• - You see the price is in a CZ.
  - The coming-soon 'Gertje plus Sq plus Forexhard' is programmed so that it draws buy stop and sell stop 30 pips on either side of the market. We adjust the lines so they align with the top and bottom of the box drawn sq's indi.
  - If the market reaches the buy line, G++ takes a buy and draws the remaining buy grid, so the trades will trigger if the market continues to breakout.
  - It moves the pending sell stop line to half the extent of the CZ box. If the market falls back that far, then the sell is sent and the sell grid drawn

SteveHopwood wrote:Be excited guys, be very excited. My bath-lol was exceptionally profitable today.

If any of you have not done so yet, go back to this post http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 759#p10759, read it, download the indi and drip it on a few M15 charts to see how effective it is.

My idea is this:

• - You see the price is in a CZ.
  - The coming-soon 'Gertje plus Sq plus Forexhard' is programmed so that it draws buy stop and sell stop 30 pips on either side of the market. We adjust the lines so they align with the top and bottom of the box drawn sq's indi.
  - If the market reaches the buy line, G++ takes a buy and draws the remaining buy grid, so the trades will trigger if the market continues to breakout.
  - It moves the pending sell stop line to half the extent of the CZ box. If the market falls back that far, then the sell is sent and the sell grid drawn

This has to be semi-auto at the mo, because I never worked out how to divine the top/bottom of sq's boq in code. I will send him a pm asking him how I do this - unless some of the red-hot coders here can work this out. jb68, is your snippet an accurate representation of what sq does, leaving aside the historical stuff? I can use it if it is, and you get the credit.

More later when I have done some coding.

SteveHopwood wrote:Be excited guys, be very excited. My bath-lol was exceptionally profitable today.
This has to be semi-auto at the mo, because I never worked out how to divine the top/bottom of sq's boq in code. I will send him a pm asking him how I do this - unless some of the red-hot coders here can work this out. jb68, is your snippet an accurate representation of what sq does, leaving aside the historical stuff? I can use it if it is, and you get the credit.

More later when I have done some coding.

acostafulano wrote: Let me see if I got it right: Once price breaks out from the box, the EA only triggers the grid in the direction it went, and the opposite pending trade (and grid) is moved to be triggered only if PA goes back to the previously said box, right?

Other from that (The entry), are there going to be any other changes in the trading logic? THe EA with the current TMA entry is already working quite well, and keep in mind that by sending only one side of the grid we lose the hedging advantage inherent and necesary for this strategy to work.

jb68 wrote:

SteveHopwood wrote:Be excited guys, be very excited. My bath-lol was exceptionally profitable today.
This has to be semi-auto at the mo, because I never worked out how to divine the top/bottom of sq's boq in code. I will send him a pm asking him how I do this - unless some of the red-hot coders here can work this out. jb68, is your snippet an accurate representation of what sq does, leaving aside the historical stuff? I can use it if it is, and you get the credit.

More later when I have done some coding.

If you drop latest version of Sq's indi in an EA you will get a zero-division error. I remember a few month ago I removed something from it.. in orer to work with an EA. I attached modified version.

Here are the buffers.. you need to call:

// Breakout Box Buffers 0, 1 -> Not null when new CZ box appear
double BB0=iCustom(NULL,5,"sqDynamicBreakoutBox1",BoxLength,BoxTimeFrame,BoxRange,AutoBoxRange,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRperiod,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRfactor,BoxBufferPips,DaysBack,MinBarsClosedOutsideBO,MaxBreakoutTradesPerBox, 0,1);
double BB1=iCustom(NULL,5,"sqDynamicBreakoutBox1",BoxLength,BoxTimeFrame,BoxRange,AutoBoxRange,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRperiod,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRfactor,BoxBufferPips,DaysBack,MinBarsClosedOutsideBO,MaxBreakoutTradesPerBox, 1,1);

// BB2, BB3 -> Value of the last UP and DW lines from the last CZ box
double BB2= iCustom(NULL,5,"sqDynamicBreakoutBox1",BoxLength,BoxTimeFrame,BoxRange,AutoBoxRange,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRperiod,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRfactor,BoxBufferPips,DaysBack,MinBarsClosedOutsideBO,MaxBreakoutTradesPerBox, 2,1);
double BB3= iCustom(NULL,5,"sqDynamicBreakoutBox1",BoxLength,BoxTimeFrame,BoxRange,AutoBoxRange,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRperiod,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRfactor,BoxBufferPips,DaysBack,MinBarsClosedOutsideBO,MaxBreakoutTradesPerBox, 3,1);

//BB4 - BB5 - Actual SQ signals - No null when Buy / sell signal appear
double BB4= iCustom(NULL,5,"sqDynamicBreakoutBox1",BoxLength,BoxTimeFrame,BoxRange,AutoBoxRange,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRperiod,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRfactor,BoxBufferPips,DaysBack,MinBarsClosedOutsideBO,MaxBreakoutTradesPerBox, 4,1);
double BB5= iCustom(NULL,5,"sqDynamicBreakoutBox1",BoxLength,BoxTimeFrame,BoxRange,AutoBoxRange,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRperiod,AutoBoxRangeDailyATRfactor,BoxBufferPips,DaysBack,MinBarsClosedOutsideBO,MaxBreakoutTradesPerBox, 5,1);


As a nice and cool thing, it will build the CZ in your window so no need to drop the indicator into the window, just the EA . Unfortunately the EA itself had marginal gains for me, but using for a grid base should be way better due to martingale effect of the grid so I hope for the best.

jb68 wrote:As a nice and cool thing, it will build the CZ in your window so no need to drop the indicator into the window, just the EA . Unfortunately the EA itself had marginal gains for me, but using for a grid base should be way better due to martingale effect of the grid so I hope for the best.

jb68 wrote:Steve, maybe you should add a panic / escape button

Max.Trades=25 so instead of opening # 26 to close everything.

• - EA finds no trades open:
  • - calls void ReadIndicatorValues() which:
    • - uses your code to detect a CZ and draw risetoline (could have called this PendingInitialBuyStop or some such but didn't) and falltoline

• - draw the pending trade grid.
  - move the remaining pending trade line to half of the boxes extent.
  - manage the rest of the trading grid as normal.