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very slight movement
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etverg
11:30
08/21/14
NO TRADES
GB Retail Sales HOT!
(GB Retail Sales), England, GBPUSD
Average response when triggered flip-flops 35.00 points in the first minute after the release.
50% probability trades.
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Quoting vvFish
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Great job, friend.
Quoting joaoflores
{quote} Great job, friend.
Not quite, but not in the negative
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Quoting drBBMM
{quote} It was a nice trade for me and I got 42.2 pip 2014.05.09 19.30 WIB. AmazingEA 4-3-0.NonNFP5 USDCADpro,M1 inputs: PointsAway=50; PointsGap=2000; ModifyGap=10; TP=500; SL=100; NYear=2014; NMonth=5; NDay=9; NHour=19; 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=1.0; MaxSpread=0; AddSpreadToSL=true; SlipCheck=false; MaxSlippage=200; AllowBuys=true; AllowSells=true; UseBrokerTime=false; TradeLog=AmazingEA;...

In the backtest when I set the pointsgap=2000 and modifygap=10, no trades are opened, and when i set these inputs to zero trades are placed

why is this happening and when I live trade shall I keep these inputs to zero or this error is just happening because I am backtesting?

Thanks
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Quoting Nowaishy
{quote} In the backtest when I set the pointsgap=2000 and modifygap=10, no trades are opened, and when i set these inputs to zero trades are placed why is this happening and when I live trade shall I keep these inputs to zero or this error is just happening because I am backtesting? Thanks
You'd better forward test at least using Demo account so you can check on log files if there is something wrong with the EA or the settings etc. Using backtest will never give us information about slippage or widened spread at news time. Pointsgap is a good filter added by Alan to prevent activation of trade outside the specified time. I myself never backtest this good EA because the result will be different because on real account we can get slippage on our orders, even our SL can be slipped far away. Therefore using demo account on news time will be very profitable, but on real account most of traders lost money because of slippage and widened spread. Spike trading is dependent partly on brokers/liquidity providers of the broker , so try to find good STP/ECN broker such as Thinkforex etc.

MPC Official Bank Rate Vote gave 40.1 pips (120.30 USD) profit on pair GBPUSD on 20-8-2014, unfortunately I put very small lot (0.3 lot).
2014.08.19 22:49:21.544 AmazingEA 4-3-0.NonNFP3 GBPUSDpro,M1 inputs: PointsAway=50; PointsGap=2000; ModifyGap=10; TP=500; SL=100; NYear=2014; NMonth=8; NDay=20; NHour=15; 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=0.3; MaxSpread=0; AddSpreadToSL=false; SlipCheck=false; MaxSlippage=200; AllowBuys=true; AllowSells=true; UseBrokerTime=false; TradeLog=AmazingEA;
Core CPI USD 19-8-2014 didn't cause a big move on UJ because the deviation was only - 0.1%(less than - 0.2%).

Core CPI CAD didn't move much yesterday. In those trades on my real account at Thinkforex the slippages were zero. 2014.08.22 12:34:33.040 AmazingEA 4-3-0.NonNFP5 USDCADpro,M1 inputs: PointsAway=50; PointsGap=2000; ModifyGap=10; TP=400; SL=100; NYear=2014; NMonth=8; NDay=22; NHour=19; 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=0.1; MaxSpread=0; AddSpreadToSL=false; SlipCheck=false; MaxSlippage=200; AllowBuys=true; AllowSells=true; UseBrokerTime=false; TradeLog=AmazingEA;
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Thursday
10:30
08/28/14
BUY AGGRESSIVELY
SE Retail Sales
(SE Retail sales), Sweden, EURSEK
Average response when triggered flip-flops 30.00 points in the first minute after the release.
15% probability trades.
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Quoting drBBMM
{quote} You'd better forward test at least using Demo account so you can check on log files if there is something wrong with the EA or the settings etc. Using backtest will never give us information about slippage or widened spread at news time. Pointsgap is a good filter added by Alan to prevent activation of trade outside the specified time. I myself never backtest this good EA because the result will be different because on real account we can get slippage on our orders, even our SL can be slipped far away. Therefore using demo account on news...
Hi drBBMM,

I have been very impressed with your news trading. I am also with ThinkForex, but only a standard account...
My question is where did you get your on-screen slippage data? I have been looking for something like that for a long time...

I would greatly appreciate knowing where I could download the on-screen indicator from...

Kindest regards

Tony
Quoting tonyharmony
{quote} Hi drBBMM, I have been very impressed with your news trading. I am also with ThinkForex, but only a standard account... My question is where did you get your on-screen slippage data? I have been looking for something like that for a long time... I would greatly appreciate knowing where I could download the on-screen indicator from... Kindest regards Tony
The trick is if you put TP of 100 pips and TP is 1.68 but your entry was 1.6710 then you have 10 pips slippage (1.6800 - 100 should be 1.6700 but entry was 1.6710). I think drBBMM types the actual value on the screenshot afterwards

Alan
G'day Alan,

Thanks so much mate, I do appreciate the info...

Tony
This was working splendidly up until last week, and now I cannot get it to open any trades. I downloaded the newest file posted here, and that one I can't even attach to a chart. Anyone else have any idea how to fix it? I ran the debugger and had 0 errors found. I'm baffled, but that's 2 news days now that it failed to even open any orders.
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