Gday Mark 2

[Gsasha1969]

what is not clear to him going

2012.11.02 00:50:49 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: close #1330977062 sell 0.01 USDCAD at 0.99662 at price 0.99660
2012.11.02 00:20:57 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: Gday mark 2 1330976557 PartCloseThisTrade() part close failed with error 4108: invalid ticket
2012.11.02 00:20:57 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: Alert: Gday mark 2 1330976557 PartCloseThisTrade() part close failed with error 4108: invalid ticket
2012.11.02 00:20:57 stdlib USDCAD,Daily: loaded successfully
2012.11.02 00:20:57 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: unknown ticket 1330976557 for OrderClose function
2012.11.02 00:20:57 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: close #1330976557 sell 0.01 USDCAD at 0.99662 at price 0.99661
2012.11.02 00:00:11 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: open #1330976557 sell 0.03 USDCAD at 0.99662 ok

[SteveHopwood]

Good morning.

Same for me, open sell USDCAD and GBPCAD.

When I apply GDAY MARK2 on all 27 charts I have sometimes a problem freezing Empty4 the moment closing the profile. Same if I start Empty4 and open the profile Empty4 is freezing. That does only happen when GDAY MARK2 is applied on many (more than 12 or 13) charts. I have this behaviour tested on 2 crims, don't have this problem with other EA's ...

I do. Sometimes platforms just freeze when asked to do anything more that nothing. This is Empty4 we are battling with here.

[SteveHopwood]

what is not clear to him going

2012.11.02 00:50:49 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: close #1330977062 sell 0.01 USDCAD at 0.99662 at price 0.99660
2012.11.02 00:20:57 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: Gday mark 2 1330976557 PartCloseThisTrade() part close failed with error 4108: invalid ticket
2012.11.02 00:20:57 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: Alert: Gday mark 2 1330976557 PartCloseThisTrade() part close failed with error 4108: invalid ticket
2012.11.02 00:20:57 stdlib USDCAD,Daily: loaded successfully
2012.11.02 00:20:57 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: unknown ticket 1330976557 for OrderClose function
2012.11.02 00:20:57 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: close #1330976557 sell 0.01 USDCAD at 0.99662 at price 0.99661
2012.11.02 00:00:11 Gday mark 2 USDCAD,Daily: open #1330976557 sell 0.03 USDCAD at 0.99662 ok

Best not to read the journals unless you understand what is going on. All they do is worry you. I ignore them unless I need something specific. Then I usually cannot find it.

[SteveHopwood]

For what it is worth guys, I am releasing Gday Mark 2 live on all my charts this week.

Note that this does not guarantee the bot will be a success. Just because I believe in it does not automatically guarantee it will be profitable.

[garyfritz]

Like I just posted in another thread -- so many of my ideas that "make sense" end up in the bin.

[bshoe24]

...Same if I start Empty4 and open the profile Empty4 is freezing. That does only happen when GDAY MARK2 is applied on many (more than 12 or 13) charts. I have this behaviour tested on 2 crims, don't have this problem with other EA's ...
fok

i swear i believe that its the "chartbars" function that does the history check on startup. i have a heavily loaded vmware esxi5 server that i run multiple vps's on and i cannot run most EAs from the forum that have that function when it's going to be on lots of pairs. it locks the terminal on startup for me most of the time. i've personally been forced to always edit out that function and recompile any new EA or updated one i download from here. i always run the forceloadhistory script in lieu of that function being in the EAs. try removing it to see if your problem goes away. it's worth a try.

[garyfritz]

Shelley, a few quick questions:

* You're using stoch(7,2,2), right?

* Do you use exponential or simple MA in your stoch? (simple is the default)

* What time is your end of day? Do you think this is critical, i.e. is there behavior around that time that helps your strategy? Or should Gday work fairly independently of EOD time? I'll be running with EOD = 5pm NY time, so there are 5 equal-length D1 bars in the week.

* You have a "stochastic exit" if the fast stoch line crosses back across the slow line. Is that the "stoch of today's close" or the "stoch of tomorrow's open" ?

* Do you (or somebody) have a myfxbook account of your Gday Mk2 trades, so I can compare them to my TS trades?

I'm testing option 2 (OB/OS yesterday, out of OB/OS today, still out of OB/OS at the open tomorrow) and it's looking OK but not as good as the results you guys are reporting. I need to compare against correct trades so I make sure I'm doing this right.

[SteveHopwood]

Version 1c is in post 1, with the code that checks the chart history removed - not much use have a security feature that freezes the platform.

Thanks for finding this, guys. Most helpful.

[bshoe24]

Version 1c is in post 1, with the code that checks the chart history removed - not much use have a security feature that freezes the platform.

Thanks for finding this, guys. Most helpful.

it'd be great to retain that check somehow to help people who forget to populate their terminal's history but, my thoughts are as it is now when it inits on lots of charts at the same time there is resource contention that increases the odds of a lock ups. maybe some kind of randomization or delay on startup of the function would help with it starting at same time on 20+ charts.

[gaheitman]

Version 1c is in post 1, with the code that checks the chart history removed - not much use have a security feature that freezes the platform.

Thanks for finding this, guys. Most helpful.

it'd be great to retain that check somehow to help people who forget to populate their terminal's history but, my thoughts are as it is now when it inits on lots of charts at the same time there is resource contention that increases the odds of a lock ups. maybe some kind of randomization or delay on startup of the function would help with it starting at same time on 20+ charts.

The code could be altered to only call it for the periods needed. If the bot only looks at H4 and D1 data, who cares if M30 is up to date? Also, these TF would be kept up to date if the EA is actively running, so at next restart it shouldn't be such a burden. Theoretically. :>

Also, we should move it out of init(). My experience with the BasketEquity indicator taught me that init() is the root of all evil. In that indi, I now use a DataOK flag and then check the data one period at a time at the beginning of start(). If I find one that doesn't have enough data, I drop out of start() and wait for another tick, knowing that my looking to see if the data is there likely forced the download. Once all my currencies come back clean, I set DataOK to true and get on with the rest of the start().


Steve,

If you want to give something like this a shot in your EA as a replacement, let me know and I can package up some code to drop in.

George