Can someone help make a EA?

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Re: Can someone help make a EA?

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johnny
is there any way you can post the indicators you are using??

PS Just saw the insides of your EA sorry for the question!!

johnny2pips wrote:Is there any way you could make a MTF HAS indicator to show the daily trend with customizable inputs? I'm trying to alter the trading style to be even more long term. Still trading from 1H charts though.
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Here is a MTF HAS indicator and HAS settings changed to 1, 333, 1, 1. With a trailing or jumping stop of 50 results should be better. Unfortunately if this doesn't help I'll give up on the EA LOL and realize that trading is half discretionary.
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johnny2pips wrote:
What we need is a way to not trade range...

If anyone has ideas for further filtering please any advise is appreciated.
How about using code from a breakout indicator to turn off trading during ranging periods. Here's a quick sample, I dropped Sqaulou's breakout box indicator on your template with a 1H chart and it pretty easily tracked ranging periods.
bufu range highlights.gif
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This is my first post and first Thanks Steve for this forum, been a quiet admirer of your work. Anyway Johnny2pips Thanks for sharing your system in case it may possibly help the Ea did a quick code cleanup of the ha smooth(was using MODE_high,low,close,open supposed to be PRICE_high,low,close,open) and double cci, and this mtf Has was posted on Tsd forum earlier today.Hope this helps.
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blahn wrote:
johnny2pips wrote:
What we need is a way to not trade range...

If anyone has ideas for further filtering please any advise is appreciated.
How about using code from a breakout indicator to turn off trading during ranging periods. Here's a quick sample, I dropped Sqaulou's breakout box indicator on your template with a 1H chart and it pretty easily tracked ranging periods.
bufu range highlights.gif
Sorry for the late response. Where can I find this indicator?
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Herman wrote:This is my first post and first Thanks Steve for this forum, been a quiet admirer of your work. Anyway Johnny2pips Thanks for sharing your system in case it may possibly help the Ea did a quick code cleanup of the ha smooth(was using MODE_high,low,close,open supposed to be PRICE_high,low,close,open) and double cci, and this mtf Has was posted on Tsd forum earlier today.Hope this helps.
Thank you for cleaning up the code. Maybe it wont be as cpu intensive now?
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johnny2pips wrote:...
Sorry for the late response. Where can I find this indicator?
I think this might be the 1 he was showing.
Comes out of the stairstep thread at
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4745056

cheers scalpz :D
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Hey guys, fantastic to see what is going on here. A very warm welcome to a new coder - FX Juju. All coders are desperately needed here. :lol:

I am only posting because I happened to read this thread tonight and there seems to be a certain reliance on backtesting results (and I really did 'happen to read' - I am not some sort of all-seeing ethereal entity :lol: )

Ignore backtest results guys, whether positive or negative. As I understand it, ST software extrapolates tick data from bars in its history; it does not actually hold the tick data. Then we have the spread, which is the current spread and not that used back at the time of the trade.

So, ST results are simply guesswork and should be ignored. Forward testing on demo gives a better idea of an EA's profitability. Even then, there are problems but that is a different story; at least they are based on ticks coming into the platform.

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Re: Can someone help make a EA?

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Unless you are smart and using actual tickdata that does not get extrapolated, as well as actual variable spreads. Granted, it is probably a rare case that you see someone that bothers to go thru all this work, but some of us do :)
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Re: Can someone help make a EA?

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Yup, that's it.. great indicator for ranging breakouts and very configurable.
scalpz wrote:
johnny2pips wrote:...
Sorry for the late response. Where can I find this indicator?
I think this might be the 1 he was showing.
Comes out of the stairstep thread at
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4745056

cheers scalpz :D
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