Scoobs Filter and Recovery Trades — Steve: I see your point on the account safety purpose of Scoobs filter. Nevertheless, the Scoobs ON v OFF test run by jcs in the FTLR thread did allow recovery for open trades which seemed to contributed ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

José Luis: Your coding skills are fabulous! image If I could understand only half of what you have suggested! I see Steve has captured your input, but I want to thank you for your efforts on our behalf. TOB would not be what it is without your ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

I did not have any good experience with TT and I doubt that mt4 would have caught any of these JPY trades. I still have the NB Trend Trader in demo and after checking the journal yesterday and today, it missed everything. That said we need another ...

Beastie: a Nanningbob trend and counter-trend auto-trader by Steve Hopwood

Setting Pending Trade Stops — Steve: Given the trauma we have been through this week with MT4 and the how the crims use, it is much more of an issue that I previously realized. It may not work in all cases, but perhaps we should consider for ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

Viv: Yes, with a few exceptions. No TT at all. I am using .01/$200 lot/$ ratio, a GoldLine BEP of 3 because of the invalid stops issue of the MT4 platform I am using and set RecoveryBreakEvenProfitPips = 20 per Steve's suggestion. The wild market ...

Beastie: a Nanningbob trend and counter-trend auto-trader by Steve Hopwood

Keeping Track of EA versions — This is a little off the subject at this point, but the question of keeping track of all of the EA's that Steve cranks out seems to be a problem. One suggestion is to append the ea file with the post number, ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

Total Disaster Averted — Today was something else. I thought I was going to sail through this week with huge pips, Then, at 2100 GMT the sh__ hit the fan! I came back about one hour after the meltdown and was stunned like everyone else. The ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

jcs: Good thoughts. I should have mentioned that my results were only with CT. And you are right Beastie uses the original sixths, not ChaserL, so at times the bar count is very different. I shut down the TT in Beastie after one week because like ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

Trades affected by subsequent Magenta Line Movement — Steve: There is another possible problem with trades when the magenta lines move due to a price spike. On 3/11 I had a USDCAD short trade that closed for a 12 pip loss when the magenta ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

Unbelievable! — Steve: Crazy markets yield huge pips if you have the balls to hold on. My numbers are +351 pips today and +559 since Sunday;14 pairs. I did close one GBPJPY trade manually for +92 pips just before it retraced, but otherwise, ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

Not a Problem! — Steve: I understand and, believe me, I don't know how you do what you do. Lazar and I agree that Beastie rocks and will continue to pull in pips. If it is all right with you, I will from time to time report some Beastie ...

Beastie: a Nanningbob trend and counter-trend auto-trader by Steve Hopwood

Steve: I think the same or similar problem is affecting the latest version of Beastie that you just posted. I am getting a flood of the following log entries: "Beastie EURAUD,H1: Alert: Beastie setting of breakeven SL EURAUD ticket no 3934617 failed ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

Good Suggestion! — Lazar: Hey, this is a good suggestion that Muzza made for TOB at this post: url Steve: If you implement Muzza's suggestion for TOB, I hope you find the time to do the same for Beastie. They both rock! Pete

Beastie: a Nanningbob trend and counter-trend auto-trader by Steve Hopwood

TOB Mulitple Trades — Steve: I had the same problem on Friday as the TOB version prior to the one you updated on 13 March executed three GBPUSD trades within one minute of each other. The market was wild on Friday, so maybe that could have ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

A Great Day! — What a day! I have been demoing both TOB and Beastie for the past month. TOB picked up the same EURAUD trade Steve had for a 98 pip gain. So far, six trades, +161 pips on one ECN demo account. Surprisingly, my Beastie demo ...

Sixths trading - an EA by macman, Bob and Steve mk 2

Game Trade Mode Video Alternative — If anyone wants to practice with Brijon's game trade mode video, particularly after the 30 day trial period provided by the Camtasia Studio program, all you have to do is convert the video file to a format ...

Brijon Concept of Threes auto trading robot by Steve Hopwood

Unbelievable! — I just checked my Beastie demo account on this very wild day in the markets (amazing for a Sunday!) and it has already racked up +346 pips since market opening. image Pete

Beastie: a Nanningbob trend and counter-trend auto-trader by Steve Hopwood

Beastie and TOB are amazing! — Steve: I don't comment on your threads too often because by the time I catch up on the posts I find the answers to the questions I would have asked. But I want add my praise to Beastie and that with the changes ...

Beastie: a Nanningbob trend and counter-trend auto-trader by Steve Hopwood

Multiple Trades — Steve: Consider this approach. Rather than partial closures on one trade, why not use mulitiple trades like the system Squalou developed for Mer's 3 Tier LBO thread? This is what I have in mind: 3 trades with different TP's: ...

NanningBob V1 Trend auto trading robot by Steve Hopwood

How is it going? — Mike: This thread is kind of dead, but I wanted to check to see what demo testing results you are getting with your modified PH Test EA. I applaud your efforts, especially your work on learning MQl. I must get to that as ...

Vegas Algorithm auto-trader by Steve and Squalou