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  • #401
  • Aug 27, 2006 10:38pm Aug 27, 2006 10:38pm
Quoting wackena
Forexpips,

yes, latest version of FBv63g-TS has the divergence fix. I never know which Firebird thread to post EAs. I try to post v1.0s here and v63gs on the other thread. I just posted EA and settings on the other thread. Here is the link.

http://www.forexfactory.com/forexfor...postcount=1072

Wackena
Wackena,

Is v1.0b basically just 1.0a with a hedging function? Any other differece?
  • #402
  • Aug 27, 2006 10:41pm Aug 27, 2006 10:41pm
Hi all, opened up two demo accounts w/IBFX this am and placed the 63G-TS with stock settings on 1m charts and it is showing 3 trades open (USDCHF buy, EURUSD sell, GBPUSD sell) at -55.86.

The v1b2 with stock settings on 1m charts is showing 10 trades (hedging) 2 each (buy/sell) in EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCAD, and 4 trades on the USDCHF at -28.76

All settings are default this week due to my complete lack of working knowledge on these as i'm still reading through the original thread, though i have read all of the "fixed" thread.

Next Sunday i hope to have enough knowledge so i can open a couple more demo accounts with settings more fine tuned. Just need to read, read, and read some more. Good thing i enjoy reading and experimenting!

: ) Thom
  • #403
  • Aug 28, 2006 12:36am Aug 28, 2006 12:36am
Umm what trace are you talking about exactly?



Quoting forex4syg
I have tried to add the trace when open orders, and got following errors:

22:18:41 FireBird_v63 USDCHFm,M1: Error opening Sell order (130): invalid stops
22:18:41 FireBird_v63 USDCHFm,M1: Error opening Buy hedge order (130): invalid stops

Do not know why the stoploss is invalid.

Thanks!
  • #404
  • Aug 28, 2006 1:10am Aug 28, 2006 1:10am
Hey Great people, I knew one day I would have to come out of the 'lurking' closet. Seven or eight months ago I barely knew what a forum was now I have subscriptions to threads flooding my e-mail daily. 10 months ago I was totally clueless about Forex but I've been reading and reading and applying... then I read some more and I don't think it's possible for your brain to hurt but seems like mine does. This forum - ForexFactory and this thread in particular is the best of the best.

Anyway I think you're all geniuses, I mean it. Half the time I don't know what the %&^^$# you're talking about and the other half I can figure it out given enough time.

What I wanted you guys to know is that I applied the newly modified 'Firebird_v1[1].0b2.mq4' from Wackena to these 10 currency pairs on a demo account and most of them opened positions right away if the were slightly ranging.

With All Due Respect

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  • #405
  • Aug 28, 2006 2:05am Aug 28, 2006 2:05am
now I see why you zip everything:-)
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  • #406
  • Aug 28, 2006 3:04am Aug 28, 2006 3:04am
Just an observation, but FB tends to make a reversal trade after a spike has retraced by about 10 pips. I wonder whether it would be worth lowering the percentage to try to get in earlier on the retrace and book the pips earlier.

anyone tried this?

nice day so far today for turning the float into pips.
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  • #407
  • Aug 28, 2006 3:08am Aug 28, 2006 3:08am
Quoting Yardie
Hmm interesting. What other accounts are you using the EA on?
All my demos are with SBFX because they don't expire. The only other broker I use is IBFX for my live account.

Wiz.
  • #408
  • Aug 28, 2006 3:34am Aug 28, 2006 3:34am
Quoting wackena
Finally had time to review Firebird v1.0b1 to correct reason why EA was only placing hedge order on main sell orders. Attached is FB v1.0b2. This EA will placed 1 hedge order for each Buy or Sell main orders. Also to control number of open orders, this EA has input OpenOrders. This sets the number of main orders opened for each chart. Eaxmple if = 2, max open orders will range 0-4. If = 3, range will be 0-6 max open orders.

Wackena
Hi Wackena,

Thanks a lot for the latest verison of my favorit FB.Iwas busy testing FB v1.0b and 1.0b1 for last 5 days.Even with the previous bugs, v1.0b gave me 42 wins with 1230 pips and float -470 only.I have just started with a version 1.0b2.
  • #409
  • Aug 28, 2006 4:22am Aug 28, 2006 4:22am
Quoting The Wizard of Oz
All my demos are with SBFX because they don't expire. The only other broker I use is IBFX for my live account.

Wiz.
Wiz

Please tell me who is SBFX... I am with Interbank (IBFX) and this morning all my running demo accounts was not accessable. (2nd time now) I contacted them and they told me that Metaquotes updated their demo server - deleting all demo accounts.

I need an account on SBFX to prevent this.

Thanks
  • #410
  • Aug 28, 2006 4:59am Aug 28, 2006 4:59am
Quoting Benna
Wiz

Please tell me who is SBFX... I am with Interbank (IBFX) and this morning all my running demo accounts was not accessable. (2nd time now) I contacted them and they told me that Metaquotes updated their demo server - deleting all demo accounts.

I need an account on SBFX to prevent this.

Thanks

hi

this is SBFX http://www.strategybuilderfx.com/home.php
  • #411
  • Aug 28, 2006 5:08am Aug 28, 2006 5:08am
Originally Posted by Wackena
Settings
MA_length=10
MA_timeframe=15
MAtype=0
Percent=0.05000000
TradeOnFriday=1
slip=100
Lots=0.01000000
TakeProfit=20
Stoploss=120
Fast_Period=23
Fast_Price=1
Slow_Period=84
Slow_Price=1
DivergenceLimit=0.00200000
Use_V63D_Divergence=0
PipStep=40
IncreasementType=0.00000000
DVLimit=10
PipsGoal=500
PipsLoss=500
GMT=0
DST=0
OpeningHour=0
ClosingHour=24
writelog=0

Wackena



Wackena, are you still testing these settings....??? i got them from Forex-tsd

Thanks
Babar
  • #412
  • Aug 28, 2006 5:10am Aug 28, 2006 5:10am
Quoting goran
Hi Wackena,

Thanks a lot for the latest verison of my favorit FB.Iwas busy testing FB v1.0b and 1.0b1 for last 5 days.Even with the previous bugs, v1.0b gave me 42 wins with 1230 pips and float -470 only.I have just started with a version 1.0b2.
HI goran

can you please post the version of FB you are testing and the settings pleaseeee

thanks
Babar
  • #413
  • Aug 28, 2006 5:19am Aug 28, 2006 5:19am
Quoting Yardie
Umm what trace are you talking about exactly?
Currently, in all FB versions, there is no trace for error messages when failed in sending orders. So we could not see why there are no trades opening.

To catch the error, I made following changes to the FireBird:

1) Included the header file stdlib.mqh to the FB at the first line.<STDLIB.MQH>

2) for Sell order,

int ticket=OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_SELL,Lots,Bid,slip,Bid+(Stoploss*Point),Bid-(TakeProfit*Point),GetCommentForOrder(),MagicNumber,0,clOpenSell); // modified by Renato

if(ticket>0) {
Print("Opened Sell order.");
} else {
err = GetLastError();
Print("Error opening Sell order (",err,"): ",ErrorDescription(err));
}

3)For Buy order:
int ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(),OP_BUY,Lots,Ask,slip,Ask-(Stoploss*Point),Ask+(TakeProfit*Point),GetCommentForOrder(),MagicNumber,0,clOpenBuy); // modified by Renato

if(ticket>0) {
Print("Opened Buy order.");
} else {
err = GetLastError();
Print("Error opening Buy order (",err,"): ",ErrorDescription(err));
}
After added such error trace code, we may see why there are no trades.
For example, I got another error:
2006.08.28 05:47:40 FireBird_v63 USDJPYm,M1: Error opening BUY order (4109): trade is not allowed.

But I do not understand why such error would happen.

Thanks!
  • #414
  • Aug 28, 2006 5:27am Aug 28, 2006 5:27am
Quoting babarmughal
Originally Posted by Wackena
Settings
MA_length=10
MA_timeframe=15
MAtype=0
Percent=0.05000000
TradeOnFriday=1
slip=100
Lots=0.01000000
TakeProfit=20
Stoploss=120
Fast_Period=23
Fast_Price=1
Slow_Period=84
Slow_Price=1
DivergenceLimit=0.00200000
Use_V63D_Divergence=0
PipStep=40
IncreasementType=0.00000000
DVLimit=10
PipsGoal=500
PipsLoss=500
GMT=0
DST=0
OpeningHour=0
ClosingHour=24
writelog=0

Wackena



Wackena, are you still testing these settings....??? i got them from Forex-tsd

Thanks
Babar
No, for me with FBv63g-TS and all v.10 versions, these are the changes from the set above.

MA_timeframe=30
Percent=1.0
TakeProfit=30
Stoploss=300
Use_V63D_Divergence=1

Wackena
  • #415
  • Aug 28, 2006 5:38am Aug 28, 2006 5:38am
Quoting wackena
No, for me with FBv63g-TS and all v.10 versions, these are the changes from the set above.

MA_timeframe=30
Percent=1.0
TakeProfit=30
Stoploss=300
Use_V63D_Divergence=1

Wackena
HI Wackena,

do you know what version and setting goran is testing....???

Thanks
Babar
  • #416
  • Aug 28, 2006 5:47am Aug 28, 2006 5:47am
Just an observation here on backtesting EA's using different brokers. I use both SBFX and FXDD, and have demo accounts with both (live only with FXDD). Last night I was backtesting different scenarios using FB 1.0a on both, and noticed that I was getting VASTLY different results with only slightly different settings. I then set both EA's to exactly the same settings, and for exactly the same time period and backtested (using every tick option as usual). The results weren't even in the same order of magnitude!! I also noticed that FXDD used more than three times as many bars in the backtest than did SBFX. I checked and rechecked that everything was set the same, and it was. The only conclusion I can make on this is that FXDD has a better data set for backtesting.

Any other comments on this??

Doug
  • #417
  • Aug 28, 2006 5:54am Aug 28, 2006 5:54am
Quoting babarmughal
HI Wackena,

do you know what version and setting goran is testing....???

Thanks
Babar
no, I don't know.
Wackena
  • #418
  • Aug 28, 2006 6:27am Aug 28, 2006 6:27am
Quoting babarmughal
HI goran

can you please post the version of FB you are testing and the settings pleaseeee

thanks
Babar
I am testing now FB v1.0b2 modified by Wackena and I only changed percent to 0.05 because I use it on 1M chart.I did the same with the previous version.Cheers.
  • #419
  • Aug 28, 2006 7:31am Aug 28, 2006 7:31am
Quoting wackena
No, for me with FBv63g-TS and all v.10 versions, these are the changes from the set above.

MA_timeframe=30
Percent=1.0
TakeProfit=30
Stoploss=300
Use_V63D_Divergence=1

Wackena
Wackena,

Shouldn't the Percent setting be 0.1, not 1.0?

1Trader2
  • #420
  • Aug 28, 2006 7:45am Aug 28, 2006 7:45am
Quoting 1trader2
Wackena,

Shouldn't the Percent setting be 0.1, not 1.0?

1Trader2
1trader2,

thanks, you are correct. the percent setting should be 0.1.

thanks again.

wackena
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