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Author:  Alpenkorps [ Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Engulfing Outside bar
Could you please attach a bigger image? Also the pair and TF?
Author:  gaheitman [ Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: EA Display
380273421 wrote:
gaheitman wrote:The display I use is slightly different from the standard shell. See below.
pic_03 2011-12-16 04.05.gif
The "Taking trades" display currently only shows the results of checking to see if we are in one of the defined trading times. I will be adding additional checks later.

As you can see, this bot supports all three time zone settings. I don't know what the particulars are for this strategy, so the settings are just defaults.

Finally, when the bot is looking to place a trade, it will state so and the level it is looking to get in at.

George
no order。。
Could you change the color scheme to Black on White by hitting F8? That way you can read the text on the screen.
Author:  magft [ Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Engulfing Outside bar
Good to see your getting your hands dirty and opening a thread ;) You've been a great help with lots off bug spotting and updates so far so this should be good :D

Multipair and multi tf now that is interesting, not too difficult to do especially with your keen eye for bloop spotting. if you want anything testing pm me, i should have more time over next week as work is finally calming down.

Nice work George

Mike
Author:  380273421 [ Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: EA Display
gaheitman wrote:
380273421 wrote:
gaheitman wrote:The display I use is slightly different from the standard shell. See below.
pic_03 2011-12-16 04.05.gif
The "Taking trades" display currently only shows the results of checking to see if we are in one of the defined trading times. I will be adding additional checks later.

As you can see, this bot supports all three time zone settings. I don't know what the particulars are for this strategy, so the settings are just defaults.

Finally, when the bot is looking to place a trade, it will state so and the level it is looking to get in at.

George
no order。。
Could you change the color scheme to Black on White by hitting F8? That way you can read the text on the screen.
thanks,but still have no ordre...why？？ :( :(
Author:  Alpenkorps [ Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: EA Display
380273421 wrote: thanks,but still have no ordre...why？？ :( :(
There is an option for minbarsize, you may want to check it.
Author:  gaheitman [ Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Engulfing Outside bar
Update in post one.

Code was only calculating whether or not there was a new trigger at the beginning of each bar, so if you had the EA running on a high enough time frame (especially the same as the higher time frame the engulfing bars are determined on) you would miss some trades (or even all trades!).

I did my testing on M1 charts so the problem didn't crop up.

George
Author:  gaheitman [ Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:26 am ]
Post subject:  Engulfing Outside bar - multi-timeframe indicator
I have added a modified (and somewhat inelegant ;) ) version of the indicator that shows the H1, H4 and D1 signals on the same chart. The lines are thicker as they go up in time frames. Here's much of last week on AUDUSD. The D1 signals skip the Sunday bar.
pic_01 2011-12-17 04.19.gif
The file is in Post 1.
Author:  gaheitman [ Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:06 pm ]
Post subject:  New update
Posted a new update to the EA that resolves an issue with retaking of trades on same higher timeframe bar.

Thanks Alpenkorps for pointing it out!

George
Author:  joancb [ Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Engulfing Outside bar
Hi,
I've posted some primary code on the FF thread, and some improvements must have been made, as required:

a MM module:
"Risk" parameter that enables the trader to decide what is the risk percent per trade regarding the equity at the same moment.

an improved Trailing Stop:
Parameter A will be: Move.to.BE - means in which floating profit in pips the SL moves first time to BE.
Parameter B will be: BE.Place - means where to move the SL first time.
Parameter C will be: Trailing.Step means after moving the SL first time, how much more (in pips) the price needs to go in our favor towards the TP every time so the SL will move the same value in pips.

I know it is something easy for some of you but it is out of my coding skills :)


P.S. You could have told something to the author of the strategy, I think it has been rude for your part to start working on something like this without not even telling to the author :oops:

Cheeers!
Author:  gaheitman [ Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Engulfing Outside bar
joancb wrote:Hi,
I've posted some primary code on the FF thread, and some improvements must have been made, as required:

a MM module:
"Risk" parameter that enables the trader to decide what is the risk percent per trade regarding the equity at the same moment.

an improved Trailing Stop:
Parameter A will be: Move.to.BE - means in which floating profit in pips the SL moves first time to BE.
Parameter B will be: BE.Place - means where to move the SL first time.
Parameter C will be: Trailing.Step means after moving the SL first time, how much more (in pips) the price needs to go in our favor towards the TP every time so the SL will move the same value in pips.

I know it is something easy for some of you but it is out of my coding skills :)

Cheeers!
All of these features are built into the framework Steve developed over his years of philanthropy at FF. Since this forum is focused on developing an EA for this strategy using his framework, I doubt you'll find many folks willing to help. Sorry.

As an alternative, you may want to look at the EA in the original post of this thread. It may still have the new car smell, but I have no doubt we'll identify and resolve any issues. Your help in that process could get you a working EA that much faster.

George
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