Hi,thelearner wrote:thanks for the hard work Andrew. I am not a fan of full automated trading though, is it possible to make this semi automatic, for example, I read the dashboard for potential trades and then I run this EA on specific pairs only instead of all possible pairs at the same time. Or this is already built in your EA too? If it does then my question is unnecessary
Wow - awesome this is included now! This EA really is excellent work, thank you for sharing.MrLong wrote:Well guys, I'm pleased you like the EA, the latest version should run well, just turn the useCSS switch off and it will run as before, I also advise to set these settings:
extern bool useFilterCurrencyNumber = true; //Allow a currency, like JPY to trade NumberToTrade as below
extern int NumberToTrade = 2; // Allow a currency, like JPY to trade this number of trades at the same time, but will allow to add to open trades.
They will only allow 2 trades of a specific currency to trade at the same time.
Andy
Hi,bubo wrote:Wow - awesome this is included now! This EA really is excellent work, thank you for sharing.MrLong wrote:Well guys, I'm pleased you like the EA, the latest version should run well, just turn the useCSS switch off and it will run as before, I also advise to set these settings:
extern bool useFilterCurrencyNumber = true; //Allow a currency, like JPY to trade NumberToTrade as below
extern int NumberToTrade = 2; // Allow a currency, like JPY to trade this number of trades at the same time, but will allow to add to open trades.
They will only allow 2 trades of a specific currency to trade at the same time.
Andy
Is this filter direction-specific like the Zeljko filter or not? Would USDCHF exclude CHFJPY if I only want to have one occurrence of CHF? If in opposite directions then trading the same currency should be ok, because it is 'hedged'.
I can't find the link to the code for the Zeljko filter right now, Steve has used it for several EAs.
Personally, I am still undecided on using this filter. It should work to decrease open DD. I noticed though that pairs using the same currency can be fairly different in their setup, and reducing the exposure to a currency by manually selecting the pending orders that seem to have the cleanest setup may give better results than simply taking the first 1 or 2 and ignore the rest.
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bool BalancedPair(int type)
{
//Only allow an individual currency to trade if it is a balanced trade
//e.g. UJ Buy open, so only allow Sell xxxJPY.
//The passed parameter is the proposed trade, so an existing one must balance that
//This code courtesy of Zeljko (zkucera) who has my grateful appreciation.
string BuyCcy1, SellCcy1, BuyCcy2, SellCcy2;
if (type == OP_BUY || type == OP_BUYSTOP)
{
BuyCcy1 = StringSubstr(Symbol(), 0, 3);
SellCcy1 = StringSubstr(Symbol(), 3, 3);
}//if (type == OP_BUY || type == OP_BUYSTOP)
else
{
BuyCcy1 = StringSubstr(Symbol(), 3, 3);
SellCcy1 = StringSubstr(Symbol(), 0, 3);
}//else
for (int cc = OrdersTotal() - 1; cc >= 0; cc--)
{
if (!OrderSelect(cc, SELECT_BY_POS)) continue;
if (OrderSymbol() == Symbol()) continue;
if (OrderMagicNumber() != MagicNumber) continue;
if (OrderType() == OP_BUY || OrderType() == OP_BUYSTOP)
{
BuyCcy2 = StringSubstr(OrderSymbol(), 0, 3);
SellCcy2 = StringSubstr(OrderSymbol(), 3, 3);
}//if (OrderType() == OP_BUY || OrderType() == OP_BUYSTOP)
else
{
BuyCcy2 = StringSubstr(OrderSymbol(), 3, 3);
SellCcy2 = StringSubstr(OrderSymbol(), 0, 3);
}//else
if (BuyCcy1 == BuyCcy2 || SellCcy1 == SellCcy2) return(false);
}//for (int cc = OrdersTotal() - 1; cc >= 0; cc--)
//Got this far, so it is ok to send the trade
return(true);
}//End bool BalancedPair(int type)
