Mine haven't been that severe. i have had more disconnects, but I have not had to reinstall. Rusty

MT4 - Build 198 connection issues???

That's what I am not sure of, I look at that and see if that is what I am looking for. Thanks Rusty

Finding the value of 1 pip per 1 lot of a pair

Skyline brings up a good point, Out of the traders running FB live, how many are working on a backup plan as well, or have other EAs 'testing' the markets to see what works. I feel it would be unwise to put all our pips in one basket. For me, I am ...

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So I guess I will have to hold what I have for a little while longer. It's not hurting my margin yet But we shall see what next week brings. Rusty

$ For The Week of 10/9

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Any sign of this reversing? I am short in USDCHF, and long in EURUSD and would like to see the $ come back down a little. Anybody know the outlook for next week? ( I know that could be a loaded question) Or maybe some insight as to what has happened ...

$ For The Week of 10/9

Mr. Trader, Could you please expand on this? What do you mean by starting time. In relation to the trend of the chart, or time of day? Thanks Rusty

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My Firebird is stuck! — My Firebird is stuck! Ok here it is, I had FB running on USDCHF & EURUSD, it went Long on EURUSD, and Short on USDCHF. The problem is that it there is 4-5 open orders of each. FB went chasing the trend on Tuesday ...

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A question regarding the float — As a percent of your account balance, how big do you allow the float to get -5%, -10%, etc. before you start manually closing trades or shutting Firebird off?? Thanks Rusty ps anybody notice FB opening a lot of ...

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ok the above post was probably silly. But seriously.... who used Amazing, or Straddle today on NFP, and made out?? Picked up 50 pips on the only pair I traded, first time using Amazing. Too bad it was only .3 mini lots ($15) But it worked!!! In ...

Straddle trading EA

Hey Palmer, Sounds like my weekends, but my list stops after the xml. So what are you restoring?? I have a 65 Mustang coupe that I plan on going racing with... Hopefully my new found sport (Forex) will help pay some of those bills Rusty

Firebird EA, please test this one, it is one of the greats

Other — Just went live with 63gH03_TS on IBFX. Seems to work pretty well on Demos, we will see on Live Using 30-300-30 settings. Rusty

which version of firebird are you using on live account?

From what I have read in most of the FB Documentation, FB was supposed to average the TP level of the pipstep orders. So that the trend FB was stuck in would only have to come back a portion of the way to break even. All the pipstep orders I have ...

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Does anybody know where I can find a 'plain Jane' version of Firebird. No hedging, no ts, no MM, just Firebird. I have a few programs I would like to use with it, to custom tailor it to me. Thanks Rusty

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Firebird questions — Hey everyone, I have a few questions about Firebird that I would like to figure out before I go live with it. 1) how does it handle interuptions in: power, internet connection, EA being turned off. Will it pick back up ...

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Blewmoon, What do you speculate the problem was, with no trades for those 2 days? Rusty

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Did you have a money management issue around 9/7/06, trades were going from .10 lots to .30 lots, and those were the big losers? Just wondering. other then that it looks pretty good. What version of FB are you using?? Rusty

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cgldsmth, I think you edited out some required html coding in the report file. maybe you should just replace your name and account numbers with 'xxx' and leave everything else in . That way it will be properly formated to be displayed. Rusty

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I know this is more of a conspiracy theory type of idea, BUT... What if the brokers insert proprietary code into their repackaged version of Metetrader?? Could that cause some of the issues people are having with News events?? Which leads me to, can ...

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