After reading about 5% of Steve's threads (have you seen how much stuff this guy writes???), which only took a month or so, and figured I'd be forced into retirement if I waited 'til I read them all before starting to trade.
I started with $5k demo account, 500:1 leverage, with a lot size of 1,000 units, (I don't bother with the terms "Nano" or "Micro" etc, because different criminals use the same term to mean different sizes to keep ppl confuzzled), with a minimum of 0.01 lots per trade.
I threw around a dozen of Steve's EA's at it, some from the BOJ thread, some from the Swing thread, and some from the Schlossberg thread, and a couple from AshFX2. Within 3 days, my balance was close to $7k, and wasn't I a happy chappy;)
The next week, I'd get home from working afternoon shift, to find 3 trades down by around $1.5k each:( There was no way I was going to close them at that level, so I just let them be... The next morning, they were back into profit, but, being the silly bugger that I am, I thought I'd let them carry on and let the EA's take the profit... Definitely the wrong move, as they eventually dropped far enough to be stopped out:(
I now have a demo account with a balance of $120.60... Let's see if I can fix this...
I checked to see which EA was most profitable, by looking at highest average profit, and Scoob's Multi-RSI Multi-Lot came out on top. It also had the highest minimum profit, as well as having the most trades, so it won hands down.
Too bad it was also the EA that took my balance down:(
The main problem, aside from my stupid decision to let it ride, was the dreaded "Error 130: Invalid stops", so decided to have a look into that, and found that the modify order routine had a slight error...
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//Is a 2 stage criminal
if (CriminalIsECN)
{
ticket = OrderSend(Symbol(),type, lotsize, TradePrice, slippage, 0, 0, comment, MagicNumber,0, colour);
if (SL != 0)
{
if (ticket > 0)
bool result = OrderModify(ticket, OrderOpenPrice(), SL, OrderTakeProfit(), 0, CLR_NONE);
if (!result)
OrderTakeProfit() is asking "How much do I want to take?"
The problem is, we were trying to tell it what we want to take, so the server was saying, "Stuffed if I know what you want! Here, take this and sod off!"
I replaced OrderTakeProfit() with 0 and now there's no more error130's, and I finally have a stoploss in place.
We'll see if this baby gets my balance up to $150 by the end of next week, eh? Yeah!
Have fun!
Radar =8^) |
That would be disaster!