Goldy
- icebrewer
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Re: Goldy
weekly report 02 26up 27hugedown 28up 29up 30down and up - 05 - 2025
26up Monday, good start of the week, 7 targets hit in the morning and goldy closed for the rest of the day.
27hugedown Tuesday, apologies to all folks following this log, I went fly a bit on Tuesday. Having remember the possibility of tightening the distance between trades, I have put goldy into only 10 pip distance in between both starter trade and grid trades. Things was well for 2-3 targets hit in the beginning of pacific market, but snowballed all the way down throughout and landed with a huge loss right before start time of London market. This inconsistent testing was totally out of discipline and was an insult to all speculators and myself. I am deeply sorry for this matter and learned that how greedy can break anything in just a flick. (-474.44GBP)
I shall refund the demo back to 1252.07, the closing equity of Monday, and revert the setting to 30 pip for starter and 20 pip for grid. No more goldy settings will be changed again throughout June anymore.
28up Wednesday, with settings back to 30 pip distance starter trade, 20 distance grid trade, today we are doing great. Although ADX indicate very tight and sideway market 0100-0900, it does not affect goldy's trade. 5 target hit, profit more than 5%, I will stop goldy from US market today.
29up Thursday, receiving V1f update from Steve, from this day on we will monitor the strategy of trading on both with and without ADX indicator. It was a profit day for both version of goldy. Both took profit over 5% when I check them after opening and of London market, I closed the goldy v1e for securing the profit, but left the goldy 1f with ADX running throughout the day.
Result for v1f looks great! although it did not hit as much target as v1e, the high volume between 1400-1930 make v1f more exposure and eventually hitting more targets.
A great day 1, let us see where it goes.
30down and up Friday, a tricky day to summarize.
In the pacific market until 0530, ADX was low and no movement was made through V1f, meanwhile 1e is hitting the target a few times. The rise of ADX index close trades before London market did not bring much gain to v1e, ended with one target hit and several offsets.
1e was doing great during pacific market time, hitting the target several time. Things reversed when US market starts, when 1f rapidly hitting the target multiple time, and cleaned up the mess before 1400, seizure time for Friday trading.
1e also was doing well in the beginning, but somehow trapped in the leak toilet situation around 1400-ish, although constant grid trading has pushed the balance of 1e to around 1600, equity went down really bad, worst scenario -500-ish.
I manually close all open trades for 1e about an hour before market closed on Friday, ending in losing most of the profit made on Thursday, but still a bit more than Wednesday.
Conclusion and thoughts from week02:
- Never jump around with settings, stay with one set until there is obvious optimization to make.
- One more rule of discipline need to be add on book: when trading without ADX, one need to focus more around closing time of set timeframe, i.e. current trade timeframe is +0100-1000+1500-1700, a constant check on goldy's status should be made around 1000 and 1700, to make sure a manual closure can take place to minimize the loss.
- If its goldy's trade time, let it thrive. If no, take an eye on the situation and intervene.
There was several moments when goldy happen to have several potential DD during trade time, but it all resolved it self, but the market that goes sideways (low ADX, outside pacific market) could lead to a leak toilet situation. Goldy is unlikely to resolve any pipe problems, in which moments manual intervention can be very helpful to control the loss.
- Do not be greedy, take the loss when its small.
- ADX seems to work very well in the last two days, we shall see if it is an coincidence or we can really rely on.
All currency is in GBP, starter trade distance 30, grid trade distance 20, target for equity set to 1.0, ADX setting to SizeOfDollop and offsetting strategy all different to default.
Result of goldy with ADX will be displayed in reversed colour.
Hope this log helps some of its reader to feel more about golday v1e and v1f!
Have a great weekend
Best,
ice
screenshots from everyday in chronological order:
26up Monday, good start of the week, 7 targets hit in the morning and goldy closed for the rest of the day.
27hugedown Tuesday, apologies to all folks following this log, I went fly a bit on Tuesday. Having remember the possibility of tightening the distance between trades, I have put goldy into only 10 pip distance in between both starter trade and grid trades. Things was well for 2-3 targets hit in the beginning of pacific market, but snowballed all the way down throughout and landed with a huge loss right before start time of London market. This inconsistent testing was totally out of discipline and was an insult to all speculators and myself. I am deeply sorry for this matter and learned that how greedy can break anything in just a flick. (-474.44GBP)
I shall refund the demo back to 1252.07, the closing equity of Monday, and revert the setting to 30 pip for starter and 20 pip for grid. No more goldy settings will be changed again throughout June anymore.
28up Wednesday, with settings back to 30 pip distance starter trade, 20 distance grid trade, today we are doing great. Although ADX indicate very tight and sideway market 0100-0900, it does not affect goldy's trade. 5 target hit, profit more than 5%, I will stop goldy from US market today.
29up Thursday, receiving V1f update from Steve, from this day on we will monitor the strategy of trading on both with and without ADX indicator. It was a profit day for both version of goldy. Both took profit over 5% when I check them after opening and of London market, I closed the goldy v1e for securing the profit, but left the goldy 1f with ADX running throughout the day.
Result for v1f looks great! although it did not hit as much target as v1e, the high volume between 1400-1930 make v1f more exposure and eventually hitting more targets.
A great day 1, let us see where it goes.
| 29/May/2025 | V1e | V1f-with ADX |
|---|---|---|
| Equity from last day | 1331.52 | 1331.52 |
| target hit | 10 | 11 |
| profit gained | 123.24 | 175.97 |
| percentage grow | 9.3% | 13.2% |
| Equity end of the day | 1454.76 | 1507.49 |
30down and up Friday, a tricky day to summarize.
In the pacific market until 0530, ADX was low and no movement was made through V1f, meanwhile 1e is hitting the target a few times. The rise of ADX index close trades before London market did not bring much gain to v1e, ended with one target hit and several offsets.
1e was doing great during pacific market time, hitting the target several time. Things reversed when US market starts, when 1f rapidly hitting the target multiple time, and cleaned up the mess before 1400, seizure time for Friday trading.
1e also was doing well in the beginning, but somehow trapped in the leak toilet situation around 1400-ish, although constant grid trading has pushed the balance of 1e to around 1600, equity went down really bad, worst scenario -500-ish.
I manually close all open trades for 1e about an hour before market closed on Friday, ending in losing most of the profit made on Thursday, but still a bit more than Wednesday.
| 30/May/2025 | V1e | V1f-with ADX |
|---|---|---|
| Equity from last day | 1454.76 | 1507.49 |
| target hit | 6 | 7 |
| profit gained | -93.43 | 116.29 |
| percentage grow | -6.4% | 7.7% |
| Equity end of the day | 1361.33 | 1623.78 |
Conclusion and thoughts from week02:
- Never jump around with settings, stay with one set until there is obvious optimization to make.
- One more rule of discipline need to be add on book: when trading without ADX, one need to focus more around closing time of set timeframe, i.e. current trade timeframe is +0100-1000+1500-1700, a constant check on goldy's status should be made around 1000 and 1700, to make sure a manual closure can take place to minimize the loss.
- If its goldy's trade time, let it thrive. If no, take an eye on the situation and intervene.
There was several moments when goldy happen to have several potential DD during trade time, but it all resolved it self, but the market that goes sideways (low ADX, outside pacific market) could lead to a leak toilet situation. Goldy is unlikely to resolve any pipe problems, in which moments manual intervention can be very helpful to control the loss.
- Do not be greedy, take the loss when its small.
- ADX seems to work very well in the last two days, we shall see if it is an coincidence or we can really rely on.
All currency is in GBP, starter trade distance 30, grid trade distance 20, target for equity set to 1.0, ADX setting to SizeOfDollop and offsetting strategy all different to default.
Result of goldy with ADX will be displayed in reversed colour.
Hope this log helps some of its reader to feel more about golday v1e and v1f!
Have a great weekend
Best,
ice
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aussiejohn
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Re: Goldy
thanks for sharing your work ice. 1. do you get groups closing in a loss occasionally ?. see my posts on this please. also; 2. is this a typo? "ADX setting to SizeOfDollop and offsetting strategy all different to default". do you mean SET to/same as default? thanks john
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Re: Goldy
Last week was good for me, using ice's trading times and ADX once I had added it. I am using a trade above level of 30.
I refunded the account back to its original $2000 on Tuesday and there were c. 13 TP hits over the remainder of the week. I had another three during the small hours of this morning (Monday, UK).
The larger account that started all this continued to go nowhere so I closed all the trades on Friday. This left the balance just shy of $12,500 - not so good as it once was but still 2.5 times the original starting balance. This account also benefitted from the same three TP hits as its smaller cousin.

I refunded the account back to its original $2000 on Tuesday and there were c. 13 TP hits over the remainder of the week. I had another three during the small hours of this morning (Monday, UK).
The larger account that started all this continued to go nowhere so I closed all the trades on Friday. This left the balance just shy of $12,500 - not so good as it once was but still 2.5 times the original starting balance. This account also benefitted from the same three TP hits as its smaller cousin.
Read the effing manual, ok?
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Afterprime is the official SHF broker. Read about them at https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=175790#p175790.
I still suffer from OCCD. Good thing, really.
Anyone here feeling generous? My paypal account is always in the market for a tiny donation. pianodoodler@hotmail.com is the account.
To see The Weekly Roundup of stuff you guys might have missed Click here
My special thanks to Thomas (tomele) for all the incredible work he does here.
- icebrewer
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Re: Goldy
Hi John,aussiejohn wrote: Mon Jun 02, 2025 2:37 am thanks for sharing your work ice. 1. do you get groups closing in a loss occasionally ?. see my posts on this please. also; 2. is this a typo? "ADX setting to SizeOfDollop and offsetting strategy all different to default". do you mean SET to/same as default? thanks john
1. I do not get automatic groups closing in a loss, but I do have manual group closing to ensure no further loss is happing. Only automatic group closing I have through goldy is those from offsetting system.
2.Different to default setting for ADX, SizeOfDollop and Offsetting meaning the number assigned to these functions has been customized, different to what Steve provided when you download the EA.
Hope this answers your questions.
Best,
ice
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wallywonka
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Re: Goldy
Any chance you can throw us a set file ice? Just trying to see how you are running this exactly.
Cheers Wally
Cheers Wally
- icebrewer
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Re: Goldy
Surely Wally.
For anyone who would like to try out These set, I have to say it is on a very risky setting and PLEASE PLEASE try this yourself first on a demo account.
For 0100,1000,1500,1700 market trading set: For ADX controlled set: Setting for hedging, offsetting, SizeOfDollop for both is the same, only difference is the ADX and timeframe part. ADX is trading through the whole day, timeframe only trade at timeframe.
Please use this set at your own risk, for people who do not want to try by themselves yet, this is the set I am testing with and have not been changed since last week of May 2025.
Best,
ice
For anyone who would like to try out These set, I have to say it is on a very risky setting and PLEASE PLEASE try this yourself first on a demo account.
For 0100,1000,1500,1700 market trading set: For ADX controlled set: Setting for hedging, offsetting, SizeOfDollop for both is the same, only difference is the ADX and timeframe part. ADX is trading through the whole day, timeframe only trade at timeframe.
Please use this set at your own risk, for people who do not want to try by themselves yet, this is the set I am testing with and have not been changed since last week of May 2025.
Best,
ice
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wallywonka
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Re: Goldy
Thanks Ice, Just curious as to what timeframe you are running the ADX set as I noticed it's timeframe dependant.