Basket Trading BALUDA'S CSS Crossovers

[TraderJoeForex]

Had quite a few H1 early exits last night bringing a 5% loss to start the week.. same set file without the H1 exit has closed a few baskets already without any loss so I am thinking the early exit with this M5 H1 D1 set file may not be what I need or perhaps H4 exits like Boulder will give better room for the trades to breathe...

... +5% today for my set without early exit

[trader689]

Had quite a few H1 early exits last night bringing a 5% loss to start the week.. same set file without the H1 exit has closed a few baskets already without any loss so I am thinking the early exit with this M5 H1 D1 set file may not be what I need or perhaps H4 exits like Boulder will give better room for the trades to breathe...

... +5% today for my set without early exit

[Boulder]

Nice one Joe!

Mathias managed to find the little bugger in the code that prohibited the exit procedure to work as it should and therefore we won't have those annoying rapid opens and closures anymore. He will soon prepare and post the next updated version of the EA. Thank you Mathias once again

Using this update, I too am seeing nice things happening
Mathias I have noticed something though and wrote it on the image.

Results.png

Cheers guys

Aram

EDIT: here's one of the multi-trade instances

Results 2.png

Now I'm not sure of course as there may be something else at the root of this discrepancy between theoretical and actual basketTPs. The single trade instance for example doesn't have any trades exited prior to the basketTP and therefore should be only working with the starting balance of 1800 EUR.

Also reassuring fact, all my instances are levered with 1:100 (Global Prime's standard leverage) which means we'll defnitely have a good chance of running one of these beauties on a live account.

[Boulder]

This multi-trade instance on the other hand closed out just nicely on 3%. Here we have no other individual trade closures either prior to the basket closure - which reinforces the evidence for the balance function not working properly as of yet. Just trying to find and help with clues here..

Result 3.png

[desi]

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EURCHF,AUDNZD,CADJPY,GBPUSD,CADCHF,AUDUSD,EURGBP,NZDJPY

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Now this does by no measure whatsoever mean that it is 100% correct what I'm doing.. It merely is from my point of view the most logical way of thinking.

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When I put these 8 symbols in 'Exclude Symbols', the EA gets taken off the chart with following error messages in the expert tab. The EA works fine otherwise i.e., Exclude input as blank.

2016.10.18 01:15:47.605 Expert Mathias 5.20 Draft EURUSD,Daily: removed
2016.10.18 01:15:47.589 Mathias 5.20 Draft EURUSD,Daily: uninit reason 8
2016.10.18 01:15:47.589 Mathias 5.20 Draft EURUSD,Daily: not initialized
2016.10.18 01:15:47.589 Mathias 5.20 Draft EURUSD,Daily: array out of range in 'MADDY_CSS_HGI_Trader5.20Draft.mq4' (5665,49)

What you think could be wrong here? Thanks.

[MathiasJ]

Nice one Joe!

Mathias managed to find the little bugger in the code that prohibited the exit procedure to work as it should and therefore we won't have those annoying rapid opens and closures anymore. He will soon prepare and post the next updated version of the EA. Thank you Mathias once again

Using this update, I too am seeing nice things happening
Mathias I have noticed something though and wrote it on the image.


Cheers guys

Aram

EDIT: here's one of the multi-trade instances


Now I'm not sure of course as there may be something else at the root of this discrepancy between theoretical and actual basketTPs. The single trade instance for example doesn't have any trades exited prior to the basketTP and therefore should be only working with the starting balance of 1800 EUR.

Also reassuring fact, all my instances are levered with 1:100 (Global Prime's standard leverage) which means we'll defnitely have a good chance of running one of these beauties on a live account.

First question: Was the basket already started when you upgraded the EA?
If that was the case then it will base the balance on the current balance until the basket is closed.

[MathiasJ]

When I put these 8 symbols in 'Exclude Symbols', the EA gets taken off the chart with following error messages in the expert tab. The EA works fine otherwise i.e., Exclude input as blank.

2016.10.18 01:15:47.605 Expert Mathias 5.20 Draft EURUSD,Daily: removed
2016.10.18 01:15:47.589 Mathias 5.20 Draft EURUSD,Daily: uninit reason 8
2016.10.18 01:15:47.589 Mathias 5.20 Draft EURUSD,Daily: not initialized
2016.10.18 01:15:47.589 Mathias 5.20 Draft EURUSD,Daily: array out of range in 'MADDY_CSS_HGI_Trader5.20Draft.mq4' (5665,49)

What you think could be wrong here? Thanks.

You should normally leave ExcludeSymbols empty and instead list the wanted symbols in IncludeSymbols.

[desi]

You should normally leave ExcludeSymbols empty and instead list the wanted symbols in IncludeSymbols.

Thanks Mathias, I just tried typing the symbols in the alphabetical order and it worked.

[MathiasJ]

You should normally leave ExcludeSymbols empty and instead list the wanted symbols in IncludeSymbols.

Thanks Mathias, I just tried typing the symbols in the alphabetical order and it worked.

It is possible to use ExcludeSymbols but then you instead leave IncludeSymols blank and the you can also work more with the ExcludeCurrencies, but I will not elaborate more on that now. In short it start from the full list in Market watch and then you exclude from it.

[desi]

It is possible to use ExcludeSymbols but then you instead leave IncludeSymols blank and the you can also work more with the ExcludeCurrencies, but I will not elaborate more on that now. In short it start from the full list in Market watch and then you exclude from it.

It seemed to work, but it did not i.e., the alphabetical order. The EA got removed after a while.
I also tried with Include Symbols blank and that didn't work either as soon as I put the 8 symbols in the Exclude parameter.

Finally I am now using ExcludeCurrency feature with no CHF pairs.