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  • #141
  • Jun 28, 2015 6:59am Jun 28, 2015 6:59am
dear Alan
coud you please looke at these and tell me what's wrong?
I'd put slipchek
and the log said that it works and changed the sl to minstop+spread
but
actualy the old stop remains, even there were some quotes meanwhile as the ticlog shows
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so, I'll be happy to get your attention
  • #142
  • Jun 28, 2015 8:03pm Jun 28, 2015 8:03pm
Quoting lizixu
Hi Alan, Is there is limit for the value in NSec?
No, but since it represents Seconds it should be between 0 and 59. I haven't put in any code that validates the time or date used.
  • #143
  • Jun 28, 2015 8:31pm Jun 28, 2015 8:31pm
Quoting quiet
dear Alan could you please look at these and tell me what's wrong? I'd put slipcheck and the log said that it works and changed the sl to minstop+spread but actually the old stop remains, even there were some quotes meanwhile as the ticklog shows {image} {image} {image} {image} so, I'll be happy to get your attention
In the first log, Minstop was set at 9 seconds past. Actually, from the 3rd log you can see it happened at 7 seconds past. So the prices at the time are not shown in the 2nd log, as the earliest shown is 22:45:09 but you can see it's around 0.68828, so 0.68874 is slightly better by 5 pips or so.

But in layman's terms what has happened is there has been an initial spike up with slippage (33 pips), due to the Trade Balance being slightly better than expected but the news has not been market moving enough and the Kiwi failed to go higher. In fact, if you look at what happened in the context of price action that day, there had been a big drop in the NZDUSD a couple of hours before and from a price action perspective that looked like a great selling opportunity!
  • #144
  • Edited 3:32pm Jun 29, 2015 5:38am | Edited 3:32pm
Quoting Alan111S
{quote} In the first log, Minstop was set at 9 seconds past. Actually, from the 3rd log you can see it happened at 7 seconds past. So the prices at the time are not shown in the 2nd log, as the earliest shown is 22:45:09 but you can see it's around 0.68828, so 0.68874 is slightly better by 5 pips or so. But in layman's terms what has happened is there has been an initial spike up with slippage (33 pips), due to the Trade Balance being slightly better than expected but the news has not been market moving enough and the Kiwi failed to go higher. In...
thank you
but the trade starts on 0.69176 in 22:45:09 as you can see in the mt4 terminal and the bid was than 0.69121 or a tick later 0.69082 so the stoploss supposed to be there (- 20 points minstoplevel), so why it goes down till 0.68874 ??
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  • #145
  • Jun 30, 2015 8:01am Jun 30, 2015 8:01am
CAD GDP 30-Jun-2015
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  • #146
  • Jun 30, 2015 4:13pm Jun 30, 2015 4:13pm
Nice work Alan, going to have some fun with this. I got in on the CAD GDP news trading USDCAD and made 61 pips. Originally wanted to target 90 pips but my entry was slipped with a visible gap on my 1 minute chart... will test on a few brokers at the same time in future to see which has best execution.

Tried to get in @ 1.23765 but was activated at 1.24062, got out at 1.24671
  • #147
  • Jun 30, 2015 6:59pm Jun 30, 2015 6:59pm
Quoting Spinal
Nice work Alan, going to have some fun with this. I got in on the CAD GDP news trading USDCAD and made 61 pips. Originally wanted to target 90 pips but my entry was slipped with a visible gap on my 1 minute chart... will test on a few brokers at the same time in future to see which has best execution. Tried to get in @ 1.23765 but was activated at 1.24062, got out at 1.24671
Nice Job!

I had similar slippage 30 pips, got in at 1.24067, and made 70. Very similar. What made you come out at 1.24671?

My broker slips but has good execution. In my experience, you can't really get both.

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  • #148
  • Jul 1, 2015 3:30am Jul 1, 2015 3:30am
Quoting Alan111S
...What made you come out at 1.24671?
Nothing special about my exit, just set up a stop of 30 pips and target of 90 - set and forget style. Suppose you could target a nearby resistance / support area but rightly or wrongly I've tried to remove as much discretion from my trading as possible.

Looking to set a pending trade for tonights ADP NFP figure with similar SL / TP. Notice in your best news items you prefer USDJPY - any particular reason why you go with the yen and not the euro for example on this particular announcement? Regardless, it probably makes sense not to pair with the euro right now given the volatility with the Greece situation.
  • #149
  • Jul 1, 2015 7:38am Jul 1, 2015 7:38am
Quoting Spinal
{quote} Nothing special about my exit, just set up a stop of 30 pips and target of 90 - set and forget style. Suppose you could target a nearby resistance / support area but rightly or wrongly I've tried to remove as much discretion from my trading as possible. Looking to set a pending trade for tonights ADP NFP figure with similar SL / TP. Notice in your best news items you prefer USDJPY - any particular reason why you go with the yen and not the euro for example on this particular announcement? Regardless, it probably makes sense not to pair with...
Yes I like Set/Forget too. Prevents over-nervous premature exits..... I skipped ADP tonight, as I am trading depending on the Euro situation. In other words, if traders seem overly concerned with Greece then less likely to get decent moves elsewhere, so at the moment am skipping the less important trades. UJ is the traditional pair for USA Economic Data but you could use Euro as a proxy - if the Euro situation was more normal.

Alan
  • #150
  • Jul 1, 2015 8:07am Jul 1, 2015 8:07am
Quoting Alan111S
{quote} Nice Job! I had similar slippage 30 pips, got in at 1.24067, and made 70. Very similar. What made you come out at 1.24671? My broker slips but has good execution. In my experience, you can't really get both. {image} {image}

I also encountered slippage 43 pips, due to closed earlier, finally lost. Attached is the EA setting and order journal. Since mid of Jun-15 / started EA ver.6, I always have negative order, I do not know what reasons. anyone can help?
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  • #151
  • Jul 1, 2015 8:34am Jul 1, 2015 8:34am
Quoting zeromax2u
{quote} I also encountered slippage 43 pips, due to closed earlier, finally lost. Attached is the EA setting and order journal. Since mid of Jun-15 / started EA ver.6, I always have negative order, I do not know what reasons. anyone can help? {image} {image}


I wonder my broker manipulated the order as I encountered 3 orders slippage and activated at the same price (1.95258). Attached two of the order's journal. Any comments?
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  • #152
  • Jul 1, 2015 10:19am Jul 1, 2015 10:19am
Hi Alan,
seems i might need tutorials on how you use Fibonacci extensions in deciding when to leave news trades to run for the rest of the day accumulating more pips. do you consider the deviations as well, and also how do you go about reversals/strong retracements, or probably some infos i'm not mentioning
  • #153
  • Jul 2, 2015 12:45am Jul 2, 2015 12:45am
Hey

Anyone got any good settings for NonFarms today? I seem to be able to get some of the smaller releases with a 10 pip take but it always seems to slip passed and never trigger any larger releases.

Thanks

Alex
'Stability breeds Instability' Hyman Minsky
  • #154
  • Jul 2, 2015 5:00am Jul 2, 2015 5:00am
there is no broker that has no slipage
  • #155
  • Jul 2, 2015 5:17am Jul 2, 2015 5:17am
Quoting msdogan
there is no broker that has no slipage
I'm not sure if that is meant to be answering my post about Amazing EA settings for the nonfarms data release today or something else, but yes of course all brokers have slippage. If you have any setting for this EA that work better on large news releases please let us know

Regards
'Stability breeds Instability' Hyman Minsky
  • #156
  • Jul 2, 2015 6:46am Jul 2, 2015 6:46am
Quoting ALFtrade
{quote} I'm not sure if that is meant to be answering my post about Amazing EA settings for the nonfarms data release today or something else, but yes of course all brokers have slippage. If you have any setting for this EA that work better on large news releases please let us know Regards
sory i ve just began testing that ea.
  • #157
  • Jul 2, 2015 8:00am Jul 2, 2015 8:00am
USD NFP 02-Jul-2015
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Although FNG/Script took out both of my trades due to release figure being within my low deviation range, I was already in profit prior to the release & banked some pips before the closure
  • #158
  • Jul 2, 2015 8:11am Jul 2, 2015 8:11am
Quoting wakeel86
USD NFP 02-Jul-2015 {image} Although FNG/Script took out both of my trades due to release figure being within my low deviation range, I was already in profit prior to the release & banked some pips before the closure
which broker is that ?
  • #159
  • Jul 7, 2015 12:14am Jul 7, 2015 12:14am
Currency Strength Meter happened to be down as at when I woke up to spike AUD Interest Rate News. Anyone checked to see if having same experience
  • #160
  • Edited 3:07pm Jul 7, 2015 4:48am | Edited 3:07pm
Do you guys know anything about using a mobile connection for spike trading? I only checked the ping and with my provider it's even faster than my wired connection. But the question is whether the connection itself is consistent (meaning continuous). If it isn't then no ping would help.. Any ideas how to check those things? Same question about wifi conection.
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