Gordon » Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:02 am wrote:I too have to deal with USA FIFO rules, no hedging. I have been doing visual backtest and even tried to make my own EA to trade the HGI indi where I wanted it to take only one position on the first big trend arrow then add just one position on the first RAD arrow. To me, these appear to be the highest probability trades for working the trend. I have iCustom in the EA so it displays most of the signals and when I overlay the HGI indi on the visual test, I can see all the signals. The problem I see in the backtest, is that the big arrow when it appears by itself gives a good signal and enters the trade properly. However, if the big arrow is overlapped (ie. appears at the same time as) by any other signal (the RAD arrow or the Range arrow) then I get no trade from the big arrow. I don't know if this same problem is happening live, but in the visual backtest I see it missing alot of good trades. Possible solution: Could someone make another version of this great indi (for EA building purposes) which does not have the waves or the range arrows, but has only the Big Trend arrows and Rad arrows? Thanks,
My latest fly in the ointment happens when I put HGB on the chart. When the next M15 candle appears, it immediately takes the trend trade for each pair, even though the large green arrow is many candles past. I want it to take the trade when the LGA appears. Is there some other setting I'm missing?
Thought I'd post the resolution here, in case anyone else has the same symptom. I had the wrong name of the indy. The name of the indicator is HGI_v15.01, but In the settings I somehow had HGI_v.15.01.
Been through this thread several times now to try to figure out why HGB isn't exiting my manually placed trades as I thought I had configured it to do. All setting are OOTB except: TradingTimeFrame set to the appropriate chart, StopTrading is True, HGI_Name is HGI_V15.01 which is what I've got on and UseForTradeMgtOnly is True. What have I missed?? Thanks Much.
Leslie » Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:27 am wrote:Been through this thread several times now to try to figure out why HGB isn't exiting my manually placed trades as I thought I had configured it to do. All setting are OOTB except: TradingTimeFrame set to the appropriate chart, StopTrading is True, HGI_Name is HGI_V15.01 which is what I've got on and UseForTradeMgtOnly is True. What have I missed?? Thanks Much.
Leslie
Did you set up the magic number and trade comments in HGB to match those of your manual trades?
If not then HGB won't recognize your manual trades as belonging to it.
Leslie » Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:27 am wrote:Been through this thread several times now to try to figure out why HGB isn't exiting my manually placed trades as I thought I had configured it to do. All setting are OOTB except: TradingTimeFrame set to the appropriate chart, StopTrading is True, HGI_Name is HGI_V15.01 which is what I've got on and UseForTradeMgtOnly is True. What have I missed?? Thanks Much.
Leslie
Did you set up the magic number and trade comments in HGB to match those of your manual trades?
If not then HGB won't recognize your manual trades as belonging to it.
Thanks for responding- think I got it working- my own stupid fault!! It hasn't closed any manual trades yet, so let me check that when I place a manual trade on my US brokers trading station, it never asks for any magic number or comment, so I assume there is none? Do I delete the comments included OOTB in the input for the trade types I'm using so HGB isn't looking for those even though I've disabled putting on trades with the UseForTradeMgtOnly setting?
And, how could HGB have put on the following trade when the inputs are set to 'false' for Range and Rad trading- there's no buffer 8 (pink) wavy line or trend arrow, just the range arrow? - sorry about the text, can't seem to make it go away
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I must have missed something, somewhere. I got the difference between the wave signals going to Buffer 7 and Buffer 8, the former entering weakness and the latter exiting weakness- and changed my colors (yellow = 7 and pink = 8). It appears, however, that my HGB wave trade is executing a trade on the former, entering weakness, signal- see the chart. Is there some input I neglected to properly set or change I need to make to get trade entries on the exiting weakness signal and trade closures on the entering weakness signal?
Thank You
Leslie
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Leslie » Wed Dec 17, 2014 2:19 pm wrote:I must have missed something, somewhere. I got the difference between the wave signals going to Buffer 7 and Buffer 8, the former entering weakness and the latter exiting weakness- and changed my colors (yellow = 7 and pink = 8). It appears, however, that my HGB wave trade is executing a trade on the former, entering weakness, signal- see the chart. Is there some input I neglected to properly set or change I need to make to get trade entries on the exiting weakness signal and trade closures on the entering weakness signal?
anyone able to get the HB manager ea to function as it is supposed to? Doesn't seem to work for me (not acting on profit target and closing trades etc)
