Moving Day's Pet Millipede

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Hi Steve,

My New trade Order comment is as per my attached screenshot with the new trade "From 81301347"

Anyway hope I have not mucked it up.

Cheers
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Wavegarrick » Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:34 pm wrote:Hi Steve,

My New trade Order comment is as per my attached screenshot with the new trade "From 81301347"

Anyway hope I have not mucked it up.

Cheers
Leon
However long we have been at this game and however much experience we have, it is amazing what we do not know until someone tells us something. This is a classic example.

When we close part of a trade, Empty4 regards the part left behind as a new trade and changes its comment to include the ticket no of the part-closed trade and assigns it a new ticket number. Look at the comment for the 95% closed; it will be "to xxxx" where xxxx = the new ticket number of the part of the trade left open.

This is often useful and I make use of it here. MDPM knows that an order is the 5% left behind when its comment is not the same as our TradeComment input.

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Thanks, Steve. My dumbest moment of the year :oops: I see exactly what you mean as I manually did a part close on one of my trades and saw that it is the way part closes are done. Never knew this and now I know. :oops:
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Hi Steve,

I’m following your demo account closely for this millipede setup. Can I ask if your initial take profit target was 100 pips before switching to 50 pips? Cause at the begging all the trades were closing off at 100 pips take profit before being reduced. I’m struggling with a few setups of my own trying to retain the profits as more often or not e price will whiplash and the stop loss will get activated.
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hey softballmel

from the moving day's pet millipede user guide that might explain this:

"You will see some strange things if you look through the order history, but that is because of bugs in the original code"

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softballmel » Tue Jun 09, 2020 3:37 pm wrote:Hi Steve,

I’m following your demo account closely for this millipede setup. Can I ask if your initial take profit target was 100 pips before switching to 50 pips? Cause at the begging all the trades were closing off at 100 pips take profit before being reduced. I’m struggling with a few setups of my own trying to retain the profits as more often or not e price will whiplash and the stop loss will get activated.
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Oh ok. thank u. im following the trades very closely. its so tough to keep the profit.
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So far my demo with default settings does not do well.
2020-06-17 09_51_02-MDPM.png
Looking at the loosing trades they are all victims of whipsaw.
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