Trapping System: Tunnel Martingale

Hello, everyone. When martingale 1.2.4 ,last order always 16,and EA stops. Image2.png Where is problem? Thankyou. My parameters Image3.png

Your MartingaleFactor= is 1, and MaxMartingaleFactor= is 25, which means you need set a MartingaleFactor for all 25 orders.
For example: 0.01,0.02,0.04,0.06,0.09 ... you need specified as: 1,2,4,6,9 etc ....

...you should try this EA on S. Tester too - and maybe then found some other new exciting conclusions !! :nerd:

[quote=Rolas;8500119]Hello, everyone. When martingale 1.2.4 ,last order always 16,and EA stopsWhere is problem? Thank you. /quote]

Hi,
I'm very sorry, I'm no longer supporting this EA at the moment, as I'm focusing only 1 EA which I've built on another thread. But looking at the behaviour, you can check on the Experts tab to see whether any error arising.

Usually this issue due to either you are not allowed to create order with the specified lot size at index 16, or maybe the price has slipped too far to create stop order.

Thank you Radityjo.ardi

if i put this system on two pair it gives second pair multiple order is any solution ? my gap is 30 to 50 point

It enabel max loss fuction did not working . Suppose i want only 6 lot opening like 1,2,4,8,16,32. So gap is 20 points then i have 1+4+16= 21 buy or sell and also 2+8+32 =42 buy or sell net lot is 42-21=21 lot . So i know every 100 point i loss 21 $ . If y any fuction all lot close on maxium loss like 21 and again start new circle. Pleace chek its enabel maxx loss fuction for dynamic lot

i add stop losss but it can not restart on onec tp gain. that is the problem in ths ea . hope any one correct it

For those who has questions,
Tunnel Martingale's development is currently discontinued. But I would like to recode it at sometime later. This recode activity will be started not faster than the next 3-5 months, depends on the support request on RdzGridTraps.

I hope you understand.

Meanwhile, since it is a free open source code, you can ask another developer to "fork" it, and understand their legal standing before modifying it.
I'll allow any modification from the latest source in the first page, as long as you don't change the base name (which is "Tunnel Martingale"), and you should not sell it for your own purpose.

Apologies for that. Will see you in a few months later.

hello dear friends

can any one add it this Feature:
"start by manual order"

its means a position open manual (pending or momentary), then the robot Based on settings and normal work manage and close it.
and it can be run for Distinct charts in one mt4

thank you

...tunnel of my mind...

fail to all martingale ...

Key is here to Place that on Trending pairs not on Range or you are dead. I see most using EURUSD, that could stick
in range for Years! You need a TREND for such system, Or Fed Reserve Printer in your basement as other option

This is my Martingale Expert Advisor that I coded in 2008.

Hi, I had been using an EA very similar to yours on 5 different pairs. I did several backtests and I see here is a max 14 times in a row loss. For ex on Eurusd I was using 14 to 60 pips. It means, when i initiate the EA it places 14 pips above a buy stop and 14 pips below a sell stop. If buy stop is triggered the position is closed 60 pips above from the initial point. So the potential gain is 46 pips. İf the market retreats after the buy order execution then the sell stop triggers and %70 more lot is added to the initital lot size. In summary the distance between the buy and sell order is 28 pips. In every loss between buy and sell I add 70% to the last lot size so I keep my potential gain. The problem is, even I start with 0.01lot after 13 times loss in a row my lot size is increased as much as 10 lot as you can see the steps.(0,01-0,02-0,03-0,05-0,09-0,15-0,26-0,44-0,75-1,28-2,18-3,71-6,31- 10,73). Even this method is not guaranteed because there are weekend and news gap risk. You might miss the entry or reverse entry price, etc. After few moths of risky and stressful trading sessions, I realised that to trade the reverse of this method is better. My new trade idea is to bet against the market and increase my lot size in ranging market. Also most of the time the market is sideways. By this method in every trade my max loss will be my previous potential gain which was around 5usd(considering to start by 0,01lot). This week I will start to trade and Im so excited lets see whats gonna happen and will let you know the result.

Dear, How you will know that when a pair to start ranging or trending? Forgive me brother, I still not discovered what the hell is a trend? Please don't ask me to go to babypips. I have chanted almost all. I have asked this question on many forums, but no universal definition i got. Some will be using the 200 EMA B.S, some will be using HH,LL but nobody knows that what a trend is at a particular time. Please forgive me, I can also figure out that what the trend was on past charts. As time goes on, My belief that there is nothing like trend. The only thing that can be considered as trend is "What the hell the big players are doing/arranging/planning at a particular time". Nobody can read there mind or the near future but you can almost 70% of the times, find out what possibly the bigger players will do.

I hope, i have not disheartened anybody but this is what the harsh reality is. Take any system(EAs,Indicators), you will find yourself in situations that "If we add this thing,this thing, this thing, blah blah blah to system, it will become perfect but it will never happend while in the process, you will break your basic system.

The key is to keep it simple as much as you can. Keep it generic. You will win market most of the times.


Happy and Green pips to all.

We have something in common. Sorry before, I actually not intend to reply on this thread, because I don't want to encourage martingale to people at the moment. But reading to your comments, it's interesting and I think we have something in common.

I've read all of those resources, books, ebooks, everything about forex, how to determine all the trend and all. But none of them could absolutely predict the trend. The interesting thing is most of the time (or most of us) will read-learn-do and if starting to "work", we become what we call as "overconfident". And this is the one where people usually fall into the same pit.

That is WHY:

1. a lot of people selling forex strategy (in ebook, website, or some kind of signal)
2. a lot of people selling EA
3. a lot of people starting a company to be forex broker
4. a lot of people starting a company to be an electronic wallet exchanger

No offense, but they are the actual money maker, sucking money from people who can't get up from their dream. Frankly speaking, I'm the one that is still dreaming...

Now go back to determining the trend and non-trend. No one could correctly predict the trend 100% without fail. But to me, the closest to 100% is to predict when the market are going to be in ranging time, which is inside the non-trading hours. So, I'm trying to catch profit from ranging market. Of course without playing with martingale.

I introduce you to my EA: RdzGridTraps.
It does exactly the same as what you've described. But I still don't recommend martingale (well, probably "soft" martingale still ok though).

200% agree with you regarding who are the real beneficiaries of the field. I have never been in martingale trading. And to be honest, I found myself very dumb in understanding martingale strategies. But i can't deny that martingale can be a possible way to make up a living from this B.S market. And also on the other side, some people dream that they will get/develop a martingale machine which will be earning for them while they are on the beach with their girlfriend. I think it's not like this. It's you and you to finally decide when to start running your ATM machine and when to stop it. Before engaging into any martingale , for me its more important to learn that
1) when a pair most probably will fall into ranging. And i think it's not that much a difficult job.
2) What pairs are suitable for a particular martingale?
3) Timings?

i will test your EA, thank you

I'm not too sure... whether I have to revive this thread, or just keep it silent. Sorry, this post might've looked like a story to you.

Tunnel Martingale is a stupid strategy. I've got an idea, rewrote the idea as EA in MetaTrader, backtest it, then failed. A lot of ideas... too many ideas. Martingale is a bad idea, it could suck your money instantly (generally speaking all strategy does, but this one does "better" to suck your money than others). If you follow this thread from start, basically Tunnel Martingale is just like any other martingale, if the market moves the opposite, open order 2 times of the volume from the previous order. It was awesome and gave an assurance that you will never lose (technically). Profit went through, but practically when it goes sideways, it will keep adding order 2 times of your last volume until your equity runs dry.

I was having a feeling TOO LAZY to work on any EA from MetaTrader anymore. Just because of MetaTrader is such a d**k for keeping C++ as their MetaTrader's EA programming language. It is old as your grandma's pie recipe, which is nice btw, but not for such a programming language in this fast-moving world. Keeping arrays of objects with complex data, complex programming style, come on...!!! It took me weeks, just to deal with sorting alone, plus if I want a filter, sorting, all sort of stuff that people do when using arrays. Additionally, I need to decide which type of "string" variable I need to use, not to mention that I have to write at least 1 line of code to clear it in the memory. Ain't nobody got time for that!

C++ isn't just the right programming language for writing EA to my opinion. While other businesses can move fast using a complicated-yet-easy-to-use code framework, writing C++ is just too slow. C++ is best suitable for programming the robot (the actual one, not EA), microprocessor, or devices, or anything you can think of that connects directly with hardware and stuff. It's because of the ability to "talk" to the hardware fluently without "conversion" of the language in the framework which typically can take longer to process. Easy, lightweight, and just so "direct". So, C++ devices/hardware, but not for trading tools like MetaTrader. I want something where just by snapping my finger, I can do many complex processes, especially dealing with arrays, heavy calculation and all. So, that's why .NET Framework was invented.


Until today, I've got cTrader which is actually based on the .NET framework. But not many brokers used it up as their base platform, it's just like their sidekick. What do I get for using cTrader? I'm not in the position of promoting it, just that cTrader is the only one uses the NET framework (so far. Please CMIIW).

1. Of course, using .NET Framework is much more efficient. Just by snapping finger, you can use all sort of complex process which C++ can do but can be 3x - 5x longer time to build the same logic. You don't even have to write any line just to clear your memory, all is done by the framework itself. I'm a 9-6 office worker, I don't have all my time to write these codes unless if I quit my job and do forex trading. But I'm not confident yet to do it since that requires a lot of money due to commitments with my personal errands (need to support my family, etc).
2. When I was dealing with MetaTrader 4 (old one), I've got to deal with the synchronous process when opening order or opening at market price. Most of the time, opening 1 order can take 0.2 seconds - 1.5 seconds depending on the network connectivity. with cTrader, the infrastructure and the software itself is quite sustainable and reliable. You can take simultaneous asynchronous orders in no time! Maybe no one is there...? I don't know much about MetaTrader 5 and such, maybe now uses async but I won't budge if they still use C++.
3. Brother, cTrader is using .NET Framework. That means you can use any libraries out there, be it the lib in Nuget, or whatever...!!! Now, what do you want? Want it to connect to SQL Server? Want it to connect to any server via network protocol? Want it to connect to the cloud? Process JSON, XML, anything easily?

Now, let's get back to the business, shall we?
Recently, I've just finished rewriting Tunnel Martingale (TM) as a cBot (that's what they call for EA in cTrader). I did it in 1 day or less! Still, I need to tidy up anyway. But here's the idea. I've put additional logic to execute the TM's divided into sessions.
I know that if I keep opening position and order, it always ends up bad! It sucks (literally) my money (virtual maybe)! But that's not what we're going to do. In summary, just execute 1 session, at the most-active timing for the chart. It's when a piece of news is about to release.

You've got 3 news, it's 3 sessions. But the Tunnel Martingale concept still the same old sh*t. Just read at the FF calendar and put in the date and time, whether to start with Buy or Sell first. I backtested with the following simple concept:

1. See FF calendar for past events.
   I would rather avoid Non-farm Payroll which happens every first Friday of the month, at 20:30 pm of my timezone. Since the movement is crazy and unpredictable, this could potentially end up having more than 10 open positions and suck your money dry.
2. Tag the date and the exact time to the configuration.
3. See "Forecast" and "Previous". Because by right, you can't see the "Actual" of future events. If it's "good for the first pair of the currency" then put Buy. If it's "good for the last pair of the currency", then put Sell.

Below a snip of the configuration...

and below is the backtest result for the past 1 month...


Now, this is what I like from writing code like this... more greens.