Rinse 'n Repeat

Post by **Gertje** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:30 am

WhoKnows » Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:20 am wrote:Gertje, is that DD from RnR? Just asking, as your the EA in your screenshot is from Dotty.
Apparently you had some real bad luck with having open buys just before the market dropped.

RnR caused the majority, I switched to DB as it is better in handling the offsetting.

Post by **TraderJoeForex** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:42 pm

Gertje » Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:30 am wrote: RnR caused the majority, I switched to DB as it is better in handling the offsetting.

What does DB do differently from an offsetting point of view?

Post by **SteveHopwood** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:04 pm

RnR seems to have moved a long way from the original, so I only keep a distant eye on what is happening here.

To answer this:

TraderJoeForex » Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:42 pm wrote:
What does DB do differently from an offsetting point of view?

I am not sure it does a lot different. We have got complex single sided offsetting licked. Not sure if that matters here.

We are still struggling with 'invalid ticket' errors but are slowly solving the problems. There might be a few thingies there that might help here. Only a suggestion.

Keep at it Tigers.

Post by **Bruster400** » Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:01 am

pivotter » Fri Aug 05, 2016 12:04 pm wrote:The RnR EXP 1D has a problem with unknown ticket.The attached version RnR EXP 1E.patched was patched with code suggestions from the DottyBot threat, the unknown ticket problem is gone.

Only the bool MopUpTradeClosureFailures() code tightening update on http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... &start=210 was skipped as the new code contained an error.

2016.08.05 12:35:20.176 Rinse-n-Repeat-EXP.1d GBPJPY,M5: unknown ticket 139001359 for OrderCloseBy function
001550

you can search the attached file for //patch to see what is patched.
file:Rinse-n-Repeat - EXPv1E.patched.mq4

RnR EXP 1E.patched and RnR EXP 1E are currently running in demo started on the same tick till the end of next week.

pivotter

Thanks very much Pivotter!!

The additional routines added attempt to mop up any trades that should have been closed but didn't and should avoid the unknown ticket errors. I've updated post 1 with version EXP 1f - which is just the 1e patched version given by Pivotter previously.

Post by **WhoKnows** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 11:49 am

For the past two days I ran 1 identical setfile in 4 sets of two started at different intervals (RnRExp1E on a VPS on GP Demo).
Monday 15.00 I started two (151 and 152), 17.00 another two (171 and 172), 20.00 another two (201 and 202), and 23.00 the last pair (231 and 232).

After 2 days difference between 151 and 152: 33 pips
After 2 days difference between 171 and 172: 340 pips
After 2 days difference between 201 and 202: 134 pips
After 2 days difference between 231 and 232: 1181 pips

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This confirms my earlier results where I saw huge differences between results of identical setfiles.
It also means that I have to reconsider results of my earlier tests. Poor performing setfiles might just have been unlucky coincidences.
E.g. Last week I ran 2 sets where I compared a certain setfile with both 1E vs a 1Epatched.
In 1 setfile, 1E performed similar to 1EPatched with only 200 pip difference after the week.
But with the other setfile, 1EPatched ended 4700 pips lower than the 1E non-patched (Open+Closed).
The difference proved to be caused by ComplexOffset closing a group differently on Tuesday, resulting a bigger sell/buy imbalance before the 3 day long leaky toilet downwards.
It would be very easy to draw incorrect conclusions that one is worse than the other. Most likely the difference between Patched and non patched was just a fluke similar to the difference between magic 231 and 232 above.

This variation within identical setfiles will make the comparison between different setfiles quite a bit more complicated.
I will repeat this test but with a different setfile with recovery mode False.

Post by **Generaal Goudvis** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:55 am

WhoKnows » Wed Aug 17, 2016 1:49 pm wrote: This variation within identical setfiles will make the comparison between different setfiles quite a bit more complicated.
I will repeat this test but with a different setfile with recovery mode False.

Interesting to say the least.

This indeed gives some remarks to making statements purely based on pips and their differences.

Good work WhoKnows...looking forward to the new test.

nundu · Post by **nundu** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 2:25 pm

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Hello all! This is my first post here and I wanted to express a fraction of the gratitude I feel towards this forum for existing. You guys are truly amazing! I cannot thank every user that has said something valuable here so I will just say "I love you" to a certain Mr. Hopwood for providing a place for all of you wonderful people to compound your knowledge and experience.

kilion · Post by **kilion** » Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:15 pm

Talking about max DD: can someone point me in the direction of an indicator that shows the max DD reached?

Thanks in advance!

Post by **Boulder** » Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:19 pm

kilion » Fri Aug 19, 2016 11:15 pm wrote:Talking about max DD: can someone point me in the direction of an indicator that shows the max DD reached?

Thanks in advance!

Rene has created a splendid indicator for that which can be downloaded right here. Enjoy it

Cheers

Aram

f4rx · Post by **f4rx** » Mon Aug 22, 2016 12:40 pm

Hello.

I still had a demo running of RnR v1o.
When I first started the ea I did have a huge drop quite fast on the 6th of july (BOJ I beleive) and the 12th of july (Carney speech, from 4.2k to ~1.5k) but after that it was only rising. The ea was only removed the 4th of august (GBP rate change).
I'm always removing the ea on high impact news now, be it JPY or GBP.
Now back at almost 3k.

equity.JPG

Setfile was probably one I downloaded here.

RnR-v1o.set

Regards.