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- jcs replied Feb 2, 2011
Help with the maths please — My 500:1 leveraged test account ( settings as post 740 ) had a starting balance of $3,000 It is unquestionably the leveraging power combined with the MMTU resulting in the lot sizing and that lot sizing ...
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- jcs replied Feb 2, 2011
Profit target filter ? — Steve One thing I have noticed trading the 4 hour charts is that at times with the fib on short candles the ea triggers a trade with a very small profit target The spread often exceeds the profit in these cases and the ...
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- jcs replied Feb 1, 2011
Will this help convince a coder it is worthwhile ? — Cutting Trades After a good deal of multi demo accounts testing ( albeit only a short period ) I am summarising here what I have found to date I will be repeating myself from previous posts, ...
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- jcs replied Feb 1, 2011
We are all here trying different approaches to try improve the ea, and make it more palatable for live trading situations So I suggest you set up your idea on a demo try it and report your results and settings etc It's the only way to prove or ...
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- jcs replied Feb 1, 2011
Hi Nicastro Recovery trades contribute to reducing the margin level as would a normal trade, but then do not contribute to any pop as they merely freeze the 2 trades at a loss, exactly what I am trying to avoid, so I am looking to see if I can get ...
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- jcs replied Jan 31, 2011
Ahh, thats what code looks like !! ...... way toooooo scary


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- jcs replied Jan 31, 2011
No As a check I have just removed ea, deleted GV's, closed MT4, rebooted, applied ea and I get the error message as soon as the ea is placed on the chart and before I touch the ' Start the Robot ' button When I start robot message is still there If ...
Going Home - a multi-pair auto-trader for Dreamliner's strategy, by Steve Hopwood
- jcs replied Jan 31, 2011
Tradeable Correlation indi .... Bug identified by Scott — Steve I have the following error message in experts tabs ": ArrayCopySeries function internal error " I had this with previous version also Don't know if you have had time to follow the ...
Going Home - a multi-pair auto-trader for Dreamliner's strategy, by Steve Hopwood
- jcs replied Jan 31, 2011
I still have my 500:1 account running with MMTU @ 2 It closed 6 baskets yesterday in the 12 hour period I have it running Number of trades in each basket has been 5, 2, 3, 3, 8, 3, and it has of course been opening several trades at each check ...
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- jcs replied Jan 30, 2011
Hi Whip Is this still on Daily timeframe ? .... EDIT OK, Just noticed it tells us this in the General tab Which broker are you using ?
Steve Hopwood's Fib Target-level retracement auto-trader: compliments Simone
- jcs replied Jan 30, 2011
I am closing 2 individual trades only I have closed more when the situation looked right to do so, simply to replenish the Margin Level It is very difficult at this time for me to say .... if this do this, if that do this etc ..... as I have not yet ...
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- jcs replied Jan 29, 2011
I feel a flaming is coming ! — OK guys, I am here to willingly sacrifice myself for the good of the cause and risk an infamous Hopwood flaming ! Steve Manual system uses 2 indi’s ... Stochastic Different Pairs, the trade trigger indi, which ...
Going Home - a multi-pair auto-trader for Dreamliner's strategy, by Steve Hopwood
- jcs replied Jan 29, 2011
Thank you ..... EDIT ... there is no parameter to change the Profit % when StopAfterNoTrades is set to true .. can we have one please
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- jcs replied Jan 29, 2011
Interestingly only 2 of the trades in the basket would have been opened if StopAfterNoTrades had been set to true at the times you suggested So looks a good idea and I hope Roundrock can introduce this into the ea as we have requested As far as ...
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- jcs replied Jan 28, 2011
For sure it would reduce margin use, because we are trading less pairs and of course using the recovery which is another new feature Sounds like a totally different strategy, which may or may not work, but not really what I was looking to achieve ...
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- jcs replied Jan 28, 2011
[quote=jcs;4351841]The last basket has just closed, Nicastro .... Has this done what you intended ? Please let us have your analysis [quote] Nicastro Did the ea work as expected regarding recovery ? Is there any analytical reason you set recovery ...
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- jcs replied Jan 28, 2011
Lot size is set automatically dependent upon MMTU settings and increase as the account balance increases I was using very aggressive MMTU ( 2 ) in this test, so it set large ( relative ) lot sizes
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- jcs replied Jan 28, 2011
The last basket has just closed, with a 18 $ loss ? ..... EDIT This may well be due to movement in price during time period needed to close all trades, at this lot level it only needs a few pips iether way to make a big difference ... is there no ...
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- jcs replied Jan 28, 2011
Tell me I am wrong — If you look at the screenshot of my current 500:1 basket, it is sorted by symbol to make it easy to see how many trades there are in each pair ( because recovery is set to true for testing here there are a couple of hedge ...
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- jcs replied Jan 27, 2011
Agree entirely, but just following Nicastro's theme of testing extremes first ... and of course the 500:1 was not expected when I first set the parameters
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