wolfeman » Tue Apr 07, 2015 11:54 pm wrote: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.

pierrejean75 » Tue Apr 07, 2015 1:18 pm wrote: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 ?

wolfeman » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:54 pm wrote:V1e. set attached.


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!

wolfeman » Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:41 pm wrote:"Can you please tell me if you have used PP and PPoS with the same sort of manual trade management, and if you have, which one has given you better trade entries and easier manual management."

Funny that you mention that. I have an on going contest with piproid and HGB on my computer. The two were neck and neck for the last couple weeks, until Monday; HGB made a decisive grab for the lead. I've had a hell of a time breaking the $4000 barrier. Every time HGB got there, it would get knocked back down. It really was driving me nuts. Anyway HGB broke the barrier by a good margin and took a commanding lead over piproid.

To be fair, I don't pay half the attention to piproid that I do HGB. It just doesn't need it, so far. I was in the habit of letting it do whatever it wanted, as the strategy is so solid; but recently I asked myself why I'm leaving all these trades open over the weekend. So now I sit down with it on Friday and decide which trades I want to keep. I don't think I've ever done a close all on it, but I do chase the stops when I get concerned about a large open gain. Piproid is much easier IMO to manage, it loses much slower than HGB- at least that's what I've noticed so far.

MurphyMan » Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:43 am wrote:

wolfeman » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:54 pm wrote:V1e. set attached.


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!

Andy, thanks for summary. Very helpful.

One item of detail, do you usually delete your pendings too, and let HBG start from scratch?

Sam

wolfeman » Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:51 pm wrote:Hi Sam, long time... yes, I use Steve's close all and delet pendings script. If it's mid week the EA will sometimes start placing new trades right away and that's fine with me. When closing on Friday, you gotta be quick on the trigger to turn off the EA or the sucker will open up a bunch of trades in the snap of a finger!

wolfeman » Thu Apr 09, 2015 6:51 am wrote: I did see somewhere here, that people were discussing the script and that issue. I meant to go back and see if someone posted a solution, but I forgot where the thread was...anybody know?

SteveHopwood » Tue Apr 07, 2015 11:33 pm wrote: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.