Automate your stratergy, EA's have no emotions.

How to Become Emotionless

Tradeigel, so there is, my apologies.

Phoenix 2007 (new thread)

The backtesting is not unreliable if you know what you are doing, you need to avoid the pitfalls of MT4, of which there are many. The most important one is to not open trades based on the ask/bid of the current bar, as this is the one that is ...

Backtesting

I would strongly recommend Oanda as a first live broker, as you can trade as small as you like live, believe me, this is good.

From Demo to Live: Expecting the unexpected

Observation of the MQL trading contest results — First of all congrats on the MQL contest, nice going. Looking though the trade history it seems that the EA has an amazing win rate, but the losers are 3x bigger that the winners. Two things ...

Phoenix 2007 (new thread)

Whist not want to rain on anybodys parade, this stratergy is similar to a default EA which comes with Metatrader. I have tweaked this EA in every way imaginable to try and make it profitable and it could not be done (without taking big risks). Every ...

simple sma system

Got 95% 'accuracy', it's kinda akward how Metatrader is so keen to write over the file, just make sure you don't recalcuate!

Backtesting

Here is somebody doing the same thing url

Backtesting

Nice detective work, they sure don't make it easy!!

Backtesting

Hi Cristid, The MQL documentation is crap to say the least, how do you know the Metatrader program interprts the data in such a fashion? in fact how do you even know if the ctm variable is absolute or relative to the current bar. Have I missed some ...

Backtesting

You would think that doing this type of thing was a no brainer, but I have tried, and it's not the wild success you think it's going to be. Just because a signal is wrong 90% of the time, does not mean reversing it is going to make it right 90% of ...

A Loser System Wanted

Interesting, the FXT defination seems to say nothing of ticks, only bars. #pragma pack(push,1) struct TestHistory { time_t otm; // bar time double open; // OHLCV values double low; double high; double close; double volume; time_t ctm; // the current ...

Backtesting

Nice job!, where did you get the FXT format from? With the holes in the gain capital data, I remeber they ranged from 5-15 minutes a couple of times a week, depending on the timeframe of your stratergy this should not matter to much I would have ...

Backtesting

It depends on how good or bad they are.

The HOLY GRAIL

[Links removed by moderator. Poster is under 50 posts] It can be done, but you won't get there system jumping on this forum. Use online forums to get a handle on the basics and what does not work (which forums are great for), learn to backtest and ...

Making Real Money in FX

I understand what you are saying but beyond dicing semantics, the two are intimately linked. One cannot consider position size without stop loss size, otherwise you cannot calculate your maxium loss. I know there are other ways to manage risk, but ...

What actually works.

It's called the coin game, basically you use a coin to decide if you go long or short then manage the trades (cut losers, let winners run), you will make money over time. Also you can run simulations on MT4, basically you randomly decide a time and ...

What actually works.

I want to turn away, but I can't.

Developing a system - LIVE experiment ;)

The most important aspect of trading is risk management, the trading system is only a minor part of the equation. All systems win & lose, it's impossible to predict the market, all you can do is make sure your trades are well managed. Risk mangement ...

What actually works.