DATFRA - Mt4 EA Builder & Walk Forward Analyser

There is a bug in the paper-trader, which spawns the trades one candle too late. I am notified about that and will fix it somewhen within this week

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

-Darwin

Parameterspace Analyser is finally released

What is parameterspace analysis?
Well, its a way to gather as much data as in a million backtests, together with a datamining framework to analyse the inherent releationships in this data.

What can it do?

1. It can show you the true historical performance of a system (true, because it analyses so much data).
2. It can show you what parameters/inputs for a trading system work best
3. It can show you how performance during optimsation and perfromance in the future are correlated

How to use it

Go to http://darwins-fx-tools.com/manual.php and scroll down to 'Parameterspace Analysis Basics' and 'Parameterspace Analysis Toolkit'

Some practical examples:

1. Use it to find the very best parameters for every trading system
2. Use it to find out how to optimise your system properly

Hi Darwin-FX!

First of all: sorry for my bad english... :-(

I've found your SW and this thread by google. What can I say... BEAUTIFUL tool!!!

I've been involved in this type of matters (multicross & multistrategy trading systems, optimal asset allocation, portfolio & money management, etc...) since early 2012 always in an "home made" style. I've downloaded and used (I'm using right now...) your tool to perform my first WFA over some EAs. I've red all your manual and and agree 101% on all your recommendations about the thechnique to perform WFA. I've understood about 95% of the whole process of finding the best parameters for my EAs.
Now I'm waiting the end of my first WFA (meta analisys in progress) to perform a deep exploration of the data. For next steps I hope in your support... :-)

Congratulations for the HUGE amount of work... never seen similar before!!!

Bye

Thank you for the nice words If you need help for the PSA, you know how to contact me. Best would be via skype!

-Darwin

Regarding questions about the full builder: I am currently working on that, and I will release it somewhen next week!

-Darwin

Paper-Trader fixed!

It should now open and close trades as intended.

Use it to practice manual trading on history data - as if it would be live market.
Right in Metatrader4, with all indicators and tools you are used to!


-Darwin

Hi Darwin,

I have downloaded the last version of DATFRA (v 0.21), I changed the settings of the speed of the visual mode to the maximum one, but the paper trading still has the some problem. It doesn't run continuously. You have to press the button "Execute and show the Next Bar" to get a new bar.

Regards
thakas

Hey thakas

Sure you have to click that button, thats what the papertrader is all about: play back the market history and give the user the time to make trading decisions.

Would you prefere a new bar every x seconds?

-Darwin

Hi Darwin,

I thought that the paper-trader should run continuously. This is the reason I created this thread.

I am not real interest for paper-trading. I use DATFRA for Walk Forward and Parameterspace Analysis.
So it doesn't matter for me any change. I just wanted to inform you for debugging reasons.

Regards,
thakas

That is very kind of you

And you raised a good point, I will add an option that will allow to run it continuously!

-Darwin

Small update: Full builder might take some time until it is released, as I am currently re-writing builder-code, as I want to offer a second type of builder that will be able to create human-readable trading strategies, for all manual traders out there

Sorry for the delay, but I am sure a lot people will love that new feature

-Darwin

Subscribed and waiting for new feature. Very good to have this kind of tool. Great job !!!

Currently only working on the featureset for manual traders
But I guess there are more manual traders out there and less programmers, so perhaps its the even more important featureset for the average trader.

-Darwin

October Key released

Get it on the website: http://darwins-fx-tools.com/?download

Little update:

Currently working on the builder and the parameterspace analysis.

The builder's templates will be improved a lot, and so will be the usability of it.

The PSA-defined trade plans / filte rules will be save-able, and you will be able to apply these rules to a WFA.

Also, I am working on some impressive showcases, in which I will use DATFRA to make a simple moving-average-cross trading system tradeable on a handfull pairs!

Finally the simplified GUI for manual traders is making huge steps forward!

So excuse the delayed update and stay tuned!

-Darwin

Dont think i have forgotten this thread! I am just doing updates, bugfixing and polishing, and that takes a while next to my actual research work!

I think no one thought that, we all know you are working hard on DATFRA! Thanks again for all that dedication!

DarwinFX

Just wondering. Followed your installation instructions carefully but could not get DATFRA to run. It will load and then disappears. I'm running Win 7.

Thanks for all your harad work.

I will need a more detailed error report
It would be best to either write a detailed report here or contact me through skype (darwin-fx).

-Darwin

Some work in progress for the DATFRA branch for manual traders:

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