Holy Graily Bob Basics - ask your questions here.

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Need more help...

Is the only way to change the scalping pip factor default of 20 pips (multi trades) in the code?

I've identify this as maybe the place to adapt the pip ledger. In my case I need to reduce it from 20 to 10, 5 or 2 pips depending on the index traded (US30,SP500,NAS,STOXX...etc.)

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price = NormalizeDouble(price - (20 / factor), Digits);

Thank you in advance

See bellow why I believe you guys have build something amazing and why I will spend time to optimize it for non currencies and share back with all of you.

EDIT: Best way I found is to use GridAtrMultiplier to stretch the grid (in my case I use 0.8)

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After spending 5 hours trying to have Holy Graily Bob 'n Dotty take any trades I'm back here as a noob asking for help on the proper way to debug my problem.

I read pretty much everything I could making sure I understand what you guys created and try my best to learn but I'm stuck.

Here my problem.

1. I've added Holy Graily Bob 'n Dotty to an indices (DE30)
2. I added the symbol to the bot in the code

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string         pipFactor[]  = {"NOK","SEK","ZAR","MXN","JPY","XAG","SILVER","BRENT","WTI","XTI","UKOIL","XAU","GOLD","XPT","SP500","US500","USTEC","STOXX50","UK100","WS30","DE30","GER30","DJ30","US30","ES35","SWI20","F40","AUS200","JP225","HK50"};
double         pipFactors[] = { 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 100,  100,  100,     100,    100,  100,  100,    10,   10,    10,   10,     10,     1,   1,      1,      1,     1,      1,      1,     1,     1,       1,       1,      1,       1,       1};
double         factor;//For pips/points stuff. Set up in int init()

3. I used the default settings
4. I've all scripts and lib working (DB EA is working, HGB EA is working,BB is working)
5. I receive buy signals emails so the bot make right decisions and would/should take a trade
6. No trades is placed (no errors in the logs)

What I checked:
- logfiles
- reboot / restart
- set files default OOTB and mine
- added the EA to currencies to make sure it's not an issue on non currency symbols
- I read the code searching where the grids are sent

I'm out of luck and out of knowledge.

Who can point me the best way to debug my issue.

Thank you in advance

EDIT: Solved, I shoot myself and you can shoot me as well! READ THE MANUAL!!!

[story1234]

After spending 5 hours trying to have Holy Graily Bob 'n Dotty take any trades I'm back here as a noob asking for help on the proper way to debug my problem.

I read pretty much everything I could making sure I understand what you guys created and try my best to learn but I'm stuck.

Here my problem.

1. I've added Holy Graily Bob 'n Dotty to an indices (DE30)
2. I added the symbol to the bot in the code

Code: Select all

string         pipFactor[]  = {"NOK","SEK","ZAR","MXN","JPY","XAG","SILVER","BRENT","WTI","XTI","UKOIL","XAU","GOLD","XPT","SP500","US500","USTEC","STOXX50","UK100","WS30","DE30","GER30","DJ30","US30","ES35","SWI20","F40","AUS200","JP225","HK50"};
double         pipFactors[] = { 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 100,  100,  100,     100,    100,  100,  100,    10,   10,    10,   10,     10,     1,   1,      1,      1,     1,      1,      1,     1,     1,       1,       1,      1,       1,       1};
double         factor;//For pips/points stuff. Set up in int init()

3. I used the default settings
4. I've all scripts and lib working (DB EA is working, HGB EA is working,BB is working)
5. I receive buy signals emails so the bot make right decisions and would/should take a trade
6. No trades is placed (no errors in the logs)

What I checked:
- logfiles
- reboot / restart
- set files default OOTB and mine
- added the EA to currencies to make sure it's not an issue on non currency symbols
- I read the code searching where the grids are sent

I'm out of luck and out of knowledge.

Who can point me the best way to debug my issue.

Thank you in advance

EDIT: Solved, I shoot myself and you can shoot me as well! READ THE MANUAL!!!

Are you going to share how you solve it? It might help others.

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Are you going to share how you solve it? It might help others.

I guess Steve would say READ THE MANUAL, but as I'm not Steve my issue was regarding the way you set alerting:

MANUAL P. 11
◦ EmailTradeNotification: tells the EA to email you an alert when it has sent a
trade.
◦ SendAlertNotTrade: tells the EA not to send a trade when it discovers a trigger.
Instead it will:
▪ sound an alert on your platform.
▪ Send you an alert via email.
◦ AlertPush: sends either/both the above alerts and sends a 'push' to the latest
mobile devices such as iPad etc.

[story1234]

Are you going to share how you solve it? It might help others.

I guess Steve would say READ THE MANUAL, but as I'm not Steve my issue was regarding the way you set alerting:

MANUAL P. 11
◦ EmailTradeNotification: tells the EA to email you an alert when it has sent a
trade.
◦ SendAlertNotTrade: tells the EA not to send a trade when it discovers a trigger.
Instead it will:
▪ sound an alert on your platform.
▪ Send you an alert via email.
◦ AlertPush: sends either/both the above alerts and sends a 'push' to the latest
mobile devices such as iPad etc.

Thanks but he won't.
"Ask it here instead. Nobody will shout at you."
Unless things has changed

[story1234]

Regarding Holy Graily Bob 'n Dotty
I just want to confirm as I had quite a big DD on demo.

If I want it to trade it on the 15mins TF, I just need to change TradingTimeFrame to 15 mins and load it right? Everything else as default.

[SteveHopwood]

Regarding Holy Graily Bob 'n Dotty
I just want to confirm as I had quite a big DD on demo.

If I want it to trade it on the 15mins TF, I just need to change TradingTimeFrame to 15 mins and load it right? Everything else as default.

Yes.

[franknf1]

Has anyone else had trouble getting Holy Graily Bob 'n Dotty to work on the latest version("Version 1")?
I placed the EA on a charrt(GBPJPY) on 16th Feb with OOTB settings and have seen no activity at all since.
I know that this may be too short a time for any trades to have been placed, but I had the same trouble all thru Late January and February on the previous version, which had been working fine before.

I know craptester is frowned on here, but I tried to run "Version 1" on a backtest of 3 months just to see if any thing would happen.
Nothing at all.
I ran Holy Graily Bob 'n Dotty 'n Bolly on the same period /data and it does take trades.

I have checked that allow live trades are set correctly.
I have taken te EA off the chart, recompiled and reset it.
The bot does have a smily face and displays data such as in a long trend etc, but no trades.
I found this bot to be exceptionally good, but over the last few months seems to have jut stopped working.
I do have Super CSS V2.2 running on the charts if that makes any difference.

Thanks for any help you can give me

[Wavegarrick]

Hi Frank,

Yesterday I did a check with Sixths set to true and the trend timeframe set to 1hr, because I had price within the top sixths sell zone area with AudCad on the hourly timeframe. And all looking fine by me.

Take note. This was only for checking purposes as I do prefer price being in the top / bottom sixths area on the 4 hr timeframe. So with this in mind you will have to wait for price to reach the top or bottom sixths area and this could take a while. The same would apply to the buy low sell high option which will only buy when the lowest low is is later than the highest high and vice versa for a sell and the next option "use next buy low sell high" which will look for criteria over two time frames. We have to wait for these entries. Anyway Steve explains it very nicely in the manual.

Super Css has nothing to do with this.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Leon

[franknf1]

Thanks for the reply Wavegarrick,

I am running the EA OOTB which has sixths trading = false.

I had been running HGB&D for over 6 months in testing and a short time live on a small account and was very happy with the way it kept gaining pips, but since the revamped version without the HGI_V16.09 indicator required, I have not been able to get a trade to be taken.
I don't know if its because I still have the indicator in my indicator library or what arcane alignments may be affecting my terminal.exe.

I will let the latest version run in test for another week, then maybe I need to go nucleur and delete/reinstall my MQL terminal again.

Again, thanks for the help