Multi 10:4 Trader EA

[acostafulano]

Hi MrLong. Checked. No luck. Reset the platforms and everything. Checked expert settins (long / short trades allowed too).

Still no short trades or pending orders!!!!! makes no sense ! Help

Hi everyone,

Something strange is happening in my platforms:

I'm trying a "default" setup which is running nicely and profitably
(Check SET 1, SCSHOT 1)

http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acostaf ... ult/400603


This has some buys and sells (trades and pending trades) open, looks pretty normal.

On the other hand, I have another platfrom running as per linuspoon's suggestion (using MPTM abd MPBM). So I've only changed TP/SL parameters, everything else I left untouched as you could see from the setfiles attached. (Set 2, SCSHOT 2)

http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acostaf ... oon/417242

The values on the dashboard are also pretty similar, only NO SHORT TRADES WHATSOEVER ON THE SECOND PLATFORM

I can't find any reasonable explanation, but I'm missing some good shorts here.

HElp!

In Steves MPTM, check these settings.

extern string gen="----General inputs----";
double Lot=0.01;
bool TradeLong=true;
bool TradeShort=true; <===
extern int MagicNumber=0;

Just a thought.

Andy

[roje]

I am using it as pretty dashboard, where i find entry opportunity

[acostafulano]

Ok Fixed it. It seemed to be the problem with any of this 2 settings:

useAverageBE=1

sli=----Stop loss----
mai=--Moving average--
UseMovingAverage=1

I thought they would only have business with closure, but resetting them back to default fixed the "long trades only" problem I was having.

Anyways...

I have set up 8 demos to test this robot out.

The settings are the following:

(1) 10.4 Default - http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acostaf ... ult/400603
(2) 10.4 Linespoon - http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acostaf ... oon/417242
(3) 10.4 ATR 1.30 (using mptm) - http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acostaf ... 130/393478
(4) 10.4 ATR 1.90 (using mptm) - http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acostaf ... 190/417254
(5) 10.4 Default MPBM SL 200 TP 120 - http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acostaf ... -sl/400601
(6) 10.4 Default MPBM SL 200 TP 250 - http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acostaf ... -sl/504060
(7) 10.4 Def MPBM AD 20 SLTP - http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acostaf ... ive/400605
(8) 10.4 Def MPBM AD 40 SLTP - http://www.myfxbook.com/members/acostaf ... ive/393461

I DON'T want to sound like a princess, but I would like to kindly request the coder MrLong to explore options to reduce the amount of resources the EA takes, as I have noticed that my processor (quad core, pretty good hardware) is permanently at 100% usage. I don't want to reduce the amount of demos as I think that the entries this EA has are so good that they deserve to be played around with a wide arrange of exit strategies.

Perhaps checking the readings not every tick but every minute?, cleaning up code? Don't know, as Im no coder but if there's a way to do that, please give it some thought!

I hope my demos help other people. And I encourage everyone to try out different exit settings! We'll nail this.

Thanks to everyone

[fx800]

Thank you very much MrLong for a great EA v1.07 and Bob for the underlying strategy.

The EA has been doing great on my live microlots account, and has increased equity by 10% from London open till 11 am London time when I closed all the trades manually.

Restart again at 12 midday. Will be interesting to see the result at London close.

Everything OOTB. No issues with CPU overload. No bugs to report.

I would expect a great deal more interest in this thread in no time.

Many congratulations again on your great effort and generosity.

peter.

At London close today, the live microlot account is in the red by less than 0.05% of equity. It was up almost 2% from 12 midday to 3 pm, then retracements brought the account into negative territory. I have closed the pair in profit and leave three pairs to run. All in all, it has been a very positive day, not something I can say about other ea's I have tried before. From tomorrow, I will use Steve's MPTM to prevent a winning trade turn into a losing one (BE25+10 JS10).

I have also set up a demo on Cowboy IBFX 10K risk 2% and leaving it to run 24/7. It was launched at 12 midday today, the results attached below. As you can see, it was up 1.25% of equity balance at one stage but was in the red at London close. I have now added MPTM BE25+10 JS10.

peter

[slipshod]

I DON'T want to sound like a princess, but I would like to kindly request the coder MrLong to explore options to reduce the amount of resources the EA takes, as I have noticed that my processor (quad core, pretty good hardware) is permanently at 100% usage.

Did you try the change I suggested on the previous page (about halfway down)? I'd be interested to know if it helps.

[veeyem]

Bug in IgnorePair - This is expecting the values in the same case as it is available in the platform. For example, specifying "xagusdm" still places order for this symbol while specifying "XAGUSDm" works as expected. Is this a normal behavior?

[bubo]

I DON'T want to sound like a princess, but I would like to kindly request the coder MrLong to explore options to reduce the amount of resources the EA takes, as I have noticed that my processor (quad core, pretty good hardware) is permanently at 100% usage. I don't want to reduce the amount of demos as I think that the entries this EA has are so good that they deserve to be played around with a wide arrange of exit strategies.

Perhaps checking the readings not every tick but every minute?, cleaning up code? Don't know, as Im no coder but if there's a way to do that, please give it some thought!

I hope my demos help other people. And I encourage everyone to try out different exit settings! We'll nail this.

Thanks to everyone

Thank you for setting up the demos! I entirely agree with trying to make the EA easier on computing resources, I have problems there as well.

In principle, I would suggest to have priorities of how things are calculated:

(1) Management of open trades is highest priority and may require tick by tick processing.

(2) Preparing for entries, checking across all pairs, and drawing the Dashboard are much lower in priority and no need to do this more than once per minute, or even less. For example, only execute when a new minute bar begins, or any other timeframe chosen as input parameter.

As a quick fix one could add a Sleep(100) command before the Dashboard is calculated (or another number), as had been suggested before.

[McNish]

What we need to now is another "Self Pend Order Setter Dashboard" for 10.5

as well as an RSI(2) variant of the 10.4 EA IMVHO of course...

Kevin

10.5 Scalp trader and 10.4 Trend trader. Is this what you're suggesting?

[MrLong]

I DON'T want to sound like a princess, but I would like to kindly request the coder MrLong to explore options to reduce the amount of resources the EA takes, as I have noticed that my processor (quad core, pretty good hardware) is permanently at 100% usage.

Did you try the change I suggested on the previous page (about halfway down)? I'd be interested to know if it helps.

Hi slipshot,

I've added you suggestion to 1.08, I've also added the option to switch the display off.

Many Thanks

Andy

[McNish]

added to the top of the DisplayGrid() function ...

What does the value 4 represent? 4 sec, mins, etc.

I read the discussion on ATR / ADR. From what I understand and from earlier study also, ADR is an average pip count for a pair over a period of time, and will vary from pair to pair. In contrast, ATR is a range relative to price and will move with PA on it's scale for the certain day.

And ADR is being consider for SL's. Is it so?