Falling Knives

RoboForex demo.

Bit of a ruff fucking week for all the home testers...the only one surviving the week, Iresh2.

NFP seems to play a little harsh on the trend detection of Iresh and where started off the week with an almost $1000 gain, closed down about a buck and a half with a couple hun in the red.

Eeeeeeeeeeeek!

Well, NFP was tough on Iresh previously and as I had suspected, again this week.
Definitely something to ponder on live cash accounts.

On the brighter side of things...

I have worked a few modifications into Iresh to help drag out the dead bodies instead of just cutting a limb off...though it was only in test for a day-2, same sized lots and increments, respectively, they seemingly did alright.

Still in the Beta Test stages and I think I am going to add in a little more caution into this, would definitely help keep the draws minimal, but may have an impact on the overall profitability.
Will see how they shake out next week.

Was a batshit crazy week for me, dude.

Didn't get a chance to work on the Roboforex issue.

Will get it loaded over the weekend and see what I can figure out.

Hey Magix, my old and fat friend. BTW I am fat, too. Tall I fat. Now nearly getting older. So, with you, we are very similar, I guess. I am friendly BTW, in case you do not get it...

Can I suggest something to your system? All trend based systems get lost while in a range. And the real money is in the range, not within the trend. Range is like 80% of the time, maybe even over 80%.

Here is my proposition. Analise your strategy's weakest points, that would be the draw downs, actually. One and only. Start trading BOTH, the trend (the original strategy) and the new range strategy (most probably the reversed trend one). The range should weight 50% of the leading trend strategy. Trade it in one bundle. First close the range strategy at profit. Then close the trend one. That will decrease your risks. Substantially. In ways you cannot imagine now.

What are you going to win, when doing as advised?

1. Higher Margins. Incomparably higher. This means more time on the market, when all others got off, because they "did not survive...".
2. Lower, yet, more frequent profits. I guess more profits, but smaller in size.
3. You will be exiting, AT PROFIT, at impossible times for the trend strategy and absolutely new for you, when trading the bundle (if trading only the trend strategy).
4. You will be cashing some part of the DD right into your account. This will influence your trading in ways impossible to describe, unless seen.

3 is the biggest of all advantages. I am attaching a visual example of real closures. Pay very good attention to the XAUUSD ones. There are two of them. There was profit, in both cases. But, at that BOTH moments of closure, the major trend strategy was AT LOSS! If it was not the slave who traded against it, I would not being able to get out of the market! And that could be the difference in between life and death of a trading account...

Don't sweat it, my friend.

Iresh 2.5 added to post 1.

Much the same logic as Iresh2, with a couple of little tweaks.
Daily Filtering, drag losers to profit before exit.
Wussy Close still intact.

Good luck on the week!

Meet the new boss...
Same as the old boss?

2 variants of Iresh2.5 logic...minor differences in code and logic, minor differences in trading.

Overall, looking fucking AWESOME!

By keeping in multiple closing logic as well as the Carry the Dead logic, these have managed to manage the risk and still hammer in profit when available.

Now...if I would have actually created seperate code instead of writing one over the other, I'd be laughing.

As it stands, I have to try and remember what the fuck I did.

Both versions are the a very similar relative to what is in post 1.

Only major difference, they are working with Increments, instead of fixed. Increments being the same size as primary lot size.

What is the difference from all 3?

I forgot....

I really need to quit drinking when I code.
Or
Stop using expiry dates.

Fixed lot sizes...another variant, the premier of code mixes, started last week.

Looks a lot like...

Overall...if your panties are in a twist with adding to lot sizes, or if you have more time for a slower steady growth...not terrible.

Hasn't been a lot of challenges for a fixed lot on turns, but there has been a few.

The eventual directional surge with the Drag the Dead logic, helps make sure that we don't see huge draws, but in a market of chop...could get ugly!

Magix, PM me please, I might have the other half you are probably looking after. If your trend strategy works only with fixed lotsize, but you do get in trouble when the market is not trending... We can trade your EA into a demo account and I will run my EA into the same time into the same account from another server. If it is a range, my ea will protect yours, if it is trending, my EA might end up at break even or at small loss, while yours will going to be profitable, because of the trending. When it is ranging, you can keep your EA up and running I will cash in on the range and when the trend comes - you will close down at profit, without suffering from the lack of trend.

I have four trend EAs, but they all use multipliers and it is damn hard to sync both strategies into the perfect bundle. I am doing it, but I also I am looking around for some simple setups, if I can find something... So, if there is a nice trend strategy with fixed lotsize, which experiences huge probelms when the market is not trending - that would be awesome! My top range EA works with fixed lotsize...

Using the same lotsize throughout all the time will make things more predictable and easy to control. Unfortunately for me, I never managed to come up with a trend strategy which uses fixed lotsize... My IQ is 75, so, everything is quite understandable...

My EA is already posted HERE.

Use the set file attached, it is for increments, or use at default for fixed lot sizes.

Run in tandem with your EA, and let's see how this marriage works out.

Set up a TE with the 2 and I will link it to thread.

How's that sound?

DRMA has gained 50k pips, 31k net. Nice little runner with a 75% win rate.

Awesome job on the testing, dude!

I don't even have a live version of DRMA running anymore.

DRMA got itself into a hole of 11000 pips atm.

IRESH: Slowly growing

https://www.myfxbook.com/members/Go5...mkAYBm6OKt7dPx

The version posted, with the Set file posted HERE

Quite simply some of the kewlist shit I've thrown together!
MyFxbook

Compare the previous to the original logic in Iresh2.

This motherfucker does well, except on the backlash from NFP week.

Looks kinda sad compared to the New Boss.