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thomas1386 » Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:07 pm wrote:Hello EJ,
I was searching for the same thing. Have a look at Ehrenmat's post in "TDesk User Indicators Playground". It is page 24, post number 4. Please let me know if you get it working with the "ATR Volatility Indicator". My thought was to stop trading when volatility gets to high - or only trade when it is high - we should test which way is better.
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That's funny. Ehrenmat actually created that for me from this very idea. It used to work in the old TD indicators period. I tried using it again and it doesn't seem to work. I edited a version that doesn't have the Tdesk code with buffers to signify "risk on/off" but cant seem to figure out a way to incorporate that into UBD/USD.

What situation would you want to trade outside of volatile times? I'm actually interested in the opposite. I figured it would be easier to make your pips in volatile times and avoid false signals in flatter phases where its all choppy or with small candles. I'm trying to filter out signals due to low volume or low activity.

PM me if you have other thoughts/uses and want to work on something.

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tomele » Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:12 pm wrote:
lemur6666 » 27 Jan 2020, 18:45 wrote:I am stuck. Desky won't close open sell although Tdesk claims signal is EXIT.
I have checked Deksy's settings and it CloseOpenOnEXITSignal = true.
I have also checked that signals are valid 60 minutes.
Hi Lemur.

I am interested in investigating this "problem".

First, we have to make sure that TDesk is indeed signalling the EXIT signal to Desky that is shown in the dashboard. If your reported situation occurs again, please do the following:

- Press F3 to open the window of global variables.
- Search for a variable named "TDTRADESIGNAL/XXXXXX/..." with "XXXXXX" being the symbol.
- Note down the value of this variable

The value from above should be "4" for an EXIT signal. If this is true, we have to go on from there.

By the way, are you sure Desky "owns" the trade that doesn't get closed? Does it have the right magic number and comment?

Cheers
Thomas
Hi,

I have been having problems getting orders to process since I upgraded to TDESK 6.81 at the beginning of April. I'm having a similar issue to what was described above.

When I check the TDTRADESIGNAL, the value of the variable for the trades (AUD/NZD) I expect to exist is 3. You mention that is needs to be 4 to exit. The exit is based on the Solo Signal being -100 which it is, I have set the Trade and Signal Magic Numbers to -1.

I noticed the Trade Magic Number was previously set to 2 but I think 240 of the 250 trades were 2 anyway. (As a side-note, this explains why I wasn't getting any new orders as max number is reached, was wondering why it had stopped at 240 previously)

Here is a screenshot from my TDESK and I have attached all the relevant set files too.
TDeskProblem.png
I've been racking my brains all day trying to figure out what I did wrong during the upgrade process! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
GiantJasper
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giantj » Mon May 04, 2020 7:46 pm wrote:
tomele » Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:12 pm wrote:
lemur6666 » 27 Jan 2020, 18:45 wrote:I am stuck. Desky won't close open sell although Tdesk claims signal is EXIT.
I have checked Deksy's settings and it CloseOpenOnEXITSignal = true.
I have also checked that signals are valid 60 minutes.
Hi Lemur.

I am interested in investigating this "problem".

First, we have to make sure that TDesk is indeed signalling the EXIT signal to Desky that is shown in the dashboard. If your reported situation occurs again, please do the following:

- Press F3 to open the window of global variables.
- Search for a variable named "TDTRADESIGNAL/XXXXXX/..." with "XXXXXX" being the symbol.
- Note down the value of this variable

The value from above should be "4" for an EXIT signal. If this is true, we have to go on from there.

By the way, are you sure Desky "owns" the trade that doesn't get closed? Does it have the right magic number and comment?

Cheers
Thomas
Hi,

I have been having problems getting orders to process since I upgraded to TDESK 6.81 at the beginning of April. I'm having a similar issue to what was described above.

When I check the TDTRADESIGNAL, the value of the variable for the trades (AUD/NZD) I expect to exist is 3. You mention that is needs to be 4 to exit. The exit is based on the Solo Signal being -100 which it is, I have set the Trade and Signal Magic Numbers to -1.

I noticed the Trade Magic Number was previously set to 2 but I think 240 of the 250 trades were 2 anyway. (As a side-note, this explains why I wasn't getting any new orders as max number is reached, was wondering why it had stopped at 240 previously)

Here is a screenshot from my TDESK and I have attached all the relevant set files too.



I've been racking my brains all day trying to figure out what I did wrong during the upgrade process! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
GiantJasper
So I figured out the problem - the comment associated with Desky had changed from 'Desky' to 'TDesk signals trade'. I never really looked at this value before as manual said not to change unless you knew what you were doing. Never mind! I am manually closing the orders with the older comments based on the signals.

Just out of interest, is there a way I can run a second instance of TDesk/Desky with the old comment but somehow get it to only close existing orders but not open new ones?
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giantj » Mon May 11, 2020 10:15 pm wrote:
giantj » Mon May 04, 2020 7:46 pm wrote:
tomele » Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:12 pm wrote:
lemur6666 » 27 Jan 2020, 18:45 wrote:I am stuck. Desky won't close open sell although Tdesk claims signal is EXIT.
I have checked Deksy's settings and it CloseOpenOnEXITSignal = true.
I have also checked that signals are valid 60 minutes.
Hi Lemur.

I am interested in investigating this "problem".

First, we have to make sure that TDesk is indeed signalling the EXIT signal to Desky that is shown in the dashboard. If your reported situation occurs again, please do the following:

- Press F3 to open the window of global variables.
- Search for a variable named "TDTRADESIGNAL/XXXXXX/..." with "XXXXXX" being the symbol.
- Note down the value of this variable

The value from above should be "4" for an EXIT signal. If this is true, we have to go on from there.

By the way, are you sure Desky "owns" the trade that doesn't get closed? Does it have the right magic number and comment?

Cheers
Thomas
Hi,

I have been having problems getting orders to process since I upgraded to TDESK 6.81 at the beginning of April. I'm having a similar issue to what was described above.

When I check the TDTRADESIGNAL, the value of the variable for the trades (AUD/NZD) I expect to exist is 3. You mention that is needs to be 4 to exit. The exit is based on the Solo Signal being -100 which it is, I have set the Trade and Signal Magic Numbers to -1.

I noticed the Trade Magic Number was previously set to 2 but I think 240 of the 250 trades were 2 anyway. (As a side-note, this explains why I wasn't getting any new orders as max number is reached, was wondering why it had stopped at 240 previously)

Here is a screenshot from my TDESK and I have attached all the relevant set files too.



I've been racking my brains all day trying to figure out what I did wrong during the upgrade process! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
GiantJasper
So I figured out the problem - the comment associated with Desky had changed from 'Desky' to 'TDesk signals trade'. I never really looked at this value before as manual said not to change unless you knew what you were doing. Never mind! I am manually closing the orders with the older comments based on the signals.

Just out of interest, is there a way I can run a second instance of TDesk/Desky with the old comment but somehow get it to only close existing orders but not open new ones?
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I cannot think of any way of achieving this:
Just out of interest, is there a way I can run a second instance of TDesk/Desky with the old comment but somehow get it to only close existing orders but not open new ones?
It cannot be much of a problem or it would have cropped up before.

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I want to close all open and pending orders when a particular indicator called ExP changes exclusively. In other words the ExP indicator has a veto on all other indicators in TDesk, would it be correct to set.

ForceExitOnOppositeSignals to ExP/H1 if my indicator name is ExP on the H1 timeframe
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Didn't get an answer to my previous post but pretty sure its correctly set up, however it hasn't worked. I think the condition has been met for my Exit veto signal in TDesk.
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I have this setting in Desky
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But nothing was closed, any thoughts what might be wrong? Both setfile magic numbersettings are set to -1.
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Hi c1borg,

Sounds correct but you dont have any veto signals on tdesk. If the top of the screenshot in your previous post wasnt cut off I might have been able to see the problem.
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wallywonka » Mon May 18, 2020 10:06 am wrote:Hi c1borg,

Sounds correct but you dont have any veto signals on tdesk. If the top of the screenshot in your previous post wasnt cut off I might have been able to see the problem.
It says there has been a veto signal, also on my image above? Not sure what you mean?
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c1borg » 29 minutes ago wrote:
It says there has been a veto signal, also on my image above? Not sure what you mean?
Hey c1borg,

your signal must be on both, ForceExitOnOppositeSignals and VetoOnOppositeSignals list. Then it should work.

Cheers,

Mat

:hi:

PS: As far as I know, positions/trades that are already open will only be managed by Desky if they have Desky's Magic Number and Comment
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Ehrenmat » Mon May 18, 2020 11:52 am wrote:
Hey c1borg,

your signal must be on both, ForceExitOnOppositeSignals and VetoOnOppositeSignals list. Then it should work.

Cheers,

Mat

:hi:

PS: As far as I know, positions/trades that are already open will only be managed by Desky if they have Desky's Magic Number and Comment
Thanks for the help :hi:
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