Holy Graily Bob's Candle Power

Post by **rjs104** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:36 pm

Hi All,

Thanks for posting my addition Steve

I should complete my explanation as I realised there was a small typo (serves me right for writing an email whilst trying to wrangle kids!)

My standpoint was to draw a line in the sand by taking the account equity when we first open a trade on a pair we're running Candle Power on. I then calculate the equity change that is happening as a result of only trading on this pair by Candle Power. So the account equity changes that are happening by other EA's or on other pairs have no impact on this calculation.

I'm then looking to hit a target equity value based on a percentage entered by the user to close out all the trades of this pair, so that we can rinse & repeat and start again.

There might (separately) be an argument for allowing a similar process but across _all_ candle power pairs, thereby allowing some pairs to offset others.

But hey, let's walk before we run.

All the best,

Richard.

Post by **RisklessPips** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:58 pm

SteveHopwood » Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:29 pm wrote:Attached is a new experimental version with a feature supplied by Richard. Here is the bulk of the pm he sent me by way of explanation:

This seems like a pretty good idea to me, so many thanks Richard.

Run it on demo for a couple of days folks. It can become V 1g once we know the code needs no modification.

I must read this code carefully for my own learning purposes but in the meantime a little info for you all.

I don't know what pairs you are trading with CP, but on GTWV I have started trading NOKSEK.

In my testing it became clear the factor function was returning incorrect values for SL and TP's added for this pair.

SEK should be removed from line 3316 otherwise it returns values 10 times greater than is correct for the SEK.

Charles

Post by **SteveHopwood** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:06 pm

RisklessPips » Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:58 pm wrote:
I must read this code carefully for my own learning purposes but in the meantime a little info for you all.

I don't know what pairs you are trading with CP, but on GTWV I have started trading NOKSEK.

In my testing it became clear the factor function was returning incorrect values for SL and TP's added for this pair.

SEK should be removed from line 3316 otherwise it returns values 10 times greater than is correct for the SEK.

Charles

Nice spot Charles.

I will include the change in the next update.

Post by **c1borg** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:36 pm

+228 pips today so far but sitting on a -363 pip drawdown atm

GBPUSD mainly will be interesting to see if it can recover. 5 buy orders active atm on the pair.

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dreambig2 · Post by **dreambig2** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 8:14 pm

The negative correlated pairs idea I had is not working out.....almost %100 trades but what good is that with a boat load of DD....guess should have seen that train coming.

Had Simple offset on....don't see any offset trades so far so am activating complex also at this time....running CP on M15, H1 and H4.

Edit 10-3-17: got offset trades now...my H1 charts not doing near as good as last week so trying V1e again on Gold just in case it makes a diff....i know a long shot and could just be market but checking anyways.

Post by **TraderJoeForex** » Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:11 am

Got my first HGI closes on the H4 set today

Definitely a slower pace than M5 so perhaps good multipair.

Here is an updated set file for v1f onwards...

CP H4.set

Post by **Jollyroger** » Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:18 am

Does anyone have difficulty in loading the EA onto a pair? I am continuing to get error code 8 which is "Too frequent requests". I have never run into this problem before and nothing I do in trying to solve it works.
Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks!
Roger

Post by **c1borg** » Tue Oct 03, 2017 2:38 pm

+660 pips since Monday but still -480 in drawdown waiting mainly for a strong upturn in GBP to recover.

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anmeitheal · Post by **anmeitheal** » Wed Oct 04, 2017 1:38 pm

I'll stick my head up and risk saying that I don't think there is code behind the "TradeLong", "TradeShort" user input options. I did check the code to the best of my ability after seeing this below. "TradeShort" is set to false.

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I may be a cretin!

Post by **SteveHopwood** » Wed Oct 04, 2017 1:42 pm

anmeitheal » Wed Oct 04, 2017 1:38 pm wrote:I'll stick my head up and risk saying that I don't think there is code behind the "TradeLong", "TradeShort" user input options. I did check the code to the best of my ability after seeing this below. "TradeShort" is set to false.

I may be a cretin!

Nice spot.

These inputs need removing - I forgot. Remove them and recompile, then follow the red error messages to the lines of code in DisplayUserFeedback() that are causing the errors.