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  • #321
  • Oct 18, 2015 7:51pm Oct 18, 2015 7:51pm
Quoting Opemipo
{quote} Good work. All the trades u posted here used AmazingEA but u said u ve disabled it and using WBT. Pls, I ll like to clear one thing. Do u now use Amazing or u re still using WBT? Did u use Amazing or WBT to place all the trades u displayed on this thread? Phemmy
Hello Phemmy,
My bad for confusion... I disabled AmazingEA's Trailing and BE setups and used WBT to cover this. I do use Amazing EA for entries and the target TP. Hope this clarifies your points... toppo
  • #322
  • Oct 19, 2015 2:21am Oct 19, 2015 2:21am
Quoting toppo qqq
{quote} Hello Phemmy, My bad for confusion... I disabled AmazingEA's Trailing and BE setups and used WBT to cover this. I do use Amazing EA for entries and the target TP. Hope this clarifies your points... toppo
If u dont find it too much to ask, can u place upload for us the WBT?

Phemmy
I am more afraid of 100 sheep led by a lion than 100 lions led by a sheep!
  • #323
  • Edited 5:05am Oct 19, 2015 2:27am | Edited 5:05am
Quoting Opemipo
{quote} If u dont find it too much to ask, can u place upload for us the WBT? Phemmy
No problem. Default parameters are 40, 1, 40. I prefer 40, 20, 40. Put cork_pop.wav in the sound folder. Fun to hear the cork pou sound as trailing takes place. Have fun. toppo
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  • #324
  • Oct 19, 2015 4:15am Oct 19, 2015 4:15am
Quoting toppo qqq
{quote} No problem. Default parameters are 40, 1, 40. I prefer 40, 20, 40. Pur cork_pop.wav in the sound folder. Fun to hear the cork pou sound as trading takes place. Have fun.{file}
Thank u so much.

Phemmy
I am more afraid of 100 sheep led by a lion than 100 lions led by a sheep!
  • #325
  • Oct 19, 2015 8:13pm Oct 19, 2015 8:13pm
Quoting bgntrs
Hi guys Quick question. Can someone tell me if I had set trade to TP at 20 pips, but would like the SL to jump to 10 pips when the trade reaches there, how would I do that? Thanks
any ideas guys?
I tried by doing BEpoints at 110 amd BEoffset 100 so that when the trade reached 11 pips, stop loss would move to 10 pips but it did not work. is there a better method?
  • #326
  • Oct 20, 2015 7:03pm Oct 20, 2015 7:03pm
Quoting bgntrs
{quote} any ideas guys? I tried by doing BEpoints at 110 amd BEoffset 100 so that when the trade reached 11 pips, stop loss would move to 10 pips but it did not work. is there a better method?
You need BEPoints=10 and BEOffset=100. With such small amounts you may need to be aware of the Spread so use AddSpreadToSL=true
  • #327
  • Oct 21, 2015 2:09pm Oct 21, 2015 2:09pm
Quoting hopital
Hi Alan, I've been using your EA for 6 months and I'm having good results. The only problem I have, as everyone, is the slippage. To minimize the slippage effect on the trade I always manually adjust the stop loss to the number of pips I had defined previously. For example, I have a stop loss of 20 pips, when the order is activated the price slips 10 pips, so my real stop loss becomes 30 pips. When this happens I manually reduce the stop loss 10 pips, so that my risk becomes the same as initial. I wonder if you could think about implementing a stop...
Good result. Glad to hear u re making progress with Amazing ea, pls can u share ur setting?

Phemmy
I am more afraid of 100 sheep led by a lion than 100 lions led by a sheep!
  • #328
  • Oct 22, 2015 3:38am Oct 22, 2015 3:38am
Quoting Alan111S
{quote} You need BEPoints=10 and BEOffset=100. With such small amounts you may need to be aware of the Spread so use AddSpreadToSL=true

Hi Alan, thanks for that, works a treat!

The only thing i noticed though is that it cuts the profit by a fair bit. i tried one trade with addspreadtoSL true and one false. the one in which it was true gave about 35 pounds profit and the other gave around 100 pounds. any idea why? (yes, quite clearly a noob)

cheers

bg
  • #329
  • Oct 22, 2015 3:51am Oct 22, 2015 3:51am
GBP Core Retail 22-Oct-2015
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Left lot size for those who want me to show lot size...

0.26: FNG Spike
0.07: Straddle
  • #330
  • Oct 22, 2015 3:59am Oct 22, 2015 3:59am
Quoting wakeel86
GBP Core Retail 22-Oct-2015 {image} Left lot size for those who want me to show lot size... 0.26: FNG Spike 0.07: Straddle
hi would you be kind enough to share with us what broker u are using ? please pm . thanks
  • #331
  • Oct 22, 2015 12:43pm Oct 22, 2015 12:43pm
Pre and at news
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  • #332
  • Oct 22, 2015 1:01pm Oct 22, 2015 1:01pm
Quoting toppo qqq
Pre and at news {image}
Nice. You did some 200 bucks very quickly!
Great to see your settings!
  • #333
  • Oct 29, 2015 7:06pm Oct 29, 2015 7:06pm
Hi Guys

I had a failed (Off Quotes) today on a spike trade for NZD Business Confidence. I'm guessing 'Off Quotes' would refer to something to do with my broker but thought I would check if anyone else has had this issue. My NZDUSD set up was fine but my EURNZD didn't activate. My Log file is attached.

Thanks
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'Stability breeds Instability' Hyman Minsky
  • #334
  • Oct 30, 2015 3:41am Oct 30, 2015 3:41am
Quoting ALFtrade
Hi Guys I had a failed (Off Quotes) today on a spike trade for NZD Business Confidence. I'm guessing 'Off Quotes' would refer to something to do with my broker but thought I would check if anyone else has had this issue. My NZDUSD set up was fine but my EURNZD didn't activate. My Log file is attached. Thanks {file}
Seems you using a Dealing Desk broker for your trades. Most of us here trade ECN/STP brokers
  • #335
  • Edited 5:21am Oct 30, 2015 5:00am | Edited 5:21am
Quoting wakeel86
{quote} Seems you using a Dealing Desk broker for your trades. Most of us here trade ECN/STP brokers
Unsure why that would seem like a dealing desk broker. I use FXOpen Australia which in all accounts have been fine for the past two years and is an ECN broker. Has some strange freezing going on during the really large events and quite large slippage but from what I've seen that's pretty normal. What broker do you use?

Thanks for your help
'Stability breeds Instability' Hyman Minsky
  • #336
  • Oct 30, 2015 7:01am Oct 30, 2015 7:01am
Quoting ALFtrade
{quote} Unsure why that would seem like a dealing desk broker. I use FXOpen Australia which in all accounts have been fine for the past two years and is an ECN broker. Has some strange freezing going on during the really large events and quite large slippage but from what I've seen that's pretty normal. What broker do you use? Thanks for your help
wakeel is right....generally off-quotes is given by dealing desk brokers when they have placed a restriction on their system just before news events. In other words, they don't want to take your trade. An ECN broker wouldn't care as they pass the trade on to their Liquidity Provider, but a Dealing Desk is taking on some of the risk, and they know they can't actually trade at the prices shown in MT4. They have a get out of jail free card !

I have to say though that freezing during news events and big slippage is typical of a Dealing Desk even though they say they are STP. Looking at your logfile the off-quotes is all the way through from 20 seconds before for at least a minute. I would say they blocked the system during that time.
  • #337
  • Oct 30, 2015 7:04am Oct 30, 2015 7:04am
Quoting Alan111S
{quote} wakeel is right....generally off-quotes is given by dealing desk brokers when they have placed a restriction on their system just before news events. In other words, they don't want to take your trade. An ECN broker wouldn't care as they pass the trade on to their Liquidity Provider, but a Dealing Desk is taking on some of the risk, and they know they can't actually trade at the prices shown in MT4. They have a get out of jail free card ! I have to say though that freezing during news events and big slippage is typical of a Dealing Desk...
Ok thanks guys very appreciated and I am now looking for a new broker. Seems to be a bit of a secret on this thread but if anyone has some suggestions on reputable ECN/STP brokers could you please let me know.

Thanks
'Stability breeds Instability' Hyman Minsky
  • #338
  • Oct 30, 2015 1:05pm Oct 30, 2015 1:05pm
Finande Magnates (http://www.financemagnates.com/forex...te-statistics/)
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  • #339
  • Nov 3, 2015 4:43pm Nov 3, 2015 4:43pm
dear alan
I think i found a little bug in the code
when I set it to news releases in 23:45 for example, so when the time pass the 00:00 the date is change
and the ea stops working (for tsl and oco etc.).

what do you say?
  • #340
  • Edited 6:23pm Nov 3, 2015 4:55pm | Edited 6:23pm
Quoting quiet
dear alan I think i found a little bug in the code when I set it to news releases in 23:45 for example, so when the time pass the 00:00 the date is change and the ea stops working (for tsl and oco etc.). what do you say?
Yes, you're right. Wow, that is actually not a small bug.......

I think the best way to handle this is 1) If you don't specify a Date, then it continues to work as it does now, but 2) If you enter the Date it will manage trades regardless of when they were entered.

I will still need to release a bug-fix for this. Expect Version 6.20 within the next 24 hours.

Alan
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