Goldy

[SteveHopwood]

Things went downhill after my previous post on Tuesday.

The market continued to rise and then fall briefly enough to fill the next sell stop. Goldy obediently stopped sending sell stops once the max allowed hit 10. Buy stops kept on filling and hitting their TP so the account balance kept increasing whilst the equity kept falling.

The gap between the market and the sells was huge at one point. The market then did one of its massive flops and brought the buys and sells closer together.

By rollover time on Thursday night (UK time) there were: 7 open buys; 10 open sells; DD just shy of $7,900; equity just shy of $15,600; margin level 526%.

There were no quotes sent on Friday - Easter related I assume, so there will probably be none tomorrow either as it is Easter Monday.

On limited evidence, it looks as though the max trades per pair thingy is doing its job. The account might not have blown without it but it would have been a close run thing. It will be interesting to see what happens on Tuesday.

[SteveHopwood]

V 1b is in post 1. This has offsetting implementing. It needs testing to make sure it works as intended.

I was wrong about trading on Easter Monday (today). The platform received quotes as usual.

The market continued its inexorable rise. The sells were so far from the market that I could not see offsetting helping - it needs to kick in a long time before the position became so bad. I shut down the position, giving back much of the profits previously gained.

Even with this the equity is over $10,200, so still twice the original deposit. Normal service has resumed with two subsequent equity TP targets hit.

[AltosT]

Thanks Steve,

Can I assume it is OK to append the version number to the name, avoids confusion for an old guy like me.

Regards,
Altos.

[SteveHopwood]

Thanks Steve,

Can I assume it is OK to append the version number to the name, avoids confusion for an old guy like me.

Regards,
Altos.

You can call Goldy whatever you want. How about 'Purple Bean Sprouting'? Or, 'Another Demented Offering By That Lunatic Hopwood'?

Mind, she might take offence and: delete the contents of your drive; fry your cpu until your machine catches fire and burns your house down; hires hit teams to hunt down and murder all of your relatives including your children and grand children; cause a military coup to replace your democratic government with a repressive dictatorship that insists that all 5 year old children be drafted into the military. She can be a tad on the touchy side with regard to her name.

Alternatively, you can view the version number four lines down on the chart display.

[AltosT]

Hah ! OK, got it. Good idea showing on screen.

Thanks.

[SteveHopwood]

V 1c is in post 1.

I saw earlier today that offsetting was not working. It is now; Goldy has offset buys against sells and vice versa. She will show an Alert when an offset has been successful. There is an input in the Offsetting section that allows you to turn off the Alert when you are satisfied that it is working properly.

I will add code to replace the take profits that were deleted when G went into offsetting mode.

[SteveHopwood]

V 1d is in post 1. I saw this morning that Goldy was not sending replacement sell stop orders. The problem turned out to be one of my copy/paste/forgot-to-edit bloops. This has not come to light before now because it only became a problem when there were MaxTradesAllowedPerPair market buys open. Fixed now.

Also, I have added code to replace the take profits that were removed once G started looking for offsetting opportunities.

[MaxLemanski]

Steve,

'Xcuse the 'tude , but i don't see expert in post 1.

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[thomasmore]

Good morning Steve,

The first page of the Goldy thread only shows the script, but not the latest EA .

Best regards,
Ludo

[SteveHopwood]

Thanks Ludo. It is there now.