Dashboard Trading

What I did today was to wake up and see the basket green, so I closed by hand.

That's better than breakfast in bed.

Yellen start to flap here gums.

Yep, and tomorrow Dragi will flap his. In my real trading I am going to hold thru the weekend, but I am mildly worried about some kind of gap. It will be a good test for the EA.

It would be if it were real money.

I closed before.
Yellen, Draghi, holliday, Greece......

Thanks for DB TS.

I have a question please, how are these three values calculated?

Hi HP

All's well that ends well
Trade today 3 DBs LO and NY on my small Live Account.
RSI is the strongest and the most dangerous without SL. Lot of trades. When it goes in the rigth direction, Basket quickly filled




Thanks to HP and Gvc for the great DBs

Have a nice weekend

Since you have read the whole 00-thread you should know this already, shouldn't you?

1 is the move from the daily open.
2 is the bid ratio.
3 is derived from the bid ratio by assigning values to each interval and then dividing the sum by the currency pairs. The sum of all the values of all currencies in 3 should equate to 36. For further explanation search for forex grail.

Hello,

today I traded session "NY" two hours early, before the end of the news.
Time platform is bad, is listed at Brooker +1 hour. Opened a lot of stores, the profit was up € 2, total loss of € 7 for 2 hours. I must analizing bugs worked AutoTrade.

Results from the 4 demos... no live yet. This was trading straight through all 3 sessions (still running)
All in the positive which is great for such a slow day. I'm impressed that the multi stays OPEN 00-23:59 w/ FXCM feed!


I looked at the experts tab and saw some 'closes'... and I wondered about that, since I used no equity locks
and had no SL basket tripped either... (or did I)
The auto does not put in counter trades (hedging)... and will not close any trade (w/o locks on) and will only close 'baskets'....

so here's what I suspect was/is happening: (for U.S. traders only... W/O HP's latest 'fix' for FIFO as: 1 trade per pair per basket. )

The FIFO rules have (already) been SCREWING UP the SL basket 'attempts' to CLOSE ALL TRADES and start a new basket
HA! I didn't set the equity locks but I do see the $24.22 and $24.99 'Highest Loss' against the $25 SL I set.
So the 'current' version w/o the FIFO 'fix' keeps 'closing what it can' resulting in a 'never full' SL basket
and it MIGHT NOT even be able to 'close all trades' on a full PROFITS basket either. (see the $48.49 and $48.28 Green Baskets)
(It's 'Robots Gone Wild'!! for U.S. traders )

So, for us in the 'land of the free'...
I guess we have to use HP's latest fix (1 trade per pair per basket) and I think we can forget about the the equity locks too.
They would only work on that 'highest' single pair... so what's the point???
I'm not sure we should (or even can) use them if the goal is to fill the basket (one pair at a time.. ugh!!)

We're basically screwed if you think about it.
Because of FIFO...
We are NOT able to compound our strongest trades as we 'stretch' towards a filled basket
which is a CENTRAL PART of GVC's built in strategy.

In FACT... if you're a U.S. trader...
you MAY want to 'Pick Your Poison'....
You MAY well be BETTER off letting the apparent 'dysfunction' I talked about above just simply HAPPEN.

I really don't know what (which) to do and I won't know until I run HP's 'fix' side-by-side with the 'wild robot'.
(It MIGHT be that this 'wild robot' version constantly executing GVC's algorithm and bouncing between a red wall and a green wall
should just be left running 24/5 and see what the results are w/ real data.)

Of course, in doing that, you abandon the whole logic of what basket trading is:
Dumping everything and starting 'fresh' into the ebb and flow of currencies
at that 'new' moment with no 'baggage' from the 'old' moment... that's the 'wisdom' of basket trading.
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In fact... the more I think about it... this is what I think we (U.S. traders) end up with... (maybe not so bad):

Instead of reaching our $25 SL basket and dumping the 'whole basket' of rotten apples.... we are (in effect) getting 'rid' of ONE bad apple at a time...
until
the red negative balance stops bumping up against the $25 threshold
and starts heading back the other way toward the green shangri la!
This unintended 'variation' allows for the 'never ending basket' scenario but is also allowing for the compounding of our trades.

The 'other' possible fix (probably the 'RIGHT' one) would be coding a <if fail><keep trying to close X 10> scenario for BOTH Loss basket close AND profit basket close.
Dear wonderful coders... it this possible???

What is with these Dashboards on the weekend?

I just can't work with them; keep getting disconnect / reconnect sounds, MT4 slow as glue

Can't make any charts or template adjustments as too frustrating, even turned off Auto Trading

How do you programmers ever get anything done or is it just me?

Hoy, hoy, hoy, calm down again! Imho it's not an issue of wrong coding but your broker instead. (Pepperstone, ICM?) If you use script ForceLoadHistoricalData with these brokers you might fail. Ask broker why it is like it is! Btw. dingdong99 db has no problem, I just started with Pepperstone on Demo02. To avoid such issue you should download all neccessary historical data prior to the weekend.

Jibala

Real programmers use the mt4ticker so they are able to work through the weekend.

Something I am going to trial is using an EA on each of the 28 charts, it sets a pre-determined TP and SL for multiple trades, no magic number required

I'm thinking of a TP around 20 pips, pretty hard to guess a best for the wide range of ADR involved

My theory is, when a pair gets moving, it may be able to book a couple or more of +20 +20 +20 pips in the initial move

I will use the setting OnlyAddProfit so if price reverses, no new trades will be taken

If it continues the move, then more +20 pips be taken, I think I could use a high number of trades can be taken in this situation

As long as it gives entry signals, surge ahead, take profit, minor retrace, more entries ???

Obviously, no need for the Basket settings or approach then

I will attach the EA if you want to have a look, only 2 settings, but remember to add and extra 0, so 200 for 20 pips

Good luck all

@Erebus

Placed the .ex4 by mistake.

Added more steps and win/loss basketcounters.

Edit.
Retracted the release just had an idea about fifo.

That's all I can see in the folder, no mq file, not sure why that is, it works for me

For all you FIFO crippled Americans try this on Monday.
Seeing the test it uses the right FIFO sequence.
For now it only works for the automatic basket close and the [Close All] button.

And also this is the previous retracted update.

I need to buy you a drink!!!