Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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SERIOUS WARNING
  • Most Forex traders lose all their money.
    Using the robot posted here in trading Forex does not guarantee success.
    Trading this robot could lead to serious financial loss.
    Trading this robot without understanding its underlying trading strategies guarantees traders will lose their money.
    This is not a set-and-forget ea. There is no such thing and anyone who tells you there is, is either a liar or an idiot.
    At best, a trading robot is only 90% as good as the manual strategy it trades. At best. At worst, it can be much less effective. If the strategy is rubbish, so is the robot.
    To trade this robot, you have to understand:
DO NOT TRADE THIS EA ON A LIVE ACCOUNT. IT IS EXPERIMENTAL.

Ehup all

This EA has its genesis at http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 3204#p3204 Read about it first before continuing.

This thread replaces the original Ducks EA thread. Doc has refined his strategy down to 4 Ducks, so this version reflects the u, \bmn

TIG has made it incredibly easy to code the EA. Nice one, George. In fact, I could probably have coded the EA by simply lifting George's code and subsuming it, but decided to use the indi as all the rest of you will have it on your chart.

TIG's indi shows the value of the Duck selected by the indi's Duck input. The attached template sets up the chart for you, with all 4 Ducks lined up with the correct Duck input. When looking at the chart, remember that the EA trades at the start of each new candle, so the screen display reflects the Ducks as they were at the close of the previous candle.

Doc first attracted our interest to this because he is trading it live and successfully. For exits, we have this from Doc's pm: "Exit is the first candle to open above/below the fast 3SMMA in the opposite direction." I have taken this to mean, close the trade at the start of a new candle where the previous Ducks no longer line up.

The Ducks inputs are the same as TIG's defaults . Other inputs are familiar to regular punters here. Those of you unfamiliar with balance and management inputs, find a copy of my Shell User Guide littered all over this forum.

If StopLoss is set to zero, then the stop is calculated by taking the high (sell) or low (buy) of three candles ago - as per Doc's pm to me.

Trade exit is by: stop loss; take profit; change of Duck1 colour (moving average cross).

In conclusion
Have fun.

:D

Matters of general interest

Read this post:
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4923611 Newbie traders, read this for inspiration and warning. Those of you who have suffered losses, read it for inspiration. There is a thread devoted to Sam's trading method at http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...25#post5118825

Masterly summary of hedging: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4977179

EA coding
I receive may requests to code EA's. Traders, if I code your EA for free, then I will share it here. If you want me to code your EA without sharing, then my fee is $100 payable into my paypal account. I explain why at http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4431794, at the bottom of the post.

Useful utilities/EA's/scripts
Matt's chart-population script at http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 5733#p5733. Use this every time you start a fresh platform.
MaryJane has posted a fabulous utility to allow us to resize EA input windows: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=299017
Multi purpose trade manager: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=89371
Account equity analyser: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4693716 Also at http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost4709098, which includes a template for both USD and the Euro.
Past-trades display indi by squalou; shows a graphical display of the success/failure of trades in your History tab. Breathtaking piece of work. http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread. ... ost3830610
My shell EA – the code I use to produce EA's so quickly. http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... p?f=5&t=15
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Re: Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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Excellent! Big Bow to Steve (again)
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Re: Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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Steve thank u for making this EA
I try this system and it is a very good system
if i may suggest something for modif please we just use RSI 14 above 55 for buy and lower than 45 for sell instead angle
for filter addition use WPR priode 55 -20/-80 for sell/buy and MACD 12,26,9
thanks for great work
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Re: Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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Surya buana wrote:Steve thank u for making this EA
I try this system and it is a very good system
if i may suggest something for modif please we just use RSI 14 above 55 for buy and lower than 45 for sell instead angle
for filter addition use WPR priode 55 -20/-80 for sell/buy and MACD 12,26,9
thanks for great work
No, sorry. As soon as I start adding indi's, the system begins to move away from the system that Doc is using successfully.

:D
Read the effing manual, ok?

Afterprime is the official SHF broker. Read about them at https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=175790#p175790.

I still suffer from OCCD. Good thing, really.

Anyone here feeling generous? My paypal account is always in the market for a tiny donation. pianodoodler@hotmail.com is the account.

To see The Weekly Roundup of stuff you guys might have missed Click here

My special thanks to Thomas (tomele) for all the incredible work he does here.
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Re: Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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its ok
i look at charts that indy duck 2 close over/below 50 ema is delay 1 bar or not ?

thanks
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Re: Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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Anyone else having problems with the jumping stop? as you can see in my pic, my break even got triggered and is at +2. after that happens, my jumping stop will get triggered, go forward 17 pips, and then I'll get the onscreen msg that the stop modification failed with error(1), no error. then the stop gets put back to break even at +2. this happens on all pairs for me.
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Re: Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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Steve, sorry it has taken me so long. :oops:

Thanks very much for 'Ducks".

Cheers, Doc
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Re: Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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quick question: When the SL is set to 0 pts, how is the SL calculated? Is it the low from the previous X candles? I have just set this up and am trying to figure it out.
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Re: Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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Panamamike wrote:quick question: When the SL is set to 0 pts, how is the SL calculated? Is it the low from the previous X candles? I have just set this up and am trying to figure it out.
I should have explained this in post 1 but forgot. If StopLoss is set to zero, then the stop is calculated by taking the high (sell) or low (buy) of three candles ago - as per Doc's pm to me.

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Read the effing manual, ok?

Afterprime is the official SHF broker. Read about them at https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=175790#p175790.

I still suffer from OCCD. Good thing, really.

Anyone here feeling generous? My paypal account is always in the market for a tiny donation. pianodoodler@hotmail.com is the account.

To see The Weekly Roundup of stuff you guys might have missed Click here

My special thanks to Thomas (tomele) for all the incredible work he does here.
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Re: Aussiedoc's Ducks EA

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Latest update in post 1.

I had the bot coded to close if any of the ducks were quacking out of tune. This was a misunderstanding because Doc wants the trade closed only if Duck1 (moving average cross) changes colour. Not that it mattered. A bloop meant that Duck1 was never checked for a colour change if HiddenPips = 0.

So, an essential update.

:D
Read the effing manual, ok?

Afterprime is the official SHF broker. Read about them at https://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=175790#p175790.

I still suffer from OCCD. Good thing, really.

Anyone here feeling generous? My paypal account is always in the market for a tiny donation. pianodoodler@hotmail.com is the account.

To see The Weekly Roundup of stuff you guys might have missed Click here

My special thanks to Thomas (tomele) for all the incredible work he does here.
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