Pitbul: Brian's strategy automated

[SteveHopwood]

Steve, I am sorry but your latest version opened 7 positions at once, though I only selected trade strongest / weakest pair as true.


Question - as I actually forgot to ask this in my original doc to you - would it be possible to add an additional check on currency strength based on Hannover - eg if strongest pair is AU, check whether either AUD is above 7 or USD below 3?

I will have a look. Coding a multi-pair bot is very different to trading a single-pair bot, so it all depends on how complicated the conversion is.

[SteveHopwood]

Hi,

I loaded this EA on a new Alpari UK account today. However first thing it did was to open a trade in the first second for the pair I dropped the EA.
I thought it should wait for a trend first.

When first loaded, the ea calculates the profit/loss of the virtual trades, then sends the trades accordingly, then displays the screen feedback. The trades are sent before you see the values displayed on screen.

[SteveHopwood]

IVE FOUND EA WORKS OK IF PIP SIZE IS ABOVE MACRO .O1 START .1 THEN 1 LOT

FOR MORE TRADES LOWER TAKE PROFIT WIDEN STOP LOSS ACCORDINGLY

IT WORKS SO FAR EXCELLENT BUT ONE NEEDS TO UP LOT SIZE

MY MISERABLE TESTING BUT IT WORKS SO FAR WITH .1

THANK YOU STEVE

It is us who should be thanking you. I am merely the mechanic.

[SteveHopwood]

Hehe. Since I adopted Brian's advice to up the lot size a few minutes ago, the bot has been closing baskets for fun.

Please note that there is a bloop in the code. I forgot to add the condition that CashTakeProfit must be > 0 to allow Pb to treat all the trades as a basket. At the mo, it will close the basket immediately there is an overall profit if you set CashTakeProfit to zero.

The input's name needs changing to BasketCashTakeProfit to reflect its use better. I shall fix all this later. For now, simply be aware.

[jb68]

Hi,

I loaded this EA on a new Alpari UK account today. However first thing it did was to open a trade in the first second for the pair I dropped the EA.
I thought it should wait for a trend first.

When first loaded, the ea calculates the profit/loss of the virtual trades, then sends the trades accordingly, then displays the screen feedback. The trades are sent before you see the values displayed on screen.

Oh.. so you go back in time and see how the basket goes. As I understand you are using a virtual basket to detect the best trending pair and then bet that rend will last more time. Am I right?

[dus3d]

Pitbull EA EURUSD,M15: Pitbull EA USDCAD OP_SELL order send failed with error(0): no error
Pitbull EA EURUSD,M15: Pitbull EA AUDUSD OP_BUY order send failed with error(0): no error

What do you think is the problem with this? Im using HotForex Demo.

I commented the "Alert" as the error keeps popping out saying "no error"

[jboy]

Thanks Steve,

Another toy to play with. I was reading the dummies thread, and I'm still a bit confused. Dang it!

I guess I'll just let it run, and see what happens. It is just hard to wrap my head around multi-pair strategies.

[dus3d]

Tried this ea on Cowboy IBFX demo a few hours ago. first I tried 5 pip TP and 10-15 pip SL then 10 pip TP and 30 pip SL. 90+% trades go opposite way lol.

trades.png

[jboy]

So the EA hit the set CashTakeProfit overnight, and it did not open another set of trades. Is this how it is suppose to be? Do I just reset the EA or should I set a higher CashTakeProfit orginally?

[jb68]

So the EA hit the set CashTakeProfit overnight, and it did not open another set of trades. Is this how it is suppose to be? Do I just reset the EA or should I set a higher CashTakeProfit orginally?

Same thing here. Cash $5 yesterday, then did nothing over night.
I removed and added it again and got other 4 trades.