Tomele and Steve's Blindbot

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SERIOUS WARNING
  • Most Forex traders lose all their money.
  • Using the robot posted here in trading Forex does not guarantee success.
  • Trading this robot could lead to serious financial loss.
  • Trading this robot without understanding its underlying trading strategies guarantees traders will lose their money.
  • This is not a set-and-forget ea; there is no such thing and anyone who tries to claim there is, is either stupid or lying. This ea requires frequent manual intervention.
  • At best, a trading robot is only 90% as good as the manual strategy it trades. At best. At worst, it can be much less effective. If the strategy is rubbish, so is the robot.
  • To trade this robot, you have to understand:
MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS POST http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 41#p111241 There was a Forex bloodbath on Jan 15th 2015 that you need to know about.

Tomele gets top booking here because of his utterly invaluable work at cleaning up the crap that was my original code. We would still be looking at umpteen 'Invalid ticket' etc errors without him. I am not being falsely modest here. I have not been in the mood to hunt down tiny details of late, so somebody else had to do the job and Thomas stepped up. :clap: :clap: :clap:

Thomas and I were speculating last week, that the direction of the first trade is usually irrelevant and that the profits from the various flavours of Dottybot and HGI and Dotty are mostly down to offsetting and hedging. I mentioned that I was considering coding a bot that merely starts with a grid of buy and sell stops and allowing management to continue as normal. Thomas came up with the name of 'Blindbot'. Pure master stroke was that. We all know that no EA can survive, however good its trading strategy, without a cool name. Does anyone here seriously think that a bot called, "An EA that sends a grid of pending buy and stop orders on either side of the market, and then manages the trades with a system of offsetting and basket hedge targeting" would ever stand a chance of success? I hope not.

Blindbot is an adaptation of Holy Graily Bob 'n Dottybot. The difference is that HGI is not part of the trade trigger. It is are invoked only to handle fully hedged positions. Choose your time frame according to how you would trade them manually or as you are in your various demos.

Bb will send a grid of stop orders on either side of the market. He does not care which way the market is going when he sends the grid. He will start to manage them a la HGB'nD (which I have traded live) and HGB'nD'nSS once they start to fill. HGI and SS mange 'fully hedged' positions and are irrelevant otherwise.

A quick note to noobs. Those of us who have been in on DottyBot's development from the start understand what is going on here, so I am not going to clutter up this thread with information already posted elsewhere. The Holy Graily Bob 'n Dotty User Guide describes the panoply of gridding/hedging/offsetting. Holy Graily Bob 'n Dotty is posted at http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 40#p145240. Post 1 describes HGBnD and post 2 describes the full hedge trade that inspired the addition of the full hedging feature. I will draw all of this into one User Guide should this EA prove to have legs.

I have included sixths as an option for experimentation. If enabled, Blindbot:
  • zooms the chart out as far as possible.
  • divides the chart into quarters.
  • only trades when the market is in the top and bottom quarters, avoiding the middle. The idea is to avoid trading when the market is most likely to go in for extended periods of sideways movement. It remains to be seen whether this is a benefit or not.
Have fun.

:xm:

Matters of general interest
Go here to download and run the script that will fill your platform's missing chart history: http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... f=15&t=254
Read this post:
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... p?f=6&t=78 Newbie traders, read this for inspiration and warning. Those of you who have suffered losses, read it for inspiration.

Masterly summary of hedging: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4977179

EA coding
I receive may requests to code EA's. Traders, if I code your EA for free, then I will share it here. If you want me to code your EA without sharing, then my fee is $100 payable into my paypal account. I explain why at http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... ?f=15&t=79, at the bottom of the post.

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Read the effing manual, ok?

Afterprime is the official SHF broker. Read about them at https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=175790#p175790.

I still suffer from OCCD. Good thing, really.

Anyone here feeling generous? My paypal account is always in the market for a tiny donation. [email protected] is the account.

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My special thanks to Thomas (tomele) for all the incredible work he does here.
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Post by TraderJoeForex »

More Awesomeness... thanks you guys :smile: look forwards to trying this cocktail :clap:
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Post by rapple »

Dear Thomas and Steve

Very excited about this concept. I tried to adapt Griddy Wotsit and then DottyBot to trade blind as I too believe that the management of the trade is where we can excel, not the entry criteria. If we can get this concept profitable it will be a giant leap forward :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

I have setup a demo

Cheers Richard
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Post by Generaal Goudvis »

Hi Thomas and Steve,

Many thanks for again a new nice toy to play with.

I have set this on different settings (the same I used for the abandoned RnR). See if this gives me the same results. And I have been very pleased with the results.

Will keep you all informed.
Happy Blupping

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Post by tomele »

Hello.

I have uploaded version 1d to the first post. It fixes some points and should be close to a final release. Explanations are here: http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 64#p148264
Happy pippin, Thomas :-BD

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Post by Wavegarrick »

Hi Steve, Thomas,

Thanks for your relentless work on this Ea. I am still trading this live on my cent account and with all the incarnations from Dotty bot I am currently sitting with Blindbot. I am happy to say that my account has grown but not without trades sitting in the North pole and South pole. However, many pips booked since the start. I am still very much above my margin level and the ea is chugging along.

I am hoping to share my results here at some point and trust with good exponential growth. Gbpjpy needs some umpphh.

Cheers
Leon
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Hello.

I have uploaded version 1e to the first post. This contains some fixes and improvements. Please read the explanation here: http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 50#p148712
Happy pippin, Thomas :-BD

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
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The jury is still out on this one. I am still waiting for the accrued profit to overtake the DD. DD has remained stubbornly in the lead every time I check the account. We shall see.

:xm:
Read the effing manual, ok?

Afterprime is the official SHF broker. Read about them at https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=175790#p175790.

I still suffer from OCCD. Good thing, really.

Anyone here feeling generous? My paypal account is always in the market for a tiny donation. [email protected] is the account.

To see The Weekly Roundup of stuff you guys might have missed Click here

My special thanks to Thomas (tomele) for all the incredible work he does here.
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Post by tomele »

SteveHopwood » 30 Oct 2016, 17:09 wrote:The jury is still out on this one. I am still waiting for the accrued profit to overtake the DD. DD has remained stubbornly in the lead every time I check the account. We shall see.

:xm:
Its not far away.
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Happy pippin, Thomas :-BD

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Post by moebiusx »

Thanks to Tomele and Steve for this amazing Ea

Hi guys,
maybe my think is wrong but i dont see the creation of the full hedge trade (i have set the option at 5)

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