It looks like the trade was supposed to be taken six hours ago but my ea took the trade 1 hour/30 min ago! Don't know why!? :-s
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DislikedHi guys :-) I wondered if any one could help... Its appears the cad/jpy two trades today in Khalil's cross trader were comfortable winners however I thought I was running the same EA on 30 min signal on a 5 min chart the same as Khalil however both my trades were losing trades! (see attached image) Does anyone know what's going on? Thanks! {image}Ignored
DislikedIt looks like the trade was supposed to be taken six hours ago but my ea took the trade 1 hour/30 min ago! Don't know why!? :-sIgnored
Disliked{quote} It depends on the time you activate it. If a signal is still valid (although late) it will open a trade.Ignored
DislikedAlso my SL looks like it's on 500 not 200 so not sure what's going on there either... (see pic) {image}Ignored
DislikedWould it maybe be possible to post a screen shot of your full MT4 EA trading settings box like mine above but yours as this hasn't been shown in this feed for a long time? Thanks ReubsIgnored
DislikedAs per my continuous observations, the Cross Trader is "ungenerous", even when running on 14 pairs on M5 time frame. Very few trades in the week. This comes by nature, because we are looking for a correlation divergence which rarely happens, on major moves. I am stopping my self from testing in on M15/M1, with small TP, as a scalper, although very tempting. But I think the spread will kill it. I am also still very interested in the complement of the cross trader idea, "the Majors Trader". Where for example we trade EURUSD & USDJPY based on EURJPY...Ignored
DislikedAs per my continuous observations, the Cross Trader is "ungenerous", even when running on 14 pairs on M5 time frame. Very few trades in the week. This comes by nature, because we are looking for a correlation divergence which rarely happens, on major moves. I am stopping my self from testing in on M15/M1, with small TP, as a scalper, although very tempting. But I think the spread will kill it. I am also still very interested in the complement of the cross trader idea, "the Majors Trader". Where for example we trade EURUSD & USDJPY based on EURJPY...Ignored
Disliked{quote} I dont know if the logic behind this idea will hold, if the EURJPY is up it is because of 1 of two things.. a. JPY is strong EUR is weak or sleeping, b. EUR is strong JPY is weak or sleeping. So if for instance it is the EUR that is asleep or weak, buying the EURUSD might prove unwise. I was thinking of finding a way to determine which currency is in control in any selected pair: My idea is: When (EURUSD -- up & GBPUSD -- up) USD is weak & in control, so we check if this is occurring > (EURJPY -- dn & GBPJPY -- dn) JPY is strong & in control...Ignored