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  • #461
  • Feb 9, 2016 1:46am Feb 9, 2016 1:46am
Dear Alan and all other readers to this thread,

I wanted to use CNT EA form the http://www.currencynewstrading.com for automated trading, but unfortunately it is hard to install and I just can't get authenticated. I got so tired to of trying to get that to work, that I decided: I will make it by myself.

Luckily I found this thread and the Amazing EA. It is great, than to Alan for creating and maintaining it! And to the other for motivating Alan
So, I had the chance to extend the code of Amazing EA to use an external list of trades and switch between the trades automatically.
Today it is finished, functional but still need some debugging and testing.

First of all I ask you Alan:

  1. What about the rights?
  2. Can I use my extended version as my own EA?
  3. Would you like to incorporate the extension to a new version if it runs reliably?

I am open to all suggestions, solutions.

So here is how it works:

  1. You have to make a TAB separated txt file with different parameters for one trade in a row like: date, time, currencypair, SL,TP,risk,..
  2. The EA selects the actual trade and cares about that just like before. I jumps to the next trade at a given time before that is due. That given time is a new parameter of the EA.
  3. One drawback of this technology: as soon as the EA jumps to the next trade, it leaves any open orders and trades unhandled. So it will stop trailing, etc... It is not such a problem if you are AWARE of it.
  4. I would like to hear your opinions about it, also if you have any suggestions, questions, just feel free to suggest, ask.

  • #462
  • Feb 9, 2016 6:25am Feb 9, 2016 6:25am
Quoting kombela
Dear Alan and all other readers to this thread, I wanted to use CNT EA form the http://www.currencynewstrading.com for automated trading, but unfortunately it is hard to install and I just can't get authenticated. I got so tired to of trying to get that to work, that I decided: I will make it by myself. Luckily I found this thread and the Amazing EA. It is great, than to Alan for creating and maintaining it! And to the other for motivating Alan So, I had the chance to extend the code of Amazing EA to use an external list of trades...
good luck
(don't you sare it?)
will the ea run on just one open chart?
because I think its impossible to open positions in other pair than this chart
best regards
  • #463
  • Feb 9, 2016 10:38am Feb 9, 2016 10:38am
Hi quiet,

I am willing to share it, bu first test it to see if it is reliable. I can warn everybody that this EA is not stable, please don't use it on real account, but here will be some who will still do it. To avoid loosing money because of my programming failures, I rather share it after testing.
Quote
will the ea run on just one open chart?
because I think its impossible to open positions in other pair than this chart
Yes, it runs on one chart, and it is possible to trade from one chart on all other currency pairs. I also had doubts, but I tried it and it can do it.
  • #464
  • Feb 9, 2016 9:01pm Feb 9, 2016 9:01pm
Quoting kombela
Hi quiet, I am willing to share it, bu first test it to see if it is reliable. I can warn everybody that this EA is not stable, please don't use it on real account, but here will be some who will still do it. To avoid loosing money because of my programming failures, I rather share it after testing. {quote} Yes, it runs on one chart, and it is possible to trade from one chart on all other currency pairs. I also had doubts, but I tried it and it can do it.
Hey kombela, that's very good that you made such an improvement. I had played with this idea before and also found that there needs to be a parameter where the EA forgets about previous trades and starts thinking about the next ones. I'm prepared to take a look when it's ready.

Alan
  • #465
  • Feb 10, 2016 5:44am Feb 10, 2016 5:44am
"When the order gets into profit this amount of Points, it will be closed automatically. Set to 0 to disable."

Is this calculated from the actual order execution or from the pending order?

It would be nice to have this independently from the order execution. I'm planning to do my homework properly, either with the charts from ForexPeaceArmy or with NewsTraderPro 2.0 from Wincorp, so I would rather calculate my TP goal from the smothed price (Low Pass Filter / Fast moving average) right before the News Release. Different outcomes won't be a problem, because I'm cancelling pending orders or trades when the deviation is too small with Forex News Gun, so if the price is likely to not hit my target, I'm out.
There is no Broker SL hunting, if your broker is non-dealing-desk.
  • #466
  • Feb 12, 2016 11:03am Feb 12, 2016 11:03am
Hi again,

So I tested it, it works fine on my 5 digit MT4 platform. Of course the setting files have to be modified if you have 4 digit broker.

There are 3 new parameters:
Read the list of trades from file: Set to true to read the trades from a file. Set to false to use the EA as before, without the file (this I didn't test). That file is a TAB separated txt file that has to be located in this folder: ...\MQL4\Files\ An example is provided in the zip that suggests how to use it. Be careful, let there be no extra characters, like enter or spaces after the end of the last line!
Filename of the list: the name of the file that contains the list of trades.
Forget previous trades and start handling the actual news x seconds before the PendingOrders: as it says

It seem like the log files are separate per day per currency, but please check it.

So, I hope many of you will like it and use it successfully!
Please give it a try on demo account setting up virtual news times in the list file and see it for yourself how it behaves.
If you find any problems, please let me know, I would like this version to be free of any problems.
Attached File(s)
File Type: zip AmazingEA 7-00_List.zip   132 KB | 791 downloads
  • #467
  • Feb 14, 2016 10:26am Feb 14, 2016 10:26am
Quoting Alan111S
{quote} Alan
Hi guys! I have a question to Alan and to you all.
Alan, I'm probably missing something, but is this true that currently the SL/TP are calculated from the pending order price? In this case if we get slipped then this can change our SL. For example my SL was 20 pips but I got negatively slipped 10 pips and this made my actual SL to be 30 pips. Is this possible to make the EA adjust the SL according to the actual filled price?

Guys, does anyone else have more losses and, in general, bad times recently because the financial crisis turmoil?
  • #468
  • Feb 14, 2016 4:34pm Feb 14, 2016 4:34pm
Quoting Alan111S
{quote}
Alan, could you please please make the OCO work even prior to the news time? Because it happened that an order got triggered earlier than the time that was set and it creates a dangerous situation that the opposite pending order is still there and modified.
Thanks again fro the amazing job with this EA. It's genius!
  • #469
  • Feb 14, 2016 6:23pm Feb 14, 2016 6:23pm
Quoting Pupsik
{quote} Alan, could you please please make the OCO work even prior to the news time? Because it happened that an order got triggered earlier than the time that was set and it creates a dangerous situation that the opposite pending order is still there and modified. Thanks again fro the amazing job with this EA. It's genius!
Guys, the EA is unlikely to get modified from it's current form. There are certain well known limitations with it namely with Slippage. But that is what Slipcheck does......It changes the SL to match the Slipped Entry. Read about it more in the help files.

As far as OCO goes, I can't change the code to do what you require because it would clash with opening the trades in the first place.

I want to make it clear though that I am unlikely to make any changes to it. I suppose I have moved on and have got a lot of other responsibilities right now. Of course I will fix any serious bugs. But anything else won't get done.

Alan
  • #470
  • Feb 15, 2016 10:17am Feb 15, 2016 10:17am
Quoting Alan111S
{quote} Guys, the EA is unlikely to get modified from it's current form. There are certain well known limitations with it namely with Slippage. But that is what Slipcheck does......It changes the SL to match the Slipped Entry. Read about it more in the help files. As far as OCO goes, I can't change the code to do what you require because it would clash with opening the trades in the first place. I want to make it clear though that I am unlikely to make any changes to it. I suppose I have moved on and have got a lot of other responsibilities right...
Aw sorry I forgot about the slipcheck, I confused it with the max slippage function.
And Good Luck with your new projects! Thank you for maintaining the Amazing
  • #471
  • Feb 16, 2016 4:43pm Feb 16, 2016 4:43pm

Alan, is there any older version that keeps re-opening the pending orders if they were closed (or triggered and closed by SL) after the set news time?
The later versions keep re-opening only before news time. I just need it for some other ideas of using this EA.
  • #472
  • Feb 17, 2016 4:23am Feb 17, 2016 4:23am
Hi Alan

I sincerely thank you for your amazing work with this free EA.
It is exactly how I trade manually and profitably and have been looking for a way to automate it.
I am shocked to find this EA provided for free.
You are truly a saint!

Would like to check if there is a way to disable the logging?
If there is not an external option to do so, kindly guide me as to the line number to edit the MQL code instead.

Thank you for this holy grail
  • #473
  • Feb 17, 2016 5:22am Feb 17, 2016 5:22am
hi, first of all, thanks for your great work.
I have sfew questions which I could not see in here, I don't want to use in news time, I want to use it everytime.
The EA will check one ore more previous candles' high low and will put buy stop sell stop from current price with distance I want.
E.G. I will write pointsaway 100 pip and CTCBN is 1.
Eur/Usd current price is 1,11285 The highest and lowest price of previous candle are 1,1140 and 1,1110
So the EA will put buy stop on 1,1240 and sell stop on 1,1010
When there is new candle, it will update orders' level.

Question 1 > CTCBN is checking also current candle. Is it possible to change it? The EA should start checking from previous candle. Because when it is checking current one(opened candle), it is changing buy sell order's levels.

Question 2 > When I don't type anything for other settings, it is not placing orders with my settings on attached screenshot. The other settings are ok like live trading etc. Can you please look attached screenshot?

If you can help, I will be very happy.

Thanks.
Attached Image
  • #474
  • Feb 21, 2016 8:27pm Feb 21, 2016 8:27pm
Quoting profit.erol
hi, first of all, thanks for your great work. I have sfew questions which I could not see in here, I don't want to use in news time, I want to use it everytime. The EA will check one ore more previous candles' high low and will put buy stop sell stop from current price with distance I want. E.G. I will write pointsaway 100 pip and CTCBN is 1. Eur/Usd current price is 1,11285 The highest and lowest price of previous candle are 1,1140 and 1,1110 So the EA will put buy stop on 1,1240 and sell stop on 1,1010 When there is new candle, it will update...
Q1 CTCBN needs to check the current candle. However, as long as the Seconds (NSec) setting is 0, by the time the trade is Active, the current candle will be the previous one. Do you see what I mean?
Q2 The EA won't place orders until News Time (at midnight). That's why you haven't seen it trade. It needs a News Time set in order to work.

Alan
  • #475
  • Feb 22, 2016 10:00am Feb 22, 2016 10:00am
Quoting senanata
{quote} This is my results with cable today (Claimant Count Change etc.) using this EA. I did not count my slippage Not bad for a few pips. {image}
Hello senanata, very good parabens! you could tell which broker you use? thank you.
  • #476
  • Feb 22, 2016 4:00pm Feb 22, 2016 4:00pm
Quoting kombela
Hi again, So I tested it, it works fine on my 5 digit MT4 platform. Of course the setting files have to be modified if you have 4 digit broker. There are 3 new parameters: Read the list of trades from file: Set to true to read the trades from a file. Set to false to use the EA as before, without the file (this I didn't test). That file is a TAB separated txt file that has to be located in this folder: ...\MQL4\Files\ An example is provided in the zip that suggests how to use it. Be careful, let there be no extra characters, like enter or spaces...
kombela!
I just read your code, it is a huge wonderful professional job!!!
very usefull
many thanks
  • #477
  • Feb 23, 2016 4:30pm Feb 23, 2016 4:30pm
Hi quiet,

I am happy you can use it! I hope it's useful for others as well.
If you find any problems, please let me know. Now I am working on a version that can close a portion of the open trade x seconds after the news time. I hope I can share that soon. Any suggestions regarding this feature?
  • #478
  • Feb 24, 2016 1:22am Feb 24, 2016 1:22am
hi hey again Alan111S
Hope you're doing great.
How is your straddle trading going?
Do you ever share your results?


Anyone else? Does anyone happen to share their straddle trading results?
It would be awesome to see that this is something that works
  • #479
  • Feb 25, 2016 7:58am Feb 25, 2016 7:58am
Hi Alan, this EA is brilliant .. I am currently using it throughout the day at various times .. what I would like to do is be able to set numerous times through the day so I don't keep having to go in an set it or set it up on numerous charts for the same symbol .. I was thinking of a loop in the main() to loop through the times of the day. So, have the input in the format box HH:MM:SS,HH:MM:SS,HH:MM:SS, split that out into NHour, NMin,NSec for each set and loop through those as the time ..

What I was wondering firstly was is this possible within the current coding, and if not, what would be the approach to code it in.

My mql4 is OK, not brilliant, but I can get by and will have a go ..

Once again, brilliant EA and thanks in advance
  • #480
  • Feb 25, 2016 12:32pm Feb 25, 2016 12:32pm
Hi MarkT21,

Did you check the version I uploaded in this post? http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...36#post8751036

It is close to the top of this page

I guess that does what you need. Please check it out.
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