- Most Forex traders lose all their money.
- Using the robot posted here in trading Forex does not guarantee success.
- Trading this robot could lead to serious financial loss.
- Trading this robot without understanding its underlying trading strategies guarantees traders will lose their money.
- This is not a set-and-forget ea; there is no such thing and anyone who tries to claim there is, is either stupid or lying. This ea requires frequent manual intervention.
- At best, a trading robot is only 90% as good as the manual strategy it trades. At best. At worst, it can be much less effective. If the strategy is rubbish, so is the robot.
- To trade this robot, you have to understand:
- How to use EA's.
- Super Slope from http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 101&t=4888
/viewtopic.php?p=142851#p142851 - Peaky.
- My peak hilo indi. I have attached the indi and a pdf explaining what it does.
- TDesk. I added the ability to send signals to TDesk in case anyone finds it useful to do so - I do not use this facility and you can safely ignore it. I have written a getting started guide for those of you who are interested, at http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 90#p163890
The "Slopey Peaky Bob.mqh" file
This goes in your platform's /Include folder and is an essential component. No member of the SPB tribe will work without it.
MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS POST http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=111241#p111241 There was a Forex bloodbath on Jan 15th 2015 that you need to know about.
Everything you need to know is in the user guide. Kopan has presented a version especially for US traders - http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 104&t=5480.
I am trading this bot on my live trading accounts. Go to the end of this forum and read upwards to see how some of us are doing.
I have made some recommendations for lot sizes in relation to account size in the user guide. Be patient. Save for a decent account whilst you run SPB on demos to get a feel for how he trades. Get greedy and you will blow your account.
There are two indicators coded by Rene attached:
- DrawClosedTrades cycles through the trades in our History tab and plots them on a chart.
- DrawOpenTrades does the same but with open market orders.
It is possible to set up SPB to work with TDesk/Desky and TDesk-compatible indicators. The attached "Setting up SPB to work with TDesk and Desky" pdf explains how. Thomas has sent us a TDesk template to get us started - "TDesk Template - SPB Family Dashboard.tpl" - also attached. SPB needs the TDeskSignals.mqh file in your platform's /MQL4/Include folder whether you are using TDesk or not, so download it from tomele @ TDesk Announcements
PROGRESS REPORTS
I have been trading SPB for more than a year. See post 2 for details.


Matters of general interest
Go here to download and run the script that will fill your platform's missing chart history: http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... f=15&t=254
Read this post:
http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... p?f=6&t=78 Newbie traders, read this for inspiration and warning. Those of you who have suffered losses, read it for inspiration.
Masterly summary of hedging: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4977179
EA coding
I receive may requests to code EA's. Traders, if I code your EA for free, then I will share it here. If you want me to code your EA without sharing, then my fee is $100 payable into my paypal account. I explain why at http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... ?f=15&t=79, at the bottom of the post.
Useful utilities/EA's/scripts
- Multi purpose trade manager: http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... ?f=21&t=64
- Account equity analyser: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4709098, which includes a template for both USD and the Euro.
- Past-trades display indi by squalou; shows a graphical display of the success/failure of trades in your History tab. Breathtaking piece of work. http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost3830610
- My shell EA – the code I use to produce EA's so quickly. http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... ?f=15&t=79
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