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  • #341
  • Edited Nov 5, 2015 5:15am Nov 4, 2015 1:52pm | Edited Nov 5, 2015 5:15am
Quoting Alan111S
I have fixed the bug reported by 'quiet' above. Please download V6.20 from the first post on this thread. If you set NYear, NMonth and NDay then the EA will manage your trade regardless of the Date. If you don't set these parameters, then when the time clicks over midnight, any existing Pending Orders or Open Trades are no longer actively managed. BE, Trailing Stop and deleting Pending Orders due to STWAN etc. will be ignored. So the guide is if you are doing a long term trade that will be open past Midnight (Brokertime) then you should enter the...

thank you Alan
you are great

may I ask, what if I have a news in 12:30 and another news (same symbol) in the day after, also in 12:30.
and the first one still working when the next come, I think that the magik number of both is the same!
so now the settings of the two will affect each other?
  • #342
  • Nov 5, 2015 6:48am Nov 5, 2015 6:48am
Well, I am really exhausted from trading this week, can anyone upload the settings file, .set file.
using it on EURUSD & GBPUSD
I think many of you have tried it, and know well the right settings, I tried the default settings but it didnt work at GBP news today.
Thx in advance.
  • #343
  • Nov 5, 2015 2:27pm Nov 5, 2015 2:27pm
Guys

For those few that downloaded 6.20 or 6.21, please don't use them. I think they were downloaded 8 times. I'm going to have a bigger think about the Magic Number and managing trades past 00:00 on the Clock.

The EA should always work with default settings. If it doesn't, you really need to send in your logfiles (attach as zip)

Alan
  • #344
  • Nov 6, 2015 5:26am Nov 6, 2015 5:26am
Alan I know you have answered this question serverally. i want others who used this to recommend the best broker for this.
  • #345
  • Nov 7, 2015 6:07am Nov 7, 2015 6:07am
Quoting borguu
Alan I know you have answered this question serverally. i want others who used this to recommend the best broker for this.
Ty for the clarification
I am from the 8 downloaded it.
I used v 6.10 yesterday it worked with GBPUSD, but the order were activated 3 seconds before the news, I am afraid of reversal may happens
  • #346
  • Nov 7, 2015 9:04am Nov 7, 2015 9:04am
Quoting borguu
Alan I know you have answered this question serverally. i want others who used this to recommend the best broker for this.
Alan, good afternoon and above all many thanks for this consultant who has given us and continue to give so many joys ...
I have version 6.10 and it's going very well all that has happened is that the broker where I operate leaves open me 2 orders at the same time, ie just let me or "buy" or "sel" because already I canceled about withdrawals from substantial gains. Therefore I would ask to be possible if it is possible that the EA thou mightest me to give me the option to activate only the sale or purchase only to choose but I never 2 orders at the same time but I can not get my money.

Thank you again for what you do.
Best regards.
  • #347
  • Nov 8, 2015 8:13pm Nov 8, 2015 8:13pm
Quoting juanin
{quote} Alan, good afternoon and above all many thanks for this consultant who has given us and continue to give so many joys ... I have version 6.10 and it's going very well all that has happened is that the broker where I operate leaves open me 2 orders at the same time, ie just let me or "buy" or "sel" because already I canceled about withdrawals from substantial gains. Therefore I would ask to be possible if it is possible that the EA thou mightest me to give me the option to activate only the sale or purchase only to choose but I never 2 orders...
Either set AllowBuys=True and AllowSells=False or the opposite. That way the EA will only trade in that direction.

Alan
  • #348
  • Nov 8, 2015 8:15pm Nov 8, 2015 8:15pm
Quoting WayToGo
{quote} Ty for the clarification I am from the 8 downloaded it. I used v 6.10 yesterday it worked with GBPUSD, but the order were activated 3 seconds before the news, I am afraid of reversal may happens
If your orders are activated before news, increase your Pointsaway value. I used to use 50 but now I use 100. Also make sure you use ModifyGap higher than 10 but not higher than 30.

Alan
  • #349
  • Nov 8, 2015 8:18pm Nov 8, 2015 8:18pm
Thanks Alan. What I did was delete everything put for sale buy and sell to buy and it works. Do you believe also that it be deleted Ea go faster than you recommend? thanks and regards.
  • #350
  • Nov 8, 2015 8:34pm Nov 8, 2015 8:34pm
All, I want to fix the bug that 'quiet' spotted, which is that if you don't enter a date into the EA then BE and Trail etc. are only managed until the clock ticks over 23:59. Also the magic number is based on the trade time but if you setup a Trade for 12:30 on GBPUSD today and again tomorrow then the 2 sets of trades can interfere with each other.

So I have started a poll asking whether it's OK to insist on configuring the date and time of the trade. This means however, that the EA can no longer be used to trade every day at a certain time, by setting the Year, Month and Day all to 0. Please answer the poll Yes if you're Ok with that. But answer No if you have a real reason (not just laziness !)

Many thanks in advance.
  • #351
  • Nov 8, 2015 10:15pm Nov 8, 2015 10:15pm
I voted for "Yes, Don't mind. I set it up for each News Event." though I also wouldn't mind Nsec being left alone
  • #352
  • Nov 8, 2015 10:28pm Nov 8, 2015 10:28pm
Quoting wakeel86
I voted for "Yes, Don't mind. I set it up for each News Event." though I also wouldn't mind Nsec being left alone
OK wakeel, I'll see what I can do. I want to use the datetime type for the seconds of the news and day but it doesn't seem to allow using seconds, according to the documentation. But sometimes the documentation is wrong. I can always add on NSec. each time I use it but it would be cleaner to just use minutes.

It might be you have to use negative SecBMO to achieve what you want, if that would work. Don't panic though. The whole idea of a Poll is to find out what people use.

I don't want to mess up anything for anyone, if possible.
  • #353
  • Nov 9, 2015 12:51am Nov 9, 2015 12:51am
Quoting plexyroad
I try but i'm not a coder: It's working by tick method and not timing method. However you can set a minimal trading step. Regarding tick method the Trailing Step and Break even can be more prompt....
Alan,
With respect to a comment from plexyroad on the other thread, I was wondering if it would be possible for the EA to run on both tick and timing method. Since once in a while, my platform time seems to pause for some few seconds before news, and the EA delays in modifying pending orders from SecBPO to SecBAO. So I'm thinking with the EA running on tick & timing (if possible), & mt4ticker also in play, the EA can respond early enough.
But in a situation where it's either tick or timing, then I'd rather VOTE for tick since mt4ticker assists when there's a tick delay on terminal
  • #354
  • Nov 9, 2015 4:41am Nov 9, 2015 4:41am
Quoting wakeel86
{quote} Alan, With respect to a comment from plexyroad on the other thread, I was wondering if it would be possible for the EA to run on both tick and timing method. Since once in a while, my platform time seems to pause for some few seconds before news, and the EA delays in modifying pending orders from SecBPO to SecBAO. So I'm thinking with the EA running on tick & timing (if possible), & mt4ticker also in play, the EA can respond early enough. But in a situation where it's either tick or timing, then I'd rather VOTE for tick since mt4ticker assists...
wakeel

It already runs on both. I upgraded it so that if a tick is not received for a certain period, the timer forces it to run. The setting I went for is 50ms. You can test it yourself by running it on a weekend - it will work properly but obviously won't be able to trade......

Aaaaah - I just read his comments. I think he is talking about Quantina News EA not Amazing EA.

Alan
  • #355
  • Nov 9, 2015 5:52am Nov 9, 2015 5:52am
Quoting Alan111S
{quote} wakeel It already runs on both. I upgraded it so that if a tick is not received for a certain period, the timer forces it to run. The setting I went for is 50ms. You can test it yourself by running it on a weekend - it will work properly but obviously won't be able to trade......
Ok then, nice to know it runs on both tick & timer

Quoting Alan111S
{quote} Aaaaah - I just read his comments. I think he is talking about Quantina News EA not Amazing EA. Alan
Yeah I know. I just felt if probably Amazing EA had a similar issue by running on timer only

Thanks anyway
  • #356
  • Nov 10, 2015 6:03am Nov 10, 2015 6:03am
Version 7.00 Released

11-Nov-2015
Version 7.00 Modified by Alan Prothero
Setting Year, Month and Day changes the way the EA operates. See ReadMe file.
Magic Number now includes Month and Day.
Deleted 'Expert is disabled because it is not day of expected news' message.

So this version fixes the issues with multiple trades setup for the same pair, same time but different day. NSec is still available and so is Breakout Trading.

If you set Year Month and Day, then the EA will manage the trades fully, until they close. The Date and Time is displayed in this configuration.

If you don't set Year Month and Day, you can use it for Breakout Trades still as it only cares about the time. But it will not manage your trades past midnight. The Date is not displayed in this configuration, only the Time

The Magic Number has been extended to include Month and Day as well as Hour Minute and Seconds, which should make it unique for that currency pair. If you don't set the Date, the Magic Number defaults back to Hours Minutes and Seconds.

I deleted the message 'Expert is disabled because it is not day of expected news' since without Year Month and Day set it will trade every day anyway and with Year Month and Day set, the EA will wait for the appropriate day and not trade beforehand anyway.

Let me know if you find any bugs

Alan
  • #357
  • Nov 10, 2015 9:25am Nov 10, 2015 9:25am
Hi Alan, thanks for sharing
I've tried all the amazing EA smoothly when in a demo account but does not run in a real account ..
if there is a time please help me Alan
  • #358
  • Nov 11, 2015 5:21am Nov 11, 2015 5:21am
Alan
if someone wants to operate on the same news two diferent settings of the ea.
it will be able if they has diferent magic numbers.

so maybe:
extern int Mymagic=3;
will be added to the settings.


and then in the code:
Magic=(NMonth*100000000)+(NDay*1000000)+(NHour*10000)+(NMin*100)+NSec+Mymagic;

what do tou think?
  • #359
  • Edited 4:18pm Nov 11, 2015 3:57pm | Edited 4:18pm
Quoting quiet
Alan if someone wants to operate on the same news two diferent settings of the ea. it will be able if they has diferent magic numbers. so maybe: extern int Mymagic=3; will be added to the settings. and then in the code: Magic=(NMonth*100000000)+(NDay*1000000)+(NHour*10000)+(NMin*100)+NSec+Mymagic; what do tou think?
I have deliberately avoided allowing people to enter any part of the Magic number. I feel that it is an internal value that your average user should not access. I also don't agree with running multiple copies of the EA on the same pair for the same news event in the same MT4.
  • #360
  • Nov 11, 2015 4:17pm Nov 11, 2015 4:17pm
Funnily enough, I have been thinking about making a simpler version as the current EA has a lot of settings/code. It would be a 'Lite' version with as much stripped out as possible. So, no PointsGap, SecBAO, NSec, BE or Trailing, Slippage or Spread stuff. It will only work on Broker Time and changing timeframes or disabling the EA would leave the orders in. The spread would be factored in to the EA all the time. So the settings that would be available are:-

PointsAway=80
TP=1000
SL=100
NYear=0
NMonth=0
NDay=0
NHour=0
NMin=0
CTCBN=0
SecBPO=20 (max value allowed 30)
SecBMO=0
STWAN=5
OCO=true
MM=false
RiskPercent=1.0
Lots=0.1
AllowBuys=true
AllowSells=true
TradeLog=AmazingEALite

In other words, it would be much like the original, but with improved code.
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