APRv02 - a video game for retirees

Prasev · Post by **Prasev** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:30 pm

I love Rene's stuff. So take it and tweak it, because imitation is the highest form of flattery. I was looking for a structure to manage individual positions for my project and thought: "Maybe Rene has something like that". And yes, he does. It's TradeMan classes inside of "Stochy Basket ALR" https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB ... =97&t=3929.

My initial goal was to figure out the code. So I fired it up. As usual, it didn't quite behave the way I expected, so I started tweaking it. One thing led to another, and now we have another proverbial gun with which to look for trouble.

APRv02 (Automatic Profit Recovery) is typical of ALR family. It provides a steady source of income with daily risk of account blow up. But that's unavoidable. The risk, I mean. It's up to the trader to manage it.

[*] FLATTEN button is the only way to interact at this point.
[*] Trading hours are in broker time, because I don't like the confusion between local times on my development machine and VPS.
[*] VALUE displays cumulative profit for the ALR chain of tickets
[*] LOTS displays netlots for individual positions and total lots for the basket
[*] I've tested it for a day and I'm pretty sure there are no bugs. Don't report bugs.

Update August 4, 2022 --- APRv03
[*] Hibernate during rollover
[*] Hibernate deletes pending orders and removes stoplosses from open ordes
[*] Wake up restores stoplosses and recreates pending orders
[*] Look for ***ERROR*** in expert log if open order moved beyond stoploss.
[*] Spread/ATR(D1) filter: MaxCostToTrade

APRv03.jpg

Prasev · Post by **Prasev** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:57 pm

Update August 4, 2022 --- APRv03
[*] Hibernate during rollover
[*] Hibernate deletes pending orders and removes stoplosses from open ordes
[*] Wake up restores stoplosses and recreates pending orders
[*] Look for ***ERROR*** in expert log if open order moved beyond stoploss.
[*] Spread/ATR(D1) filter: MaxCostToTrade

APRv02 doesn't fare too well during rollovers because it uses SL. APRv03 hibernates during rollover.
Some pairs have too large spread/ATR(D1) ratio, that's MaxCostToTrade filter.

Prasev · Post by **Prasev** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 2:42 pm

I have been working on this for a while, up to version 8 or something, until I hit a wall. I would be running a strategy on multiple instruments and then one instrument would go into a tailspin and drag everything down, and die for lack of margin. So I went back to manual trading and more learning, hoping to acquire some skills or get fresh ideas. This morning it hit me: recovery pool. If you diversify your strategy, why not diversify your recovery as well? Put your losses in a pool and recover them on all instruments. This opens a world of possibilities, because recovery sequence doesn't have to be simple. It can be: recover after loss, or recover after win, or lose-win-win, etc. But let's start simple, see how it goes.