garyfritz wrote:Maybe I'm just an anal-retentive over-analyzing geek (shut up Steve ) but what I'd really like to see is a full history of the open equity.

garyfritz wrote:Maybe I'm just an anal-retentive over-analyzing geek (shut up Steve ) but what I'd really like to see is a full history of the open equity. The max/min would be useful, but a full history would give you a MUCH better picture for the bot's behavior.

This could be done as simply as "write out a line to a file when you open a basket, close a basket, and once every X minutes while it's open." Include the open equity for each pair and optionally the basket as a whole. Then you could open that in Excel and chart the behavior of the bot while the basket is open.

I think that would be tremendously valuable data for characterizing the EA's performance, deciding on stops, etc.

Example dump:
2012.06.25 02:30,AUDCAD,AUDNZD,EURUSD,EURNZD,GBPUSD // Open-basket message -- tells pairs in basket
2012.06.25 03:00,10.1,15.3,-5.4,18.2,-10.5,27.7 // Open equity for each pair & for the whole basket
// similar lines each 30 minutes or whenever, including a final one when the basket closes

Jemook wrote:I was thinking with ShelleyNow (and this) it would be great if we could see in the info text;

- the highest number of pips made / amount of pairs in the basket
- the highest number of pips lost / amount of pairs in the basket

ie basket makes 460 pips / 10 pairs = 46 pips per pair highest gained
ie basket loses 460 pips / 10 pairs = -46 pips per pair highest DD

This would greatly influence what I input on adaptivepipsTP/SL