SL-300 TS-30

Quoting 4x4tx
What are your TP/SL/TS settings?
  • #454
  • Jul 20, 2006 2:57pm Jul 20, 2006 2:57pm
Don't know. Everybody's trading different pairs, might be part of it. Some trading 24 hours, some time filters. Some will trade tomorrow (Friday), other won't.

Quoting Yardie
I am not sure how people are gettinc so many different results with version 2.1. I have been running from before Bernanke speech yesterday and I am looking at 11 wins (6 full at 50 pips and 5 partial) and hypotethically 6 losses. I said hypothetically because I am using a wide stop. But I I was using a 55 or 42 stop I would have been stopped out on them.
  • #455
  • Jul 20, 2006 2:58pm Jul 20, 2006 2:58pm
Quoting wackena
I started 2 demos on Phoenix v2.1 on July 19 ~16:30 GMT on eur/usd, gbp/usd, usd/jpy, usd/chf, aud/usd, eur/gbp, eur/jpy. $5.000 Demos and MM=true, WantToGamble=true.

1st demo - tp=60, sl=55, ts=18. Same timefilters as Hendirck set to EST.
6 wins - no loses - 1 breakeven. Profit = $279.74. (it should be noted that for the 1st 14 hours, I was only running eur/usd, gbp/usd, usd/jpy, usd/chf)

2nd demo - tp=18, sl=42, ts=0. Same timefilters.
8 wins - no loses. Profit = $305.05

What I find interesting about using the ts is that when it can, it adjusts the sl to a point above the Buy entry point or below the Sell entry point. When successful in doing this by the OrderModify function, it makes sure of profits on that order. On Demo 1 above, the 6 wins consist of 5 sl profits and 1 tp profit. COOL.

Wackena

Attached are result files from both Demos. ...Phoenixv2.1-2 file is the 2nd Demo above. Profits on both demos are up. Demo 1 Profit $293.74 and Demo 2 profit is $462.24.

So far, not bad.

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  • #456
  • Jul 20, 2006 2:59pm Jul 20, 2006 2:59pm
I am trading 24 hours on 7 pairs. I did have some brief connection issues this morning though. Not sure if this would have anything to do with it. Does the EA use some kind of built-in timer?



Quoting BenQ
Don't know. Everybody's trading different pairs, might be part of it. Some trading 24 hours, some time filters. Some will trade tomorrow (Friday), other won't.
  • #457
  • Jul 20, 2006 3:16pm Jul 20, 2006 3:16pm
What do you mean, "build-in timer"?
  • #458
  • Jul 21, 2006 4:08am Jul 21, 2006 4:08am
I can see an improvement that can be made with the safe pip distance calculation. At the moment there are some hard code constants for point values. These are not covering all the different values that could be possible (they would depend on what pairs you were using), so the result may not always be correct.

To correct the problem this code:
Inserted Code
if(Point==0.01) 
  valTOT=MathAbs(valTOT)*100;
   if(Point==0.0001) 
  valTOT=MathAbs(valTOT)*10000;

could be changed to:
Inserted Code
valTOT=MathAbs(valTOT)*MathPow(10, Digits);
  • #459
  • Jul 21, 2006 4:15am Jul 21, 2006 4:15am
Actually, i think you could just do this:
Inserted Code
valTOT=MathAbs(valTOT)/Point;

Quoting thebts
I can see an improvement that can be made with the safe pip distance calculation. At the moment there are some hard code constants for point values. These are not covering all the different values that could be possible (they would depend on what pairs you were using), so the result may not always be correct.

To correct the problem this code:
Inserted Code
if(Point==0.01) 
  valTOT=MathAbs(valTOT)*100;
   if(Point==0.0001) 
  valTOT=MathAbs(valTOT)*10000;

could be changed to:
Inserted Code
valTOT=MathAbs(valTOT)*MathPow(10, Digits);
  • #460
  • Jul 21, 2006 6:23am Jul 21, 2006 6:23am
Well the EA Phoenix 2.1 has not opened a trade in the past 24 hours. I am not sure what is wrong. Everything looks fine (expert enabled etc etc). ANy ideas what could be wrong and how I can fix it? I am sure that I have already missed out on a lot of pips already, and it was working fine before.
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