Profit 5880 USD with max drawdown 110 USD in 10 years. That's setup with 13 currencies pairs for the modified "Follow the candles" strategy described here. As you can see in the original strategy thread I'm not welcomed with ideas of how to improve ...

Expert Advisors optimization & backtesting

You wrote in 1st page this: I have put a 30 day expiry on this EA to protect it from being sold or commercialized etc. At the end of 30 days I'll upload a new version. Friendly question: what will be "at the very end" - forever 30 days updates from ...

Follow the Candles

Hey, bubincka. As for now, I understand that the author of this thread aims to earn some money in the future by selling his MT4 EA. Therefore no MT5 EAs here are welcomed. Please correct me if I'm wrong..

Follow the Candles

Tnx abokwaik for a lot of threads. Here will point main ideas after reading your threads: 1) i will make EAs based on open price - this will give fast and precise backtesting posibilities using open prices modeling in strategy tester 2) backtest 10 ...

No Guts, No Glory

We can compare open/close/high/low prices for n brokers. Will there be differences for lowest/highest prices for M1 timeframes? Is it posible that my order is manipulated so that i get stop loss with price which is not according to charts?

Discussions on Order Flow/Volume

Profit 1202 USD with max drawdown 125 USD in 3 years. That's setup with DJI30 index for the modified "1-2-3" strategy described here. Sometimes I pick up a strategy, try to develop an Expert Advisor, and miss or adjust some original strategy idea ...

Expert Advisors optimization & backtesting

Profit 636 USD with max drawdown 79 USD in 3 years. That's only one setup with DJI30 index for Bollinger Bands strategy. Strategy idea: We use the Bollinger Bands indicator to detect a trend. Indicator setup: period 20, deviation 2.0. We open BUY ...

Expert Advisors optimization & backtesting

tnx for remarks. that's true about market makers brokers. but is it relevant to ECN brokers/accounts as well? anyway seems I missed out on the topic of this thread and my posts here are misleading from author purpose. sorry about that. please delete ...

Follow the Candles

fix: 2) DAX - day 1, hour 15, SL 9, TP 27, lots 0.3

Follow the Candles

fix: 5) DJI - day 2, hour 14, SL 20, TP 20, lots 1 (on DAX chart must be executed) - because we multiple 0.1 by 10, and SL/TP is in money in this EA so x10 too

Follow the Candles

Finally, have got DAX optimization results (8h running) - see attached. And here is set up with combinations of DAX and DJI (5 EAs on 1 account) - different days and/or different SL/TP to diversify risks: 1) DAX - day 1, hour 15, SL 42, TP 22, lots ...

Follow the Candles

Seems there are different default allowed filling modes for each broker ( url ). I'm using Admiral Market and Roboforex and my n EAs works fine and I don't specify that parameter when executing deals operations.

Follow the Candles

By mistake found better DJI setups... I set in tester DAX but in EA settings forgot to change symbol and so left with DJI.. as a result I have got different optimization results for DJI (see attachment). Compared the best result in 2nd optimization ...

Follow the Candles

Made some random backtesting and one completed optimization for DJI30 - see optimization results attached (3 years, real ticks). Seems there can be found good opportunities. Believe there can be combinations of multiple symbols as well - will ...

Follow the Candles

Here is MT5 EA version attached. Please tell me if the algorithm is ok according to this thread? You can use reverse logic as well - by parameter is_retrace_mode setting to true. Please share the best backtesting results.

Follow the Candles

Waren Buffet said that he has 1-2 deals per year. My mentor from the broker company said he has ~1 deal per month. I see from my expert's backtesting that "fewer trades strategies" make more profits. The more you do the more mistakes you make. The ...

$1000 to $1,000,000,000 in 4 years