Gday Mark 2

[SteveHopwood]

If you set OnlyTradePositiveSwap to true and both buy and sell trades attract negative swap, then the pair cannot be traded.

[Wiggy1965]

@steve: is your crim a non-ecn crim?

i'am backtesting a little bit with gday2 and the backtests show the same behaviour, the last 1/3 is closed together with the second 1/3. for backtests i use another criminal than my demo, but both are ecn. maybe that could be the reason...

I trade through Cowboy IBFX Aussie - ECN.

Hi Steve,

which pairs are you trading live?

Thanks, Dejan

That's the issue, i'm not sure even Steve knows...

[Wiggy1965]

hi,

nice to see the progress with mark 2 of this great ea. as i can see nicely on my demo, these days right now, where the market is turning around and starts to move strongly in another direction, are the best days for gday:



i'am very satisfied with the performance so far.

one thing i noticed a few times now: gday closes the first 1/3 after 50 pips. correct. the second 1/3 when reaching 100 pips. correct. but the last 1/3 is always closed a few seconds after the second 1/3. in the myfxbook-history there's not one trade with more than 100 pips.

the journal tab shows:

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2012.11.15 11:23:46	'871921': order #23459567 buy 0.10 CHFJPY at 84.904 sl: 84.924 tp: 87.404 closed at price 85.904
2012.11.15 11:23:46	'871921': request was accepted by server
2012.11.15 11:23:46	'871921': close order #23459567 buy 0.10 CHFJPY at 84.904 sl: 84.924 tp: 87.404 at price 0.000
2012.11.15 11:23:45	'871921': remainder of order #23452590 was opened : #23459567 buy 0.10 CHFJPY at 84.904 sl: 84.924 tp: 87.404
2012.11.15 11:23:45	'871921': order #23452590 buy 0.10 CHFJPY at 84.904 sl: 84.924 tp: 87.404 closed at price 85.902
2012.11.15 11:23:45	'871921': request was accepted by server
2012.11.15 11:23:45	'871921': close order #23452590 buy 0.10 CHFJPY at 84.904 sl: 84.924 tp: 87.404 at price 0.000

the expert tab:

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2012.11.15 10:54:08	Gday mark 2 GBPAUD,Daily: close #23446146 buy 0.10 GBPAUD at 1.52735 sl: 1.52755 tp: 1.55235 at price 1.53233
2012.11.15 10:54:07	Gday mark 2 GBPAUD,Daily: modify #23446146 buy 0.30 GBPAUD at 1.52735 sl: 1.52755 tp: 1.55235 ok

i cannot see anything unusual. my be/jsl options are set to 50 pips each. has someone this issue, too?

Snowy,

I see this post is from Nov 2012 and you MYFX page looked pretty good at the time....i notice it has taken a dive, is this account still trading Gday...?

Regards
Wiggy

[blinkxzero]

Quick question and sorry if it's been asking / answered already! Is there a set of preferred currency pairs for using this EA?

[KevinT]

Hi all, checked some of the settings and found some pairs would not trade if you have all the swaps set to positive. In the pic attached, i have both settings for tradelong and tradeshort to 'true' , but the display shows that both are set to false. Watch the settings for the swaps, and as soon as i make them 'false' then the pair can be traded. I use trade only pos swaps set to true. Watch that one. Example used is USDCAD. Thanks Steve for allowing the settings to show on the charts like this, never realised how important it can be for skimming through so many settings.

Gday 2 has woken up this last week and i have had some good results. Only change i have made from the OOTB is the 50 for BE and JS is now 30, and using pos swaps only of-course.

Added 2 charts on EURUSD and USDCHF on 4hr charts with diff magics and comment to see if there will be a difference from the normal 1hr charts. Should'nt be, but lets see.

regards
cuz

What if you could set a max value to neg swaps :    I.E. allow neg swap IF swap value does not exceed -$n (n=user specified input)   Prob just a dumb idea

[cuzgeorge]

Hi all, checked some of the settings and found some pairs would not trade if you have all the swaps set to positive. In the pic attached, i have both settings for tradelong and tradeshort to 'true' , but the display shows that both are set to false. Watch the settings for the swaps, and as soon as i make them 'false' then the pair can be traded. I use trade only pos swaps set to true. Watch that one. Example used is USDCAD. Thanks Steve for allowing the settings to show on the charts like this, never realised how important it can be for skimming through so many settings.

Gday 2 has woken up this last week and i have had some good results. Only change i have made from the OOTB is the 50 for BE and JS is now 30, and using pos swaps only of-course.

Added 2 charts on EURUSD and USDCHF on 4hr charts with diff magics and comment to see if there will be a difference from the normal 1hr charts. Should'nt be, but lets see.

regards
cuz

What if you could set a max value to neg swaps :    I.E. allow neg swap IF swap value does not exceed -$n (n=user specified input)   Prob just a dumb idea

Hi KevinT,
The reason i posted the comment on the swaps was because those pairs with the general settings i had would not trade at all and as i like to keep the same settings across the pairs, others would be trading, but not those particular pairs, so it was just to bring that possible situation up to users who might not notice. As Steve explained after my post.
If a trend is detected for the EA to take that position, i want it to go ahead, regardless of swap rates in this case. Should i see the EA is not winning in this scenario, then i would go back and try possible parameter changes, but i wouldnt go so far as to change the code.

Whats there is more than enough, good idea though, just another way to check on swaps, but personally, i would'nt go through the trouble.
Gday 2 seems to be doing much better these days, almost like it went through a barrier and everything started to work together nicely, strange on my side. Will keep checking on it periodically.

regards,
cuz

[Pippa]

Hello Everyone,

Has G'dayMark said "Gday" today meaning any Trades?

Am new to loading EA's.

Regards,

Pippa

PS- checked my "Swaps" false

[cuzgeorge]

Hi Pippa, and welcome to the forum,
heres a pic of my closed positions, you'll notice GDAY2 is not a thunderous trader, but results are acceptable so far and no chance of blowing the account. Swaps are true. Almost OOTB.
demo list i have only one on Gday2, i have on my list in my signature.

One open position, sadly its a sell on GBPJPY, sad because anything XXXJPY these days is going through the roof, not South. Lets see how Gday handles this.
regards
cuz

[Pippa]

Hi Pippa, and welcome to the forum,
heres a pic of my closed positions, you'll notice GDAY2 is not a thunderous trader, but results are acceptable so far and no chance of blowing the account. Swaps are true. Almost OOTB.
demo list i have only one on Gday2, i have on my list in my signature.

One open position, sadly its a sell on GBPJPY, sad because anything XXXJPY these days is going through the roof, not South. Lets see how Gday handles this.
regards
cuz

My misunderstanding.

I am a Tard.

Pippa

[SteveHopwood]

Every 'insight' I have ever read has said this: do not sell when Stochastic is oversold. Do not buy when it is overbought.

Other 'insights' have claimed that an oversold pair will carry on being oversold. Overbought pairs will carry on being overbought.

Most of us here are waiting for EU to rise out of oversold to trigger a Gday buy. In the meantime, Bob's 10.4 allowed me a wonderful sell trade today.

Early days, so this may be bollocks, but here is what I am surmising. Gday and 10.4 make complimentary systems:

• 10.4 only triggered the sell because the market first peaked, then fell to fill my sell pending.
• There was no Gday trade because although Stoch rose for a while, the market then fell back and so Gday cannot trade.

So, I am also hoping this:

• a rise in Stoch such that it triggers a Gday buy will mean that the market has risen so far that 10.4 will not trigger a sell.
• eventually our Gday buy will close. From here:
  • the trend will have changed on 10.4 to long, and we are waiting for a retrace to allow a new 10.4 buy trade.
  • we are still in a downtrend, and 10.4 is waiting for the retrace to run its course and our pending sells will fill and make us yet more profit.

Yes, I know that Bob uses Rsi and Shelley uses Stoch, but they are basically the same thing.

Maybe we have found a combination to take advantage of market movements in both directions? Not sure yet; we shall see. At the very least, this post has given me the chance to 'think out loud'.