Gertje » Thu Mar 10, 2016 11:41 am wrote:Man, this is like watching paint drying......

keydcuk » Thu Mar 10, 2016 11:59 am wrote:Ha! I know what you mean. In the first part of my experiment with the GBP/JPY, I was closing a basket a day. Sunday, 1 basket. Monday, 1 basket. Tuesday, 1 basket. Then something happened... heh heh

This did lead me to wonder though... Do you think maybe the GW works better during the early days of the week? Maybe as price tries to establish itself, more winners might take place in the early week?

I still wish I knew how to code as I got an idea to what I would like the EA to do but I am reluctant to ask Steve as it is his pet project, not mine.

Gertje » Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:37 pm wrote:I think otherwise.
This 'strategy' is depending on high volatility to make a profit. At the moment the market is in waitingmode, maybe some news coming up, or whatever.

SteveHopwood » Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:01 am wrote:The problem with the pendings being placed then deleted over and over again is a logic problem. I have attempted a fix in 1h in post 1, but am not sure that is will work.

Here is the attempted fix to the function if you want to make the update yourselves. It begins at line 1324:

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bool IsGapBetweenGroupsTooBig()
{
   //Return true if the gap between the lowest market buy and the lowest market sell is too large,
   //else return false
   
   int ExistingGap = 0;
   int PendingGap = 0;
   
   //Market trades
   if (PendingTradesTotal < (GridSize * 2) )
   {
      if (MarketBuys > 0)
         if (MarketSells > 0)
         {
            //More buys than sells. Market has risen so gap is at the bottom of the buys
            if (MarketBuys > MarketSells)
            {
               ExistingGap = (HighestMarketBuyPrice - HighestMarketSellPrice) * factor;
            }//if (MarketBuys > MarketSells)
            
            //More sells than buys. Market has fallen so gap is at the top of the sells
            if (MarketBuys < MarketSells)
            {
               ExistingGap = (LowestMarketBuyPrice - LowestMarketSellPrice) * factor;
            }//if (MarketBuys > MarketSells)
            
            if (ExistingGap > MaxDistanceBetweenGroups)
               return(true);
         }//if (MarketSells > 0)
   
      //Pending trades
      if (BuyStops > 0)
         if (SellStops > 0)
         {
            //More buys than sells. Market has risen so gap is at the bottom of the buys
            if (BuyStops > SellStops)
            {
               PendingGap = (LowestBuyStopPrice - HighestSellStopPrice) * factor;
            }//if (BuyStops > SellStops)
            
            //More sells than buys. Market has fallen so gap is at the top of the sells
            if (BuyStops < SellStops)
            {
               PendingGap = (LowestBuyStopPrice - HighestSellStopPrice) * factor;
            }//if (BuyStops > SellStops)
            
            //Equal numbers
            if (BuyStops == SellStops)
            {
               PendingGap = (LowestBuyStopPrice - HighestSellStopPrice) * factor;
            }//if (BuyStops == SellStops)
            
            
            if (PendingGap > MaxDistanceBetweenGroups)
               return(true);
         }//if (PendingSellStop > 0)
   
   }//if (PendingTradesTotal < (GridSize * 2) )
   


   //Got this far, so gap is ok
   return(false);

}//bool IsGapBetweenGroupsTooBig()

Gertje » Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:48 pm wrote:

Gertje » Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:37 pm wrote:I think otherwise.
This 'strategy' is depending on high volatility to make a profit. At the moment the market is in waitingmode, maybe some news coming up, or whatever.

There you go, ECB lowered the intrest from 0.05 to 0.00

Gertje » Thu Mar 10, 2016 11:28 am wrote:At one point today I was up over $200 using 0.01 lots.....
Then the terminal went postal on me, and I had to install a new Empty4 to gain control over the trades again.
A huge amount of trades opened, and I killed everything, down $53 now for the day.

In 6 trading day's I'm still 42% up.
This is using 5pip grids, 8 pairs.

I started another demo yesterday, using 1/10th of the daily ATR100 as pip-distance and TP.
GBPJPY alone made 250pips with max DD of 100pips.

Adding 2.3% to the balance, I can live with a figure like that for years to come.

To be continued.....

DNTme » Fri Mar 11, 2016 11:07 am wrote: Like Steve said....would you have the balls deep enough to trade 100k account like that?