I found this website that provides historical swap rates. I wrote a crawler to extract the information from the webpages and store them in CSV files you can open in your spreadsheet. file

Historical Swap Data

Below is a walk forward experiment on AUDCAD that creates and runs 5000 strategies in parallel where each of these strategies had their input parameters chosen randomly from these ranges: EntryHour = 1 .. 23 RandomSeed = 0 L1_TakeProfitPoints = 50 ...

The Myth of Averaging

Dave, I actually wanted to stop putting energy into this thread, but I respect you so let me reply. My bad if the man is not a troll, but his communication style is certainly a bit "unusual". His first post came down to: "I did not read the thread, ...

The Myth of Averaging

Thank you for your support, sharingan9, but just put him on the ignore-list as he is a troll here on FF. Just check the last two threads he started: one implying that real traders hedge and Martingale (yes, really!! And he is upset about my ...

The Myth of Averaging

Everything ok at home? This is not curve fitting but measuring the statistical properties of a symbol. What are typical ranges prices move before they revert? That behavior seems to be fairly consistent throughout the years. So yes, the results do ...

The Myth of Averaging

Thanks, glad you liked it! No, sorry. It uses several proprietary libraries I can not share. However, the logic is obviously very simple, so I am sure you can have a coder write it with little effort for a low fee.

The Myth of Averaging

nubcake, you can't make very critical statements if you just "skimmed" the thread, as you call it. Please read the footnote on post #2. Then try it out yourself. Please read post #52.

The Myth of Averaging

MT4? What year is this? ;-) Especially for testing and optimization it is really worthwhile to learn how to use MT5! It uses all cores of your CPU (that can be 8x or 16x faster optimizations!!), it will automatically load tick data from your broker ...

Basic EA that buys and sells every candle

Not sure what your plan is with this strategy. You will need additional logic for the cases the price does not reach your profit target and you end up in deep drawdown. If you are "lucky" and chose a tiny profit target like $1 you can sometimes ...

Basic EA that buys and sells every candle

What TP did you implement? Did you implement RR 1:1? OP wrote: "Money Management and profits can be improved using alternate exit criteria like pivots, Fibonacci, Parabolic SAR etc. Another exit strategy could be to TakeProfit if Price breaks back ...

Swing Trades using Price Action

Well, I indeed stumbled on your interesting thread :-) In my thread "The Myth of Averaging" I experimented with random entries and controlled exits. You can indeed achieve a positive expectancy using Averaging Down (adding to losing positions): ...

Random entries - Let's take it to the extreme

Glad to hear this was useful to you! Unfortunately this is not an easy job. You will need to create many instances of a Class that implements your strategy, each with different parameters. Then you will need to internally simulate virtual trades and ...

Finding The Most Robust Parameters Using Optimization

And what does work, as you can see. Actually, exploring averaging was exactly what I wanted to find out in this thread, hence the title :-) Everyone has their own approach. Personally, what I like about EA backtesting is that you can try out many ...

The Myth of Averaging

Interesting question. Please give it a try and let us know what you find? You can download the averaging up and down EAs from this thread.

The Myth of Averaging

What I tried to check in this thread is to see whether averaging actually does anything useful. Of course a profitable strategy with an edge would be better. However, given that even the fully random strategy I tested can be profitable, this seems ...

The Myth of Averaging

Please read again what you just quoted...

My "Ultron" EA for GBPUSD H1 timeframe

I suspect you made logic error somewhere. You can always recreate the exact same net positions by closing positions instead of hedging. For an EA that is easy, for a human just hedging might be easier mentally, albeit at the cost of additional ...

Grid-Hedge Reboot #3

I just watched the YouTube from Chad you linked to, and now fully understand why you use hedging. There is a lot of bookkeeping needed to execute his strategy. Without an EA it is hard to do that correctly without hedging. Chad's approach is ...

Grid-Hedge Reboot #3

I wonder why many use hedging. You can always achieve the same effect by first closing positions and only opening trades in 1 direction, right? That way you save on commission and spread, and save margin/deposit load. For example Dave's example ...

Grid-Hedge Reboot #3

That equity curve looks amazing! Interesting idea to "shift" the daily bars. Good job!

DOSI: Daily Open Strategy Improved