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[fx800]

Looking through the demo account statement I posted earlier, I spotted several instances of either no SL being set or wrong SL being executed on closed trades. This was using version 1.9.5. SL was set at default 38.

I have now changed to version 1.9.9 and will report again if the same problem persists.


Cheers,
Peter

Chances are this will still occur in 1.9.9. In my testing when I had quite a few charts open at the same time I have noticed something quite bad occurred intermittently, which I think may be due to a Empty4 bug.

The issue is:
More than one instance of the EA tries to send an order at around the same time e.g. EU and GU try to send an order simultaneously. Very rarely I have seen the ticket number returned to the EU EA is a GU position and vice versa. Then, since this is an ECN crim the EU EA sends the SL and TP for EU to the GU trade; hence the incorrect SL and TPs.

I have added an alert where I check the currency pair of the ticket and if it doesn't match the chart currency an alert is raised. I have observed my Empty4 do this for a while and then get into a correct state afterwards. I looked into this carefully and do not think this is a bug in the EA code itself; but rather in Empty4. It likely unlocks the trading thread at a point where it is not yet safe and so overwrites some shared resource and returns an incorrect ticket.

Since this seemed to occur when I was running the EA in M1 charts for testing only, I think the likelihood of this occurring on H1/H4 should be slim. Regardless anything that can happen will happen.

I have incorporated Mike's "lock trading thread" functions into the next version of the EA so we can do the locking in the EA itself and therefore resolve this issue.

What you have observed may be the same issue if you are using an ECN crim. Can you please confirm? Also do you see any error messages in the experts log that says the returned ticket is not correct?

Kind Regards,
Mahmut

Hi Mahmut,

The answer to your first question is : I do not know if FXDD is ECN criminal. I tend to set ECN options to true for all my demos.

I have looked at the experts log files and the only error message I could find is SL/TP order modify failed with error (130) : invalid stops.

Cheers,
Peter

[markft]

Looking through the demo account statement I posted earlier, I spotted several instances of either no SL being set or wrong SL being executed on closed trades. This was using version 1.9.5. SL was set at default 38.

I have now changed to version 1.9.9 and will report again if the same problem persists.


Cheers,
Peter

Chances are this will still occur in 1.9.9. In my testing when I had quite a few charts open at the same time I have noticed something quite bad occurred intermittently, which I think may be due to a Empty4 bug.

The issue is:
More than one instance of the EA tries to send an order at around the same time e.g. EU and GU try to send an order simultaneously. Very rarely I have seen the ticket number returned to the EU EA is a GU position and vice versa. Then, since this is an ECN crim the EU EA sends the SL and TP for EU to the GU trade; hence the incorrect SL and TPs.

I have added an alert where I check the currency pair of the ticket and if it doesn't match the chart currency an alert is raised. I have observed my Empty4 do this for a while and then get into a correct state afterwards. I looked into this carefully and do not think this is a bug in the EA code itself; but rather in Empty4. It likely unlocks the trading thread at a point where it is not yet safe and so overwrites some shared resource and returns an incorrect ticket.

Since this seemed to occur when I was running the EA in M1 charts for testing only, I think the likelihood of this occurring on H1/H4 should be slim. Regardless anything that can happen will happen.

I have incorporated Mike's "lock trading thread" functions into the next version of the EA so we can do the locking in the EA itself and therefore resolve this issue.

What you have observed may be the same issue if you are using an ECN crim. Can you please confirm? Also do you see any error messages in the experts log that says the returned ticket is not correct?

Kind Regards,
Mahmut

Hi Mahmut,

The answer to your first question is : I do not know if FXDD is ECN criminal. I tend to set ECN options to true for all my demos.

I have looked at the experts log files and the only error message I could find is SL/TP order modify failed with error (130) : invalid stops.

Cheers,
Peter

Thanks Peter. Setting ECN to true will send the trade in two steps (order first; SL+TP next) so the issue can only occur if this is set to true.

I would suggest let's see if the issue still occurs in the upcoming version...

[fx800]

Thanks Mahmut.

Looking forward to the new version.

Have a nice weekend.

Peter

[markft]

Thanks Mahmut.

Looking forward to the new version.

Have a nice weekend.

Peter

Cheers Peter. I have a compiling framework now at last and now onto the task of adding swingONE to it...

I got our PM, apologies for the late response I was focusing on the code last couple of days. Cannot send a response though - it says you have disabled incoming messages. I will have a look at the code you attached and try to make it work once swingOne is working. If you can enable PMs I will send it back once working.

Cheers,
Mahmut

[fx800]

Despite the high volatility on NFP day yesterday, the bot manages to hang on to most of its profits for the week. Presently, the demo account is up 13%.

Will post the results again in a week or two. Let us hope the gains continue.

Cheers,
Peter

Swingone lost just over 4% during a difficult trading week with many currency pairs trading sideways. Account balance still up 8.9% overall.

Let's see what next week brings and looking forward to the new update.

Cheers,
Peter

[Anonymous]

For those of you who still finds setting up Hanover a real hassle, here is a simple way of doing it.

1. Put the Recent Strength indi in the experts/indicators folder

2. Put the Build Strength presets file.mq4 in the experts/scripts folder.

3. Open any chart, "preferably one that receives plenty of ticks from your criminal" e.g. GBPJPY, any time frame

4. Load the chart with the Hanover template attached below.

Voila, that's it !

It will take a little while for the sphagetti lines of the Recent Strength to build up.

P.S. Please do not forget to set NumPoints in SwingONE to 25.

[fx800]

Building on the lessons learnt from the various swingONE demo trading, I am testing a variation on H1 charts on my MultiCharts.

The List of Trades until Friday 10 February 2012 is attached. P/L is in 1/10 pips; USDJPY 1/100 pips. Aussie did best, Loonie the worst.

Going forward the next step are to:
• test on Empty4;
• put in a directional filter.

Hanover is good, and Peter is to be congratulated on very effectively using it, and I am grateful for him assisting me in its use. But the consensus seems to be to look for something less resource hungry.

Next update end of the trading week.

Khalid

That is many hours of hard work you are putting in, Khalid.

Keep up the good work !

Peter

[Anonymous]

Yesterday, I set up another demo account for Swingone using the same lot size and currency pairs as the FXDD account, H4 TF, but with 100 SMA as trend filter i.e. buy above 100 SMA and sell below 100 SMA, set up manually at EA input.

The results are quite spectacular, a gain of 5.4% since the market opened this am.

All this while, the FXDD account with Hanover as trend filter has not placed a single trade.

Donefortheday EA failed to close all trades at 4% profit, closed manually at 5.4%.

[AltosT]

Yesterday, I set up another demo account for Swingone using the same lot size and currency pairs as the FXDD account, H4 TF, but with 100 SMA as trend filter i.e. buy above 100 SMA and sell below 100 SMA, set up manually at EA input.

Who with fx, who with ?

[fx800]

Yesterday, I set up another demo account for Swingone using the same lot size and currency pairs as the FXDD account, H4 TF, but with 100 SMA as trend filter i.e. buy above 100 SMA and sell below 100 SMA, set up manually at EA input.

Who with fx, who with ?

Alpari UK.