SpiderX » Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:31 pm wrote:Hi dudest,

Was zooming out the chart to see the pattern in losing trades for TMACG...note the purple circles.
Then it occured..."there should be a streak of losing sell trades on 10 Jan if this had started earlier"...Yellow Circle.
So went to check your myfxbook.....and seems that this guess was correct.

Think TMACG will have a string of losing trades if price stagnates on one side of the band during a trend.

Cheers

bazze » Wed Jan 15, 2014 5:50 pm wrote:My account are shrinking,four losses in a row But,still on the bright side (ver.modB.)

vadlapatis » Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:47 pm wrote:Hello Every 1

today trades with TMA_CG

LIVE

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DEMO

SpiderX » Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:51 pm wrote:A quick suggestion...maybe to reduce position size when selling in an uptrend and vice versa.
Back to you dudest.

Cheers

dudest » Wed Jan 15, 2014 4:34 pm wrote:

bazze » Wed Jan 15, 2014 3:46 pm wrote:Sorry,dudest... I didn't see your questions before now
Here is the whole logfile(ver.C) for yesterday....As you see I have tested not only this EA,but I really hopes that you can use it anyway....Sorry again for the "delay"
(Edit:Haven't uploaded such files before,that's the reason that I give you the whole file,I shall try to learn me how to copy/paste later ) Broker: Sensus...Acc.size:$5000...Leverage: 1:200

OK, so I downloaded Sensus Empty4 and ran some tests against my AxiTrader Empty4.

AxiTrader:
# EURUSD chart: MODE_LOTSIZE returns 100,000 ==> OK ( 1 std lot = 100,000 units of base currency )
# XAUUSD chart: MODE_LOTSIZE returns 100 ==> OK ( 1 std lot of gold = 100 troy ounces )

Sensus:
# EURUSD chart: MODE_LOTSIZE returns: 100,000 (standard)
# XAUSUD chart: MODE_LOTSIZE returns: 1 (NOT standard)[ i.e, 1 lot here = 1 troy ounce (100 times less than a standard a/c) ]

==

Case: ( using code from CalculateLotSize ). Account balance: $5k

Code: Select all

double FreeMargin = AccountBalance(); // don't worry about FreeMargin being used to ref to A/c Bal

----------> Std account: $5k
----------> Mini account: $5k

Code: Select all

double TickValue = MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_TICKVALUE) ;

----------> Std account: $1 per tick ( tick = 0.01 of price quote = 1 point )
----------> Mini account: $0.01 per tick ( tick = 0.01 of price quote = 1 point )

Code: Select all

double LotStep = MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_LOTSTEP);

----------> Std account: 0.01 lots (1000 units)
----------> Mini account: 0.01 lots (1000 units)

Code: Select all

double SLPts = StopLossPips /PFactor;

----------> Std account: 3.0
----------> Mini account: 3.0

Code: Select all

   
SLPts /= Point;  //No idea why *= factor does not work here, but it doesn't

----------> Std account: 3 / 0.01 = 300
----------> Mini account: 3 / 0.01 = 300

Code: Select all

   
double Exposure = SLPts * TickValue; // Exposure based on 1 full lot

----------> Std account: 300 * 1 = 300
----------> Mini account: 300 * 0.01 = 3

Code: Select all

double AllowedExposure = (FreeMargin * Risk) / 100;

----------> Std account: ( $5000 * 3 ) / 100 = $150
----------> Mini account: ( $5000 * 3 ) / 100 = $150

Code: Select all

   
int TotalSteps = ((AllowedExposure / Exposure) / LotStep);

----------> Std account: (150 / 300) / 0.01 = 50
----------> Mini account: (150 / 3) / 0.01 = 5000

Code: Select all

double Lots = TotalSteps * LotStep;

----------> Std account: 50 * 0.01 = 0.5 lots
----------> Mini account: 5000 * 0.01 = 50 lots


Which adds up coz 1 standard lot = 100 Sensus lots
==> 100 * 0.5 std lots = 50 Sensus lots


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So all is well in LotSize land.

@Bazze: Your broker says you are trading "50 lots" but they are not "50 standard lots", they basically work out to 0.5 standard lots
[ I had other not so pleasant words for brokers such as Sensus that add complexity and confusion to a straight-forward spec, but that's for another day... ]

At the end of the day, we are all risking 3% of our accounts.

Conclusion: the lot sizing is working correctly (regardless or std or mini accounts)

Cheers

bazze » Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:50 pm wrote:
Thank you for clarifying this Does your EA trade often?

varso » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:43 am wrote:The roboforex have another problem. After rewrite spread from 100 to 1000. It has open trade but come another problem with TP. Here is log

I open also demo account with armadamarkets and here is looks everythink ok.