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  • #561
  • Dec 19, 2014 7:12am Dec 19, 2014 7:12am
Hi everyone,

my testing is not doing well. Should I continue and let the ea recover from its pit. Could be interesting to see if this possible for the ea to do should gold gets out of ranging?!? Personnally, I am curious of the outcome. This is one of the reason I did not test with a 50k account but with a 2k account.

Once I send this reply, I'm off for an appointment. Should be back and check any reply in about 2 hours from now

For now I let the ea do its things. Will see!
  • #562
  • Dec 19, 2014 7:39am Dec 19, 2014 7:39am
An observation about FXCM: The fills are pretty far off the mark, not much matching the desired fill price with the actual. This is in demo, not sure about what it would be like in a live account. It could be lagging I guess. When I compare the fills to ATC brokers it's pretty poor, as ATC is right on the money for the most part.

Update: Just checked the latency and it's averaging about 80ms, compared to an average 60-70 for ATC.
A good man knows his limitations ~ Clint Eastwood
  • #563
  • Dec 19, 2014 7:50am Dec 19, 2014 7:50am
I changed the settings from 30 to 60. All orders are cloesed immediatly and started a new cycle. But why ea still open 0,02 lot ? Account is under 1000 usd !
  • #564
  • Dec 19, 2014 8:18am Dec 19, 2014 8:18am
http://www.kitco.com/images/live/nyg...07787682455684

Quoting radityo.ardi
a bit confused, my Steady Gold, nothing was closed from the start of this strategy until now. I guess something wrong. Is somebody could tell my why it is not closing the orders till 3 days or more? For now, I'll close it off, restart the strategy again.... UPDATE: got 3 Steady Gold in my TE, Armada, AGEA, and FXCM.
The EA only closes trades when the equity profit target is reached. Until then, all your trades will float around until the market moves far enough to add up to net profit. This is an unusual outcome after FOMC, you can see other currencies moved a lot, especially usdjpy. But, gold will make a move sometime.

As mentioned by others, the EA doesn't add more orders to the ones already placed. It sounds like we need 60 orders to overcome weird ranges like this post-FOMC.

This EA has had much higher than expected returns for some of you, so it may make you impatient for the next move because you're thinking it will continue to make this above average profit. Patience is key!
Too close for pips, switching to points.
  • #565
  • Dec 19, 2014 8:22am Dec 19, 2014 8:22am
Quoting msdogan
I changed the settings from 30 to 60. All orders are cloesed immediatly and started a new cycle. But why ea still open 0,02 lot ? Account is under 1000 usd !
Did you change whilst the EA had open trades or was already attached to the chart?

Seems that is a no-no for this bot. Once it is affixed, don't change anything, don't shut down or restart your terminal, just leave it alone else it will do strange and possibly unwanted things
  • #566
  • Dec 19, 2014 8:37am Dec 19, 2014 8:37am
Quoting msdogan
I changed the settings from 30 to 60. All orders are cloesed immediatly and started a new cycle.
The EA will close and restart the cycle if you:

  1. close and restart the terminal
  2. change the timeframe
  3. change the settings

So, once you get it running, leave it alone. If you want to change anything, wait for a cycle to close and turn off autotrading. It's a sensitive creature, lol.

mind over matter
  • #567
  • Dec 19, 2014 8:46am Dec 19, 2014 8:46am
Are you sure about the timeframe Kosmo? I think I remember ThePipster saying it didn't matter, or was it simply the timeframre you attach the EA to doesn't matter but changing it once it's attached does?

ThePipster, can you clarify?
  • #568
  • Dec 19, 2014 8:54am Dec 19, 2014 8:54am
Quoting Thepipster
It sounds like we need 60 orders to overcome weird ranges like this post-FOMC.
I don't want to speak too early just because mine is doing well at the moment, but I'm not so sure whether we really do need more levels. After the false start of my first tester (60 levels and $0.10 gaps), once I've changed to wider gaps, it became much steadier. This post-FOMC range will be a good test for my present settings.
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  • #569
  • Dec 19, 2014 8:57am Dec 19, 2014 8:57am
Quoting dambuster
Are you sure about the timeframe Kosmo? I think I remember ThePipster saying it didn't matter, or was it simply the timeframre you attach the EA to doesn't matter but changing it once it's attached does? ThePipster, can you clarify?
Yep, the TF you attach it to doesn't matter, but when you change it while it's running, it'll restart the cycle.
mind over matter
  • #570
  • Dec 19, 2014 9:10am Dec 19, 2014 9:10am
Quoting kosmo
{quote} Yep, the TF you attach it to doesn't matter, but when you change it while it's running, it'll restart the cycle.
Now that explains a lot about why this SOAB keeps closing at 'random' intervals... it was me all along
  • #571
  • Dec 19, 2014 9:12am Dec 19, 2014 9:12am
Quoting kosmo
{quote} I don't want to speak too early just because mine is doing well at the moment, but I'm not so sure whether we really do need more levels. After the false start of my first tester (60 levels and $0.10 gaps), once I've changed to wider gaps, it became much steadier. This post-FOMC range will be a good test for my present settings. {image} {image}
What is your box size (it's impossible to tell from the screen shot)
  • #572
  • Dec 19, 2014 9:12am Dec 19, 2014 9:12am
Quoting dambuster
{quote} Now that explains a lot about why this SOAB keeps closing at 'random' intervals... it was me all along
Been there, done that... too.
mind over matter
  • #573
  • Dec 19, 2014 9:16am Dec 19, 2014 9:16am
Quoting dambuster
{quote} What is your box size (it's impossible to tell from the screen shot)
$40. Detailed settings here.
mind over matter
  • #574
  • Dec 19, 2014 9:22am Dec 19, 2014 9:22am
Quoting kosmo
{quote} $40. Detailed settings here.
  • #575
  • Dec 19, 2014 10:13am Dec 19, 2014 10:13am
1197 acting like a superheterodyne magnet...
  • #576
  • Dec 19, 2014 12:20pm Dec 19, 2014 12:20pm
That's for sure. After the other day I got spoiled, wanting those big moves to happen already lol.
A good man knows his limitations ~ Clint Eastwood
  • #577
  • Dec 19, 2014 12:57pm Dec 19, 2014 12:57pm
Quoting kosmo
{quote} I'm looking for a dip to $1175-1170; wanna bet?
Next week or next year...?
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  • #578
  • Edited 12:11pm Dec 20, 2014 12:00am | Edited 12:11pm
@Pipster: Just wondering if it would be possible to stop out the trades instead of hedging them. The reason would be to save the double hit on spreads that a hedge imposes once the hedge is closed, as compared to simply closing the trade and not hedging. The effect would be to hollow out the center of the grid as the market wallowed around the middle of the grid. When I closed out that boxed grid I paid around an extra $280 on spreads that could have been avoided. ($20 x 0.5 x 28).
For instance, if the price action hit a buy limit order then the corresponding sell limit order would be cancelled and a stop loss would be put on the resulting open buy order at the cancelled sell stop price. Only one spread hit would be taken if it was stopped out, and only one commission would be paid if applicable.
The reason I was asking is that I know that your logic uses the account balance versus equity to pull the trigger on taking the profit, and a starting balance variable would have to be used instead, since the balance would be floating.
A good man knows his limitations ~ Clint Eastwood
  • #579
  • Dec 20, 2014 1:42am Dec 20, 2014 1:42am
I have downloaded it and took it on a test drive back testing....it never gave me one trade and i dont understand why.....tried different pairs, reset setings, readjusted them....nothing no trades for me
  • #580
  • Dec 20, 2014 10:54am Dec 20, 2014 10:54am
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I have downloaded it and took it on a test drive back testing....it never gave me one trade and i dont understand why.....tried different pairs, reset setings, readjusted them....nothing no trades for me

Earlier in this thread Pipster explains (many times) why backtesting won't work on this EA, kind of why we're doing this test.
A good man knows his limitations ~ Clint Eastwood
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