Holy Graily Bob Basics - ask your questions here.

[Gertje]

Really good to see some actually reading the user guide for a change instead of merely going OOTB and hoping for the best.

Leslie, your post highlights a weakness in the guide that arose from developments subsequent to the first edition. Do me a favour please. Leave a gap of about 8 hours for sleep time, then send me a pm sometime in the next 12 hours after that to remind me about all this and I will address it - just in case I forget. Ask any old stagers here why I might forget. Hic.

Cheers Steve!

[xrismak]

Hello Steve,
I am Probably Going to Get a Huge Bollocking for this but One Never knows until one asks maybe I might Catch you in a Very Good Mood this morning, but I will take the Chance and ask, if the Answer is a HUGE NO, I'll take it like that without so much Fuss, but it it's a YES it will make my YEAR for 2015 trading HGI.
Here we Go:
I have been wondering and Banging my Head Against the Wall, but I will ASK this Question, Is it Possible to have a Stripped Down Version of Holy Grail Bob ? ( or if Possible a SCRIPT.) (you can call it a HGI Bob Light EA) I mean to say something coded with not much Bells and Whistles like RAD trade , TREND Trade & Range Trade inputs, just Close all Trades or a Particular Set of Trades on any Chart that the EA or Script is placed on when the WAVY Line Shows, maybe the EA could have a Function to Change the Time frame to suit the Trade, sometimes I like to Trade from Wavy Line to Wavy Line on the Lower TF's like M30 and H1 and I might have to Monitor 5 to 6 different Currency Pairs.
Just a Simple EA, Stick it on and wait for the Wavy to Show up and let the EA do it's Job.

I hmmmmm am very Afraid now... but having to thumb through a few inputs can be a bit Confusing sometimes, trying to duck and Dive out of the Market with some profitable Pips here and there on Multiple currency Pairs Simultaneously at Lightening Speed can have disastrous Outcomes if one isn't careful . I am a Nob and I am only asking if it's a Distant Possibility Sir.

Happy Trading Y'all,
xrismak.

[retireme]

Hello Steve,
I am Probably Going to Get a Huge Bollocking for this but One Never knows until one asks maybe I might Catch you in a Very Good Mood this morning, but I will take the Chance and ask, if the Answer is a HUGE NO, I'll take it like that without so much Fuss, but it it's a YES it will make my YEAR for 2015 trading HGI.
Here we Go:
I have been wondering and Banging my Head Against the Wall, but I will ASK this Question, Is it Possible to have a Stripped Down Version of Holy Grail Bob ? ( or if Possible a SCRIPT.) (you can call it a HGI Bob Light EA) I mean to say something coded with not much Bells and Whistles like RAD trade , TREND Trade & Range Trade inputs, just Close all Trades or a Particular Set of Trades on any Chart that the EA or Script is placed on when the WAVY Line Shows, maybe the EA could have a Function to Change the Time frame to suit the Trade, sometimes I like to Trade from Wavy Line to Wavy Line on the Lower TF's like M30 and H1 and I might have to Monitor 5 to 6 different Currency Pairs.
Just a Simple EA, Stick it on and wait for the Wavy to Show up and let the EA do it's Job.

I hmmmmm am very Afraid now... but having to thumb through a few inputs can be a bit Confusing sometimes, trying to duck and Dive out of the Market with some profitable Pips here and there on Multiple currency Pairs Simultaneously at Lightening Speed can have disastrous Outcomes if one isn't careful . I am a Nob and I am only asking if it's a Distant Possibility Sir.

Happy Trading Y'all,
xrismak.

Hey xrismak, just thought you might like to know that Nob is spelt with a K, as in Knob

[Gertje]

Hello Steve,
I am Probably Going to Get a Huge Bollocking for this but One Never knows until one asks maybe I might Catch you in a Very Good Mood this morning, but I will take the Chance and ask, if the Answer is a HUGE NO, I'll take it like that without so much Fuss, but it it's a YES it will make my YEAR for 2015 trading HGI.
Here we Go:
I have been wondering and Banging my Head Against the Wall, but I will ASK this Question, Is it Possible to have a Stripped Down Version of Holy Grail Bob ? ( or if Possible a SCRIPT.) (you can call it a HGI Bob Light EA) I mean to say something coded with not much Bells and Whistles like RAD trade , TREND Trade & Range Trade inputs, just Close all Trades or a Particular Set of Trades on any Chart that the EA or Script is placed on when the WAVY Line Shows, maybe the EA could have a Function to Change the Time frame to suit the Trade, sometimes I like to Trade from Wavy Line to Wavy Line on the Lower TF's like M30 and H1 and I might have to Monitor 5 to 6 different Currency Pairs.
Just a Simple EA, Stick it on and wait for the Wavy to Show up and let the EA do it's Job.

I hmmmmm am very Afraid now... but having to thumb through a few inputs can be a bit Confusing sometimes, trying to duck and Dive out of the Market with some profitable Pips here and there on Multiple currency Pairs Simultaneously at Lightening Speed can have disastrous Outcomes if one isn't careful . I am a Nob and I am only asking if it's a Distant Possibility Sir.

Happy Trading Y'all,
xrismak.

Afaik, the current HGB can do this already....

[SteveHopwood]

Hello Steve,
I am Probably Going to Get a Huge Bollocking for this but One Never knows until one asks maybe I might Catch you in a Very Good Mood this morning, but I will take the Chance and ask, if the Answer is a HUGE NO, I'll take it like that without so much Fuss, but it it's a YES it will make my YEAR for 2015 trading HGI.
Here we Go:
I have been wondering and Banging my Head Against the Wall, but I will ASK this Question, Is it Possible to have a Stripped Down Version of Holy Grail Bob ? ( or if Possible a SCRIPT.) (you can call it a HGI Bob Light EA) I mean to say something coded with not much Bells and Whistles like RAD trade , TREND Trade & Range Trade inputs, just Close all Trades or a Particular Set of Trades on any Chart that the EA or Script is placed on when the WAVY Line Shows, maybe the EA could have a Function to Change the Time frame to suit the Trade, sometimes I like to Trade from Wavy Line to Wavy Line on the Lower TF's like M30 and H1 and I might have to Monitor 5 to 6 different Currency Pairs.
Just a Simple EA, Stick it on and wait for the Wavy to Show up and let the EA do it's Job.

I hmmmmm am very Afraid now... but having to thumb through a few inputs can be a bit Confusing sometimes, trying to duck and Dive out of the Market with some profitable Pips here and there on Multiple currency Pairs Simultaneously at Lightening Speed can have disastrous Outcomes if one isn't careful . I am a Nob and I am only asking if it's a Distant Possibility Sir.

Happy Trading Y'all,
xrismak.

Afaik, the current HGB can do this already....

Yes it can, as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago in the HGI thread after making it possible for HGB to be used as a manual trade manager - and for which I have subsequently used it.

As I occasionally point out, it is entirely up to members here whether they bother to read the posts of the FORUM OWNER but that they can expect to miss the occasional useful thingy if they fail to do so.

Ok, so you could argue that the user guide should make this management use explicit. I argue that the user guide would be 1000 pages long if I were to go into detail about every possible combination of inputs possible. There comes a time when a user has to think, "Well if I turn of this and this, and maybe this as well, but leave in place that and that....... Maybe I might achieve what I want?" and experiment.

Just a thought or two.

[xrismak]

Yes it can, as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago in the HGI thread after making it possible for HGB to be used as a manual trade manager - and for which I have subsequently used it.

As I occasionally point out, it is entirely up to members here whether they bother to read the posts of the FORUM OWNER but that they can expect to miss the occasional useful thingy if they fail to do so.

Ok, so you could argue that the user guide should make this management use explicit. I argue that the user guide would be 1000 pages long if I were to go into detail about every possible combination of inputs possible. There comes a time when a user has to think, "Well if I turn of this and this, and maybe this as well, but leave in place that and that....... Maybe I might achieve what I want?" and experiment.

Just a thought or two.

Hello Steve,
Thank you very very Much, the Bulb just Lit up in my Brain, ( "Well if I turn off this and this, and maybe this as well, but leave in place that and that....... Maybe I might achieve what I want)
and Then save whatever settings that work with the experiment as a Set File , to use Whenever.
Lesson Learnt,I need to read thoroughly to get clued on .

Many Thanks and Have a Great NEW Year.
xrismak

[boinvest]

Is it Possible to have a Stripped Down Version of Holy Grail Bob ? ( or if Possible a SCRIPT.) (you can call it a HGI Bob Light EA)

If you don't want a particular type of trade you can set it to false

Well in my opinion HGB is already pretty Lightweight
One time was thinking about implementing separate trade management per type of trade and multitrade.
So you could manage your exists differently from them, each has own moneymanagement.
The ability to use different timeframe filters per type of trade.
All in one ea.. and call it Ultimate Holy Graily Bob
Why code this all in one EA? Cause I am to lazy to open multiple charts for the EA manually.
And then open the charts with a MPTM..
(the opencharts in alphabetic order can only handle 1 template)
And when you use MPTM it does'nt interact with HGB.
So you can't code what Bob said somehwere in the UG:

When an opposite signal appears... start Looking for an exit.

Instead the HGB right now closes directly the trade.
Would be great to have the EA start "looking" for an exit in the form of a Trailing stop when an opposite signal appears
Well, guess something like that would be the Ultimate Toy for some people over here...
Yet, I understand the frustration of Knoobs, as the setfile of a ultimate one,
would be double in size of the "light one"

Wouldn't it be nice to have a possibility to set individual magic numbers on the different tradetypes like trend/rad/wave?
Deeper analysis would be much simpler then if using some site like myfxbook.

I totally agree,
Right now its possible to filter on myfxbook (using SL & TP combined with comment) but not as easy..
I had a thought about this.. while bloopspotting the code.
And implemented it differently.. As I also wanted to be able to use different trade management for the single and Multiple entries..
Was to lazy to implement it as different magic#, so in (upcoming) version 2f there will be a different trade comment for the Multi's.

Making it very easy on myfxb..
Being captain obvious
Filter Trade Comment = "Trend trade" // shows only trend
Filter Trade Comment = "Trend mutlti trade" // shows only multi trend trades
Filter Trade Comment = "Trend " // shows the single entry and multi's

[Spectre]

Hello

Have been using HGB for some time, on different timeframes and settings. Keeping in line with Nanningbobs No-Stoploss mindset, i have one of the accounts set with no stoploss.

How much loss is normal? Some of the trades open are 400 - 500 pips in the negative (open trades).

Another thing, should the pending orders be deleting themselves? I have pending orders that are weeks old?

(Disclaimer: trading at the end of year is dumb, and this may very well be the reasin for it)

[trader689]

using the new v2f with HGI v15.06,im getting rapid opening and closing of orders, anybody else experiencing this?

[currymonster]

First check is that you have the correct version of HGI indicator entered into the EA check the field in the EA settings matches the name of the HGI indicator your using. Otherwise I don't know,
cheers