tcollings » Wed Nov 18, 2015 6:09 pm wrote:Which version of the Duck are you trading Brian?

AnotherBrian » Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:25 pm wrote:
Perfect, thanks a ton!
I'll set the MinMargin ForNewSeries to 5000. This should let it run normal with only the currently open pairs.

Here is my demo
I want the equity and balance to come closer together before it goes off trading a new pair. To test the code, I'll use 5000 and wait until everything closes. Then start again with something lower. If this proves to work I might consider a live account.

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Naki003 » Thu Nov 19, 2015 9:22 am wrote:
Hi,
my Forex Duck V3 demo is here:
https://www.myfxbook.com/portfolio/fore ... mo/1417398

With my setting I could somehow managed that the balance and equity went paralell (so far).

Yesterday evening I made an experiment whose result can be seen at the picture bellow.

The most of the floating DD of my demo was caused by open trades of NZDUSD and USDCAD pairs.
I have done the following: when the floating DD went especially low (~ 400$, ie less than 4% of balance), I manually closed the worsest trades respectively ( one NZDUSD, and one USDCAD trade, resulting ~-230$). In the next morning the demo was in +700$ profit, and half of the open trades were swept out... The exposure of the above mentioned pairs were closed out with zero net profit.
Picture is here:


Cheers, Tom

AnotherBrian » Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:30 pm wrote:
Wonder if closing the worst losers (by calculation as you suggested) is a long term winner?
What are your setting that you mention?

beorne » Fri Nov 20, 2015 8:59 pm wrote:
I can tell you for sure that NOT closing the worst losers is a long term loser.
How/when you should close them is still up for debate

AnotherBrian » Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:30 pm wrote:
Wonder if closing the worst losers (by calculation as you suggested) is a long term winner?
What are your setting that you mention?

AnotherBrian » Sat Nov 21, 2015 7:23 pm wrote:
And here's an idea that I've put into my multi-pair template, for Basket trade closure, that JL may want to consider. I call it "Dynamic Basket Closure". For each pair that has open trades, it will add a set percentage to the total requirement for basket closure. It's not suitable for all EA's.

  //Find the trade which is > 1% Balance 
      if(maxloss > AccountBalance()*0.01) { 
      
      // Calculate if the open profits are over this max loss trade and the trade exist
      
      
     if (OpenProfitPartial()+maxloss>0 && maxlossticket!=0) 
      
      // Close the max loss trade and the open orders in profit
      
       {Print(OpenProfitPartial()," ",maxloss," ",maxlossticket);closeOrdersF(OP_BUY,maxlossticket,3);
       closeOrdersF(OP_SELL,5,1);closeOrdersF(OP_BUY,5,1);Sleep(60000);}