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| Author: | garyfritz [ Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trendy Gary |
It's not that I have no interest -- it's just that I have no time. I am overcommitted up to my eyeballs in other projects. This is one of the few threads in the forum that I follow regularly. That said, as I said originally, I'd be fairly surprised if the simple SuperTrend idea actually works. But it did seem to work when I tested it. I would expect it to have worked fabulously for the last several months, since many pairs have been trending like mad. That's the environment when TG (or any simple trend-follower) does great. It's the sideways periods that eat you alive. Now why TG makes 100% wins for some, and not for others ... I have no clue. Steve's the EA expert, not me. |
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| Author: | pipguy [ Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trendy Gary |
Thank you Gary and Master Hopwood. Thanks also to cuzgeorge for sharing your MPTM settings. I don't know how to post a screenshot, but this is a pip machine Last week, on 14 pairs, I gained over 600 pips using no T/P or S/L and cuzgeorge's settings. I started TG on Tuesday 9:00 AM EST, closing all trades with MPTM on Thursday afternoon before NFP. G/J, E/J, E/A, and E/U were the strongest pairs out of the bunch. Steve, if you ever find yourself on vacation in Florida, I will buy ALL of your drinks! pipguy |
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| Author: | Wiggy1965 [ Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trendy Gary |
Hi Pipguy, As you can determine going back through the posts, many people are looking at this EA and getting a variety of results, so could you please detail your configuration e.g. broker, account type, margin ratio and finally set file, so we can all have a better idea of how these results are possible... From my understanding ( i can be corrected here ) nobody is trading Trendy Gary on a Live account and getting these results, they all appear to be demo related.... We have already had confirmation (from the EA author) that the EA is not executing as per Gary original rules, and in fact appear to be trading in reverse to the rules in most cases....So, i can see so real risk in running this EA live as it's kinda behaving in a counter trend mode and not as the EA name suggest a trend following EA... A number of very clever people on this forum, don't understand why the EA is only trading in one direction so them more information we get the better.... Regards Wiggy |
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| Author: | TallCoolOne [ Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trendy Gary |
I suggested this change a few pages back. I made the change to the EA to use SuperTrend and not SuperTrend(1). I have also been using Cuz''s setfile and my demo account is doing very well with buy and sells. I'm going to monitor this for a few more weeks and maybe go live with it. It is a steady eddie gainer. Thanks - TCO |
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| Author: | cuzgeorge [ Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trendy Gary |
Hi all, for those not sure or in doubt like me, Heres an example of a snippet of code where TG uses the icustom function to call on the indi. Open the metaeditor you use for code, click on the 'edit' tab, look for 'find' and do a search using 'find' for the word 'icustom' . This should bring up about a dozen lines (each highlighted each time you press 'find next') that look like this ; Code: Select all You dont have to open the indi in the metaeditor , just confirm that the name used is identical to the name of the indi in your custom indicator folder of the TrendyGary EA platform. Then, once compiled again just in case. Then, follow the positions the EA takes with a chart that has the indi attached to it. It should follow the rules stipulated in post 1. Dont forget to re-load the set file s after compiling again, as it can reset itself back to defaults. Good opportunity to HardCode the EA too. Mine are all correct, but maybe the compulation 'jiggles' TG's ....bionic arms, and gets things going again. There is one line that is not showing as above though , and thats all it take you know?. I may be wrong, but heres the snippet where the code used the Get function as in "void GetSuperTrend(int shift)", and maybe Steve, or a coder can look it up and see if it does in fact flow through the code. The "void" in the front of the code line confuses me. Code: Select all On another note, i'm a little concerned, once this trending of the markets ends, what will my winning version of TG have left to buy because thats all it does is BUY (reminds me of my wife), or will i be waiting till the end-of-days for a losing position to go back into positive territory again and JS out.? Will leave as-is to find out. Playing around with two other demos, one on markets.com criminal and other on Global Prime ECN broker. regards cuz |
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| Author: | Wiggy1965 [ Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trendy Gary |
Cuz, I think the indi name issues was resolved early for me, as i could see an error being generated in either the Expert or Journal that said "SuperTrend (1)" was missing....I just renamed the indi that was within the thread and away it went.... However it has been confirmed by Steve that he has some mistake in the code, so I'm not sure how the EA can trade as per post one....If i'm missing something let me know.... I think i may have posted an example in a earlier post that show what i observed.... Also, if there are anybody who is trading this live and it's working, please post.... I did notice if i attempted to manually trade the strategy, if was prone to failures, however if i added a simple rule to only take long signals if price was above a 100 or 200 MA and short if price was below the MA, then the success rate increased significantly....but as I'm not sure the original EA is going to get corrected, i stopped looking at it to look at the other EA's on the forum that are being actively developed... If I'm off the mark here, let me know...! Wiggy |
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| Author: | cuzgeorge [ Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trendy Gary |
Thanks Wiggy, i had forgotten about those posts. Getting myself confused also dont help much. That 'getsupertrend' is for another variable created by the EA FROM the indi, and then using that there-on, so will keep tinkering at the two other demos i got for this TG and then keep the thread upto date if anything pops up. regards, cuz |
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| Author: | garyfritz [ Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trendy Gary |
The "void" is the type of that function. An "int" function returns an int value, etc -- and "void" means that function doesn't return a value.
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| Author: | pipguy [ Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trendy Gary |
Hi Wiggy, I get both buys and sells. I am running TG on a micro demo account with Fin fx on 14 pairs.. I start TG on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 EST (I have EA turned off Sunday night and Monday). MPTM will be used to close all trades before Friday London session (just my preference). What I really like about this system is the simplicity. IMO, this is definitely trend trading more than counter-trend trading (with Daily Pivot setting = true). Cuzgeorge's set file using BE + 10 settings and a jumping stop really compliment this bot. As I type this, I'm up about 200 pips (closed) from yesterday morning with floating -71 (4 open trades). I must admit that I've used MPTM many times, but never utilized the jumping stop before (I like it!). I cannot post a set file now, but will try to do in the next day or two. Call me crazy, but it does not bother me one bit that TG does not trade exactly as the original strategy. It is making pips, and with MPTM I have less stress than if I were managing open trades myself. As a basket trader this is a great system. I plan to go live with small lots next week. pipguy |
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| Author: | cuzgeorge [ Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trendy Gary |
Thanks for explaining Gary, It helps alot with the extended reading i'm doing or at least trying to get to. Its hard to understand all these things/variables, but slowly it starts to come-together and make sense when you post like that. much appreciated, cuz |
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