phoenixrising8 wrote:Running this on eur/usd 5 min chart just to see trades triggering quicker.
Which they are trying to do only I am getting. "SELL order send failed with error (130): invalid stops"

Anyone have any ideas?

Have just started adjust the setting of the ea. That never is a good idea with me. Hammer + nut+ idiot in control of hammer = not a good thing!

batemap wrote:I think there is a problem reading the extreme 'spike' indicator. On AUDUSD M5, the EA was showing spike as buy and the other indicators red, so from my limited understanding and from checking the code, no trade, but a short trade was opened. I'm guessing that the spike was initially showing sell and that's why the trade was taken, because the code here looks very straightforward.

I also notice that because of the repainting of this indi MajorCycleBuyHistory/MajorCycleSellHistory dots are shown, perhaps the EA needs to read these as well? I say this because I saw the EA change from showing a buy (x candles ago ) then after an indi repaint the EA was showing a sell ~27 candles ago.

Cheers

Paul

Open the data window and hover the mouse over coloured peaks/troughs and you will see that MajorCycleBuy/Sell are the buffers that hold values - hence the variable names. When the peak is uncoloured, values are seen in MinorCycleBuy/Sell.

I declared and use ExCandleCount partly to show that the value extraction code is working, partly in case we find a use for this information somewhere down the line.

At the opening of a new candle, the bot looks back for a coloured spike. If it finds one and all the other indi's line up, then it attempts a trade. The function of Extreme is to spot major highs/lows. If the recent major high/low is suddenly no longer a spike, then the colours disappear - the 'repainting' thingy. Wouldn't be much use if it didn't repaint - not helpful at all if it carried on insisting that a major spike is a major spike even though it isn't.

So, it can subsequently look as though a trade should not have been taken. Whether we do anything about this or not, depends on how profitable the EA is. If it is as profitable as Evaluator is in his trading, then it matters not a jot. If not, we can start to think about an acceptable range for the peak to have occurred - between x and y candles ago, that sort of thing.

We shall see. For now, we need to let the bot run and see how it behaves.

mbkennel wrote:One concern. Symphonie-Sentiment-Indicator uses information from the future, meaning that on the chart is it different from real-time.

I bet also that when doing Empty4's backtesting, it will erroneously use the value of the indicator as computed on full historical data (i.e. using data from the future).

Offending code (ugly decompiled stuff):

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   for (int li_120 = 0; li_120 < li_116; li_120++) {
      l_high_104 = High[iHighest(NULL, 0, MODE_HIGH, period, li_120)];
      l_low_96 = Low[iLowest(NULL, 0, MODE_LOW, period, li_120)];
      ld_16 = (High[li_120] + Low[li_120]) / 2.0;
      ld_48 = 0.66 * ((ld_16 - l_low_96) / (l_high_104 - l_low_96) - 0.5) + 0.67 * ld_56;
      ld_48 = MathMin(MathMax(ld_48, -0.999), 0.999);
      g_ibuf_80[li_120] = MathLog((ld_48 + 1.0) / (1 - ld_48)) / 2.0 + ld_80 / 2.0;
      ld_56 = ld_48;
      ld_80 = g_ibuf_80[li_120];

You see that the loop is going up from 0 to li_116, meaning from later time to earlier time.
But "ld_56" and "ld_80" values are from the previous iteration---which is in the future relative to the one in li_120.

A correction would be to change the for loop to go from li_116-1 down to zero. I also bet the results will look not quite as good.

Note, this technique is probably a great way for EA scammers to sell fake results.

cuzgeorge wrote:

phoenixrising8 wrote:Running this on eur/usd 5 min chart just to see trades triggering quicker.
Which they are trying to do only I am getting. "SELL order send failed with error (130): invalid stops"

Anyone have any ideas?

Have just started adjust the setting of the ea. That never is a good idea with me. Hammer + nut+ idiot in control of hammer = not a good thing!

Hi Phoenixrising8, you'll see when you read the instructions from Sir Steve, there are several options and once you go through the settings with the EA set up on a chart, you won't have any issues, just pay attention to your criminal, whether ecn or not when setting the stop loss and TP.

on the 5min charts it's lighting up big time, really cool to see an EA 'go-for-it' especially with that big downtrend we just experiencing.

also, be aware to set the max lot usgae as i'm getting rather large positions that i'm not comfortable with yet while testing.
hope this helps
cheers

phoenixrising8 wrote:Thanks cuzgeorge for the swift reply, I had to go out about an hour later, so didn't have much time to check any settings. Though when I come back I am still getting the same problem.

So, can yourself or someone please give me some settings to try. Listed one by one. At least then I will know the problem is something other than the settings.

TIA.