Bob and Jem and Shelley's Pivot Basket auto-trader

[garyfritz]

I also have not had any trades today. Looking at the EA's output and the charts, I believe it's because none of the set-up pairs have crossed the daily pivot. That's the meaning of the "Daily pivot cross = Untradeable" message on each pair.

It's ready to jump. It just hasn't gotten its final "go" signal yet.

[SteveHopwood]

I also have not had any trades today. Looking at the EA's output and the charts, I believe it's because none of the set-up pairs have crossed the daily pivot. That's the meaning of the "Daily pivot cross = Untradeable" message on each pair.

Yep. No pivot cross, so no trade, so untradable. Maybe I need to make this constant a bit more informative. At the time of coding, I was simply coming up with stuff that matched the trading requirements.

[garyfritz]

Yeah, maybe "Waiting for pivot cross" or something like that would be more clear?

[Armen]

Gary, Steve,
I am using BJS version 1b so far didn't notice any problem. The bot refreshes and trades. I once made a manual trade but the bot didn't close that one. I don't know.
FYI: running Empty4 built 419 on HP mini. Indicator set is 10.2 original. There are 25 currency pair charts open and running. Criminal Cowboy IBFX Demo.
Please feel free to tell me what to do with bot to check various things on my PC.
I am at your disposal.

[Armen]

Again to state my resources (PC, Empty4, etc) are open for test and checkup various bots' functionality.
Just ask my and describe what to do and how to check.
Cheers,
Armen

[Armen]

Just now the BJS v1B added 2 more trades to basket.

[feucht]

Another manual trade that had been open for 12 hours or so got closed by BJS overnight. This seems quite a serious bug to me! I am using AllowAdditionsToBasket = false, a trade comment but no magic number, EndlessLoop=true, and a breakeven with jumping stop.

[SteveHopwood]

Another manual trade that had been open for 12 hours or so got closed by BJS overnight. This seems quite a serious bug to me! I am using AllowAdditionsToBasket = false, a trade comment but no magic number, EndlessLoop=true, and a breakeven with jumping stop.

If you use no magic number, that equates to a zero mn. Manual trades have a zero mn. Therefore, BJS owns the trade, whether that was your intention or not.

An EA is a piece of software, not a mind reader. Don't mix manual and EA trades until you know what you are doing. When you do this, LUC invites his pals around for lunch.

[feucht]

Thanks Steve, I thought that the EA would look for a matching trade comment as well as mn (or if a mn wasn't set it wouldn't use it in its considerations), didn't realise that it would match on either.

[SteveHopwood]

Thanks Steve, I thought that the EA would look for a matching trade comment as well as mn (or if a mn wasn't set it wouldn't use it in its considerations), didn't realise that it would match on either.

It doesn't. Magic number only. I have added a bit to post 1 so that newcomers will know this.