Basket Trading EA

Hi guys,

Anyone has any idea why after I restarted my computer, the EA shows "Active Trade" instead of "Live Trading"? There is no trades open at the moment.

Edit:
It's ok, I figured i just needed to click the stop trades and let it start live trading again. Sorry

Hello guys,


Why BT_14_v25_670et does not pick up his trades after MT restart? Is it just me or a well known bug? Sorry, I am still trying to catch up with all these pages.

The EA took JPY7 trade early in the morning and later I had to stop and restart MT. However, after the restart I was not able to run EA. Clicking the "Start Live Trading" button briefly shows "Trading Live" message and switches back to "Start Live Trading". Only after manually closing all opened by EA trades I was able to put it in "Trading Live" mode.

I tried it again but a little bit differently - while EA was in "Trading Live" mode I clicked "Long" manually opening trades and immediately EA switched to "Manual Trade". So, I stopped and started the EA and it came up with regular "Start Live Trading" but switching it to "Trading Live" didn't work as in the case above.

So, two questions here:
1. How EA knows that the trades were placed manually?
2. Why it does not recognize his own trades after restarting? Is it normal?

Thank you and many pips to all!

-rulla

You need a Magic Number.

Hello, seller9, and thank you for the great tool!



No, I didn't change the default settings and I just verified that the Magic Number is still there = 4583. So, it must be something else... Any ideas?

Also, since EA uses Magic Number from its properties it would apply it even if I manually clicked Long/Short button. The EA would switch to Manual Mode but after restart it would not recognize those trades with his Magic Number, and it would not go to "Trading Live" mode again. It doesn't seem right to me.
What am I missing here?
Please help to understand.

Thank you,

-rulla

Hello seller9, very nice short trade yesterday.

May I please ask what your entries and exits are on that chart? I like to trade the JPY basket and was thinking of using only the 5 pairs you used yesterday. Am I correct in assuming by looking at your chart that if Entry 0 is selected, and I don't see any "X's on the 3 red (or could have been green) indicator boxes, that they are all Direction and not Cross? I assume this because of the 6 options, 3 are crosses, and three are direction. Am I correct?

I have watched the videos more than a dozen times, and I have searched the thread, but I am still uncertain as to the color boxes on the buttons bar:

1) Do the Cross boxes (boxes with a white "X") "alight" green or red only during bar one and bar two (confirmation bar)?

2.) If the green or red alighted boxes do not have an "X", does that indicate direction?

3.) If there is no green or red box, as is for IXO-2, Entry 0 and 1 on my chart below, does that mean the indication is not available because it was not chosen (as in Entry 0) and not available in the fixed Entry 1?

4.) Does the HAS Cross also require a confirmation candle (as does the IXO)? If so, is it true that they must both happen simultaneously to initiate the trade?

My Entry settings for my chart below are:
Entry 0,
UseHASdirection=true
UseIXO1cross=true
UseIXO1direction=true
(allow 12 pip spread per pair)

As you can see on my chart below, I was not able to participate in the short trade you enjoyed yesterday. The trade should have initiated where the magenta dot-dash vertical line appears, or so I thought. Perhaps because the HAS was only on the first candle-cross (red candle) and the IXO1 was already on the second (confirmation) candle... by the time the HAS was confirmed, the IXO1 was on the third candle and the cross had expired?

*note: ignore the "place this line at sell entry" aquamarine color dash-dot line, as I had that sitting on the chart in the event that a trade would be placed in the future and I would have entered the price of entry parameter for the line after the trade has been placed, for reference. It just happened to be sitting almost where the sell would have occurred.

I would greatly appreciate your feedback! Best Regards, Darran

BTW, I was updated to Build 711 while sleeping while the chart was open. Spooky.

Hello again seller9, may I please ask what you used for an exit(s) on yesterday's trade (October 1)?

Regards, Darran.

update BT_14_v25_670et
and new MT4 Version 711

1) Yes, only for the confirming candle, one candle only, open of second green or red candle
2) Yes, direction only
3) Yes, it hasn't been selected in the settings
4) Yes, all crosses require to be confirmed

You missed the trade because by the time the HAS had confirmed the IXO cross had already gone past the confirming candle for its cross.

IXO2 cross

Thank you seller9! I thought everyone in America would be sound asleep and I'd have to wait all day! Thank you very much!

Regards, Darran.

Good morning seller 9 ,I was trying to practice the split last night but I couldnt coz I dont have the indicator that u are using. Can u please provide it.Thank you for your continous support for making us better traders.Have a good trading day full of green pips.

use seller9's setting.

Thanks & Best Regards
XiaoPeng

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Thanks & Best Regards
XiaoPeng

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Hey Rulla,

Before the restart, did you click on the "Stop Robot" button? If not, then that would be why the EA didn't pick up the trades.

If you have to restart mt4 and you have trades open, you have to click on the "Stop Robot" button first. That tells the EA to store its trade info somewhere (in GlobalVariables, I think), so that it can pick up where it left off.

Have fun!

Radar =8^)

Hi Radar,

Thank you for replying. Yes, I always "Stop Robot" and then remove EA from the chart as instructed before closing that chart or MT.

Is it working fine for you? If you have the robot to open some trades, stop it and start again, would it allow you to switch to "Trading Live" mode again?

Here is I am attaching my screenshot where the EA openned some trades, I stopped it and started again. It seems to be tracking his trades and all looks good. But it does not want to go to "Trading Live" mode. If I click "Start Live Trading" button it tries to switch to "Trading Live" briefly but gets back to "Start Live Trading" mode again. Why? What doesn't it like? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you,

-Rulla

Hey Rulla,

I currently have 5 baskets that the EA has no control over, even though it is showing their current status. The first 3 baskets were in a single instance of mt4, which I closed without stopping the EA. The other 2 baskets, I had stopped the EA, then closed mt4, but my computer was in go-slow mode, as some bugger piece of software freaks out every once in a while, and takes up most of my RAM and hammers the CPU, so the EA didn't get a chance to save its current status.

So far, I have had no trouble stopping the EA on my live account, and having it pick up from where it left off upon restarting. By the way, even though I stop the EA, I never remove it from the chart, especially when I have trades open.

A couple of things to do to ensure your GlobalVariables don't get messed up (or to clean them up if you need to)...

Only use the indicators and EA's that come with this system. Some indicators create GlobalVariables, and when you remove them from the chart, they delete all GV's (not just the ones they create), so the EA will lose track of things for a while. If you find a "must have" indicator, test it in another instance of mt4 first, and make sure that if it creates GV's, it only deletes its own (the same with objects on the chart), and not everybody else's. If it does delete everyone else's, send me the source (.mq4, not .ex4), in a PM, and I'll clean it up. SS_SupportResistance is a good indicator to test it with, as it only removes its own GV's.

When you have no baskets open, stop each instance of the EA, Open their properties, and save the settings, then click "Cancel". Then open Tools --> Global Variables, and delete everything. Then, on each chart that you trade on, open the indicators dialogue, edit HAS, IX0_1, and IX0_2 (don't change anything) and hit "OK" each time... That will force the indicators to update their GV's... Finally, open the EA's properties, reload the settings, and hit "OK". You should now have a clean set of GV's for each set of indicators and EA.

Try this next time you have a basket open... Stop the EA, wait a few minutes, then open the properties of the EA, change nothing, then hit OK so that the EA starts again... It should pick up from where it left off. It might pay to check the GlobalVariables before you stop the EA, then again straight after, to see if there's any new ones, or if the old ones have changed... Check them again on a successful restart, and you should have a good idea what to look out for. It's always good to know the strengths and limitations of your tools, so that you can get the best out of them

Hope that helps

Have fun!

Radar =8^)