As this is my first post on this forum I as well would like to take a few sentences here to express my fullest and sincerest gratitude. During the past few months, operating under the cloak of a 'silent lurker', SHF has become
utterly invaluable to me and has allowed me to significantly enhance my own learning curve. The sheer knowledge, creativity and ingenuity to be found in here provided by people such as Steve Hopwood himself, Milanese, Renexxxx, Retireme, Lifesys, Wavegarrick, TraderJoeForex, JLCGarcia, Nanningbob, CaptainJack and many many other keep blowing my mind time and again. Therefore, people of SHF, thank you. Your selflessness and work truly have not gone unnoticed!
Now on to more relevant matters:
1. 130 errors
Like some of you, I as well encountered this persistent 130 error (invalid stops error) quite regularly with the latest version of HGBnG (V2c). Now logically this error will always pop up when the EA is either prevented from using the elements it needs to calculate the grid, TPs, SLs etc. or if it's just not feasible for the EA to send the orders through when e.g. the market is too close to the pending price. A potential solution for the latter is provided by Steve via
SendImmediateMarketTrade. Personally my 130 errors were due to the former. I quickly discovered that it had to do with the default ATR indicator of Empty4. For some odd reason the daily ATR, regardless of the period, just wouldn't work for those pairs related to the error. ATR applied to every other timeframe (from M1 tot MN) did work however. A quick reinstall of an entirely new and fresh Empty4 terminal seemed to do the trick and now the HGBnG is happily doing its thing error-free
I'm still clueless as to how I broke my ATR indicator though
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2. 132 errors
If you experience these errors, do not worry too much since this is related to the trading hours of Global Prime. More info to be found here
https://www.globalprime.com.au/client-a ... ing-hours/. HGBnG will basically be halted for a few minutes during 23:59-00:02 (GP) platform time and normally should resume its operations thereafter.
3.
ALoveSvpreme wrote:
I was doing some thinking today about HGBnG and your trade manager. The hypothetical problem with the manager (not sure if it s problem since you've been trading successfully but...) when all positive trades are closed many of the hedged positions become unhedged and we are susceptible to a swift drawdown if the market decides to move further against the grid of open positions. Instead of closing all profitable positions, maybe we could close all profitable pairs. If a hedged pair is not in profit it would not be closed and left to sort itself out until it is closed on Friday or at the traders discretion.
ALS these potential scenarios came to my mind as well at first but must say I had relatively little problems with it until this point after nearly 2 weeks of testing. Since we should not consider any EA as a set-and-forget one I always actively try to manage the demos. The moments I'd recommend to do the management are, as wisely suggested by Nanningbob, halfway during the London and US session. E.g. just a few moments ago, Lifesys'
TargetCloseAllTradesBE-EA kicked in at 4% equity growth and closed all the winning orders that constituted this growth, leaving me with the following situation for GBPUSD:
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In this case I'll just delete the pending sell orders of course. Now slightly more complex scenarios may indeed arise when e.g. the closest sell pending orders in the above picture would have been activated. These cases however do not occur too often since HGBnG is equipped with more than adequate offsetting mechanisms. Should the scenario occur, I'll practically always close out the entire position of the pair at a net profit and let HGBnG do its thing again from scratch. In this light, I do agree with you ALS that closing a single pair in net profit and letting a pair in net loss sort itself out might potentially enhance the performance (as opposed to the basket of positive trades). I for one just do not like having unhedged positions and find that timely, substantial capitalisations are much more rewarding to the mind and ease off one's endured stress levels. Regular management/intervention shall always be and remain paramount. Trading with consistency and discipline this way sure seems to enable a daily 1-2% compounded return on average (which is an incredible feat in and of itself..). In any case, HGBnG proves to be of sheer beauty. Thanks once again to breathe life in it people
Cheers,
Aram
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