Holy Graily Bob

[Aussiedoc]

Here is the idea. We run HGB on demo until he loses a shed load. Then we load him up on our live accounts, let him do his thingy and bank the profits, then shut down live and wait until the demo does crap again.

Anyone with the spare capacity to test this out on two separate demos with Global Prime?

As it happens I have an OOTB v1F already locked and loaded on a GP H4!
Running on AUDCAD,AUDJPY, AUDUSD, CADJPY, EURAUD, EURGBP, EURJPY, EURUSD, GBPAUD, GBPJPY, NGBPUSD, NZDJPY, NZDUSD, USDCAD, USDJPY.

Cheers

[TonkaTuff]

I just had an idea guys.

Ok, so we know that HGB does fantastically well, then he gives back all of those lovely pips he made - happened to me yet again last week.

Here is the idea. We run HGB on demo until he loses a shed load. Then we load him up on our live accounts, let him do his thingy and bank the profits, then shut down live and wait until the demo does crap again.

Anyone with the spare capacity to test this out on two separate demos with Global Prime?

Steve,

I have a VM with 4 spare slots I can contribute. Tell me what you want done and I'll set it up.

Cheers,
TT

[SteveHopwood]

I just had an idea guys.

Ok, so we know that HGB does fantastically well, then he gives back all of those lovely pips he made - happened to me yet again last week.

Here is the idea. We run HGB on demo until he loses a shed load. Then we load him up on our live accounts, let him do his thingy and bank the profits, then shut down live and wait until the demo does crap again.

Anyone with the spare capacity to test this out on two separate demos with Global Prime?

Steve,

I have a VM with 4 spare slots I can contribute. Tell me what you want done and I'll set it up.

Cheers,
TT

Fantastic.

Set up two demos with whatever charts you want. Pretend one of them is a live account and close it down. Run the demo until it tanks badly then run the 'live' version to see if it picks up the reversal of the movements that just cost the demo a lot of pips.

If the 'live' version makes a good profit, banks the pips, close it down, run the other demo until it tanks again, then start up the 'live' version........... Rinse and repeat for a few cycles and see if it makes any difference to the profits.

[wolfeman]

Now here's something I haven't seen for a while; out of nowhere, a double....

Not a big deal ATM since it's in profit and it's just one trade. Can anyone think of a setting I have, that may have caused this?

For what it's worth- The trade number on the chart ends in "55" but the arrow shows "54" Hmmm...

[wolfeman]

I'm closing in on a stat that I never thought possible. 10,000 pips in one month. Unbelievable.
Just need one more good trading day to get there.

[pierrejean75]

Which version do you use and with which parameters ?
and which broker do you use ?
Do you leav the EA full automatic or do you close manually and/or put manually some SL ?

[muplayer2000]

thats strange wolfeman , most of us are in the red

[wolfeman]

V1e. set attached.

Yes I close manually fairly often. I have some personal beliefs that many will think crazy. I think every week is unique and the the Market usually has no real direction until Tuesday around 1400 GMT. So, if I have a big Sunday/Monday odds are 90% I'll close them all and sit out till Tuesday, well after the London or NY open. Late Tuesday thru early Thursday, I'll let it do whatever it wants. Toward the end of the week (thurs onward) I'll close the stagnant trades and chase the stops on the others. I close all on Friday afternoon, unless I see something that I think will benefit from being open over the weekend.

Anytime that I sit down and say WOW...that's a lot of gain! (for me that's 1000-1200 bucks) I'll sit there and watch it...without fail, it starts dropping- Close, Close, Close! On the rare occasions it's still climbing, I'll keep a sharp eye on it. If I have to go to bed (I'm in California and sleep during London) I'll either close or chase the stops. I can think of two times this month that I didn't close when I know I should have; guess what? *poof* I would be well over 12k pips if I followed my own effin rules. WHEN IN DOUBT, CLOSE THEM OUT!

I've recently dropped two pairs that I would have thought should be good performers; GU and GJ. I've added USD/DKK and WTIcrude (oil) both have been good performers so far.

Which version do you use and with which parameters ?
Do you leav the EA full automatic or do you close manually and/or put manually some SL ?

[SteveHopwood]

V1e. set attached.

Yes I close manually fairly often. I have some personal beliefs that many will think crazy. I think every week is unique and the the Market usually has no real direction until Tuesday around 1400 GMT. So, if I have a big Sunday/Monday odds are 90% I'll close them all and sit out till Tuesday, well after the London or NY open. Late Tuesday thru early Thursday, I'll let it do whatever it wants. Toward the end of the week (thurs onward) I'll close the stagnant trades and chase the stops on the others. I close all on Friday afternoon, unless I see something that I think will benefit from being open over the weekend.

Anytime that I sit down and say WOW...that's a lot of gain! (for me that's 1000-1200 bucks) I'll sit there and watch it...without fail, it starts dropping- Close, Close, Close! On the rare occasions it's still climbing, I'll keep a sharp eye on it. If I have to go to bed (I'm in California and sleep during London) I'll either close or chase the stops. I can think of two times this month that I didn't close when I know I should have; guess what? *poof* I would be well over 11k pips if I followed my own effin rules. WHEN IN DOUBT, CLOSE THEM OUT!

I've recently dropped two pairs that I would have thought should be good performers; GU and GJ. I've added USD/DKK and WTIcrude (oil) both have been good performers so far.

This looks to me like the single most valuable post in this thread by someone who is actually making the bot work for him. I am going to link it in post 1.

Most of the rest of us are just leaving HGB to do its thingy and hoping for the best - for sure I am but not on a live account any more. Most of our demos are getting clobbered.

What you have read in the quoted post is how we should treat an EA and goes back to a part of the Serious Warning that fronts all my threads and gets read as often as do my User Guides.

Nice one Andy. Please keep us in touch with how you are doing now that you have suddenly become a central figure here. No pressure, obviously.

[kwchau]

Now here's something I haven't seen for a while; out of nowhere, a double....

Not a big deal ATM since it's in profit and it's just one trade. Can anyone think of a setting I have, that may have caused this?

For what it's worth- The trade number on the chart ends in "55" but the arrow shows "54" Hmmm...

I experienced this before, but my reason may not be the same as yous. In my case, I accidentally opened two charts of the same pair running HGB.