DATFRA-M: Learn trading in the most efficient way possible!

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ATTENTION: THIS THREAD IS OUTDATED
Please go to http://datfra-expert-advisor.com/ in order to find the final result of all the research!





























Hello,
today I want to release DATFRA-M, the DATFRA version for manual traders, which is a cloud-based strategy builder that is in essence able to teach trading

It consists of a strategy builder, a tool to practice trading on historical data (right in metatrader4, thousand times faster then demo trading) and a cloud to share our findings!

It is FREE and so easy to use, you will have learned it, and be able to use it in 10 minutes from now (The full tutorial video is ~10 minutes, and in there is everything you need to know!)



Overview of the whole concept

1) Get new trading systems!
DATFRA-M is able to give you an inifinite amount of new trading systems/ideas. Either from the builder or the cloud!
Find trading systems that perfectly suite your needs with a few mouse clicks.

2) Learn these systems
DATFRA-M is not meant to produce black-box systems. No, the system's inner trading logic can be displayed in a human-readable form
and additionally you can watch each system trade, directly in Metatrader, to learn and understand a new system within a few minutes!

3) Practice until you are an expert
Combine these systems, learn from them, throw in custom indicators, your knowledge and experience. Use DATFRA's systems as basis or addition for your own trading style.
And then, you can practice on historical data - just as if it was live!
DATFRA-M is able to replay the history right in Metatrader, for you to practice and improve trading - right in your favourite trading enviroment!
Not only that, DATFRA-M can make suggestions, based on your trading session, on how to improve your trading style!

This is not limited to DATFRA's systems, it can be used to practice any trading style!




Overview of Features

Human-Readable Builder:
DATFRA-M has an extremly simple to use trading-system builder that does not only create Expert Advisors,
but also simple to understand and follow trading rules. Perfectly suited for manual traders

Paper Trader:
Playback the market data, as fast and as often as you want,
and practice your manual trading (or any newly built trading system) on it! Directly within Metatrader4 and fully flexible.

Trading System Cloud:
DATFRA-M is connected to a cloud where all found trading systems are shared among all users -
be part of it, help building the hugest collection of trading systems on earth!

AI Advisor:
DATFRA-M can analyse your paper-trading-sessions and suggest improvements to your trading. For example "If you would only have traded LONG as long as the price was ABOVE the 250 Moving Average you would have made 123$ more profit"!
This is all done automatically and in the background, simple and effective.

Simple, simple, simple:
DATFRA-M was designed to work "out of the box". So, installation and usage are made as simple as possible

Free:
Just like DATFRA, this is a part of my private research that I share with the community for free.
However, if you like it, share it! The more people use it, the better it will be for all users, due to the cloud approach!



Why?
I did put in some more effort beyond what I would have developed for my private usage. But I did not do it only because I am such a nice person
I did it because I want to do some serious - market and system spanning - meta research in the forex fields. So, all systems you guys find and upload to the cloud, will be
part of my private research! I know it will take me many, many months to process all the data, but it will be worth it.
So, the further this goes, the better for me and you.



Screenshots:
http://datfra.com/images/sc/dm_builder.png
http://datfra.com/images/sc/dm_filter.png
http://datfra.com/images/sc/dm_sys_det.png
http://datfra.com/images/sc/dm_sys_hum.png



5 Min Introduction Video:
Here is a Video that will hook you for sure:






Download:
http://datfra.com/?download



Need help?
You can contact me in this thread, via PM, or Skype ( darwin-fx ) whenever you need help or have issues!



-Darwin






A word about the strategies from the builder

DATFRA-M's systems are designed to trade on the opening on a new candle, which means they can be simulated accurately and fast on "open price only" data.
That brings the benefit of beeing able to practice the systems a lot faster (as you only need to make decisions on new bars), and the resulting trading techniques require a
minimum amount of your time when traded live.
For example, if you go for H1 systems, you only need a few minutes each hour for trading DATFRA-M's systems.

Please don't ask for every-tick systems. Be asured that, if a system is designed for it(!), trading on bar-opening brings the same amount of reliability and profit
with a highly reduced time requirement, both in simulating/practicing and live-trading!
However, I will add support for every-tick papertrading soon!



A word about my server
The server made some problems in the past. I did apply some tweaks and hope it will work well now, however, this release will be the first real test for the new configs. If it still strugles, I will let you know and stop this thread & re-release this software when I have a new server

hi Darwin, here in the picture I found something wrong in Paper Trader.

Bye

Hey sardinian, thanks for the report!

Is the 10 pips then perhaps 100 pips?

-Darwin

I discover that in paper trader are allowed only order over 50 pips ...and it does not matter if you digit in instance...1,10, or if digit 4,40
Second mistake: if you digit 6 or 60..only order of 60 pips is allowed (but not 6 pips). If you digit 600, it will open order for 600 pips...this is right
So it not allows order < 50 pips...
I'm happy to give you a little help.
bye

Thanks for the answer, I will look into that
Last question, that makes it easier for me, can you look into the "journal" tab of the backtester when that error happens?

-Darwin

you tried to set it up with renko bars?

No I did not as mt4 cant do renko bars without additional scripts, or am I missing something?
If you try it with renko bars, would be cool if you would report back!

@sardinian: I tested and my installation works fine with small tp/sl. So I hope your journal says something!


-Darwin

Hi Darwin, i sent to you last session of debug_log_utils.txt by private message...ciao

@sardinian: Thanks but it does not help here as I have no "debug bridge" to metatrader :\ So a Journal tab screenshot would be better

-Darwin

Darwin why dont instead we spend our time creating a trading aplication that will be 1000 times better and more eficient than mt4 for retail traders to realy trade similar to large financial institutions?

I made the screenshot the mt4 journal....may it depends due to the failed connection to the broker?

@Soros: Oh I would like to do that, but it would be really much work.

@sardinian: Hmm no that is normal. I guess for one of the next versions I will advice people to use the default mt4 from http://www.metatrader4.com/
I know its much ask, but you could try to install that version, then stuff should work as expected )

-Darwin

Update: One of the next updates will include a direct chat interface, from within DATFRA-M to me, (as I already have that lying around for some other project), which should make reporting bugs and stuff lot easier

-Darwin

Not yet perfect but working - in-app live chat

http://fs1.directupload.net/images/141203/nupl236v.png

IRC Chat and feedback-dialog is working (not yet released tough), and now I work on something that boosts the usefullness of the tool a lot: exporting found trading systems as MT4-Templates!

So if you like a system, lets say one that trades using High-Low-Channel and Momentum, you can export and load that setup in your trading-MT4 with a few clicks, resulting in a ready-to-use setup like that:

http://fs1.directupload.net/images/141204/lkbg478m.png

-Darwin

Hi thanks for great tools,

Can I build an EA based on custom indicator?

Thanks

best regards

Hey dogol,

tough this is planned, it is not possible at the moment, except you want to share the indicator and own the intellectual property. Then I could add it to DATFRA eventually.

-Darwin

Hi Darwin-Fx

Good job! When i try to do only a backtest, the software stops working and close. If i do backtest and walkforward it works ok...just for you to know.

Tks for your effort.

Hey fcg237,

are you referring to the algorithmical DATFRA? If so, please post an error description with a bit more details in its thread and I will do my best to help you ( http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...=494141&page=9 )

-Darwin

UPDATE

13.12.2014 ;; MAJOR: The indicator configurations of trading systems can now be directly exported to a Metatrader-Template, making it easy to setup your live-trading charts in the same way a DATFRA-built system uses them. Open a System and go to 'I want to trade this system in my regular MT4!' for instructions ;;;
13.12.2014 ;; MAJOR: The indicator configurations of trading systems can now be directly used in the Papertrader, making it easy to practice every trading system directly ;;;
13.12.2014 ;; Bugfix: Metatrader4 now is not longer hidden in the background if it should not be ;;;
13.12.2014 ;; Bugfix: Fixed a bug causing the builder to use wrong MACD settings (fastMA > slowMA) ;;;
13.12.2014 ;; Restructured the Main-Interface of the App, and moved the clunky buttons to a drop-down menu ;;;
13.12.2014 ;; Added an In-App Support Chat and a Feedback function. Also, error logs are now automatically sent to me for better debugging ;;;


-Darwin