Secret Bob's Basket

[spotdespot]

I tried EURCHF, that didn't help [might be in the pairs to trade list], but CHFSGD did the trick.
Since it's an "every tick" EA, trading hours don't affect the working imo.

But if there are no ticks on the chart when the gold market is closed....??

You might want to check the trading pairs list BTW Gertje - EURCHF is there but I made other changes too - no GBPAUD for example.

[Gertje]

Since it's an "every tick" EA, trading hours don't affect the working imo.

But if there are no ticks on the chart when the gold market is closed....??

Sorry,

Should have said "Always on" EA.
There is a loop inside the EA, it monitors the pairs wether there is a tick or not.
This is also the reason "F7" freezes the platform when trying to change inputs.

[spotdespot]

Sorry,

Should have said "Always on" EA.
There is a loop inside the EA, it monitors the pairs wether there is a tick or not.
This is also the reason "F7" freezes the platform when trying to change inputs.

Ah - yes - I forgot about that. Was thinking of the every tick mode but having read its function again I was misinterpreting it.

[SteveHopwood]

Whatever I try, the EA keeps deleting the chart it's attached to.
Setting the "show charts" to false doesn't help.

Copied from post 1:

• ShowIndividualCharts: SBB can open individual charts with your own template loaded, so you can check that he is behaving as expected. Our thanks to Arts and his Charts Into Alphabetical Order script that got me started.
  • you MUST drag SBB onto a chart you do not intend to trade for this to work. Mine is on XAUUSD.
  • load a chart - time frame does not matter as SBB will make the necessary adjustment.
  • load the SecretBob indicator so you see the arrows, and anything else you want - 240 moving average etc.
  • save the chart template.
  • input the template's name into the TemplateName input. I have attached SBB to get you started.
  • SBB updates the charts once an hour.

I am a at a bit of a loss to see how much clearer I can make "you MUST drag SBB onto a chart you do not intend to trade for this to work. Mine is on XAUUSD." Short sentences; only 1 two syllable word.

Guys, I believe I might occasionally have mentioned in the past that I take a great deal of care over the information I put into my post 1? That I absolutely loathe and detest doing so? That it bores me rigid? That I would infinitely prefer to let you work stuff out for yourselves?

I am sure I must have mentioned this at some stage in the past. Also that it is a waste of time if people don't read it with a modicum of care?

Don't expect SBB to work unless you have read how to make him work. He ain't an EA for Dummies.

[Gertje]

Copied from post 1:

I am a at a bit of a loss to see how much clearer I can make "you MUST drag SBB onto a chart you do not intend to trade for this to work. Mine is on XAUUSD." Short sentences; only 1 two syllable word.

Guys, I believe I might occasionally have mentioned in the past that I take a great deal of care over the information I put into my post 1? That I absolutely loathe and detest doing so? That it bores me rigid? That I would infinitely prefer to let you work stuff out for yourselves?

I am sure I must have mentioned this at some stage in the past. Also that it is a waste of time if people don't read it with a modicum of care?

Don't expect SBB to work unless you have read how to make him work. He ain't an EA for Dummies.

Steve, again do I apologize.
Funny thing is, it worked until this morning op EURGBP.

I must say I do read your post1 thouroughly, but sometimes fail to look back for trouble shooting...

[jonny007]

Steve,

I have attached a chart below showing a couple of trades SBB(1f) took today on the GBPJPY 5 min. All settings are OOTB.

He took 2 with-trend sell signals in the space of 3 bars, but the market quickly moved higher and above the 240. Because the trend had changed, the 3 opposite Buy signals that came in were now also with-trend so they did not close the trades. Luckily the market dipped back below the 240 & I got a CT buy signal to close both trades for a small loss.

My point is, that if the market had continued higher without dipping below the 240, any buy signal to close the trades would be ignored until the Stop loss was hit. I am only demoing on 5 min to generate trade more frequently while I get used to SBB, but I assume the same behaviour would occur on higher TFs.

I can see the bot is working as programmed, but I just thought I'd put it out there to see what you thought.

extern string cci="---- Trading style inputs ----";
extern bool TradeTheTrend=true;
extern bool CloseTrendTradesOnOppositeSignal=true;//Close on a CT opp direction signal.
extern bool TradeTheCounterTrend=false;//Allows for trading only in the direction of the trend.
extern bool CloseCtTradesOnOppositeSignal=true;//Close on a Trend opp direction signal.

On another point, shortly after I took this snapshot, the FOMC minutes hit & the markets went mad. In future I think I will disable SBB while high impact news like FOMC & NFP are in the air.

GJ_5.JPG

[SteveHopwood]

Steve,

I have attached a chart below showing a couple of trades SBB(1f) took today on the GBPJPY 5 min. All settings are OOTB.

He took 2 with-trend sell signals in the space of 3 bars, but the market quickly moved higher and above the 240. Because the trend had changed, the 3 opposite Buy signals that came in were now also with-trend so they did not close the trades. Luckily the market dipped back below the 240 & I got a CT buy signal to close both trades for a small loss.

My point is, that if the market had continued higher without dipping below the 240, any buy signal to close the trades would be ignored until the Stop loss was hit. I am only demoing on 5 min to generate trade more frequently while I get used to SBB, but I assume the same behaviour would occur on higher TFs.

The bot is programmed to close buy trades on any sell signal and vice versa. Not sure if the coding is faulty or if something was wrong on your platform at the time. The decision to close is based on the trade comment and is independent of the moving average. We will have to see if there are problems with the code.

[rapple]

Hi
I have an M15 demo going and changed over to ver 1f this morning from version 1. I have been having trouble with trade closures, my BE setting seems to work but close on opposite symbol does not seem to fire. I am seeing numerous examples of this and same thing happened with version 1 that I had going until this morning. I am trading both CT and trend and have all basket closure options blank. I took a screen shot of my settings to establish that I am not a XXXXXXXXX idiot and didn't check my settings. Anyone else having this problem?

Looking promising to me, some nice trades but obviously have to get the trade closure strategy working before I can properly evaluate my trial which is based on trading market close/open periods with pairs that move most for each session. Everything else is working as far as i can see at this point.

Happy to post some chart examples of closure problem if wanted.

Hi Steve, like everyone else, thank you for an unbelievable amount a work on this EA.

I am trying to set SBB up as a 'always in' trader similar to the idea you had with 'SB SometimeTrendy, SometimesNot'.

I attached the set file, but in essence I have made the following changes:

TradeTheCounterTrend=true
PairsToTrade=AUDUSD,EURJPY,EURUSD,GBPJPY,GBPUSD,USDCAD,USDCHF
MaxTradesPerPair=2
AtrMinimumForTrading=0
MaPeriod=0
UseZeljko=false
OnlyTradeCurrencyTwice=false

I have attached the GJ chart which shows that it only traded on the CT signals and missed a Trend signal.
I do however have Trend orders on other pairs

Hope this info helps

Cheers Rap

[rapple]

Hi again

I have attached another example.

TradeTheCounterTrend=true
PairsToTrade=AUDUSD,EURJPY,EURUSD,GBPJPY,GBPUSD,USDCAD,USDCHF
MaxTradesPerPair=2
AtrMinimumForTrading=0
MaPeriod=0
UseZeljko=false
OnlyTradeCurrencyTwice=false

The EA was trading as expect when the price was below the MA but then failed to close the two current sell orders on the last TREND buy signal. Note I turned the 240MA filter off by setting MaPeriod = 0.

It maybe the TREND BUY signal is not working

Cheers Rap

[SteveHopwood]

Hi again

I have attached another example.

TradeTheCounterTrend=true
PairsToTrade=AUDUSD,EURJPY,EURUSD,GBPJPY,GBPUSD,USDCAD,USDCHF
MaxTradesPerPair=2
AtrMinimumForTrading=0
MaPeriod=0
UseZeljko=false
OnlyTradeCurrencyTwice=false

The EA was trading as expect when the price was below the MA but then failed to close the two current sell orders on the last TREND buy signal. Note I turned the 240MA filter off by setting MaPeriod = 0.

It maybe the TREND BUY signal is not working

Cheers Rap

Nice ones Rap.

Ok guys. It is gone midnight here in the UK and it has been an emotional day. Never mind why; I will post about that later in the week. Just assume I have imbibed for happy reasons and so do not have full control of my faculties.

Hell. Why not. Chris and I became grandparents today. Jack. 7 pounds 11 ounces.

So, would someone a tad more sober than me please check line 1827?
if (!CloseEnough(CTBuySignal, EMPTY_VALUE))

I am reasonably sure that this should be checking for a main (i.e. trend) trade signal but don't really care right at this moment. Please post a correction.

This is the closest you guys will get to intelligence from me tonight.

Hic.