Fractalated Bob

[jlcgarcia]

My JPY pairs crashed... small balance of 300 can't hold much for 7pair trading...good thing it's demo.. and lesson learned in knowing how much can a small account handle.

Hi,

my way of trading FB live is as follows:

-risk percent 1%.
-Timeframe 15 minutes.
-All pairs (28) are allowed to trade, but I am using Pair Balancing to limit the max number of pairs opened at the same time to 5, the max number a currency is used to 2 and the max buy/sell delta to 1.
-In MPTM, the Global Percentage Profit is 1%.

I think there are many other profitable aproximations to FB that are valid.

Regards


José Luis

[SteveHopwood]

FB doing well here..

+2.6% in 7 trading days on 26 pairs.

Thank Bob and Steve.

It is a huge comfort to me that you are using this EA for trading.

[patmontes]

My JPY pairs crashed... small balance of 300 can't hold much for 7pair trading...good thing it's demo.. and lesson learned in knowing how much can a small account handle.

Hi,

my way of trading FB live is as follows:

-risk percent 1%.
-Timeframe 15 minutes.
-All pairs (28) are allowed to trade, but I am using Pair Balancing to limit the max number of pairs opened at the same time to 5, the max number a currency is used to 2 and the max buy/sell delta to 1.
-In MPTM, the Global Percentage Profit is 1%.

I think there are many other profitable aproximations to FB that are valid.

Regards


José Luis

Thanks for the tip Jose! :hi:

[fxozgirl]

Here's my results to end of trading today on H1 demo trading all pairs, with no interference at all.

Demo started 27/8/2014, so exactly 1 month
Starting balance: $5000
Current balance: $7137.25

H1_27.9.2014.png

the demo did get to around 20% drawdown and available margin did get very low at the start of the week, but recovered beautifully.

I placed Frac Bob on my live account on Monday, only on the 5 majors (max 2 trades per pair) with mptm set at 1% close. Unfortunately mptm doesn't seem to work anymore managing trades by magic number (so it doesn't interfere with my manual trades), so I've just been closing trades randomly as the profit has risen. This has equated to 3.5% increase on my live account this week.

Steve, I think this is one of your most successful bots ever...after the massive swings last week with the Scottish referendum it was a great test for FB which handled itself beautifully. I do think that trading all pairs with max 10 trades is overtrading on an account this size. With reduced pairs and reduced max trades I think we have a winner!

Thanks for all your work on this EA

Cheers
Shelley

[taipan]

My JPY pairs crashed... small balance of 300 can't hold much for 7pair trading...good thing it's demo.. and lesson learned in knowing how much can a small account handle.

Hi,

my way of trading FB live is as follows:

-risk percent 1%.
-Timeframe 15 minutes.
-All pairs (28) are allowed to trade, but I am using Pair Balancing to limit the max number of pairs opened at the same time to 5, the max number a currency is used to 2 and the max buy/sell delta to 1.
-In MPTM, the Global Percentage Profit is 1%.

I think there are many other profitable aproximations to FB that are valid.

Regards


José Luis

Hi JL,

Is the pair balancing is an ea or script? Appreciate you could share it here.

Thanks in advance.
taipan

[jlcgarcia]

Here's my results to end of trading today on H1 demo trading all pairs, with no interference at all.

Demo started 27/8/2014, so exactly 1 month
Starting balance: $5000
Current balance: $7137.25

the demo did get to around 20% drawdown and available margin did get very low at the start of the week, but recovered beautifully.

I placed Frac Bob on my live account on Monday, only on the 5 majors (max 2 trades per pair) with mptm set at 1% close. Unfortunately mptm doesn't seem to work anymore managing trades by magic number (so it doesn't interfere with my manual trades), so I've just been closing trades randomly as the profit has risen. This has equated to 3.5% increase on my live account this week.

Steve, I think this is one of your most successful bots ever...after the massive swings last week with the Scottish referendum it was a great test for FB which handled itself beautifully. I do think that trading all pairs with max 10 trades is overtrading on an account this size. With reduced pairs and reduced max trades I think we have a winner!

Thanks for all your work on this EA

Cheers
Shelley

Hi Shelley,

I think your demo is very valid as a good example of what FB can do. Perhaps, the number of pairs traded or the lot size was excessive. Nevertheless, your results are fantastic.

Hi friends,

I am trading FB in two accounts with the following parameters:

First account:

-risk percent 1%.
-Timeframe 60 minutes (I changed the timeframe from 15 minutes to the hour).
-All pairs (28) are allowed to trade, but I am using Pair Balancing to limit the max number of pairs opened at the same time to 5, the max number a currency is used to 2 and the max buy/sell delta to 1.
-Max trades 10.
-In MPTM, the Global Percentage Profit is 1%.

Second account:

-risk percent 0.3%.
-Timeframe 30 minutes (I changed the timeframe from 15 minutes to 30).
-All pairs (28) are allowed to trade.
-Max trades 10.
-Not using MPTM, but another EA that calculates stop losses and take profits individually.

As you must know these approaches are purely experimental (although I am trading them live in tiny accounts) and must serve only as a brainstorming for ideas.

Hi taipan,

I cannot post here my modifications of the FB EA without the permission of SH, and only in compiled .ex4 coding, because I do not want to open a way for multiple alterations and eternally recoding. Also take into account that these modifications are experiments, and I am still testing the code.

Regards


José Luis

[SpiderX]

Hi Steve,

Looking at gg53's post...wonder if we should create a different spin with Fractals based solely on close and not high/low.
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 20#p100220

Cheers

[SteveHopwood]

Hi Steve,

Looking at gg53's post...wonder if we should create a different spin with Fractals based solely on close and not high/low.
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 20#p100220

Cheers

Shall I start a dedicated FB forum, so you guys can code your offshoots and place them all under the same roof?

[SpiderX]

Shall I start a dedicated FB forum, so you guys can code your offshoots and place them all under the same roof?

Not sure Steve.
The current performance is good, but i got my reservations since the current markets are almost trending like crazy, which tend to be good for this kinda bot.
We need to see how this performs in sideways markets to determine how it really performs in the long run.

I think these options of pendings, fractals based on close can be coded in as options in the bot.

Cheers

[fxozgirl]

Hi Steve,

Looking at gg53's post...wonder if we should create a different spin with Fractals based solely on close and not high/low.
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 20#p100220

Cheers

Shall I start a dedicated FB forum, so you guys can code your offshoots and place them all under the same roof?

A dedicated forum would be good to keep different versions separate, although I'm not sure how much tinkering is really necessary given the extraordinary results most people are getting.

Personally I think the core principals FB is based on is sound as it is without excessive tinkering...
Just my 2 cents