Jemook » Wed Oct 05, 2016 1:18 pm wrote:Just a tip - one thing I've learned when it comes to basket trading TMA/CSS strategies is that simply selecting every single pair throws the weight heavily in one direction for two reasons.

1. Correlation - trading long AUDNZD, AUDCHF, AUDCAD and then short EURAUD, GBPAUD is throwing your weight big time behind AUD strength. TMA will almost always report that your AUDxxx pairs are trending one way and the xxxAUD pairs are going the other way. Same applies to GBPxxx and xxxGBP etc.

2. Trading GBP pairs (as an example) or pairs with huge ADRs can also throw things off if you are aiming at total pips / PnL in a basket rather than % win/loss per individual trade. Watch out whenever you add GBPJPY, GBPAUD, GBPNZD etc pairs into the mix.

See if you guys can work out a way to still trade a basket but balance your portfolio of chosen pairs you've added. All you need is one day for the GBP monsters to go in the wrong direction to really throw things off.

Jemook » Wed Oct 05, 2016 2:18 pm wrote:Just a tip - one thing I've learned when it comes to basket trading TMA/CSS strategies is that simply selecting every single pair throws the weight heavily in one direction for two reasons.

1. Correlation - trading long AUDNZD, AUDCHF, AUDCAD and then short EURAUD, GBPAUD is throwing your weight big time behind AUD strength. TMA will almost always report that your AUDxxx pairs are trending one way and the xxxAUD pairs are going the other way. Same applies to GBPxxx and xxxGBP etc.

2. Trading GBP pairs (as an example) or pairs with huge ADRs can also throw things off if you are aiming at total pips / PnL in a basket rather than % win/loss per individual trade. Watch out whenever you add GBPJPY, GBPAUD, GBPNZD etc pairs into the mix.

See if you guys can work out a way to still trade a basket but balance your portfolio of chosen pairs you've added. All you need is one day for the GBP monsters to go in the wrong direction to really throw things off.

cybersmart » 05 Oct 2016 15:49 wrote:Mathias,

It seems that my demo running with the following Entry -> 15m HGI, 1h diff, 4h diff keeps opening multiple trades on the 15m candle.
ie it was only like 2mins between two trades on a 15m candle.

Is this becuase the HGI signals can disappear/reappear on the same candle?
Is it possible to tell the ea to only open 1 trade pr candle?

Thanks,
Kevin

patmontes » 05 Oct 2016 16:20 wrote:Hi Matthias. Good job on the EA. Can I request you to check my set file on how to have the EA stop trading after 1 basket TP is reached?

MathiasJ » Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:59 pm wrote:

cybersmart » 05 Oct 2016 15:49 wrote:Mathias,

It seems that my demo running with the following Entry -> 15m HGI, 1h diff, 4h diff keeps opening multiple trades on the 15m candle.
ie it was only like 2mins between two trades on a 15m candle.

Is this becuase the HGI signals can disappear/reappear on the same candle?
Is it possible to tell the ea to only open 1 trade pr candle?

Thanks,
Kevin

You do not say if any trades are closed in between.
Assuming that new trades are added, what timframe have you stated in
"Max one open trade per candle in timeframe" ?
If that is M1 then change it to M15 or whatever is more appropriate.

If trades are closed in between then please check "Time in seconds between trades of same symbol",
"Seconds until Exit signal is valid and stable" and
the Exit criteria settings as well.

If this does not help then send the setfile to me so I can see the full picture.
MVH
Mathias

cybersmart » Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:24 pm wrote:
Thanks Mathias
Corrected it now, so now it will only open one trade pr 15m candle.

Its working nice here, this demo has made over 6% since yesterday (se report, there was alot of loosing trades from the days before since i had some wrong settings. But it has recovered nicely)

I think that its smart to have a filter other than the CSS as well and i really like the HGI, thats why I use it and it seems to filter out alot of the bad trades i get on the other demo where i use 15m diff 1h diff and 4h diff. That one is down 6%

Kevin

Using the attached .set file

TraderJoeForex » Wed Oct 05, 2016 11:34 pm wrote:
Oooops... max trades per pair on the same candle should be 1 not 10 for this. Now corrected above and here:

KeithM » Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:22 pm wrote:
Hey TJF. Some great potential here. Is your lot size calc correct in this one? I believe it is default. I had this and got a margin call.

Cheers

Keith