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  • #541
  • May 3, 2016 4:12am May 3, 2016 4:12am
Quoting vanupips
how does the EA compare with the other software that trigger a market order when the news comes out, like FNG , and others, is the result better?
It does not compare anything, once again this is a small gadget to avoid setting manually the next news event datetime. The core is the EA itself. So the mod is just downloading the list of the weekly events, for all the pairs. Then according to the setup it will select the next event with relevant impact and update the newstime of Amazing EA to allow the EA to trade the next news. And that's all, nothing more!

Hope this help/clear.
  • #542
  • Edited 4:49am May 3, 2016 4:36am | Edited 4:49am
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Pretty certain mate, add to that it is High Impact on investing.com as well!!

The one thing I have found is different websites rate the news differently, as you can see AUD Building Approvals is RED on FF but on Investing.com it is only medium

What calendar are you using there Och??

Will set on auto tomorrow to see how it goes!!

Greg
  • #543
  • May 3, 2016 4:59am May 3, 2016 4:59am
Quoting och
It seems the Manufactured PMI news event has been correctly trigged (on GBPUSD, and on all pairs). Too bad the TP has not been reached... I will probably add an email/sms alert to allow to jump to the vps during the news to manage the trade manually. {image} All orders seems to be triggered correctly, but I need to understand how to set it up more precisely, anyone have relevant set file for different pairs? {image} Regards, och
Och,

I think they just had a standard set file which is the OOTB settings mate. It was on the 1st Post when you download all the original stuff for the EA.

I input it into the EA and nothing really changed, so I would say we may have to learn to adapt and build different set files for the appropriate news!!

Cheers

Greg
  • #544
  • May 3, 2016 5:33am May 3, 2016 5:33am
Quoting crootster
{image} {image} Pretty certain mate, add to that it is High Impact on investing.com as well!! The one thing I have found is different websites rate the news differently, as you can see AUD Building Approvals is RED on FF but on Investing.com it is only medium What calendar are you using there Och?? Will set on auto tomorrow to see how it goes!! Greg
Indeed, I don't kwow where you are located, for me the Manufacturing PMI for GBP pairs was at 10:30 AM (GMT+2), and they all have been triggered correctly as shown in my last screenshots. Now the next high impact news on GBP is tomorrow at 10:30 AM (Paris time - GMT+2), and so the next event time have been updated.
Don't know how I can help. You can use a demo account and try to play with it, from my side it seems to work properly. Let see tomorrow, if you still face the same issues.

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och
  • #545
  • May 3, 2016 6:13am May 3, 2016 6:13am
In Australia mate, West Coast. May have been because it was too close to it, I had only got your version of the EA about 30-60 mins before the event, if that. May be the reason why, it is recognizing tomorrows so that may be the reason mate.

Look forward to testing it tomorrow.

Great work improving what was already a great tool!!!

Hats off to ya bud!!!!

Greg
  • #546
  • May 3, 2016 7:19am May 3, 2016 7:19am
Quoting Alan111S
{quote} AllowBuys=True AllowSells=False means go long only ! And vice-versa. Alan
Hi Alan,

I have tried your suggestion of using only Buy or only sell setting in the EA. I used the EA in two charts of same pair. One for Buy order and one for Sell order. It worked fine such that one Sell order reversed and hit the stop loss and at the same time the Buy order went through to make profit more than the loss made in the reversed Sell order. Is there any precaution I should take in trading the same pair in two different charts in the same CPU?

I want to add another two more charts of the same pair with Break Even stop without trailing stop, keeping the order open to optimise profit on some news. With this setup there are Two Buy Orders or Two Sell Orders executed in four different charts of the same pair. Since the orders are numbered the Two Buy Orders (or Sell Orders) will work independently - one order will close with trailing stop and the other order will be open for few minutes before it gets closed either at Break Even or at suitable support/resistance level manually.

Hope you understand the above setting(You must have tried already). Here again I would like to know if there is any precaution I should take in trading the same pair in four different charts in the same CPU?

Finally when I am using one chart for Buy and another chart for Sell the "OCO" should be True / False? Presently I am using "True" even though there is no opposite order. I find it works. However, it should be "False" as there is no opposite order in that chart. Can you please clarify whether it should be True or False?

FxOptimus

Note : I read some one requested for multiple Buy / Sell orders with variable gaps and TPs. That appears to be a great idea and I think it should work more profitable. I am looking forward to such an AmazingEA 8.00 at the earliest.
  • #547
  • May 3, 2016 7:25am May 3, 2016 7:25am
FX-Optimus,
Is there a reason you are using 2 charts of the same pair with opposing trades,
I had 2 trades today on AUD and GBP with the buy and sell on the same chart and worked fine?

You can see my snap shots and Och's as well


Cheers
Greg
  • #548
  • May 3, 2016 10:30am May 3, 2016 10:30am
Quoting crootster
FX-Optimus, Is there a reason you are using 2 charts of the same pair with opposing trades, I had 2 trades today on AUD and GBP with the buy and sell on the same chart and worked fine? You can see my snap shots and Och's as well Cheers Greg
Hi

Answer to your question is in my post. Pl read it again. You will find it.

Fx
  • #549
  • May 3, 2016 11:49am May 3, 2016 11:49am
Hello guys , how can i add the calendar in the chart ?
  • #550
  • May 3, 2016 7:37pm May 3, 2016 7:37pm
Quoting Fx-optimus
{quote} Hi Alan, I have tried your suggestion of using only Buy or only sell setting in the EA. I used the EA in two charts of same pair. One for Buy order and one for Sell order. It worked fine such that one Sell order reversed and hit the stop loss and at the same time the Buy order went through to make profit more than the loss made in the reversed Sell order. Is there any precaution I should take in trading the same pair in two different charts in the same CPU? I want to add another two more charts of the same pair with Break Even stop without...
To answer the most urgent questions first, OCO doesn't matter if it's Buy Only or Sell Only.

To trade multiple versions of the EA on one CPU, you need to set the News Time to be 1 second different, but you can adjust the other settings. So for example, with 2 orders

1st Order: 08:30:00, SecBPO=20, SecBAO=10, SecBMO=5, STWAN=5
2nd Order: 08:30:01, SecBPO=21, SecBAO=11, SecBMO=6, STWAN=4

So, you could easily setup the current EA twice on the same pair to trade Trailing Stop on one and BE/TP on the other.

You can catch reversals by setting STWAN=3600 and OCO=false. This would leave the opposite order in for an hour.

I'm trying to avoid making the EA more complex, so if you want to use multiple TPs, you will have to set it up twice.

One change I was prepared to make however was to add another STWAN type timer.

I already have a modified EA that has 2 timers. STWAN and STOCO. The idea is that if neither order is triggered then STWAN deletes them quickly, so you would set this to less than 30 seconds, but more typically 5-10. STOCO would likely be set to 3600 and would keep the opposite order around for an hour, but only if one of the orders had triggered on the news and if OCO was set to false.

That way you won't have to do Buy Only or Sell Only.

Does that make sense?
  • #551
  • May 3, 2016 8:06pm May 3, 2016 8:06pm
Quoting Vain
Hi alan thanks a lot for this great ea. I need a little help I used the ea for NFP. my settings are sec bpo=15 & sec bmo=7. but order was moved during news about 200 pips and opened there.this was 2nd time in this week can you plz tell me is there anything wrong with my settings? or is it a broker issue? {image}
I just realised I missed this question

You need SecBAO to be between BMO and BPO so in your example BPO=15, BMO=7 then BAO should have been around 10. Otherwise the orders are opened far away but aren't moved. Also you had UseBrokerTime=false and I encourage people to be careful and make sure their PC clock is exactly right.

Sorry for the late reply, hope you see this.

Alan
  • #552
  • May 3, 2016 8:20pm May 3, 2016 8:20pm
Och and Crootster

I haven't been getting the 'New Reply.....' emails from FF for a while so I haven't been on the thread recently. I just logged on today to see what's been happening and found you have created an Auto Trade version. Will have a look at the code tonight and how to adjust the settings for different timezones.

Alan
  • #553
  • May 4, 2016 12:52am May 4, 2016 12:52am
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Must only be set for a platform at GMT time, my trades activated 3 hrs early due to the fact that Think Forex is GMT+3

Cheers Allan, Nice to have you back, Great work on your EA and Och has made awesome improvement to automate the calendar, unfortunately I think it only activates correctly on a GMT Platform as mine have activated 3 hrs before the GBP Construction PMI is actually due!!

I assume you need to add a GMT offset or something? But I would have thought reading off the Platforms clock would have done it!!

Cheers

Crootster
  • #554
  • May 4, 2016 1:26am May 4, 2016 1:26am
Quoting crootster
{image} Must only be set for a platform at GMT time, my trades activated 3 hrs early due to the fact that Think Forex is GMT+3 Cheers Allan, Nice to have you back, Great work on your EA and Och has made awesome improvement to automate the calendar, unfortunately I think it only activates correctly on a GMT Platform as mine have activated 3 hrs before the GBP Construction PMI is actually due!! I assume you need to add a GMT offset or something? But I would have thought reading off the Platforms clock would have done it!! Cheers Crootster
I'm at work right now but will have a look later. My day job is Data Transformation so I know there are multiple places it could go wrong

Alan
  • #555
  • Edited 3:40am May 4, 2016 1:39am | Edited 3:40am
All good Allan, no rush mate, can still use it, have just disabled the FF Auto recognition and brought it back to manual!! Only on demo at the moment to get the feel for it. Great work though!!

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Sad ending to a fizzed out news, but thats life, maybe 10 pips SL is too close sometimes!! Have set to 20 SL for NFP tonight with no TP.....

Hopefully the lighter version of NFP tonight improves it!!

Cheers
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  • May 4, 2016 7:30am May 4, 2016 7:30am
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Update on USD ADP Non Farm Employment. Good kick from the news and EA responded, did not use a TP but kept SL.

Brought the demo back into the black.

Cheers
Greg
  • #557
  • May 4, 2016 3:20pm May 4, 2016 3:20pm
Quoting Alan111S
{quote} To answer the most urgent questions first, OCO doesn't matter if it's Buy Only or Sell Only. To trade multiple versions of the EA on one CPU, you need to set the News Time to be 1 second different, but you can.................

Thanks Alan. I got it. By creating variations in parameters settings will ease the cpu from getting congested with too many instructions at the same time. I trade in 4 or 6 pairs at a time for news releases. Earlier you suggested me to have several mt4s. I use 3 mt4s in my vps. 2 pairs in each mt4. So far I have been using the same parameters in all the charts. Still it worked perfectly all the times. Your coding must be good enough to make the cpu not getting choked.

Fx
  • #558
  • May 4, 2016 8:34pm May 4, 2016 8:34pm
Thanks Alan! It works beautifully on live account. Only thing to watch out is slippage. BTW the default PointsGap 2000 is that in point or in pips?
Time is a double edge sword, so is spread betting...
  • #559
  • May 5, 2016 2:45am May 5, 2016 2:45am
Quoting crootster
{image} Must only be set for a platform at GMT time, my trades activated 3 hrs early due to the fact that Think Forex is GMT+3 Cheers Allan, Nice to have you back, Great work on your EA and Och has made awesome improvement to automate the calendar, unfortunately I think it only activates correctly on a GMT Platform as mine have activated 3 hrs before the GBP Construction PMI is actually due!! I assume you need to add a GMT offset or something? But I would have thought reading off the Platforms clock would have done it!! Cheers Crootster
Hello Crooster,
hope your manual - trading is going well... This morning all the pending orders have been triggered at the time expected on my plateform.
My location is GMT+2 and my broker is GMT+3. Don't know what to advice. Let's wait Alan feedback. Did you tried to activate the autotrading option on a demo account and see if the newstime field on the user feedback screen is updated as expected regarding the FF calendar?

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Regards,
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  • #560
  • May 5, 2016 3:59am May 5, 2016 3:59am
Och,
I have not checked the other stuff you are talking about but will look into. I have noticed other drama's with the Think Forex platform where the pricing of the trades in the Account History is incorrect when calculated so I think I may have a platform issue, when I get from work in a weeks time I will retest your/Al's EA on a new platform to see if there is a bug with the platform itself which I think may be the case.

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Only done the one manual today and the GJ was SL out even at 20pip SL , I htink it will take some testing but as I mentioned before maybe we can build set files for different news and currency pairs but may take some work to do.

Cheers Och for the feedback on yours, I think the platform may be my problem bud

Crootster
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