GG Renko bricks

[SteveHopwood]

Just browsing the forum and looking into every corner of Steve's achievements.....

And stumbled upon the Tiger EA wit the Octomanoak Simple Reversal Candle Strategy incorporated. And it's based on TDI instead of a plain EMA[close} cross of 10,30,60. But it has my reversal pattern in it if you adjust the value of 2 pips tot the initial Renko bricksize.

Will it work on Renko? I am not sure, but I put it on demo and will find out the next days.

If someone has advice or sees a possibility to take this EA as a startingpoint......please do so.

I would not if I were you. My older ea's lack all the basic safety features that so many brilliant coders have helped me add to my work since starting this forum.

Hang on in there and continue trading your stuff manually. Either niepce or I will code an ea for you eventually.

[SteveHopwood]

Right, GG, this one gets its own thread and a board-wide heads-up only if it looks like having legs. I have yet to meet a Renko strategy that does.

I have coded my understanding of your requirements - they are fairly simple so it only took half an hour. Bear in mind though that I coded this late at night and slightly under the affluence. I mean, I can still speak, and type without having to repeat a letter seven times etc, but I have imbibed slightly. There might be the odd bug or 50, is what I am saying here.

Your three MA settings are configurable and the three period inputs (FastMaPeriod etc) are set to your defaults.

An ea works with the candles it finds on the charts, so it matters not a jot how they were generated, so there is no need for a specific Renko bar size. Make your StopLossPips equal to your Renko bar size x 4.

All the usual stuff is there but mostly disabled. Use it or not as suits you best.

Report here if anything does not work properly.

Have fun.

[Generaal Goudvis]

Hi Steve,

Many thanks....I feel like a child that found the golden egg.....even after Easter .
And if it is true gold, we'lll see.

I'll get back to you all, as soon as I have found the bugs, the profits and hidden secrets of this EA.

GG

[Generaal Goudvis]

All,

@ Steve thanks for your well done work during the very late hours.
I thought let's printout the EA for reference reading..Even printing was 31 pages. Coding must have been much harder, as I know I can print faster than a pianist can code.
Strange way of saying thanks, but that's what I tried

I put it on some charts and believe it or not but I am up nearly 15%....So all is sunny in the Netherlands? Nope.

It takes the entry based on the right formation of bricks (one up and two down or vice versa), but it takes it without respecting the direction of the trend....

To clarify....See the enclosed picture. The trend is up EMA 10 above EMA30 above EMA60, but it still takes a downward signal (brick up, followed by two bricks down)

disconnected trend and signals.PNG

Or in this one the trend is down and the signal taken is up.

audusd trend down, signal up.PNG

And the last one is not correct on trend (same as previous two examples) but also on the sginal...as it uses one down and three up...strange as this didn't happen to the other trades.

three blocks with wrong trend.PNG

Hopefully this is just setting the switch.....and the pips wil remain.....

GG

[SteveHopwood]

How the blue blazes am I supposed to make anything of your post?

Now listen GG, I have learned from grim and bitter experience to not to assume that my code is at fault, rather than user error. I spent hundreds of hours hunting down 'bugs' actually caused because the user was an idiot.

Make sure your ea inputs match those of the indis on your chart.

Assuming they do, you are posting charts that show an ma trend several candles after the event and claim the display is wrong. Really? What a surprise. You think this is useful? Are you sure it was wrong at the time the trade was actually sent?

I have no idea which ma your lines represent, so some elucidation might be a help.

Also, when posting charts remove that moronic grid. Only an idiot allows it to clutter up the display and irritate the coder.

[niepce]

Maybe the MA trend filter is reverted ?

Array defined as follows :

Code: Select all

MaPeriod[1] = SlowMaPeriod;
MaPeriod[2] = MediumMaPeriod;
MaPeriod[3] = FastMaPeriod;

Maybe there's a glitch here :

Code: Select all

   MaTrend = none;
   if (MaVal[1] > MaVal[2])
      if (MaVal[2] > MaVal[3])
         MaTrend = up;
         
   if (MaVal[1] < MaVal[2])
      if (MaVal[2] < MaVal[3])
         MaTrend = down;

Shouldn't it be :

Code: Select all

   MaTrend = none;
   if (MaVal[1] < MaVal[2])
      if (MaVal[2] < MaVal[3])
         MaTrend = up;
         
   if (MaVal[1] > MaVal[2])
      if (MaVal[2] > MaVal[3])
         MaTrend = down;

[Generaal Goudvis]

Hi Niepce,

I think you found the glitch.....

I checked my picture and your adjustment...and the're oké.

[SteveHopwood]

Maybe the MA trend filter is reverted ?

Array defined as follows :

Code: Select all

MaPeriod[1] = SlowMaPeriod;
MaPeriod[2] = MediumMaPeriod;
MaPeriod[3] = FastMaPeriod;

Maybe there's a glitch here :

Code: Select all

   MaTrend = none;
   if (MaVal[1] > MaVal[2])
      if (MaVal[2] > MaVal[3])
         MaTrend = up;
         
   if (MaVal[1] < MaVal[2])
      if (MaVal[2] < MaVal[3])
         MaTrend = down;

Shouldn't it be :

Code: Select all

   MaTrend = none;
   if (MaVal[1] < MaVal[2])
      if (MaVal[2] < MaVal[3])
         MaTrend = up;
         
   if (MaVal[1] > MaVal[2])
      if (MaVal[2] > MaVal[3])
         MaTrend = down;

Nice one. Cheers.

[Generaal Goudvis]

Update:

As I have to be away from my screens tomorrow, I simply wanted to give an update for the first week.

Although overleveraged the EA with adjusted MA settings has been working well.. At present up and rising. Somewhat flattered as when I traded manually I only did three currencies and now overviewing some more.

My first thoughts are that the entry is working just fine...now I will take look on all the extra's Steve included and find the fine-tuning....but isn't exiting always the hardest part?

Cheers.

GG

[rosst]

If you want forward testing on any specific TF's/pairs/brokers etc maybe you could post the EA in the first post with instructions...