Pipcruiser's Pipmasher on Steroids

ariel · Post by **ariel** » Mon Mar 23, 2015 6:05 pm

This month

arnimpdm · Post by **arnimpdm** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:16 pm

Hi,

this is my first post here in this forum and I am happy to be on board.

After installing the EA on the Empty4 build 765 I had problems to start it, I always got the error "Array out of Range"

After some research in the old thread i found the solution in KapguHaJI's Post:

KapguHaJI » Wed Nov 26, 2014 8:53 am wrote:Ok Steve, I still don't understand, what bug you claim to have fixed, but I'll leave you alone.

Everyone, it is obviously a bad idea to post EA files all over the topic. I'll just post what I found and you can make the changes yourself.

At line 3827 replace this
Code: Select all
	while ( time >= tradeHours[i] ) 
	{	
		if ( i == ArraySize( tradeHours ) ) break;
		i++;		
	}
with this
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	while ( time >= tradeHours[i] ) 
	{	
		i++;
		if ( i == ArraySize( tradeHours ) ) break;
	}
It sometimes caused 'Array out of range' errors. I don't know why, but Empty4 doesn't mind them very much, so you don't usually stumble upon them.

In this case it is located in line 4156.

Armin

Edit: I mentioned the wrong version, I had this issue with Empty4 Build 765

ymleong · Post by **ymleong** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:20 am

Zero divide error in 1480,41

Hi anybody have this issue? I rec'd this error (not warning) on Expert tab. Anyone hv any idea where I hv crap up?

Post by **SteveHopwood** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:43 pm

ymleong » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:20 am wrote:Zero divide error in 1480,41

Hi anybody have this issue? I rec'd this error (not warning) on Expert tab. Anyone hv any idea where I hv crap up?

That is risk based lot sizing, a function we broke when trying to apply it to multi-trades. I cannot fix it because I do not understand it. Turn it off for them.

almartins · Post by **almartins** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:03 pm

Negative week for PPoS.
This week was the 4th of March and the Pipmaster strategy used the previous week's bar and the last month bar - February. So this week the strategy did not use data from the first and second week of March :!: . Because of this, I am putting the hypothesis that this strategy is less profitable in the second half of the month, compared to the 1st half and the PPOs EA amplifies this tendency compared to Pipcruiser's Pipmasher original strategy .
It was really good that we can verify this hypothesis.

Post by **SWG123** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:21 pm

almartins » Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:03 pm wrote:Negative week for PPoS.
This week was the 4th of March and the Pipmaster strategy used the previous week's bar and the last month bar - February. So this week the strategy did not use data from the first and second week of March :!: . Because of this, I am putting the hypothesis that this strategy is less profitable in the second half of the month, compared to the 1st half and the PPOs EA amplifies this tendency compared to Pipcruiser's Pipmasher original strategy .
It was really good that we can verify this hypothesis.

Try disabling the EA if price is trading below last month's low for longs and vice versa for shorts. Simple price action and it kept me out of the losing trades this week, e.g. EURJPY, so I still turned a profit.

EDIT: Just re-read this and it's not clear - what I meant to say was, if the EA is indicating an uptrend but price has made new lows (below last month's low), then disable it. The logic being that if there is truly an uptrend then we would expect the previous low to hold.

ariel · Post by **ariel** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 7:41 pm

This was beatiful, but the end is not good. Maybe if i dont use stop loss, the result change!! I will try.

AGT · Post by **AGT** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:49 pm

ariel » Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:41 pm wrote:.......... Maybe if i dont use stop loss, the result change!!.......

.... yep, it will change ! You'll loose your shirt ...

ariel · Post by **ariel** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:42 pm

AGT » Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:19 pm wrote:
ariel » Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:41 pm wrote:.......... Maybe if i dont use stop loss, the result change!!.......
.... yep, it will change ! You'll loose your shirt ...

With small lot, maybe

Post by **SteveHopwood** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:56 pm

ariel » Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:42 pm wrote:
AGT » Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:19 pm wrote:
ariel » Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:41 pm wrote:.......... Maybe if i dont use stop loss, the result change!!.......
.... yep, it will change ! You'll loose your shirt ...
With small lot, maybe

Quite. HGB and PPoS are the same in that success using them depends on lots of tiny lot size trades. The 2% risk per trade guys will be blown out of the water sooner or later - and probably sooner.