MADTrader

[TraderJoeForex]

Thanks to TraderJoeForex's kindness to share, I got these results so far A BIG to him for that...

Great result in less than 24hrs Bazze

I had a PM from someone else asking me whether this should be traded 24/7. This was my response:

"H4 is ok 24/7 with a trade manager although if you are able it can be better to stop taking new trades between 18:00 - 00:00 GMT and manually closing everything during this time. Then each day is just trading fresh signals and all trades are closed same day unless there is a really good reason to keep holding anything. This bit you just have to learn for yourself and trust your gut feeling through trial and error"

[TraderJoeForex]

The template displays the way I have MAD EA setup here using 14/28 day and 42/84 4hour TMA crosses to confirm direction and 6/12 4hour TMA cross to trigger entry. The i-trade-tma indi colours from the cross so it's easy to visually see the pull backs and trend (this came out of the HGI with Hurst thread here on this forum a year or so ago).

The daily hurst target (based on H4 6/12 TMA centered), weekly pivots and xxx.00 lines are useful areas for taking profit and I have included TDMTL indi just for the arrows and alert (I just turn alert on if away from computer). The arrows/alert notify a break of trend line against the trade so a useful last call to exit.

Just realized the numbers in the template were slightly out. Now corrected in the original post and here:

[TraderJoeForex]

............thinking about this overnight here is a non repainting template and EA settings using the Linear Weighted Moving Average instead of TMA which may be more useful when looking visually at the template. There shouldn't be too much in it using the slope of the linear weighted MA rather than TMA cross and at least the chart will match where trades were taken when looking back.

We can use the MTF_TMATrue indi to show the higher period linear weighted MA slopes and on chart just the 6 and 12 linear weighted MA for the trade trigger cross.

[bazze]

Great result in less than 24hrs Bazze

I had a PM from someone else asking me whether this should be traded 24/7. This was my response:

"H4 is ok 24/7 with a trade manager although if you are able it can be better to stop taking new trades between 18:00 - 00:00 GMT and manually closing everything during this time. Then each day is just trading fresh signals and all trades are closed same day unless there is a really good reason to keep holding anything. This bit you just have to learn for yourself and trust your gut feeling through trial and error"

Thank you very much for this info, TJF ...Will try it out next week Have a great weekend

[TraderJoeForex]

Here's a couple of daily charts from last week with 7 and 14 period LWMA and their slopes. In both cases taking profit at the weekly support/resistance2 would have been best and at that point we wouldn't want to enter another trade on these pairs for the rest of the week. (this was hit on Monday with EURAUD!)

The "time between trades" is an important part of this EA and the lower the timeframe the trickier it may be to get this setting right. Perhaps a minimum of one week on D1 (604800 seconds!), one day on H4 and four hours on H1 would be about right?

If peeps are looking to use this EA without much manual intervention it is crucial that careful thought is given into getting this setting right for the time frame and MA settings being used as well as the SL settings for a trade manager otherwise you know what they say ".. the trend is your friend until the end" .

Additionally what about a setting for TP that uses choice of either the next daily or weekly support/resistance/pivot .. ?

Food for thought

[Wavegarrick]

Hi Guys

My results for the week...please take note this is with modifying the inputs throughout the week. I am quite happy with the odd losing day...this is normal in trading and 1000 pips for the week is better than I can achieve in manual trading

Bazze thanks for the MPTM set file I am using it and it works great for me..

You will notice that thursday was a losing day.... well not always but usually it is a pullback or reversal day so care should be taken when trading on thursdays...price usually moves back into the existing trend on fridays. I always use the weekly open to gauge whether price is above or below the weekly open. Price normally moves in the direction of the weekly trend on a friday afternoon at new York open.....so this is the time I like to activate my Ea. Once again these are probabilities and not always the case..

I have incorporated a bit of Trader Joe's trade trigger parameters by using the 6 and 12 ma and 4 hr time frame as the trigger, this, from my observations seems to take care of the noise and the pullbacks that you get on the smaller time frames. the other inputs basically one ma change and now I am using currency strength check on the 5, 15 min and 4hr and daily (4 signals required). don't fall over when you see my "look back in minutes" ...I will play with this next week...will most likely change the "time in seconds between trades" towards Trader Joe's inputs.

Here is my set file and be my guest to test it.

have a nice weekend
Tc

[Wavegarrick]

Wavegarrick >> Arent you a bit fast trading in H4 to close unprofitable trades after 15 minutes ?

Droad I suggest you go through the Mad trading manual and read this thread from the beginning before making such comments.....

" close trades" is set to false so "close unprofitable trades" are not applicable in this instance.....I am not using the trade management function with Mad..........

[bazze]

Hi Guys

My results for the week...please take note this is with modifying the inputs throughout the week. I am quite happy with the odd losing day...this is normal in trading and 1000 pips for the week is better than I can achieve in manual trading

Bazze thanks for the MPTM set file I am using it and it works great for me..

You will notice that thursday was a losing day.... well not always but usually it is a pullback or reversal day so care should be taken when trading on thursdays...price usually moves back into the existing trend on fridays. I always use the weekly open to gauge whether price is above or below the weekly open. Price normally moves in the direction of the weekly trend on a friday afternoon at new York open.....so this is the time I like to activate my Ea. Once again these are probabilities and not always the case..

I have incorporated a bit of Trader Joe's trade trigger parameters by using the 6 and 12 ma and 4 hr time frame as the trigger, this, from my observations seems to take care of the noise and the pullbacks that you get on the smaller time frames. the other inputs basically one ma change and now I am using currency strength check on the 5, 15 min and 4hr and daily (4 signals required). don't fall over when you see my "look back in minutes" ...I will play with this next week...will most likely change the "time in seconds between trades" towards Trader Joe's inputs.

Here is my set file and be my guest to test it.

have a nice weekend
Tc

It's my pleasure, but the right person to thank's is TraderJoeForex, he sat me on the track of it Thank you for sharing your set file also, Wavegarrick
Have a great weekend

[qvintus]

Yes...I use this, recommended kindly by TJF

Anyone knows if we can use the posted MPTM global setfile for both TJFs MAD setfile and Wavegarricks MAD setfile?
TJF is trading 0.2 lotsize and Wavegarrick 0.10 lotsize.

[TraderJoeForex]

Yes...I use this, recommended kindly by TJF

Anyone knows if we can use the posted MPTM global setfile for both TJFs MAD setfile and Wavegarricks MAD setfile?
TJF is trading 0.2 lotsize and Wavegarrick 0.10 lotsize.

With my MPTM global set file I use partial close starting at 50% and since my broker minimum is 0.1 that means minimum full trade size for me is 0.2. Obviously you can configure this yourself based on your own requirements.. and for peeps just starting out don't even think about more than 0.01 on demo so that your profit expectations are in the right ball park when you go live.