DATFRA - Mt4 EA Builder & Walk Forward Analyser

UPDATE!!!

The Builder now supports "Backtest-Only" Mode, and you can choose if it should do a Walk Forward Analysis for new systems - or not.

Note: The already included Paper-Trader is not yet finished, please do not use it at the moment. It will be in one of the next updates tough


-Darwin

Awesome dude, I´ll update and go for some bug-hunting


Any forecast on when the Parameterspace Analysis will be ready to release for testing?

PSA can be released immediately, however the tutorial for it is the harder part.

Will try to release the full builder, the papertrader, the PSA and perhaps a first version of the AI advisor in the next 1-2 weeks! But most likely everything will be released in the next 3-4 weeks

-Darwin

Darwin, don´t forget to take some free time for relaxing though, you are working TO hard mate!

Thanks for the latest updates, I am wondering though, I can´t select M5 anymore for the "Main Market", just M15 and up. Is that a wanted thing? I would really love to be able to use M1 or M5 for the indicators lookbacks and the Main Market.

Big thanks and have a nice Sunday

P.S.: I am still getting the "MT4 idles" problem, even with just 10 instances and M15 timeframe and not using anymore than a max of 1000 days for the initial time-frame. The problem worsens if I extend the max days to more than 1000 and becomes better the less days I allow as a max. It also gets worse if I allow more MT4 instances than 10. I am really wondering about that since it´s a powerful 8 core machine with 16GB of RAM. But it´s a virtual machine and those seem to take longer for launching programs (or the window manager takes longer to build the windows for each one via Remote Desktop). So that might be the reason? If you want you can take a look directly at that VPS, just let me know.....

Only having >= M15 is a wanted thing in the simple builder, yes. Gotta wait for the full builder

Ok, I guess looking at that in the VPS will help a lot Can you send me the details? Or better, add me on skype. I think I already know the problem

-Darwin

UPDATE!!!

The paper-trader has finally been released You can now pracitice manual trading with DATFRA.
It plays back old data within Metatrader (so you can use all your indicators doing so) and allows you to take trades as if it would be live market data!
For a link to a tutorial see my edited first post - to get it just update DATFRA.

As always, its an first alpha, please report any bugs etc

-Darwin

FOR VPS USERS

Thanks to geektrader I could find a bug!

Seems that MT4 throws the "Idle" error on a VPS, as MT4 needs too long to spawn.
The updated version provides a workaround in the "Idle" error message. Please try it and tell me if it works

-Darwin

Amazing Darwin, it´s working now! Big thanks for the superb work you are doing, this is just amazing what you can achieve in days which Metaquotes with their crap MT4 weren´t able to achieve in 10 years!

Thanks for the feedback and help while debugging

Well, it was not exactly days, it took me years of research and development to come up with the current version
But once you have the code implemented, and all the OOP classes coded, its very easy to code new features, indeed.

-Darwin

UPDATE!!!

Results of Walk Forward Analysis, Backtests etc (in general, System-Performance Display) has been updated heavily, its now a lot more clear and understandable:

http://darwins-fx-tools.com/images/sc/overview.png


-Darwin

Just a small note: The builder is in active research (well, my private version is, but what I find there can mostly be taken over to the public one).

I did make some huge steps forward in the last weeks, and could find some bugs in the current version, so if I were you, I would not waste computing time on the current version, wait until I release the full pro builder. When I do so, I will also have applied the results of my research to the simple version!


-Darwin

Need help? ATTENTION!

Please guys, if you have problems setting that all up, or while running any part of the software:

I profit from debugging this project as much as you profit from my help setting it all up and troubleshooting stuff.
So, if you did read the manual, but still have ANY problem, please do both of us the favour and contact me! Either through skype or email.
I even provide free teamviewer assistance, as I profit from the help in debugging.

-Darwin

Server offline.. will call my hoster, sorry for the inconvenience

Problems at their datacenter, so i cant do anything right now, but they are working on it.

-Darwin

It *should* work again, however, sometimes the server is still lagging. But mostly, everything should be fine, and I hope they get completly rid of that shit soon!

-Darwin

hi testers,

i'm trying to do the installation on a linux system: ubuntu 64 bits. Gnuplot 4.6.5 is already installed, but i get some troubles about gnuplot.exe not found. So i've downloaded from sourceforge the version given into the manual. The installation warns me about 'interface not supported'; i've no idea what i should do to workaround that.

i've set gnuplot_path.txt with:

PATH=/home/oem/.wine/drive_c/Program Files_x86/gnuplot/bin/gnuplot.exe (owned by the user (me) & rw rights)

but i cant get it found. 'Program Files (x86)' is hurting wine, so i've renamed it (accepted now)

Hopes to find a way to do the installation on linux, because Windows have been fully replaced here since 2005 :nerd: and there is no possible re-installation.

No way to install this on linux. Not only do I make heavy use of windows functions, like sockets, GUI, and threading (that might be possible to tackle with wine), but I also make heavy use of .bats

During cluster building, for example, I create a heavy bat file that uses window's file system stuff like links. Linux would have mklink for this, sure, but its not supported.

Also, DATFRA relies on a heavy amount of MT4 spawns to do its simulations, which just will not work in wine.

If you want to use DATFRA, perhaps set up a vmware with a window7 image

-Darwin

Oh and I know QT would provide cross-platform functions for that above mentioned stuff, but i am too lazy to port my winAPI code to QT. so theoretically i could make all that linux compatible, but thats not going to happen for a long time. first i have to make it out of the alpha towards a stable v1.0

-Darwin

Parameterspace analysis might be delayed until wednesday.

Sorry guys, but I want to make 1 or 2 tutorials about its practicaly usage first (which will be, in opposite to the theory, very simple).



-Darwin

Server problems are fixed
Just got a mail from my hoster, telling me that they do no longer "see adverse effects", so hopefully it should work well from now on.

If you get the "server down" message again in the future, please contact me


-Darwin