Rinse 'n Repeat

Post by **Gertje** » Thu May 19, 2016 6:52 pm

I tried to let RnR change lotsize, but to no avail.
Is this only possible when Upl=0 and no active orders are present?

Post by **SteveHopwood** » Thu May 19, 2016 7:04 pm

Gertje » Thu May 19, 2016 6:52 pm wrote:I tried to let RnR change lotsize, but to no avail.
Is this only possible when Upl=0 and no active orders are present?

Yes. This is a hedging/offsetting system. Lot sizes need to be the same for all trades.

Your post made me check the code and there is a weakness. LotsPerDollopOfCash > 0 will cause the lot size to be recalculated every time we restart the bot. I think the needs removing.

Post by **Gertje** » Mon May 23, 2016 4:15 pm

More questions regarding the settings;

- MinOpenTradesToStartOffset; is this for both the Simple- and Complex Offsetting?

- OffsetPipProfitStandard; is this adaptive, or totall for the closing basket of trades?

Thanks for answering!

Post by **Bruster400** » Mon May 23, 2016 7:22 pm

Gertje » Mon May 23, 2016 5:15 pm wrote:More questions regarding the settings;

- MinOpenTradesToStartOffset; is this for both the Simple- and Complex Offsetting?

- This is for both simple and complex - it was felt pointless to offset one trade against another for the cost of spread so it's best to keep this to 3 or more.

- OffsetPipProfitStandard; is this adaptive, or totall for the closing basket of trades?

- This is the pips profit required before an offset will take place when the bot is not in recovery mode. In recovery mode the setting is OffsetPipProfitRecovery . The two settings were provided so that different settings could be used when in recovery to maximise the chance of getting an offset.

- It's worth noting that most of the testing shared to date suggests that be basic bot with complex single sided offset off is performing better than with recovery and complex single sided on.

Thanks for answering!

Post by **Gertje** » Mon May 23, 2016 7:25 pm

Bruster400 » Mon May 23, 2016 7:22 pm wrote:
Gertje » Mon May 23, 2016 5:15 pm wrote:More questions regarding the settings;

- MinOpenTradesToStartOffset; is this for both the Simple- and Complex Offsetting?

- This is for both simple and complex - it was felt pointless to offset one trade against another for the cost of spread so it's best to keep this to 3 or more.

- OffsetPipProfitStandard; is this adaptive, or totall for the closing basket of trades?

- This is the pips profit required before an offset will take place when the bot is not in recovery mode. In recovery mode the setting is OffsetPipProfitRecovery . The two settings were provided so that different settings could be used when in recovery to maximise the chance of getting an offset.

- It's worth noting that most of the testing shared to date suggests that be basic bot with complex single sided offset off is performing better than with recovery and complex single sided on.

Thanks for answering!

Swingtraderkk · Post by **Swingtraderkk** » Mon May 23, 2016 8:00 pm

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Am I doing something wrong?

This was a new test stated with a clean 10K demo using the exp OOTB version on 10th May. After Brusters post last week I changed settings to single sided off and recovery off (orange vertical line) ie back to original afaik, but it is now in significant drawdown in balance and equity. Is this expected behaviour given the price action?

I couldn't trade this live.

Post by **Gertje** » Mon May 23, 2016 8:04 pm

Swingtraderkk » Mon May 23, 2016 8:00 pm wrote:
Am I doing something wrong?

This was a new test stated with a clean 10K demo using the exp OOTB version on 10th May. After Brusters post last week I changed settings to single sided off and recovery off (orange vertical line) ie back to original afaik, but it is now in significant drawdown in balance and equity. Is this expected behaviour given the price action?

I couldn't trade this live.

You're overtreding the pair, should be 0.05 lots for 10K.
The partialSL is closing bad trades due to high DD.

Swingtraderkk · Post by **Swingtraderkk** » Tue May 24, 2016 11:33 am

Thanks!

That makes sense, I was leaving as OOTB.

Will continue having changed dollop to 2000.

Do I need to close trades manually and restart?

Post by **FxFoil** » Wed May 25, 2016 12:14 am

lwphoon · Post by **lwphoon** » Wed May 25, 2016 2:00 am

I switch off single side complex and my DD has been reduced significantly. It's working well at the moment.

FxFoil wrote:Greetings
I was wondering what recovery controls anyone is finding useful in reducing DD, like what are the settings, or under what circumstances are they manually introduced etc, or is it mostly ootb.

Any ideas emerging?