Bold Bob

Post by **SteveHopwood** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:42 pm

SWG123 » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:45 pm wrote:This has done rather well so far. Still planning an update, Steve?

Yes.

V 1d is in post 1. This fixes a number of bugs that arose whilst I was demoing the EA, but does nothing to address my future plans.

I have refined my demo trading down to: M15 chart; trade on the open of a new candle only; trade only in the direction of the moving average trend. The account is up 1% since inception; not a lot but looking good as the bugs are fixed.

The ea loses when the market escapes the box and trades, then retraces back into the box and closes the trade at a loss, then escapes the box again....................................... etc

My plans are to have the ea draw the box only for the relevant trading period and then leave the box in place on the chart so we can see where the trades were taken and why they were good or bad trades. I have plans to allow the ea to change the colour of the box once a trade has been taken, to an 'invalid box colour' to prevent 'chop' trades to be taken.

None of this is overly complicated coding, so perhaps now is the time to state why I have not always been completely at the helm of my forum lately.

My wife collapsed several weeks ago and was taken into hospital. She is still there. To cut a long story short, she has nearly died twice. Hospital visits take a huge chunk out of my day - much of which I used to use for coding and managing this forum.

My friends here have done an invaluable job in keeping the place running smoothly. Tommaso is an utter, absolute, fantastic and invaluable star - unless you are an idiot you will have noticed this.

So, I still have plans for this EA. I consider it to be the most promising I have coded so far after BASA. I just might not be able to realise those plans immediately.

Post by **trader689** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 11:53 pm

Wishing her from myself (and im sure from many others here) a speedy recovery. thoughts are with you and your family at this time.

thanks for also taking the time to post an update

bazze · Post by **bazze** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 4:09 am

Thank you for the update,Steve...Wishing/praying that your wife soon will recover...

Post by **SpiderX** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 4:19 am

Hi Steve,

Take care and hope your wife will get well soon !

Cheers

Post by **Aussiedoc** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:31 am

Watching this one's development with interest, Steve!
Best wishes to you and your wife from the girls and me.

Cheers

dudest · Post by **dudest** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:44 am

"Get well soon" to the wife Steve, and best wishes to you as you love and support her

All the best bro

Cheers!

Post by **SWG123** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:28 am

So sorry to hear that Steve. I had a horrible feeling something was wrong.

My best wishes to you both.

Steve

jlcgarcia · Post by **jlcgarcia** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:51 am

Steve, my friend,

So sad to hear that terrible news, and I hope that she will get well soon.

My best

José Luis

Post by **Sgt.Forex** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:13 am

Hi Steve,
i am looking forward to see how your planned improvements are going to turn out.
But take your time an take care of your wife.
I whish you both all the best and hope that everything is going to be good again very soon!

Cheers

Post by **SteveHopwood** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:09 pm

Thanks for your kind words guys - I really appreciate them.

V 1e is in post 1. From the edited info on page 1:

Then there is your choice of line colour for the box, and the list of inputs is repeated for the NY session. There are inputs that let you set the colour of the box lines once a trade has been taken, or we have moved outside our trading period (LondonFinishedLineColour and NewYorkFinishedLineColour). BB regards the box as no longer tradable once it changes colour. It does not remove the lines; this allows us to study what would have happened during the rest of the session when a trade has closed - BB is a once-a-session only trader. Note: the lines are trend lines and BB has code that locates the most recent ones, so do not draw your own trendlines - you will bugger up BB's working.

I have re-coded the trendline drawing so that the lines are drawn only from the start to the end of the trading session. The ideas behind the changes I have made are:

we only want one trade a session to avoid the chop where the market leaves the box, only to retreat back inside, then hit stop loss then exit the box again..........
leave a record of the boxes on our charts so we can more easily study what happened during the trading session, to help us with steps forward.

I am not sure if a stop loss update was part of V 1d. I have re-coded the auto stop loss feature so that it is always at least at the opposite extreme of the box. Those of you trading a 1:2 risk:reward might want to bump up RangeTakeProfitMultiplier a bit to compensate.

Have fun. BB is looking promising and I am going to mention it again in my weekly round up. I know there has not been one for a fortnight, but stuff was happening that took my mind off preparing it. There will be on this week.