{quote} HAH! Fixed this motherfucker!!
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- #1,582
- Jun 11, 2016 4:43pm Jun 11, 2016 4:43pm
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Im gonna play with the fire - the couchsurfer EA is active since friday on GPB/USD just because of the brexit possibility. Looking for a few fast spikes.
Playing with fire, indeed.
I won't have a live trade in market after Friday of next week...
Seems as good as week as any to just stay the fuck out of the Markets Way...
Me=
Some look at it as the Early Bird gets the Worm...I see it as, the Early Worm gets eaten!
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- #1,583
- Jun 11, 2016 5:03pm Jun 11, 2016 5:03pm
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{quote}
One issue...
All changes made moving forward have been restricted to the commercial version...
Worse yet...due to Non-Competitive Agreement, I am restricted on any code I post publicly until contractual grace period expires...
I read the fucker...just never quite realized the extent of it...
At least I get final say on any changes made....
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- #1,584
- Jun 11, 2016 5:24pm Jun 11, 2016 5:24pm
{quote} One issue... All changes made moving forward have been restricted to the commercial version... Worse yet...due to Non-Competitive Agreement, I am restricted on any code I post publicly until contractual grace period expires... I read the fucker...just never quite realized the extent of it... At least I get final say on any changes made....
But I think we all love your openness and honesty. Thats makes this thread and EA even more exciting.
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- #1,585
- Jun 11, 2016 5:36pm Jun 11, 2016 5:36pm
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{quote} Not surprised AT all.
In the meantime...
I will be working on something I call, the "Lost Sock"strategy...though may not get around to posting the ideas an logic behind this...
If nothing else...it will be a conversation starter.
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- #1,586
- Jun 11, 2016 7:49pm Jun 11, 2016 7:49pm
I can only follow one carrot at a time 
On-topic:
I should say that 7 pairs should need at least $ 1. 5K from what I've seen in 6-7 days untill now to keep yourself out of a margin call. Just a simple dirty average math based on 1500\7 pairs = 215 $.. is then for example for 28 pairs a minimum of $ 6K.
Shoot me.
On-topic:
I should say that 7 pairs should need at least $ 1. 5K from what I've seen in 6-7 days untill now to keep yourself out of a margin call. Just a simple dirty average math based on 1500\7 pairs = 215 $.. is then for example for 28 pairs a minimum of $ 6K.
Shoot me.
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- Jun 11, 2016 8:14pm Jun 11, 2016 8:14pm
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I can only follow one carrot at a time
Without the option to shut down on days with High Impact news, I would say you are absolutely correct.
From Iresh through to 2.5, a Minimum 3k account has taken about everything the market has thrown at it, so having 1.5 in the account with sitting out questionable days, is probably spot on.
Trading the 28 pairs...
I honestly have no clue.
I've only tested these for a fist full of days and really haven't seen much more than about $350(ish) in draws...actually was $300 when I saw it, but as previously stated by Spencer, hit $330.
Would I personally trade all 28 pairs?
Probably not...but it will be interesting to watch.
My cash is happy growing at the rate of 7 pairs and these I can control and manually intervene on.
The nice thing about the daily filter, is that it will close all trades on a single pair if, when in trade, you turn trades off for that day and select Close Immediately.
Would I do this?
Depends on the situation, probably not, but still nice to have this built in vs having to apply a CloseAll EA and then reset everything.
I am setting up 2 accounts with the 28 pairs for forward testing, using the commercial version of the EA.
Account 1
Default values as per the free version, shutting down high impact news days.
Account 2
Default values, but taking playing opposite the daily roll filter as Account 1, Closing all trades immediately, not using the wussy close and shutting down high impact news days.
Account 2 is set aggressively for 28 pairs and a $3k start, so will be really interesting to see if it can actually survive the week...well, both accounts surviving the week would actually be kind of interesting.
I should get somewhat of a reasonable market sample for the market cycle these are running and can always either increase the account size for future testing or cherry pick the pairs in trade.
This thing has morphed quite a bit from the original Falling Knives logic and even using the Iresh as a starting point.
Nice to have a few new ideas to incorporate and see if/how they maintain growth and minimize draws.
The hard part...
Setting up the news days for 28 pairs!
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!
Check and recheck!
Compare and recheck again!!
All of this, when I'm content with trading 7 and only just a little curious about the rest.
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- #1,588
- Jun 11, 2016 9:27pm Jun 11, 2016 9:27pm
{quote}.... Setting up the news days for 28 pairs! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! Check and recheck! Compare and recheck again!! All of this, when I'm content with trading 7 and only just a little curious about the rest.
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- Jun 11, 2016 9:30pm Jun 11, 2016 9:30pm
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{quote} News filter LOL...kidding mate.
There could be a lot of issues solved with this...could also be a lot created.
But yeah, after going through this, I am almost inclined to agree.
Almost....
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- Jun 11, 2016 9:32pm Jun 11, 2016 9:32pm
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- Edited 6:12am Jun 12, 2016 5:57am | Edited 6:12am
I will setup Demo 28 pairs for this week making use of Restricted hours setup for each pair specific in orange as bellow. Just another weekly trading plan to atleast get some more hours of trading. Shoot on it please and even more if this is not a plausible test scenario. Yes, I have to adjust time every day before 'Hour to Start' time
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- Jun 12, 2016 7:51am Jun 12, 2016 7:51am
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- #1,596
- Jun 12, 2016 7:52am Jun 12, 2016 7:52am
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Magix, Please
Key = 11BDB3237216890CE4836E7CBB7AA50C
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- Jun 12, 2016 7:56am Jun 12, 2016 7:56am
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- Jun 12, 2016 8:01am Jun 12, 2016 8:01am
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I will setup Demo 28 pairs for this week making use of Restricted hours setup for each pair specific in orange as bellow. Just another weekly trading plan to atleast get some more hours of trading. Shoot on it please and even more if this is not a plausible test scenario. Yes, I have to adjust time every day before 'Hour to Start' time
And yeah, takes a little time to go through all of the settings, but to maximize performance and look for the highest probabilities for prosperity, the time spent should pay off.
Looking through my own set up, I went through and rechecked all days again. Found out that on Wednesday, I am killing all pairs with exception of EURCHF...that's going to be a rather boring day to watch a 28 pair trader...
Still have my 7 pair and 16 pair to monitor without shutting them down, run as normal...this should hopefully keep my attention.
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- Jun 12, 2016 12:23pm Jun 12, 2016 12:23pm
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hope new EA will manage old trades as well due to same magic number.
Absolutely.
As long as the Magic Number is the same, all will be handled according to user parameters.
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