Money4nothing — Has nothing to do with your way of trading. We are trying to develop an EA and at the moment trying to figure out a way to eliminate certain trades that do not meet the requirements of the threads originator.

Inside Bar Trading Revisited

Small setup bars — One reason that smaller IB's may cause a problem is that they appear inside of larger IB's. I believe that one of HardHead's rules is that you trade the first bar in the sequence. This may be a poor example because it is so ...

Inside Bar Trading Revisited

IB size — I had a spread sheet that had trades generated by an older version of the EA from 12/01/2009 till 2/05/2009. I started deleting all trades with Set up Bars less than 30 pips and worked my way up to 80 pip All trades 34.47 profit 30 ...

Inside Bar Trading Revisited

Same test with Use IB turned off. Basically looks the same but improved percentages.

Inside Bar Trading Revisited

I did not realize I had Use IB turned on till after I did the test but I assumed the MaxBar size still used the set up bar. If I get time I will rerun the test with Use IB turned off.

Inside Bar Trading Revisited

Limit Size — When all the winning percentages increase as the Max Bar size increases would this not indicate that we need to eliminate the smaller bars

Inside Bar Trading Revisited

What about the ones that pop out for 2 or 3 pips and then go south on you.

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Money4Nothing — Do you have a system to determine which bar you trade in which direction?

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1Ka — Can you see any reason why I might have missed this trade. Looks like it wound have been a good one.

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I guess that shows how deceptive back testing on a chart can be.

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It stay red as long as the price stay near the bottom band and I only did shorts. When it runs into the top band it changes to blue and I only made long trades. Seems like once price runs into either side it stays there and head in that direction ...

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Indicators — I found an indicator that may be worth trying. Top Trend. I back tested it on a chart and the results were good in some ways. It reduced the number of trades by 50 % but improved winning % by 3 % and improved profit by 100 %. The ...

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I have been doing some back test on different indicators to see if they would show an improvement in the EA's performance. The best results that I get are on fast acting indicators. A spread sheet is attached which shows the results of using FX ...

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I'm having a problem with the latest version of the EA. Can not get it to make any short trades. Tried deleting it and down loaded again and still same problem.

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If you are in a trade that is not closed when the trend changes should you close it soon as you see trend change?

Slingshot 30M & 1H - The 2nd Coming......

If the trend indicator only works right from when you start your computer and does not set the lines right for history (which is what I understood from past post) then there is no way you can back test the EA further back than the last time you ...

Slingshot 30M & 1H - The 2nd Coming......

If you have a trade that is at a loss when the bar closes you place your stop at the low or high of that bar and a take profit that will make 1 pip profit. If that trade stays open for several bar do you continue to trade the bars in between and ...

Slingshot 30M & 1H - The 2nd Coming......

damonl — Is this chart marked right for your Stoc system? If not can you point me in the right direction.

Slingshot 30M & 1H - The 2nd Coming......

I had a problem twice today with latest edition of EA . Running on a 1 hr. chart it opened a buy on G/U and placed the stop just a few pips below the entry price and no where near the bottom of setup bar. It run OK on 1/2 hr chart on E/U and E/J.

Inside Bar Trading Revisited

Try the one in post #1, it is dated Jan 25

Inside Bar Trading Revisited