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Author:  spotdespot [ Fri May 25, 2012 1:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shelley's multi-pair basket trader
cytek wrote:
vivaldi wrote:
cytek wrote:Ok. I'm going to apologise in advance for what comes below as it might be against the original intent of the EA, but let me ask anyway in case some of you want the same :)

The EA was designed to open the basket at a specific time. I find that on days like today, I suspect a retrace, so I wait to see what markets do after open before activating Shelley. When I see the retrace is over, I want Shelley to kick in, but the only way is to wait for the next hour, i.e. I cannot choose it to kick in immediately upon attachment to chart. Would it be possible to have an option to choose the "activate by time" vs "activate imemdiately" as a parameter setting?
once again, sorry if I have gone against the grain and intent of what the EA was designed for.
If you support the idea though, please let me know. Thanks

You can activate Shelley by manipulating BasketSendHour. In that way you let it start when you want.

Vivaldi
Thanks Vivaldi. I was trying to get around waiting for the next hour.
If you are saying just fudge my PC clocks time to be the same as what's on the EA when I want "instant" activation a, then I think that will work brilliantly. ;) Thanks for the idea. :D
You don't need to do that and I am not sure but I don't think that's what he meant - just set the BasketSendHour to the previous (current) hour and I think it will fire anyway as long as it hasn't already fired within the SleepMinsAfterBasketClosure time.
Author:  fx800 [ Fri May 25, 2012 1:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shelley's multi-pair basket trader
kelisa wrote:
fx8000 wrote:Thank you shelly, peter and guys........

I am almost there!!! I couldnt find the indi, "10.2 TMA slope v.1.4B 4.30 for EA.mq4"

Can someone post up here. I tried looking for it in post 1 and all my folders.. :oops:
Here it is.
There u go....... after fiddling over it. Now I am FINALLY ready.

Thanks FX8000 and guys and girl...[/quote]

Just in time for the NY open !
Author:  kelisa [ Fri May 25, 2012 1:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shelley's multi-pair basket trader
Holy cow!!!!!!!!!! Shelly EA opened 10 trades, within minutes alll of them positive...

so tempted to use live account !!
Author:  vivaldi [ Fri May 25, 2012 1:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shelley's multi-pair basket trader
cytek wrote:
vivaldi wrote:
cytek wrote:Ok. I'm going to apologise in advance for what comes below as it might be against the original intent of the EA, but let me ask anyway in case some of you want the same :)

The EA was designed to open the basket at a specific time. I find that on days like today, I suspect a retrace, so I wait to see what markets do after open before activating Shelley. When I see the retrace is over, I want Shelley to kick in, but the only way is to wait for the next hour, i.e. I cannot choose it to kick in immediately upon attachment to chart. Would it be possible to have an option to choose the "activate by time" vs "activate imemdiately" as a parameter setting?
once again, sorry if I have gone against the grain and intent of what the EA was designed for.
If you support the idea though, please let me know. Thanks

You can activate Shelley by manipulating BasketSendHour. In that way you let it start when you want.

Vivaldi
Thanks Vivaldi. I was trying to get around waiting for the next hour.
If you are saying just fudge my PC clocks time to be the same as what's on the EA when I want "instant" activation a, then I think that will work brilliantly. ;) Thanks for the idea. :D

My idea was actually to do it the other way around. I edit the parameter 'BasketSendHour'on startup of the Ea, make it equal to the current clockhour and there it goes.

Vivaldi
Author:  cytek [ Fri May 25, 2012 1:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shelley's multi-pair basket trader
You can activate Shelley by manipulating BasketSendHour. In that way you let it start when you want.

Vivaldi[/quote]

Thanks Vivaldi. I was trying to get around waiting for the next hour.
If you are saying just fudge my PC clocks time to be the same as what's on the EA when I want "instant" activation a, then I think that will work brilliantly. ;) Thanks for the idea. :D[/quote]

You don't need to do that and I am not sure but I don't think that's what he meant - just set the BasketSendHour to the previous hour and I think it will fire anyway as long as it hasn't already fired within the SleepMinsAfterBasketClosure time.[/quote]

Aah!! Ok, I didn't realise it will fire if >Basket and <SleepMins!! Awesome.
Will test it out now. Thanks a million for the help.
:)
Author:  vivaldi [ Fri May 25, 2012 1:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shelley's multi-pair basket trader
fire580 wrote:Can someone tell me if NB 10.2 TMA Slope Display v0.3 updates intra-bar or only at the close of a bar?

Thanks
The indicator "NB 10.2 TMA Slope Display v0.3" updates on every tick ,but that does not mean that Shelley's EA uses that also. Shelley's EA actually requests the slope info at the startup of the EA. Depending on the then current values of the slopes will there be buys and sells of several currencies. After that, it's a question of managing the basket with stoploss and takeprofit levels.

Vivaldi
Author:  fire580 [ Fri May 25, 2012 2:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shelley's multi-pair basket trader
spotdespot wrote:
fire580 wrote:Can someone tell me if NB 10.2 TMA Slope Display v0.3 updates intra-bar or only at the close of a bar?

Thanks
Depends on your settings - if you have EveryTickMode=TRUE then it updates every tick (but will chew processor a bit more I guess). Default is every minute - IndiReadTimeFrame=1.
Thank You
Author:  vivaldi [ Fri May 25, 2012 2:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shelley's multi-pair basket trader
At the moment it is not possible to access the parameters (external variables) of Shelley during runtime.
Somehow this does not work.
Suppose now, that I want to change something, for example the takeprofit levels or the Stoploss levels.
The only alternative I have is ending the EA and starting up the whole thing again.
What are the consequences of doing this ?

Vivaldi
Author:  spotdespot [ Fri May 25, 2012 2:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shelley's multi-pair basket trader
vivaldi wrote:At the moment it is not possible to access the parameters (external variables) of Shelley during runtime.
Somehow this does not work.
Suppose now, that I want to change something, for example the takeprofit levels or the Stoploss levels.
The only alternative I have is ending the EA and starting up the whole thing again.
What are the consequences of doing this ?

Vivaldi
Just drag the EA on to the chart and change whatever you want. As long as the magic number doesn't change it just carries on managing the open trades. I tried this myself quite a bit this morning.

EDIT: - You don't need to remove the current EA before you do this - whatever EA you drag on to a chart last will be the only EA on the chart (I hope that makes sense).
Author:  vivaldi [ Fri May 25, 2012 2:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Shelley's multi-pair basket trader
What can be considered a reasonable risk level for Shelley's EA ?
$100 per 0.01 contractsize is somewhat little for the basket as it ran easily between -200 and +200 pips today.
$1000 per 0.01 contractsize seems very relaxed.

Vivaldi
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